Orville_third
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This is just...wow.
Looks like Powell just either scotched the war or made the war an albatross for Bush.
Looks like Powell just either scotched the war or made the war an albatross for Bush.
Chaos Redux: The Election of 2002 And Beyond
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Yep, the war may not even happen, it will get more intense before the midterms.
Thanks, if I am up to it, expect one tonight or tomorrow, it will be about the fallout from Powell's announcement
Sorry for the long wait, update in the next few days on Congressional reaction and a separate update about the sixth generation of video games.
The End of An Era
IGN October 14, 1999: Nintendo acquires Bungie Game Studio to develop a new IP franchise, we are told it is a third person shooter set in the future called Halo.
IGN September 18, 1999: Sega at the brink of bankruptcy after a final push for the Sega Saturn over the last year and a half has been reportedly accepted an offer from Nintendo to purchase the corporation for 2 Billion USD.
IGN September 19, 1999: A Recap of Where The Console Wars Stand
The launch of the N64, was met with great success. The console itself was changed several times before launch, and resulted in including extra RAM and a disk drive in the console at launch allowing for disk based games and greater third party support expected.
Best Selling N64 Games
Super Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Goldeneye 007
Donkey Kong 64+Expansion Disk
Legend of Zelda the Ocarnia of Time+Expansion Disk
Super Mario 128
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Perfect Dark 64
Earthbound 64
New to this generation, Sony released the PS1 with decent sales though lacking that of the N64. The system itself was nothing spectacular and was most of all a cheaper alternative to the N64 and had a great variety of third party support but with the N64,s change to both a disk or cartridge format led to many developers returning to developing for Nintendo after its launch.
The Sega Saturn would go down as one of the most complicated and financially self destructive in recent history. The systems launch was horrific and led to several retail chains to abandon support. Sega attempted a comeback in 1998 with the launch of Sonic X-Treme, but it was too little to late. Sega would be bought by Nintendo September 18, 1999.
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When Nintendo purchased Sega, they also gained the designs of the planned Sega Dreamcast and decided to borrow the idea of a greater online presence for the console as well as expanding the idea to include a possible download service for older titles and small projects. Initially, the Dreamcast controller was considered but was scrapped in the end due to Nintendo seeing it as being to complicated with the VMU. The code name for the system was Dolphin and Nintendo slated the Dolphin for a holiday season 2001 release with the following launch titles.
Super Mario Sunshine
Banjo Threeie
Halo
Sonic Adventure
Super Monkey Ball
Crazy Taxi
Luigi's Mansion
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It will, and Bungie. Nintendo reportedly offered 2 Billion for Sega in 2000, so I just made Sega do a bit worse to speed up the process, next gen will be interesting.
As do I, it shall be epic.
A Bit of Foreshadowing
"After Americans realized they had been lied to by its government in an attempt to fight an unjustified war, many Americans became aware of the threat from the military industrial complex..."
-Excerpt from "Starting the Revolution: The Memoirs of Ron Paul"
"After the paranoia following 9/11 subsided after the start of the War in Afghanistan and the Patriot Act's enactment many Americans felt safer. How more mistaken could we have been?"
-Excerpt from "Terrorism and the American Crisis of the 2000's By Joe Sestak"
"After both party's ineptness was shown and their deceit of the public revealed, many more Americans became open to the idea of a third party. While many other Americans who were disgusted with the two party system came to the realization that we must fight for a new political system"
-Excerpt from Jesse Ventura's "The Twilight of the Two Party System"
"Just a month before the midterm's we were so close to taking control of the senate and holding the house or even expanding our seat count. But then the economic issues started coming, but the death blow was Secretary Powell's resignation. In the 2004 elections, who could have foreseen such a turbulent election cycle, the worst since 1968."
-Excerpt from "The Disaster the Election's of 2002 and 2004"