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A snap from VGHF's E3 video archive of a tv screen showing the miserable little pile of secrets scene from SOTN
A snap of the cover of the Saturn release with photos of the studios and what I presume are the hosts of the gameshow astride a moped, one of them with a stacked tray of delivery boxes.
A photo of a baccano boxset with a quote from Bamboo Dong of anime need network on it "Nothing makes the great depression sexier than alchemy battles and good-looking hitmen"
A snippet from a scan of the issue with a transparent blue controller that looks like a slender Sidewinder controller with an analog stick on the left, one on the underside of the controller(!) and a main red button and three smaller tiny buttons around it
A scan of the first page of the feature in Anime UK explaining the premise and with some pretty hot artwork of Naomi sprawled out on her front on circuit boards and coquettishly threading a finger through handcuffs
Kikstart's Trials-alike gameplay of a timed scramble bike race across obstacles
A photo of a BBC Micro next to a big sheet of paper and plugged into the dome robot drawing a star
There is a magic tree here, says the text above a 3x4 grid of chunky pixel trees.
A clip of a magic raven from BBC Micro educational title Granny's Garden
A snap of an entry for A m with frames in two windows and a mix of text and images
A screenie of the Encarta splash screen with a WordArt-like Encarta in 3D text and a CD in the background with mountainous bitmap in the background
A snap of a scanned page of the issue with a drawing of Big Bird unleashing a blue fireball against Cookie Monster. Burt and Ernie and Oscar can be seen in the background. "Sesame Street Fighter"
3Dfx Interactive has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Sega Enterprises Ltd., Sega of America, and NEC Corporation, the company said Tuesday in a statement. The complaint alleges that Sega breached its contract with 3Dfx Interactive to develop the graphics chipset that would have been used in Sega’s new home game console. This action follows a squabble the two companies waged earlier this summer when 3Dfx issued a statement confirming reports that its chipset had been passed over for the NEC unit. Since March 1997, 3Dfx had been developing a chipset based on its Voodoo Graphics technology for use in Sega’s new game console (Sega had invested nearly US$2 million for the chipset’s development). In July, after 3Dfx confirmed that its chipset was not going to be used, the company issued a July 23 statement saying it planned to explore all options, including taking legal action against Sega. Greg Ballard, president and CEO of 3Dfx Interactive, said in the statement that “Sega terminated our contract without justification. We lived up to all of our commitments, yet they terminated the agreement. It’s a clear breach of contract.” The suit is seeking damages for breach of contract, interference with contract, threatened misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition. It was filed last Friday, Aug. 29, in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County. Tuesday morning, Sega of America told GameSpot News it had yet to see any legal documents and therefore had no comment on the 3Dfx complaint.
DEVELOPERS TO GET BLACK BELT STATIONS Sega has been busy in recent months, but not from working on games for the ill-fated Saturn 32-Bit gaming system. They have been working behind the scenes getting their fourth-generation console system specs finalized. Sega's official line is no comment, and they say they aren't working on any new system But our sources within Sega and in the third-party development community are telling a different story. Recently they confirmed that Sega intends on proceeding with the Black Belt 64-Bit system. This is the system that was developed in the U.S. by engineers from SegaSoft, Microsoft and 3Dfx. Sega officials over here decided not to use Sega of Japan’s Japanese-developed prototype code-named Dural. “Sega's Japanese OS team has an awful history of developing poor operating code for Sega platforms. When Sega came to review the two prototype machines side-by-side, they were not looking to see which machine had more raw horsepower. They wanted to see which system could load up the games the quickest, and the Black Belt was that machine, according to Sega sources. The Black Belt's operating system was developed by Microsoft and insiders are boasting that this will let developers gain easy access to many of the machine's graphics and audio functions, largely removing the problems that plagued the developer-unfriendly Saturn. A U.S.-designed operating system Will also have the benefit of Бей in English, therefore solving the problem that developers encountered when translating Japanese operating manuals. Developers were given a glimpse of the new machine and its new capabilities at the recent E* show held in Atlanta. At that time, the developers were told that the first development systems would be sent out within two months. We'll be updating you on this Story as developments take place. If you want more information as we get it, please visit our Web site at: www.videogamespot.com
The Brooklyn Bridge title screen for MGS 2 trial edition packed in with Zone of the Enders
A crt TV screen photo of Metal Gear Solid 2 with Snake crouching on tanker stairs, pistol aimed at a patrolling guard looking around as another walks toward him
A crt TV photo of Rosco McQueen for PS1 with a hotel lobbyish colourful polygon environment with start game being elevator doors and options being a counter.
A crt TV photo of the SCEE version of the PlayStation logo PS1 bootup
A screenie of Link looking at a boxy cow figurine in the mayor's manor
A crt tv photo of a pixel artwork faux parchment map unrolled to show the watery world of Mer and the stages you'll go through. Headshots of characters from the show in a sepia brown frame the colourful map.
'Fantasy' They seemed to have a fixed notion of what fantasy means to them,"
Final Fantasy X's title screen with the logo emblazoned over Tidus standing over watery ruins
A snap of the console all-formats with alll 10 entries being either MD or SNES. Fifta Soccer '95 at the top, with Primal Rage, PGA Tour Golf 3, Theme Park, and Batman Forever in twice.
A screencap of the review section for Ridge Racer, with chunky teletext graphics and text, and an overall 86% given to Ridge. A near-perfect conversion for the uppers, and downers: really only one track.
A b/w illustration of an anime gal with a mop of short tomboyish hair and dressed in a short leather jacket and cut off shorts. She's got an overall punky look with wristlets, bangles, and a choker. She's holding up a 5 and 1/4" floppy disk.
A snap of the page from PSM previewing the overall features of Diablo, such as spellcasting, the overworld, and how weak skeletons are, apparently.
A clipping of a Diablo preview from PSM magazine, of one of the skeletons from the game. "Weak and mindless, skeletons only become a real threat when they attack in large numbers. Otherwise, a few quick hits will turn 'em to powder."
A photo from an eBay listing of a transparent rounded flat at the top oval with a little squishy pixel Pikachu face on it.
A snippet from the magazine with screenshot graphics of a Pocket Pikachu tamagochi mini game where to get 'Watts' you need to play hi-low card game.
A world map of the Steel Reign setting with the world carved up between zones where each AI was awoken. Such as Zone Manilla, Zone London, Zone Washington, etc.
A photof GURPS Reign of Steel sourceook with a huge pincer-armed robot looming over a human freedom fighter
A snippet of an article in the magazine with G.U.R.P.S as the title and a few early screenshots. It's described as being more cyberpunk than anything else at this point.
A photo of Orphen: Scion of Sorcery's PAL release
A close-up snap of a page of an issue from the upload on Internet Archive of a simple little cartoonish doodle of an upright chubby Dragon Knight, holding sword and shield with a little bit of a goofy expression
A shot of the swamp with a large mountain with a smoky cloud ring around it.
A photo of a Makopad controller in front of an N64
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" says the travelling mask seller.
A pixel art screenshot of an anime black winged, blue-haired woman with long horns and skimpy bikini plate mail. She's wielding a long sword.
A photo of a Gundam Aerial high grade gunpla box
A later section of Gloom with large pixely sprites that are hard to make out what exactly they are.
The box of Black Magic Software;s GLOOM with a pair of DOOM guy-esque twins with short cropped white hair and green body armour. Rlippling with muscles, they stand back to back with snarly faces as a demon rises up to deliver a bitchslap to them.
A still from the OVA with a red giant bird-like creature carrying a robed figure and a bundle of gear and supplies across a desert beneath a blue sky. Seen in profile.
A gameplay snap showing grey metal corridors with hazard bars and a grunt-looking soldier ahead of the player perspective, pistol drawn.
Screenshot from Mobygames (all four are) of a pixel art 2D side-on cobbled town square with a fountain
An EGA DOS graphic of a white tombstone on a green field with Here lies My Ass on it. Press Space Bar to continue.
Satoshi holding up a hand in greeting and smiling
A screencap from one of the Savannah like zones with an abstract VR feel from the game with low poly lions approaching . They have unsettlingly human faces.
A photo of the cover of Newtype Japan with Science Saru Motoko on the cover
A magazine page snap of a screenshot from Heart of China and an EGA version of a portside ocean pixel artwork with the trademark EGA dithering
An anthro with a serious look on their face and a floppy curl fringe that reminds me of Shin's
A snap of one of the pages with comic panels and anthro foxes and canines in a sci-fi space setting with uniforms and in front of control panels, all drawn in b/w line art.