I wonder if Kalinske's daughter was more impressed with Angels than she was of MagiQuest?
Believe it or not, by then Kalinske's daughters had an Ultra Nintendo, it was a gift from one of Kalinske's in-laws. Ashley's favorite Ultra Nintendo game thus far is The Dreamers. She did play Angels but she thought it was "boring", her favorite Saturn game is Sonic 4.
Speaking of All That!, was Good Burger still made? Or was another skit adapted?
Good Burger was not made, Nick actually did a Pete and Pete movie instead.
Would one of those 'mostly unknown' Brits happen to be Victoria Harwood? OTL she's the English dub voice of Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing in both Hellsing animes ("classic" and Ultimate), and about now should still be in England (or just moved to the States).
Nope, she hasn't done any video game voices yet.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see Tom & co. hauled back in front of congress over Arbiter of Sin. That game is going to piss off all of the people that pissed off by those sorts of things.
Around the time
Arbiter of Sin is coming out, Congressional Republicans will be trying and failing to impeach Clinton. They'll be too discouraged from that to pick up their anti-games crusade.
Was that comment about arcades still dying just a jerk on the internet being a jerk on the internet, or is the decline & obsolescence of the arcades in the west just sort of inevitable?
Little bit of both. Arcades aren't dying yet but they're in a slow decline.
So Shenmue (1) as a spring/early-summer '99 release? Cool!
It just got delayed until December 1998 actually.
With Sonic 5 coming up, maybe I could write another Archie Comics piece, or maybe another review of Sonic 5? I don't have anything right now, just offering to do something.
Sure thing! You can do another Archie Comics post any time you'd like, but wait a bit on Sonic 5 until around April or May of 1999 comes around.
In other words, it's exactly the same as the Mega Charger.
OSM is spinning a little bit
Also, some guy thinks that a console (the Sega Genesis + MC) was an abject failure just because it did not make quite as much money as its rival. Remember how the PSP sold 80 million units, but sold far less than the NDS, making it a complete loss? Neither do I.
He didn't say it was a "failure", he just meant that he didn't think the Ring would be successful in putting the Saturn over the Ultra.