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They're a very reliable and fast service. Just click on the titles A-Lbutton to get started.

-See ya!

-- Bob Mackey

1. If you have a regular Gameboy can I still play new color games (namely Pokemon silver.) on my regular Gameboy. I don't have much money, and I don't care about graphics, so will I have to buy a color Gameboy?

2. I'm new to this site, and I'm a huge Cosmo canyon fan, so what sections does Fritz run/contribute to?

well that is all

~Dekar the bard

I know you guys cover less action-oriented games, but I know you used to runSquare Net so you guys should know this. I'm looking for a shooter fromsquare for the psx called "internal something". And I know it's notEinhander It's supposed to be a tempest type shooter. What have you heardabout a release date?

Hey, a few of those things are possible, hell I even did some of them! First off, its not all that hard to steal all of the gengi equipment from Elmdor, it takes a while, but its not all that hard. Second, the treasure that the thief in the esper cave in FFVI is talking about is the Atma weapon, which is easy to get. And in FFVII, I think there were 13 Sephiroth clones, but don't quote me on that. Fourth, I did get all of Gau's rages in FFVI. fifth, in FF Tactics, I let the counter reset, but it doesn't really reset, it just stops at 99:59. I hate to be nit-picky, but I had to do it.

Justin Freeman

I know that your site is for console-RPGs only, but on the old Square.net site Vestal drifted a little and added some info on Anachronox and Septerra Core, two PC, console-style RPGs in develeopment. I just viewed the Anachronox trailer and it looks mighty awesome. I was wondering if you guys were planning on straying a little and giving us some coverage on these sure-to-be-aweseome games.

- Tim

((((((((((((((((((((IN SENSURROUND)))))))))))))))))))))

It all began one day when I was shopping for a Net Yaroze. It was one of those gifts your aunt suggests for you to buy when she notices you've been playing video games all day long. Of course, I was interested in the idea, and I said, in these very words: "Okay." And no, I'm not lying. Anyways, this was about a month after the Yaroze group decided to not accept any new members, so I was pretty damned unsuccessful at it. But while I was foraging for a new/used Yaroze, something caught my eye: The Japanese PSX site.

It was pretty damned cool. It was PaRappa everywhere. A shockwave on the main page. A bunch of frames designating how cool the game is. (Er, I can read a small bit of Kanji.) The way it should be. I'm annoyed with Crash Bandicoot and everything, and do I need to begin my hour-long discussion on why Lara Croft sucks donkey balls?

Anyways, I saw a cool flaming skull on the "Product Info" page with UJL on it. And I had no clue what it was. Seriously. Oh, and in the corner was some Romanji saying what remotely resembled "Coming Soon." Naturally, my curiosity was piqued, and since I had nothing better to do, I went to videogames.com and was about to do a search, but instead I found out that I didn't need to.

There it was, on January 11, 1999. In big, glaring letters, "PaRappa the Rapper 2 Announced." Jesus Christ. The game I had been waiting for was finally being released. God damn. Anyway, it was called UmJammer Lammy now, and it looked like the coolest thing that had happened to me in a LONG time, even though I thought the name was stupid. I opened ICQ and told Fritz Fraundorf (The only PaRappa fan as big as I am) that his prayers were answered. Remember, this is just after the breakup of CC.

Now, let me explain my PaRappa purity. You see, I've played it twice as long as I have FF7. And, as you know, the game takes about 6 minutes to beat. Which means that I must love it shitloads. I would have gotten the soundtrack if it weren't so damned tricky to get. I'm gonna place an order for the ultracool alarm clock that's supposedly used by the head designer of Grim Fandango. Anyhow, I opened up the preview, and looked at the ad.

"MARCH!"

"(Er, something in Kanji I don't understand)

"(See the last one.)"

Then I saw a gameplay movie, and I'll be damned if my eyes didn't turn into hearts like PaRappa's did. Except with one minor difference. I needed it. I wanted it. I knew I had to get it as soon as humanly possible. And so far, it's going splendidly.

Take, for example, the GameShark I bought for no real reason. Well, it's not a real GameShark, but it's a third-party thingy that plays imports and stuff without entering codes. So I'm modchipless, and thus can play Japanese games whenever I want. Er, if I had any yet.

Next, I did a large, kickass project involving several broken systems of mine, and thus aced a few classes during the third quarter. Meaning a cool $200 to waste. On GameCave and their owning of the game I consider godly, if not more.

After that, I downloaded about fifty gameplay movies and am watching them on continuous repeat. I own some video editing software (Coincidentally) and have edited out the annoying high-pitched beep at the beginning of all IGNPSX movies.

Maybe the old, naked strange man in the clouds living with my two dead dogs is actually giving me a break to play the hard, yet insanely fun sequel to a game I already love. Maybe I'll be able to finally hear the heavenly guitar solos and see the jillion-functions-a-second-with-no-slowdown Fire stage. God damn. This will be on the short list of "things that have actually worked out perfectly for me" list. All that's left to go wrong is GameCave sending my lovely import to the wrong house.

All that's left to do is screw around and watch the trailer a million times. Patience...........

-Cedric "Lobsterboy" Henry