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A new company spawned by Electronic Arts called
3DO has gotten a lot of hype of late. With a 32-bit
Panasonic player already in the stores (with a $600+
price tag) and a handful of amazing titles, this system
will blow away everyone with the bucks to burn. The
300 racing simulator Crash-N-Burn is as close as most
of us will ever come to toasting a hi-performance vehi
cle and walking away. With virtual reality caliber 3-D
shaded polygon graphics and real time smooth anima
tion, when your car crawls the banked curve at 150+
mph, you'll feel it in your bowels... Also doubling the
ante to 32-bit is the new Commodore CD by the
friendly folks who brought you Video Toaster, Amiga
With a built-in CD-ROM reader and a little third-party
support in the way of titles, Amiga could have a major
contender on their hands. And a price tag of around
$400 won't hurt much, either The father of all video
games, Atari, goes above and beyond with their new
64-bit Jaguar system. A suggested price of under
$250 and a bevy of brain-blowing carts make this the
favorite to replace that increasingly puny feeling 16-bit
system leeching onto the family tube... Packed in with
the Jaguar is Cybermorph, a digital diversion where
you pilot a rescue probe through space to 50 moons,
your mission: Save stranded survivors. The graphics are
too realistic for words Nintendo has announced its
own 64-bit Project Reality in conjunction with high
end graphics workstation kingpins Silicon Graphics
Whether this project becomes a reality or just more
marketing vaporware remains to be seen At the far
end of the spectrum, Nintendo has a revamped (read
"repackaged") edition of it's original 8-bit NES. The
new version is geared toward vidiots on a budget of
under $50. There are countless titles out there for this
compact system and if you can tolerate the retro
graphics, this is an affordable way to put together a
great game library. If you crave power, the PC is a
killer. MegaTech has imported Metal & Lace, The
STATIC
Battle of the RoboBabes from the Far East for PC sys
tems. The company claims it will have you gripping
your joystick all night over this Japanese animation
style arcade anarchy that comes in PG-13 and 18 &
over versions. (Go NR-18 for maximum exposure)
Accolade's Hardball Ill is the ultimate PC baseball sim
with add-on disks containing every MLPBA player and
all 28 ballparks. It's even got Al Michaels announcing
On the Mac, SimCity 2000 can give you a major
God complex as you lord over a growing urban sprawl
or utopian eco-village. With enhanced controls and
graphics, Maxis has a title that is deceptively educa
tional while massively fun... If you would rather roam
the streets, killing whoever is unlucky enough to hap
pen into your path, check Callisto's Super MazeWars,
where you cruise smooth scrolling hallways on a
destructive tear. The disks have enough variations to
hold your attention for multiple maze sessions and it's
networkable, which means you can unleash your sniper
tendencies on your friends... The real inspiration for
SimCity was probably Monopoly, Parker Brother's clas
sic game of capitalism gone ballistic. Now you can play
the role of silicon slumlord on your Mac, PC, Genesis
or NES. You can choose between computer or human
opponents, or a combination of the two for your ulti-
mate power struggle After a tough day of urban
slumlordery, relax with DataEast's killer Sidepockets
for all the angles, english and touch of real pool with-
out having to build a spare room to hold the table. The
SNES graphics are a major improvement over the
Genesis version... Pinball predates the current vid
scene and, like cockroaches, will probably outlive all
comers. Sega knows. Sonic Spinball is the game I keep
going back to If you don't like the crop of pinball
games on the market, make your own with Virtual
Pinball by Electronic Arts, a construction kit with all the
frills, including a set of bumpers and flippers that go all
out on the gore tip, spurting blood and visceri with
When it comes to video game power, the bottom line is Macs rule. Bradforton (top), is a thriving Maxis SimCity 2000
metropolis...until the riot option is selected. Limber your flipper fingers for Crystal Caliburn (right) by Storplay.
every impact. But again, you
want the power, you go to the
Mac. Crystal Caliburn is as
close to pinball as you'll come
without a chrome ball. An
awesome board with multi-ball
lock and major channels, it's
hard to imagine what more
you could want without any
quarters. The future shock
arcade devastation of fully
pumped Arnold can be held in
the palm of your hand now
with Acclaim's T2: The Arcade
Game for GameGear. This is
one of the best arcade-to-
home-to-portable conversions
ever (along with Acclaim's
Mortal Kombat). The first-per-
son action puts you behind a
raging Uzi as you spray the
machines that are looking to
terminate the outmoded human infestation. When
things get overwhelming, which they usually are in this
adrenaline pumper, load and launch a grenade or two
to catch a breath before the next wave
Rock-n-Roll Racing cart is like Super Mario Kart with
testosterone and a heavy metal soundtrack. Just like
the LA freeways, it's kill or be killed in this driving
adventure gone awry. Survive and accrue points for
more potent armory. Fail, and you're just one more
roadkill speedbump. Perhaps the most dangerous
car adventure in the world is a New York taxi ride and
Time Warner's CD-ROM HellCab captures a fare jour-
Interplay's
ney into Hell, where you pay the bill with your soul.
Hook up your triple speed drive, climb into ol' cab 666.
and hold tight. Your driver, Raul, will take you on a vir-
tual nightmare through Nero's blazing Rome, the mus
tard gas trenches of WWI, thunder lizard-infested jun-
gle and the capital of Hell, the Empire State Building.
-Brad Dosland
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