Well, Allan has returned from his many wildadventures across the globe, and will be taking overthis column again starting tomorrow. This will bemy last column for a while, so enjoy it while itlasts! Shed no tears over my departure! ... well,fine, you can shed a few if you really want.

Enough babbling, though. It's time for the realbusiness of this column, which is mainly correctingmistakes I made the last column.

Ian Milham of Crave was kind enough to email mesuch a correction. He states: "Crave PUBLISHEDMilo's Asto Lanes and Robotron for the N64, butdid not DEVELOP them. Shadow Madness is the firstin-house developed product (at Craveyard studios)."Thanks Ian!

A good question. The key here, though, is that itdidn't make a real FF Movie clip. It rendered onecharacter's face, by itself. No other characters,no backgrounds. The PSX2 is by far the most advancedgaming system ever, but it's not quite that far alongyet. Some companies are planning on using the PSX2for rough sketches when making CG based movies, however.

Maybe the PSX3.

Hey there bud Brud! Now, let's hope IGNPSX is right...I'm ready for this game to come out! I keep hearinghow awesome the Lunar series is... well I'm readyto play it. So I'm going to put my money on itactually coming out then, and we can all party downwith Lunar goodness!

As far as I know, the story is the same in bothversions... the only difference is the music. Thetwo "secret" songs in Chrono Trigger can be listenedto with Game Genie codes... whether or not they're usedin the Japanese version I'm not sure about. Maybesomeone else can fill Allan in (or maybe he'll fillus in himself).

The other main difference is in Frog's theme. Inthe Japanese version, it has a trumpet intro andchorus, which is missing from the American version.I've often wondered why it was left out... it reallymade the song, in my opinion. Ah well.

I'm still here man, still here and loving it!

Cameron Diaz is definetely a looker. The trend ingaming sites these days is to have a section ofscantily clad women (it helps boost the hits) justfor kicks. I've been advocating this since theSquare Net days. If we were to do that (which wewon't, it's a joke), Cam would be one of the firstones to go up. She likes fast cars, too. Whata woman!

Dude. That was uncool.

Hm. Good games. Xenogears is solid, very solid,very enjoyable. I liked it. Lesse, other good PSXRPGs... hmm... I hear Brigandine (even though Ihaven't played it) is pretty fun and addicting. Andif you can hold out long enough, Lunar: Silver StarStory is going to be a winner.

andrewk.mid... aaah.. more memories. I wish I couldclaim I wrote that song, but I didn't. It was sequencedby Andrew Thompson as a gift for my birthday manymoons ago. It's a medley of my favorite FF songs...quite the impressive piece of handiwork. If you'rereading this, thanks again AT!

Dear Splat of the clan of Man,

I accept your challenge. The time has come for the mento step forward and the children to cower in fear of themight of yours truly. You name the time, the place,and the weapon, and I will burden your mind with theunbearable weight carried by guilt of defeat.

Closing comments

A few of yall said that FF's prologue and Zelda's endingtheme weren't even close to similar, and others werepretty sure it was a ripoff of our buddy NobuoUematsu. I'm not sure, so keep sending those questionsto our buddy Allan.

Speaking of Allan, he's back, so this is my lastletters column for a while. It's been a lot of fun,thanks guys! Take care!

-- Andrew Kaufmann