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From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Genesis game for sale
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 04:06:11 GMT

I have Castle of Illusion for sale for $25. I'll pay shipping
within the U.S. E-mail me at marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
if interested.

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Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
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"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
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From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Neo Geo - The Best Console
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:07:53 GMT
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Jul29.163034.22759@Princeton.EDU> sikorski@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward Sikorski) writes:
>
>Snes, Nes, Genesis, Sega, Lynx, Atari, GameGear,
>Gameboy, TG16 and all other HOME VIDEO GAMES should be welcome here!

  Agreed. However, there is a big difference from casual chit-chat about a
system (game review for the Neo*Geo, questions for tips on Neo*Geo games) and
posting flamebait to taunt other readers ("The Neo*Geo rules and anyone who
bought any other system is a brain-dead vegetable!"). I gladly welcome the
former, even if I don't own the system, but the latter should be universally
despised by mature rgv readers.

  (Note that I'm not saying that Edward S. has posted inflammatory pro-Neo,
anti-everything else messages. I was just using an example)

>Hey, flames are welcome, but don't expect the attention to those who
>have a point of view of their own!

  Like I wrote before: I love the Neo's hardware, but the games are IMO all
flash and no new substanance. But that's just an opinion, and I wouldn't
flame someone just because they want to ask for tips on MAGICIAN LORD...

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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    chosen because you are the class clown and frankly, you're expendable."
From: philip+@pitt.edu (Philip Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: A Gripe about SNES SF2
Date: 24 Jul 92 06:21:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I agree.  Fireballs I can get out.  DP's ocassionally (better than 50%).
But for Guile...sonic booms and razor kicks are 50% or less.  The joypad
is just not made for that kind of movement.

One good note: with help from a friend (he knows who he is).  I, knowing
virtually nothing about electronics, made my own SFII joystick/console.  The
snes joypad has a very nice pc board inside.  If you use that board and
just solder joystick and arcade buttons, you have a joystick/console.  The
toughest part is making your "box" or thing to hold the joystick et al.  All
I can say, learn how to use a jig saw...saved my life.  On some preliminary
trials with the new joystick, the game seems much more like the arcade sfii
than it did with a joypad.  Parts in all costed me under $40 (used tools that
my pop had).

Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
From: barry@sphynx.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Barry Wayne Hart)
Subject: Re: Modifying NES lightgun for Atari 2600/7800 - need help
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:17:13 GMT

In article <4qwJoB4w164w@cyberden.uucp>, moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us writes:
|> barry@sphynx.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Barry Wayne Hart) writes:
|> 
|> > 
|> > There's a select line which runs from the Sega into the multiplexer.  When th
|> > line is high, B & C are sent to the Sega (I may have this backwards, but...).
|> > the line is low, A and Start are sent.
|> 
|> Do you know how to detect this line??  :)  I'm thinking of buying a 
|> generic Genesis controller ($12!  hehe...pretty good deal)
|> 
|>     "Be seeing you!"
|> Say|____________9_year_veteran_ ||| __
|> Hi |PhBill: Bill Kendrick      / | \
|> if |moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
|> in |__________________________________
|> NJ!|                     July 25, 1992 

It's just one of the nine lines on the connector.  I'm not sure which one- I may
still have it written down somewhere.
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: bca44236@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Racter)
Subject: Re: Atari Jaguar busting loose!!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:58:14 GMT

jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:

>New EGM said Atari Jaguar 32+32 is ready to run already with 20
>games!! Atari is planning roll out early 1993? 

>Now nine lives company Atari will have Lynx, Falcon, and Jaguar
>to make half life of SNES and gameboy!  



I'm not so sure with Atari's usual method of operations...

While the Jaguar may be a milestone in home electronic entertainment, its
marketing is going to be the deciding factor of its life span.  Look at the
Lynx...Atari has not aggressively advertised their portable system despite
the fact that it is suppose to be the most powerful handheld  on the market.
Yet I doubt whether it is fairing well against the GameBoy or GameGear.  
Nintendo knows how to market its systems...and that is why it enjoys such
success today.  I would hope that Atari would take this to heart and give
us a virtual media blitz to show us what this 64 bit system can really do.

BTW, I don't think 32+32 really translates to a 64 bit system.  I think
it just means two 32 bit microproccessors are working in series or
parallel (I hope its parallel). Does anybody have any info on this?

						-Racter

Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: Re: Atari Jaguar busting loose!!!
    <rauser.712524487@sfu.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:45:57 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

>fringe owners, who would bother buying the Jaguar? I doubt if even Robert Jung
>would get one.
>
>
>
>-- 
>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."
>--------
>BANNED from alt.good.news! Censorship is alive and well on Usenet!

I'd buy one if it's under $200

Alex
.
From: ez007368@rocky.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Hot New Video Game!
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:12:20 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

I just received a new game that I saw advertised in the August issue of 
Computer Gaming World magazine. It is called RAGNAROK. It is the favorite game
for the IBM PC that I have ever played! It is a role-playing game based on
the mythology of the vikings. This game is the most complex and challenging
quest game that I have ever played. I don't know where it may be available
besides Chips and Bits and Viking Software mail order companies (their ads
are in the same issue of CGW), so you may want to call the makers of the
game to find out if it is available in your area (they are Norsehelm
Productions and their phone number is 1-800-892-3488). I recommend this
game over anything on the market. Try it!
-dave

Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: marsouin@leland.Stanford.EDU (david wang)
Subject: SNES games for trade + Question
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 16:14:20 GMT

OK, to all SNES owners, I've got some games to trade:

-ActRaiser
-Addams Family
-Wanderers from Y's III

The games I'm looking for:
+Super Adventure Island
+Joe & Mac
+Legend of Mystical Ninja
+Smart Ball
+Xardion

All my games are in mint condition (include box, manual), I expect yours to be
the same.  I'm off to the Orient in two weeks, please respond as soon as
possible if interested.

QUESTION: My sister in Hong-Kong has a Super FamiCom unit, and naturally all
the games there are in Japanese, I was wondering if the "SuperAdapter" (that's
how they call it over there) allows players to use U.S. cartridges on the
Super FamiCom (I know for a fact that you can play Japanese cartridges on the
SNES, but is the reverse possible ?)

Please, E-mail me directly any offers or comments, thanks in advance.

David.
From: George_Lin@mindlink.bc.ca (George Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: SF2 for Gensis: controls
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:02:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> King_Claudius (Chris K writes:
> 
> A, B, C, Direction pad, Start - standard buttons/directions, 8 possibilities
> A + Direction pad - 4 more possibilities
> B + Direction pad - 4 more possibilities
> C + Direction pad - 4 more possibilities
> Start + Direction pad - 4 more possibilities
> A + B, B + C, A + C - 3 possiblities
> A + Start, B + Start, C + Start - 3 possibilities
> 
> ---King Claudius---
> claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu


The A,B,C + Direction pad combinations will not be possible for SF2 because
such sequences are already in SF2.  ie. A,B,X,Y,R,L + direction pad (many more
moves than just 6)

Anyways, I can see where you're coming from.  However, it may be possible
depending on how the Sega control pad is wired.

I've opened up the SNES joystick, and it is not a simple binary status for the
buttons/control pad.  The inputs pass through a chip (probably some sort of
encoder, but could merely be a buffer).  If this is the same on the Sega, then
the combinations that you've listed may not be possible.
(ie. for instance, the "start" button may be encoded as "A+B+C" already and
thus the three button sequence could not make a new key.)


--

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From: nstehle@mari.acc.stolaf.edu (Nathan W Stehle)
Subject: Re: Neo Geo: the only 24-bit system?
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:15:08 GMT

>
>     Okay hotshot, you want to hear about false advertising, its not
>too hard to remember Sega and their "true" photos in their game booklets
>that they advertise in various magazines and put in with each piece
>of trash they call a game. I can remember one photo of Super Monoco GP
>which looked very high tech for the genesis machine, a little like,hmmm
>I don't know....the arcade photo maybe?  And how about the photos for
>Golden Axe, forget about those?? And how about the pictures of scenes
>that weren't even included in the games themselves. Sega is a big
>false advertiser and so is nintendo so keep your trap shut.

I'm not sure about all of these instances, but sometimes the game changes
after the ad has been released.


Nathan

Xref: sparky rec.games.video:15536 comp.sys.atari.8bit:3767
From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari 2600/7800 programming info/specifications sought
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 14:16:44 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

slandrum@ntg.com (Stephen H. Landrum) writes:

> In more recent years (since 1983, when I wrote my last 2600 program) Atari
> has probably integrated all three of the chips in the 2600 into one chip,
> but it would have to be functionally identical to the earlier system.


Cool!.. what game(s) did you write???   Who for?        etc.etc.etc.

    "Be seeing you!"
Say|____________9_year_veteran_ ||| __
Hi |PhBill: Bill Kendrick      / | \
if |moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
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Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: zuber_rg@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert G Zuber)
Subject: Any good baseball games for the Genesis?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:01:25 GMT

	Are there currently any good baseball games for the Genesis?
Has anyone tried RBI 4 by Tengen? (I think that's the title)
	Any good baseball games coming out from other companies (Electronic
Arts, etc.)?

	Thanks for any help.

Rob Zuber
zuber@hut4.pha.jhu.edu
From: nguyengp@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tom Fan)
Subject: Looking for used Genesis console
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:26:51 GMT

  I am looking for a non-working Genesis console.  Email me
if you have one.  Thanks.

Long droi
From: bpalser@atlas.nafb.trw.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: GB Final Fantasy Adv. Clue needed
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:44:06 PST


	Hello Networld,

	Need help with Final Fantasy Adventure for the
	Nintendo GAME BOY. 

	What does the clue  'Palmtree and 8'  mean?

	What do I do with the Chocobo?

	Please E-mail the answers. Thanx.
				   Clueless FFA master
From: slandrum@ntg.com (Stephen H. Landrum)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Vindicators home video game?
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:35:01 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

In article <Brquqq.MI3@mail.boi.hp.com> steve@boi.hp.com (Steve Petrie) writes:
>  June 1990???  Jeez, try fall of '89 when the Lynx first hit the shelves.  The
>box for my Classic (purchased Feb 1990) has a Vindicators screen shot on the side
>of it, plus a description on one of the included inserts.
>
>  It should win a prize for latest game, on any system.

It's got a long way to go.  John Madden Football for the Apple ][ was
released 5 years after it was announced.
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From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Atari Jaguar busting loose!!!
Date: 30 Jul 1992 19:20:02 -0700
Organization: Southern California Lynx Enthusiasts
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <rauser.712524487@sfu.ca> rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
>jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>>New EGM said Atari Jaguar 32+32 is ready to run already with 20
>>games!! Atari is planning roll out early 1993? 

  Where? Don't recall seeing that in the newest EGM.

  (BTW, is there such a thing as "over-enthusiastic"?  [half smiley])

>    I'll believe it when I see it...but it would be interesting to see what
>kind of games they come up with. I URGE them not to bring out a bunch of
>Lynx ports or "classic" 2600 games with souped up graphics.

  I'm still wondering why you have this fixation that all Atari can do is port
video games from the Early Days of Video Gaming to their machines. I mean,
the Lynx has been around for a while now, but I _still_ can't find any "old
'classic' (insert Rauser sneer here) games" on it. The closest you have would
be SUPER ASTEROIDS/MISSILE COMMAND, but that's not even out yet.

  Meanwhile, Atari has the rocks to at least try and port the latest video
games to the Lynx. ROAD RIOT 4WD, S.T.U.N. RUNNER, KLAX, HARD DRIVIN', STEEL
TALONS...They might not all be winners, but at least they're trying.

>Seriously, though, 
>I really don't know why Atari is going to bother. With the SNES and Genesis
>having such a stranglehold on the home market, and NEC gobbling up the few
>fringe owners, who would bother buying the Jaguar?

  Depends on what the machine offers. If it has the power of a Neo*Geo at a
$150 price tag, would you be able to refuse? (see below)

>I doubt if even Robert Jung would get one.

  Depends on the games (see above). Slick hardware can't carry a system alone;
it's what's the games do with the technology that makes it kick. A just-like-
the-arcade spittin' copy of RACE DRIVIN' or TOURNAMENT CYBERBALL would get
my attention...

>BANNED from alt.good.news!

  That's a neat trick, right up there with being thrown out of alt.flame.
How many weeks did you have to work at it?

>Censorship is alive and well on Usenet!

  Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to shout "fire!" in a crowded
theatre. Or be obnoxiously annoying to everyone else in a public forum.

                                                --R.J.
                                                B-)

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--------------------------------------+------------------------------Lynx up!
"You weren't chosen because you are the best pilot in the Air Force. You were
    chosen because you are the class clown and frankly, you're expendable."
From: v124p7kk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darryl S Brooks)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: SNES Madden For SALE
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:54:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	John Madden Football for SNES... BO...
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: stcheng@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Szu-Tsung CHENG)
Subject: Price for Lynx
Keywords: Lynx
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:09:11 GMT

What's the price for Lynx II? What accessories I will have for that
price? Does Atari have any special offer for Lynx II now?


Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: fkb@donner.uucp (25810s-bryan)
Subject: SNES SMW Hints Wanted
Reply-To: fkb@donner.UUCP
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:32:18 GMT

Hi there,

I'm posting this for a friend...he purchased a SNES
several months ago and would like any hints that
people on the net may have.

If anyone has saved any files on this subject,
please e-mail them to me.

Thanks in advance,
Francine

Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: louis@netcom.com (Louis Chui)
Subject: SFC:Magic Sword for trade
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:38:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na

The title says it all. I have a Magic Sword cart in perfect condition 
which I'm willing to trade for SuperFamicom carts. I'm looking for
Contra 3, or something newer. I might consider trading with SFC version
of Super Mario World if you can come up with some cash too.

Thanks
-- 
Louis Chui 
Internet address: louis@netcom.COM   ( home )
                  louisc@lsil.com    ( work )
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: llc@po.CWRU.Edu (Ling L. Cheung)
Subject: Genesis games from HK/England
Reply-To: llc@po.CWRU.Edu (Ling L. Cheung)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:57:53 GMT


Does anybody know if Genesis Game cartriges from Hong Kong and England
work on US Genesis machine? Amiga games from England are in Pal mode
that is why I wonder if Genesis might do the same thing.
-- 

Lilian Ling Cheung
llc@po.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Subject: Re: Jaguar ready to join Lynx and Falcon!!!
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 12:30:58 GMT


In a previous article, rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) says:

>In article <1992Jul30.192630.23649@u.washington.edu> dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward) writes:
>>jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>>>Newest EGM said the Atari Jaguar 32+32 game machine is ready  
>>>with 20 games and will sell in early 93!!  Atari is showing
>>>TV, movie screen and HUGE 30 PAGE ads now so BIG FUGI is 
>>>rumbling entire world!
>>
>>Where are the 30 page ads?
>
>  I imagine he means ads are ready, and have been shown to "insiders"...
>
>  What *I* want to know is where in EGM Jeff Young read this stuff. If he's
>talking about the latest issue I am (the one showcasing SONIC THE HEDGEHOG II
>for the Genesis on the cover), I don't recall seeing any big news about the
>Jaguar in it at all.
>
>  Then again, given EGM's track record for quality journalism (sarcasm, folks),
>I'd take this news tidbit with a grain of salt. Heck, gimme the whole shaker.
>
>                                                --R.J.
>                                                B-)
>
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>   Send whatevers to rjung@usc.edu    |      If it has pixels, I'm for it.
>--------------------------------------+------------------------------Lynx up!
>"You weren't chosen because you are the best pilot in the Air Force. You were
>    chosen because you are the class clown and frankly, you're expendable."
>

The 30-page ad he is talking about is for the Lynx.

The movie screen is the Batman Returns.

The commercials are for the Lynx...

The rumored Jaguar appeared in Quartermann's rumor mill.


--
From: omf@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Slime World for Genesis?!
Date: 25 Jul 92 02:25:06 GMT
Reply-To: omf@tiamat.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4

In article <1992Jul25.002651.3421@ntg.com>, slandrum@ntg.com (Stephen H. Landrum) writes...
>>I was casually flipping through the pages of one of the game magazines
>>in a local supermarket, when I saw an ad for Todd's Adventures In SLime
>>World.  "Hmmm... Atari is advertising?!" I thought.  Then, I saw that
>>this was a new version for the Sega Genesis.
> 
>Slime World was not an Atari title, it was an Epyx title.
>Epyx is free to license their games wherever they think they can make
>money.  If Nintendo were interested, Epyx would license all of their
>titles to them as well.
> 
I'm fully aware that SW is an Epyx title.  It's just interesting to
see that a game which was originally created for the Lynx is now
available on another platform.

>I seriously doubt that anyone will do a Game Gear version of Slime World,
>though.

I wouldn't be surprised.  It seems that SEGA is converting many 'big hits'
from the Genesis over to the GG.  Of course, this does not apply to
third party devlopers...

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From: shimkevi@buchmf.bu.edu (Sergey Shimkevich)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Military Madness for TG16???
Keywords: for sale
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:27:29 GMT
Organization: Boston University Chemistry Department

In article <1992Jul20.205730.22947@informix.com> neilw@informix.com (Neil
Williams) writes:

>From an email conversation I had with another netter, there are two
>sequels to MM on CD and Super-CD respectively.  The first sequel is
>flawed with a long load time for battle sequences, but the SCD
>is supposed to be excellent, with very short load times - I think
>it's called MM Champion Edition.  Both sequels are for PCE.

Has anybody played Lady Phantom for the SCD? From what I've heard is is
similar to Herzog Zwei for the Genesis.

Also, how is Dragon Knight 2 like? Is it playable without knowing Japanese?

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