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“With the lines drawn and the battle about to begin, still more participants are eagerly awaiting to enter the war.

Konix has shown their 16-Bit Slipstream to lukewarm response. The system is shown with a a special simulator chair which is just too slow.

Namco has a machine comparable to the Super Famicom almost completed, but is unsure about which way to market it with so many other game machines already in the marketplace.

Then there’s NEC’s 16-Bit P.C. Engine-2, which is also expected to blast into Japan sometime next year, promising even better graphics and sound than their original P.C. Engine.”

Excerpt from “Next Generation Gaming” written by Steve Harris and originally published in issue 2 of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Imagine how much more crowded the market would have been had any of these three systems come out!

I remember being really interested in Konix’s Slipstream, even though I don’t care about racing games at all.

[Via NeoGAF]

tags / egm / pc engine / konix slipstream / jc

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EGM :(

Electronic Gaming Monthly is being shut down following the sale of 1UP to UGO. I keep trying to think of a way to say this, but I don’t want to talk about ‘condolences’ or ‘sympathies’ or whatever, because that sounds too much like someone died, so I’ll say it crassly: to our friends at EGM/1UP, this is totally shitty, and I hope you guys weather the shittiness okay.

We’re going to see a lot of very sad reminiscences from a lot of bloggers over the next few days, so I’ll keep mine brief. More than any publication, it was classic EGM that made me feel like I wanted to participate in some kind of video game culture. Everything in gaming that I really care about — wacky imports, fan culture, retro, cheats — I first got hooked on by reading about it in EGM.

While I’m personally saddened by the fact that I’ll never achieve my life goal of writing for this magazine, I’m much more upset at what feels like the loss of one of the centers of our community. And even more upset that people I admire aren’t considered valuable enough by some dumb website.

tags / egm / 1up / ugo / hearst / shit / jc

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“What? Really?”

— Goichi Suda responding with feigned surprise when asked by EGM about rumors of a Contact sequel.

The Grasshopper CEO makes sure to remind us that Contact’s director, Akira Ueda, left the studio and now heads Audio Inc., but he doesn’t give any concrete details about whether there is a follow-up in the works.

Suda simply says, “For any Contact sequel to happen, we need to talk about it with [Ueda] first.”

Though this was in last month’s EGM, and the interviewer, Jeremy Parish, even told us to expect this bit of news, but I didn’t receive my copy of the issue until yesterday!

tags / contact / egm / goichi suda / akira ueda / audio inc / grasshopper manufacture / ec

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