Dreamcast DVD: A Collaborative TL

[DucNguyen0131]

July 7, 2005: killer7 was released exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube by Capcom.

July 11, 2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released for the PS2, Galaxy, GameCube and GBA by Take-Two Interactive under the Global Star Software label.

July 11, 2005: Take-Two Interactive released Sid Meier's Pirates! for the Galaxy under the Acclaim label.

July 20, 2005: Colosseum: Road to Freedom was released by Koei for the PlayStation 2.

 

[Nivek]

July 15, 2005: Conker Other Bad Fur Day is released by Rare Exclusively for the GameCube, the Sequel of the Red Squirrel become popular for his even more adult plotline and his solid online multiplayer.

August 3,2005: Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike is released for the GameCube and Galaxy

August 15: Geist is Released Exclusively for the GameCube, the game becomes a minor hit and a sequel/successor is planned for the DS.

August 22: Nintendogs is released for the Nintendo DS

 

[DucNguyen0131]

August 25, 2005: Liberty Corporation announced that they would merge with Raycom Media.

August 29, 2005: Sonic Legend was released for the Sega Gizmondo (which came after Sega had bought out Tiger Telematics, owners of Gizmondo).

September 8, 2005: THQ released Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy for the GBA (developed by Altron) and the Sega Gizmondo (developed by WayForward Technologies).

September 8, 2005: Reunion premiered on Fox. It was a hit, and it was ended after only one season of 22 episodes (OTL's cliffhanger has been butterflied away), which spawned a DVD release and critical acclaim.

September 13, 2005: Evil Dead: Regeneration was released by THQ for the PlayStation 2, Galaxy and Microsoft Windows.

September 19, 2005: DK: King of Swing was released by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. The original developer Rare went busy with Donkey Kong Xtreme.

September 19, 2005: NFL Play Action Football 2006 was released by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the GameCube.

September 20, 2005: Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes was released for the Nintendo GameCube exclusively, by Microsoft Game Studios.

September 21, 2005: Raycom Media announced that WCOV-TV would be sold off, in order to acquire Liberty's WSFA-TV.

September 22, 2005: Shantae 2 was released for the Game Boy Advance by Microsoft Game Studios, developed by WayForward Technologies. A console Shantae adventure Shantae's Legend was also released by Microsoft and WayForward for the Nintendo GameCube.

 

[Nivek]

Septemeber 16, 2005: Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks is released for PS2, GC and Galaxy

October 5, 2005: Doom III: Ressurection of Evil is released for the Gamecube and Galaxy.

October 11, 2004: SSX on Tour is released for all three major consoles, the popularity of the game make Nintendo to talk with Indie Built about a 1080° for the GameCube X.
Serious Sam II is released for PC, Gamecube and Galaxy

October 12: Devil Kings is released by Capcom for all three major consoles.

October 17: F.E.A.R is released for PC and the Galaxy with ports coming later on for GCX and PS3

October 18: Quake 4 is released for PC and the Galaxy with ports coming later on for GCX and PS3

October 19: Fire Emblem Path of Radiance is released for the GameCube

 

[DucNguyen0131]

October 21, 2005: Threshold became a big hit for CBS, and even with respectful ratings since its debut. It would even receive a full-season pickup.

October 24, 2005: Take-Two Interactive released Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for the Sega Galaxy under the Acclaim label.

October 25, 2005: Shrek SuperSlam was released for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Sega Galaxy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Sega Gizmondo and Microsoft Windows.

October 26, 2005: Dale Earnhardt's NASCAR Racetrack 2006 was released for the Nintendo GameCube by Microsoft Game Studios.

November 1, 2005: 007: From Russia with Love was released for the PlayStation 2, Sega Galaxy and the Nintendo GameCube.

November 3, 2005: Take-Two Interactive released Zathura for the PlayStation 2 and the Sega Galaxy under the Acclaim label.

November 7, 2005: Microsoft announced that they would pick up video game rights to Threshold from Paramount Television, and would receive a GameCube title, with the first one planning on to be developed by internal studio Argonaut Software.

November 8, 2005: Guitar Hero was released for the PlayStation 2 by RedOctane.

November 15, 2005: After Raycom sold off WCOV in Montgomery (which was its flagship station until the Liberty merger), Raycom sold off KHNL/KFVE in Honolulu, WFXL in Albany, GA, KASA in Albuquerque, KXRM/KXTU in Colorado Springs, WACH in Columbia, S.C., KTVO in Ottumwa/Kirksville, WLUC in Marquette, WSTM/WSTQ in Syracuse, WNWO in Toledo, WPBN/WTOM in Traverse City and KWWL in Iowa, which serves Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Dubuque, while Raycom also sold off WWAY in Wilmington (TTL KGBT was retained by Raycom via the Liberty merger and sold off KHNL/KFVE instead).

November 22, 2005: Rare released Donkey Kong Xtreme, Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark Zero for the Nintendo GameCube.

 

[Nivek]

November 18, 2005: Dragon Quest VIII is Released for the GameCube, thanks to Nintendo and MS promotion and the status as Exclusive JRPG, become the Killer App Nintendo and Enix wanted, and work for the next instalment started soon enough.

Novemeber 25: The Hi-Definition Format wars enter a very heated phase after both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray groups truly split to reach their format separately, Microsoft that was working with Toshiba in the codecs HDi, Toshiba wants to Nintendo to Use HD-DVD for the X, but when Nintendo would love a format doesn't relly in Sony at all, Cost might be prohibitive. Especially with Nintendo's own Plans of Motion Controlling games.

December 5, 2005: Super Mario Strikers is released for the GameCube

 

[DucNguyen0131]

December 6, 2005: Shareholders approved Liberty Corporation's merger with Raycom Media.

December 8, 2005: Microsoft Game Studios released NBA Courtside 2006 for the Nintendo GameCube.

December 12, 2005: Microsoft Game Studios released Adam Crosse's NHL Footprint 2006 for the Nintendo GameCube.

December 12, 2005: Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows was released for the PS2, GameCube and the Galaxy.

December 20, 2005: Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie was released by Ubisoft for the PSP and the Sega Gizmondo.

December 30, 2005: Raycom Media sold off WWAY to Morris Multimedia for $18.5 million.

January 10, 2006: Take-Two Interactive released NBA Jam 2006 for the Galaxy, GameCube and PlayStation 2 under the Acclaim label..

January 18, 2006: The FCC approved merger between Raycom Media and Liberty Corporation. Raycom would gave the FCC six-month duopoly waivers for five markets in Montgomery, AL (WSFA/WCOV), Albany, GA (WALB/WFXL), Toledo, OH (WTOL/WNWO), Columbia, SC (WIS/WACH), and Wilmington, NC (WWAY/WECT).

 

[CrashBandicam]

Can you give me more details on Sonic Legend, Duc?

 

[DucNguyen0131]

Can you give me more details on Sonic Legend, Duc?

Yes. It gave them more details.

The gameplay was sort of similar of OTL's Sonic Advance, except that there are multiplayer characters that connected well to a Gizmondo handheld's link cable (TTL, Sega bought it in order to save the struggling handheld), with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy playing all along, and determine which player is to be the legend.

 

[Nivek]

e (TTL, Sega bought it in order to save the struggling handheld),

That never struggled, never lived at all, some wonder if that was just a money-laundering scheme from europeans.

January 9, 2006: Electroplankton is released for the Nintendo DS.

February 7, 2006: Resident Evil Deadly Silence is released for the NDS
Tales of Legendia is released for the PS2,GC and galaxy

February 14: Grandia III is released for all three Major consoles
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is released for all three Major consoles and PC

 

[Inferno60]

some wonder if that was just a money-laundering scheme from europeans.

A money-laundering scheme by the Swedish Mafia no less.

 

[Nivek]

A money-laundering scheme by the Swedish Mafia no less.

And not the House one. Yeah Dunno what Duc was thinking, especially as the console did ailed vs PSP and DS(but again if they did recycle all those Megadrive games and got gimped ports of the other two could be profitable...unless the Swedish mafia now come for SEGA)

 

[DucNguyen0131]

February 21, 2006: Sonic Riders was released for the new Sega Galaxy console by Sega.

February 21, 2006: Sega released Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll for the Sega Gizmondo.

February 28, 2006: Take-Two Interactive released 24: The Game for the PlayStation 2, developed by SCE Cambridge Studio, released under the Acclaim label.

March 9, 2006: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was released for the Sega Galaxy and GameCube.

March 14, 2006: Driver: Parallel Lines was released for the PS2, GameCube and the Sega Galaxy.

March 20, 2006: Nintendo released Radar Scope X Hunters for the Nintendo DS, developed by Nintendo Software Technology.

March 28, 2006: Raycom Media sold off NBC affiliates KHNL in Honolulu, WNWO-TV in Toledo, WSTM-TV in Syracuse, WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV in Traverse City-Cheboygan and WLUC-TV in Marquette, FOX affiliates WACH-TV in Columbia, S.C., KXRM-TV in Colorado Springs, WFXL-TV in Albany, GA and WCOV-TV in Montgomery, AL, UPN affiliates WSTQ in Syracuse and KXTU in Colorado Springs, one WB affiliate KFVE in Honolulu and one ABC affiliate KTVO in Kirksville to Barrington Broadcasting for $275 million (compared to OTL's $262 million. TTL Raycom kept KGBT and sold off KHNL/KFVE on the condition of the Liberty merger).

March 30, 2006: Quincy Media bought out KWWL in the Iowa market from Raycom Media.

 

[Nivek]

March 1, 2006: After long negotiations, The Idea of the Gamecube X will use or not HD-DVD will be disclosed at the E3, the new Deadline is to be April 30. Nintendo still has doubts about the price tag of the X, as they don't want to excess the 500$ and might reach that limit with their newest tech in the prototype stage. Toshiba Tried to cut down the price tag or try to negotiate with MS and Nintendo About it.

March 21: Suidoken V is released for all three major consoles.

March 28: Rumble and Roses XX is released for the Galaxy
Harvest Moon Magical melody is released for the GameCube

March 31: OutRun 2006: Coast2Coast is released for the Galaxy

April 10, 2006: Odama is released for the GameCube

April 11: Tomb Raider Legend is released for all three major consoles and PC, and ported to the Gamecube X and PS3 later on

April 18: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is released for the GameCube and PC

April 25: Ace Combat Zero and Atelier Iris 2 are released for all three major consoles

 

[DucNguyen0131]

April 30, 2006: The new GameCube X, developed by Microsoft and Nintendo had finalized their negotiations with Toshiba in order to use the HD DVD technology, and decided to be on the console itself.

May 1, 2006: Fox had finally ended its run of Reunion after 22 episodes on the air, due to smash success.

May 3, 2006: Microsoft Game Studios released Ken Griffey Jr.'s MLB Baseball 2006 for the Nintendo GameCube.

May 5, 2006: Barrington Broadcasting announced that Fox affiliate WCOV in Montgomery (acquired from Raycom, which had in turn bought out the station from Woods Communications in 2004, as part of the Liberty deal, Raycom had to spun off WCOV to acquire WSFA) would start a news department by the "fall of 2006", once the deal is closed, pending FCC and DOJ approvals, and has plans to produce a 10pm primetime newscast, as well as morning, 5pm and 6pm newscasts by "2007".

May 10, 2006: Take-Two Interactive released All-Star Baseball 2007 for the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and the Galaxy under the Acclaim label.

May 16, 2006: X-Men: The Official Game was released for the PS2, Sega Galaxy, GameCube, the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS.

E3 2006: The GameCube X and the PlayStation 3 were announced. Both of them were backed by HD-DVD and Blu-ray technologies.

E3 2006: Nintendo announced they would work on Viva Pinata for the GameCube X, with a tie-in cartoon being prepared for 4Kids TV.

 

[Nivek]

May 15, 2006: New Super Mario Bros is released for the NDS

E3 2006: THE GameCube X design is released to the public, including the X logo

Spoiler: big image

Use imagination for a disc drive, I can't photoshop for shit.

Nintendo also show his first Unreal Engine 3 powered game, Yoshi New World. and DICE show Battlefield 2, to be ready for Launch

Sega Also show their newest franchise and Exclusive. Gears of War developed by Epic games and published by SEGA(ITTL Sega own the Gears of War IP since day one, not need to purchase later on)

May 30: Hitman Blood money is released for all three major consoles and PC

June 6, 2006:Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories is released for PS2, Gamecube and Galaxy, after being ported from PSP.

June 15: Urban Chaos:Riot Response developed by Argonaut is released by Microsoft for the Gamecube(ITTL Rocksteady never exist)

 

[ElusiveIllusion]

E3 2006: The GameCube X and the PlayStation 3 were announced. Both of them were backed by HD-DVD and Blu-ray technologies.

Respectively, right? Because this phrasing could be misinterpreted as BOTH consoles are able to use BOTH HD-DVD AND Blu-ray.

 

[DucNguyen0131]

June 13, 2006: The FCC had greenlight the transaction of 13 Raycom stations (in such markets like Montgomery, which included WCOV-TV) to Broadcasting.

June 28, 2006: Juiced: Eliminator was released by Take-Two Interactive for the PSP and the Sega Gizmondo under the Acclaim label.

July 11, 2006: Prey was released by Take-Two Interactive under the Acclaim label for the Windows, Sega Galaxy and GameCube, developed by Human Head Studios for 3D Realms, who had conceived the game.

July 25, 2006: Tekken: Dark Resurrection was released for the Sega Gizmondo and the PSP by Namco.

August 8, 2006: Dead Rising was released by Capcom exclusively for the GameCube.

August 11, 2006: Barrington Broadcasting and Raycom Media has officially closed the transaction for 13 television stations, this included six NBC affiliates KHNL in Honolulu, WNWO-TV in Toledo, WSTM-TV in Syracuse, WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV in Traverse City-Cheboygan and WLUC-TV in Marquette, FOX affiliates WACH-TV in Columbia, S.C., KXRM-TV in Colorado Springs, WFXL-TV in Albany, GA and WCOV-TV in Montgomery, AL, UPN affiliates WSTQ in Syracuse and KXTU in Colorado Springs, one WB affiliate KFVE in Honolulu and one ABC affiliate KTVO in Kirksville (all 13 stations were bought out by Barrington from Raycom). NBC affiliate WSFA in Montgomery then became the exclusive flagship of Raycom Media.

 

[Nivek]

August 15: Enchanted Arms is released for the Galaxy and later on ported for the GCX and PS3.

August 22: Bomberman Generations 2 is released for the Galaxy(Act zero is butterflied away)

August 29: Saints RoW is released Exclusively for the Galaxy

 

[DucNguyen0131]

September 4, 2006: Barrington Broadcasting's Fox affiliate WCOV in Montgomery began producing primetime news at 9pm.

September 5, 2006: Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run was released for the PlayStation 2 and the Sega Galaxy.

September 8, 2006: The Spy Hunter movie was released by Universal Pictures. Directed by Flightplan director Robert Schwentke, it starred Dwayne Johnson.

September 12, 2006: NFL Play Action Football 2007 was released for the GameCube, and will be one of the launch titles for the GameCube X, by Microsoft Game Studios.

September 18, 2006: Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle was released for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Sega Gizmondo. Although Altron developed the GBA and DS versions, WayForward Technologies took the chores for the Gizmondo version.

September 19, 2006: The Godfather: The Game was released for the GameCube, PSP and the Sega Gizmondo.