From: rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser)
Subject: Gearing Up for One Wild Fall
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:14:49 GMT




      Well, having taken a break from various forms of censorship and
self-righteous killfile crybabies, I'm back once again to make various
comments that few people in rec.games.video will actually care about...
ah yes, the life of an unappreciated martyr! Seriously, this Sonic 2 stuff
just gets more and more interesting. For awhile there was doubt as to 
whether Sega would actually give Sonic a buddy, but the latest screenshots
in EGM seem to confirm Tails' offical role...the corkscrew loop looks
nice and nasty and I like the title screen. But IMHO it would be even
neater if Sega just made the title screen (and the box cover) a picture
of a giant "2" and have Sonic and Tails standing beside it...no need to
say the name, everyone knows who he is!

       I'm still trying to figure out which made me laugh harder...the
information that Fatal Fury is coming to the Super NES (hee hee! ha ha!
hmmpf!) or how the editor described Quartermann as a "master journalist"
(har har! ha ha! hee hee!). Let me think...yup, definitely the "master
journalist" thing is funnier. Mentioning Quartermann and journalism 
in the same breath results in the grandest oxymoron I've ever encountered...
not that Fatal Fury on the Super NES isn't a massive joke in itself...

        Seems that Capcom has no intention of bringing Street Fighter II to
the Genesis or Lynx...thanks again for misinformation, Q-man. I'm hoping
to see a Genesis version sometime in the future, and as for the Lynx,
well, it's got the hardware to make a nice portable version, and it's
also got enough buttons, so why not?

         EGM is pretty proud of their Sheng Long joke...funny how mentioning
that name gets some people here and on alt.games.sf2 so outraged. Some 
people are just so uptight! Chill out, folks! I'm hoping to see Sheng Long
as a boss in Street Fighter III...I mean, with all the talk about the
rumor of Sheng Long, how can Capcom resist?

         Anyone know anything about Slime World for the Genesis? Looks like
one to pick up for the two-player simultaneous alone...

         NEC (TTI, actually) is now offering a free 20 minute commercial
on video which contains footage of some upcoming TurboDuo games...anyone
seen this tape yet? I keep meaning to send off for one, but I'm too busy
agonizing over the hard-handed tactics of certain net.cops who lack
intelligence and a sense of humor and have an overly inflated sense of
their own maturity (sorry, I'm raving...stop right now!).

          Afterburner III is coming to the Sega CD and it's, well,
Afterburner III. Sonic 2 is coming also to CD, and it's going to be the
same as the cart save flashy music and intermissions. Sigh. 

          Kind of funny to see EGM raving about the play your double trick
on SF2 weeks after we netters knew all about it...

           What's with the two page ad from Alston? Where did they get
the money? They must have a team that goes out to rob banks, because
they sure didn't raise advertising money by selling Gamates...

            Jennifer Capriati Tennis is coming for the Genesis from
Renovation. Now the one thing the Geni has always lacked has been a good
tennis title. When one finally surfaces? Who is it based on? Jimmy Conners?
Bjorn Borg? (I'm _still_ waiting for a Borg tennis game on any system) 
Boris Becker? Andre Agassi? Nope, Jennifer Capriati. How about waiting
until she either (a) turns 16 or (b) wins a major tournament before using
her name in a game, guys? That's almost as bad as Buster Douglas Boxing.

             Is it just me, or do the backgrounds in Streets of Rage 1 and 2
look very Cool Worldish? Don't get me wrong, I like them...just an   
observation...of course, Streets of Rage 1 came out before Cool World, so 
another conspiracy theory has been blown out of the water!

             Yet another bloody RBI Baseball game is coming to the Genesis,
number IV. I think the writer (whose name escapes me) in Mean Machines (the
best UK video game mag available, IMHO) said it best when he proclaimed,
"There were tons of baseball games at CES, but they were just baseball,
and they were all alike." (I'm paraphrasing, so no legal threats, please!).
Amen, brother! 

             Well, Sonic 2 is apparantly NOT 16 meg, but only (only, right)
8 meg. Oh well, still looks fantastic, for all that!

             Thunderstorm FX on the MegaDrive CD looks amazing...Wonderdog
is even cooler than...well, as cool as, Sonic. Hope they both cross the
Atlantic. 

             Finally, it's come to my attention that the Atari Jaguar is
making it's debut sometime in early '93...I wish Atari the best of luck,
and I hope that they don't price themselves out of the market with this
supposedly 64 bit machine. Let's see some great games, Atari...no Lynx
ports, not for a 64 bitter. The big question, of course, is this one:
is there room for another console? Remains to be seen...don't bet your
SNES on it, though.

             Quick note: Super Star Wars looks awesome...just wish they'd
drop the "Super". You know what system this is for, don't you? :-)

             Well, I'm off again to be censored from alt.good.news...just
wish certain people would get a sense of humor! It's actually come to my
attention that, much to my horror and amazement, certain persons on this
group have my name in a killfile!!!! As Sir John M. said so well,
"Och well." Life goes on, and if we all tried to please the killfile
crybabies, we'd go out of our collective minds!

--
Richard J. Rauser        "You have no idea what you're doing."
rauser@sfu.ca            "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
WNI                           outlaws - we do this for a living."
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