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    Dear Readers: LUE Reaction

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    I received a very unexpected reaction to my Dear Readers column last month (though, mostly via "invaders" from the GameFaqs board "Life, the Universe, and Everything"). Many people seemed to think that my game ideas are "retarded" and "gay" (which should give you an idea of the reactors' age level and intelligence) For some reason, I feel that I should address these complaints.

  • Versus Mode: Game Show Showdown

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    Anyone who watches the Game Show Network (now known only by the initials GSN... whose bright idea was that?) as much as I do will have seen countless episodes of most of the shows these games are based on. I'm sure there must be some among you who, like me, spend days at a time on the couch watching nothing but Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Riley yucking it up on the Match Game. I'm also sure that there are some out there who say that all games based on game shows a crappy. To those people, I say: "Oh YEAH?? Well your FACE is crappy!!!". There are many titles based on game shows in my massive collection, and rather than do a Jeopardy! vs. Family Feud feature (as was my original intention), I thought I'd take a page out of Kevin Leacock's playbook and just pit them all against one another to see which is the best. So here we go!

  • Versus Mode: Turtles in Time vs. Hyperstone Heist

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    I didn't even know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist existed until Matt gave it to me as a birthday present last year. He didn't even know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist existed until he saw it for sale at GameStop last year, and decided to give it to me as a birthday present. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, on the other hand, we had been playing together for years. To me, this bets a couple of questions: How could a Ninja Turtles title for a major console have slipped by the radar of two video game fans who were just as obsessed with TMNT as the next 80's born boy? Could it be because we knew that Nintendo is what Segain't, or could it be that there is something terribly wrong with The Hyperstone Heist? The truth lies somewhere between these two choices.

  • Philly Classic 5 Report

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    When was the last time you dusted off your ol' NES for a round of Duck Hunt?  How long has it been since you last partook in some Warlords for the Atari 2600?  Have you ever even played a game for C

  • Jeopardy! (NES)

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    Its only fault is that some of the questions now are so dated that they're almost unanswerable.

  • Carbonated News (April 2004)

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    - To all those who were looking forward to the new Sam and Max sequel... I hope you have a box of tissues handy.  Like many cool ideas before it, Sam and Max: Freelance Police, has been canceled, and

  • Dear Readers: Awesome Ideas for Mario and Sonic

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    Man, Nintendo should totally bring me onto their staff; I've got some pretty awesome ideas for new games that make use of some of their (and Sega's) older titles. Hopefully no one's come up with them before, but if they have, oh well! They're new to the GC universe, and that's obviously what matters.

  • Versus Mode: SimCity vs. The Sims

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    It's a shame, really. I'm willing to put money on that most folks who play The Sims don't have any idea what Sim City is. In fact, if you said the words "Sim City" to them, they'd probably be like "... eh? Is that a new expansion pack or something?". No way, dude. It's not an expansion pack. It's the game that started it all.

  • Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (PS2)

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    All of the pretty graphics and pretty music in the world aren't going to save a fundamentally flawed game.

  • Carbonated News (March 2004)

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    - For all three of you (including myself and Matt) who played PlayStation 2's Way of the Samurai, you'll have a reason to be thankful this summer: the game's previously Japan-only sequel will be comin