Wouldn't the "P.C. Engine-2" just be the SuperGrafx (which was released)?camineet said:The second to last paragraph mentions three 16-bit consoles that were never released!
Pretty sure that's basically what it turned into.Whimsical Phil said:Wouldn't the "P.C. Engine-2" just be the SuperGrafx (which was released)?
Whimsical Phil said:Wouldn't the "P.C. Engine-2" just be the SuperGrafx (which was released)?
Nope. As far as I know Ethan and Jenn Tsao are the only ex-Ziffies at Sega. I'm in the middle of getting my teaching credentials.john tv said:Pretty sure that's basically what it turned into.
BTW Phil, are you at Sega now?
Exclamation overuse was a defining feature of old EGM. Just one of many reason why I would crack up when people complained about how EGM was better during its early years.Monroeski said:Needs more exclamation points.
R Squared said:When I read Steve Harris my mind automatically went to Iron Maiden. Does that mean my nerd card is revoked, or something?
mjc said:Makes you wish gaming magazines went to the same lengths today with articles. Now you're lucky to have 20% of the page dedicated to text while the other 80% is covered with over-sized pictures.
I thought of The Practice, myself.R Squared said:When I read Steve Harris my mind automatically went to Iron Maiden. Does that mean my nerd card is revoked, or something?
Ah okay. Thought I heard you talking about writing copy for some SEGA games on your podcast. Did I misunderstand? Or maybe you were just joking?Whimsical Phil said:Nope. As far as I know Ethan and Jenn Tsao are the only ex-Ziffies at Sega. I'm in the middle of getting my teaching credentials.
john tv said:LOL @ all the ! marks. Was going to mention that too. The sad thing is, he was one of the better writers of that era of the mag. Still loved the mag tho, so didn't really care that it was written so poorly. It had heart!
FirewalkR said:Sometimes I think about how it'd be to go back in time with a high-spec PC or current-gen console and show game journalists of 20 years ago something like Crysis or KZ2 or whatever.
I wonder if I'd get physical reactions. I believe I might get some people to faint, one or two actual orgasms, hell I might even get the sporadic heart attack! If I'm ever able to do this I have to take a portable defibrillator too. And some toilet paper. :lol
lowlylowlycook said:Even in the past, people are sick of KZ2 gifs.
Oh, that...of course. That was a freelance job. I wrote all the game history and "Did You Know?" bits for the upcoming Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (coming Feburary 10 to PS3 and Xbox 360! Only $29.99! Over 40 classic titles! Buy multiple copies!).john tv said:Ah okay. Thought I heard you talking about writing copy for some SEGA games on your podcast. Did I misunderstand? Or maybe you were just joking?
We were all just very, very exciting about gaming back then.john tv said:LOL @ all the ! marks. Was going to mention that too. The sad thing is, he was one of the better writers of that era of the mag. Still loved the mag tho, so didn't really care that it was written so poorly. It had heart!
john tv said:Ah okay. Thought I heard you talking about writing copy for some SEGA games on your podcast. Did I misunderstand? Or maybe you were just joking?
LOL @ all the ! marks. Was going to mention that too. The sad thing is, he was one of the better writers of that era of the mag. Still loved the mag tho, so didn't really care that it was written so poorly. It had heart!
DeaconKnowledge said:I much prefer the unbridled enthusiasm of back then over the guarded cynicism now.
stuminus3 said:The future of GameBoy is, without a doubt, very solid.
Haha. No kidding!
voltron said:I think we can trace back the notion of a 'console war' directly to this article.
voltron said:I think we can trace back the notion of a 'console war' directly to this article.
Expect TurboGrafx-CD to have a huge upswing once it hits mass market price. Right now the price is holding it back, but by 1994 they're going to gain tons of marketshare. Sega and Nintendo won't know what hit them.obaidr said:no analysis from pachter?
Failed !!!!
voltron said:I think we can trace back the notion of a 'console war' directly to this article.
cartman414 said:What issue(s) did they preview the Lynx? Man, my mind was going nuts reading about how powerful that thing was.
I remember an old EGM talking about how one earlier magazine got Colecovision vs Atari letters.voltron said:I think we can trace back the notion of a 'console war' directly to this article.
CO_Andy said:That dentist chair looks like it'd be a rad gaming device
1) The Power Chair
The peripherals are almost worth an entire website themselves - due to the ambitious nature of the level of interaction Wyn was trying to offer and the novel ways he was trying to accommodate that interactivity in mostly affordable and easy to manufacture components. It's purely down to a lack of personal accounts and any real supporting documents or evidence such as blue prints and specifications that I can't elaborate on them anymore here. Hopefully once more people read the site, accounts may come rolling in.
It's safe to say that the power chair was probably the one thing about the Multisystem that made your jaw drop to the ground. It was also possibly the straw that broke the camels back. It really was probably a step too far in hindsight.
If the notion that you could add a relatively cheap powered moving chair to your home games system came along maybe after a year of the Multisystem being released, then who knows where we'd be now.
It certainly wasn't an impossible dream - the darn thing existed and functioned as was intended - there is photographic evidence in the pictures just below this paragraph. But it was a case of gilding the lily - I think it pushed the Multisystem from being a credible project to something too awesome to handle.
Here we see a number of people using the power chair, there are also two versions of the chair on show, one more open than the other, but both seem equally fun.
An empty Powerchair Jeff Minter Gun in hand, Multisystem in other, Powerchair between legs Enjoying the Powerchair experience Ed Semrad Unknown Rider Unknown Rider Wyn Holloway posing on the Powerchair
In the pictures we can see Jeff Minter, Wyn Holloway and Ed Semrad. If you are one of the other 3 please drop me a line, I'd love to hear your impressions about the machine. Also, any members of the games industry, press or public who attended any of the shows where the power chair was present, and if you managed to ride the power chair please get in touch.
An add-on (perhaps a logical one) to the power chair was to be a helicopter style joystick. I've only ever seen the artists impression from the promotional litrature so I'm unsure of exactly how it would have fitted to the Multisystem's power chair but it's not too hard to imagine. This of course was intended to turn your power chair into an equavilent of the Thunderblade machine for the home.
Steve Harris said:After successfully invading Japan, we are about to witness the first wave of next generation gaming on these shores.
Virtual Game Boy for DSi*G-Fex said:i wish theyd bring back the gameboy name
CitizenCope said:Still remember the day I bought this issue off the rack.
jamesinclair said:Did the Lynx really have one cart multiplayer support?
The most striking of this is how professional the articles look (minus the exclamation marks). Lots of text, and only a couple of images to highlight the article. Easy to read background too.
madara said:Lol, I remember that issue. I got so excited seeing the successor to nes I walked out of B. Dalton and forgot to pay for it. For like 50secs before my senses returned, thank god they had crappy surveillance, that might have been hard to explain.
voltron said:I think we can trace back the notion of a 'console war' directly to this article.
jamesinclair said:Did the Lynx really have one cart multiplayer support?
The most striking of this is how professional the articles look (minus the exclamation marks). Lots of text, and only a couple of images to highlight the article. Easy to read background too.
jamesinclair said:Did the Lynx really have one cart multiplayer support?