From: v089l3s3@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeremy B Horwitz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: A bad OMEN for the GENESIS from Japan
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:05:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>>>
>>>I think EGM has had a DECIDEDLY pro-SNES anti-SEGA slant of late.  It has 
>>>resulted in me no longer buying the magazine.   I'm tired of it, I wish they'd
>>>resort to objective reporting.    I'm not saying that Sega is the best in 
>>>all areas, I'm not going to play that stupid game.    If you are satisfied
>>>with your system, so be it.    
>>>

Just to mention it, if I haven't already, EGM's editors appeared in a Japanese
magazine wearing a Sonic 2 button... I have a grand conspiracy theory about
both EGM and VG+CE - I honestly believe that both magazines have taken
substantial bribes above and beyond the publicized EGM "16-page ad segments"
which gave them $30k per supplement. The mammoth Sega ad which appeared
last year was 100 pages long -- at EGM's rate, that was something like $160k
for the whole ad - just to show pictures of the games. When you read that
"Steve Harris loves his new Lamborghini", you can understand how he
paid for it (in cash, unmarked, most likely). Also, Ed Semrad, from what a
friend of mine who met him said (remember the winner of the Neo Geo SNK comp
several issues back?), Semrad mentioned that he's "too old to play a lot of
the games" and that he sometimes just agreed with whatever the average
was of the other guys. That would explain why he's almost never in the
extreme upper or lower # rating. VG+CE was definitely caught with hands in
the bag when it somehow awarded Legendary Axe the best game of the year 
award, then started Turboplay -- when everyone else agreed that the
Genesis games (spec. Ghouls'n'Ghosts) were better...
as 
>>>EGM is the ONLY source talking about dropping Mega-CD and Megadrive sales
>>>in Japan.   EGM is the only source going on and on about the fantastic future
>>>SNES CD-ROM due out in '93.   EGM is spewing a pack of lies.    Granted I'm
>>>EGM bashing but I don't like their crap.

Unfortunately true... that the sales are down.

> 
>Hype?  They're just "taking chances", "going out on a limb",
>"doing their best to get you the scoops first".
> > 
>EGM really has deluded a lot of young gamers....
> 

I've been waiting for an issue to go by where they're telling the whole truth and
not showing a fake picture of something. Not yet. Semrad's Monaco GP 2 award
of "8" to a game he thought was not groundbreaking. Their reviews are gutless
and even worse than the Japanese Famicom Tsushin equivalent... What an
unbelievable magazine! They print a letter talking about High End Mag's fake
F-Zero 2 and Raytris pictures, meanwhile they're printing "Mega-CD photos"
of the arcade version of Cobra Command, many taken from an ad for the Japanese
version of the game, 

I think the editors of the mag should be rounded up and shot.. and that the
only people kept alive should be the KKW team and Quarterman (contrary to the
message posted in my name, I think his column is at least interesting)
. and that the KKW team should be given masks and voice impersonating
devices so they can get the EGM staff's info and actually write a decent
paragraph about it.


-> Jer