Comments on: Escape From Lesbian Island

By: David Goldstein

David Goldstein — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:17:00 +0000

You forgot Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Danger Mouse, and The Tomorrow People.

Have you tried Animal Planet or The History Channel? Aside from some prime time dramas like The West Wing and various detective shows, those are the staples of my parents’ random TV watching…

Speaking of Sega, they’ve apparently done something over at Sammy Studios. According to one of the Console Gaming track leaders, the person from there I met at GameOnNY appears to no longer be the person she needs to talk to…

BTW as of Sunday I’m no longer a track leader for Electronic Gaming. Dave Quigley will be your primary contact for speaking at I-CON. You can reach him at e_gaming@iconsf.org. Our Director of Programming has stepped down, and I’ve stepped up to fill her shoes, so to speak…

-David

By: toby

toby — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:04:43 +0000

Yeesh. Two nights was all I could manage back home this year, but of course they live only an hour and a half up the road from me.

I hates broken video games.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:31:18 +0000

There’s a TON of awesome Sega arcade titles which will unfortunately never make it to the console market, which is a real shame since it would be the only real chance for most people to play them, given how there simply aren’t any arcades to be found anymore (and what few exists rarely have any new games, unless its a fighter).

And the thing is, most were done on hardware that would allowed for a super simple translation (like the Naomi board, which is basically the Dreamcast). Games such as Star Wars Trilogy (okay, that’s Model 3, but still, it would be no hassles to convert), Emergency Rescue Ambulance, Jambo Safari, Episode I Racer (the Sega arcade version simply destroys the home versions since it’s a totally different game), and Virtua Cop 3, to name just a few.

The main reason cited for not bringing them home is that such arcade titles wouldn’t have much replay value outside of the arcade, but if you really think about it, that’s a pretty bullshit response. Hey, Crazy Taxi is just one level, and it’s still infinitely playable.

But that’s the thing: Sega has released such “shallow” arcades games at home, but they haven’t been good choices. I mean, 18 Wheeler American Pro Trucker, what the hell?

You’d think that, due to the ease of porting, Sega could simply stick a bunch of games together and release them as a set (I would love to see Top Skater, Top Skater 2, and Ollie King all together for example), but that would make sense, and as we all know, Sega never does anything that sounds remotely good or profitable.

And as for making a comic out of my Washington exploits…. hell, I didn’t even mention any of the real good stuff, like how I was witness to someone shitting their pants right in front of me!

But, thanks to the suggestion of MK, I do have a chance to make a comic based on a past event for an upcoming anthology. Though there’s the issue of the tight deadline, many other things going on, the fact that I really haven’t drawn anything substantial in quite a while now…

By: Steve!

Steve! — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:49:27 +0000

I have never heard of Ollie King before. I loved both Jet Grind Radio on the Dreamcast, and the arcade classic Top Skater. Now, why isn’t this coming home? Is it just the control issues (ie, there’s no skateboard attachment for the Xbox)? In this Tony Hawk world, I’m sure it’s not because skateboarding games have no market.

Anyway Matt, great entry. It would make a pretty good comic, I think.

-Steve!