Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!macsuppor From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: ECTS - impressions Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 04:17:51 +0200 Organization: Debri Productions Lines: 182 Message-ID: <1df4biz.izov1312c4moeN@a1-88-140.a1.nl> References: <35F2C138.6D3E12E9@nospam.easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-140.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 (unregistered for 34 days) Philip Gooch wrote: > Just got back from ECTS (Sunday). Thought I'd let people know what I > thought. I'll just do that to.. > Good to meet Rob, John, Mike and DEnnis again, although was only > briefly, before we all went our separate ways to check out the rest of > the show (and Rob went home, probably to placate his girlfriend ;) ) I was glad to meet them all to (some again). And I must say I was impressed with Rob's girlfriend, she was very lovely. Sorry I emarest you my friend ;-). > As computer trade shows go, the crowd was the expected mix of suits, > geeks and glamorous women. I just expected geeks and suits, but my oh my... GIRLS!!!! Playmates and also the suit-girls were fine. Cumba Ya!! I took lot's of pictures of wich I will make a internetpage so you all can have an inpression of my visit to heaven! > I haven't been to ECTS before, but expected a few more freebies. Got > hold of the Sony Press Pack (double-CD, haven't checked it out yet) > because my badge said 'Press' on it (they didn't seem to want to give > them to anyone else) but that was about it on the free stuff front. I myself, as being masterbugger... cracked my back on al the freebees I got (over 20kg on freebees) I got several T-shirts: - Nintendo 64 (polo) - Sony (drogon game) - Eidos (warzone) - Outcast - Game 1 - Ubi soft - 3Dlabs - V-rally - EDGE (not free.. a fiver for T-shirt, video and magazine) Over 50 CD's 5 Mousemats 5 Key rings Puzzle games A large Intel anneversity book PICTURES WITH MODELS!!! Bags Pins folders candy pins (sony, psy, etc.) a Military flashlight Sony Playstation Mug Sony Playstation glas Sony Playstation Baseball cap Tekken3 Tatoos toy rugbyball Project X stairwalker Lara Croft Playing cards Deathtrap Dungeon card game Toy car etc. But then again, I've been 3 days.. > Most of the games on show all looked the same to me (lots of 3D action > adventure games in the Tomb Raider mould, and lots of 'kiddie' games) > However, was impressed by: Outcast (beautiful voxel-driven 3D engine), > Zelda, Silent Hill, and most of the games on the Gremlin stand (can't > remember their names apart from Body Harvest, but there was this really > nice looking third-person 3D adventure set in a dungeon that had great > lighting effects). Couldn't get to see Metal Gear Solid as there was > always a huge queue to get into the heavily fortified Konami stand. LEGO: I was impressed with Lego. Virtual Lego looked impressive and also the other projects were nice. I took 4 different mousepads from LEGO and 2 keyholders. SONY: The Sony stand was greatly designed (better then the NY-member sony-site ;-) but far to HOT!! There was a top on the stand that kept the heat in. I was impressed with Coolboarders3 and I liked Testdrive5 (a bit similar to GT). There was a nice girl with a great set of legs showing Testdrive. There was one girl in special I liked but I didn't had time to speak toi much to her. And I missed her on the.... SONY PARTY!! I've been there!!! on the end of the day monday there were tickets left and I got a tip from a kind person ;-) that I could be lucky if I had a try. And I got myself a ticket. And my god what a party it was. I can't explain it if you didn't see it yourself. It was HUGE!!!! SUPER!! Thanks Sony (SCEE)! I was also pleased to meet Sarah Bennett in person. I must say the impression I had on her was rather like she realy was. The entrance of the Sony stand was too small. The freebees were nice but hard to get. A great looking girl gave me a nice T-shirt on the last day, I think it was the last T-shirt. My compliments on the girls SCEE! They looked very nice, some in special. I also liked to see George Bain and James Russel again. I also met Kerry, but I had the odd impression I already met her...hmm odd. She was nice too! The NY-part was a little too small for all the members at sunday at 13.00. That was great. I did also find out that the price was dropped again of the NY-system. I didn't like this since I know some members that just bought the NY and payed over a 100 pounds more! Some of them felt realy bad about that, and I agree with them. Although I did know that there was going to be a new reduction, they only said that this would only apply for students, and that's not treu. I think the new PSX2 is comming and that that the reason is for the pricedrop. But than again.. The big anouncement was not much interesting, as far as I know. I was a bit disapointment in that. I did like the fact that I had a meeting backstage with SCEE about FreeFall. NINTENDO: Sorry Nick, but they sucked! The ColorGameBoy looked bad and the colors were far from bright. The game they presented on it was a dull shanghai-clone. I'll stick to my GBpocket and I will niot buy the ColorGB for sure! For ther rest there were crappy games at Nintendo. Zeldo was good, but only 2 years late. Snowboarding 1080 could not compete with Coolboarders2, not even beginning about Coolboarders3. And the girls in the Nintendo stand looked worse than al the other girls (athough the competition was super). The prepresentation of Nintendo showed 2 nice games, the follow-up of golden eye and another game. They did look impressive. And the polo-shirts Nintendo gave away were very nice, but for the rest fery few free bee's > Shame Sega weren't there demoing Dreamcast. I don't trust sega, why did they hold back on the ECTS? Just like Project X (they only had a closed stand). > Anyway, worth attending for a couple of hours but I can't imagine > spending all three days there! I can, I could stay for 2 weeks if possible. I wished I could take some of the promogirls home. PROMOGIRLS: BEST Eidos had hired some super models. I had 2 faforites. First was the blond with the orange shirt (I would kill my Mac for her!). She was my total first of all. We had a little chat and it's not possible to not fall in love with her. The second was the nice lara-lookalike with the white top and pants. There were 2 of them and I prefered the bigger one. FIRST RUNNER UP Above in the Micropose Hall was a stand with a racing-game with some girls in red pitsstop-suits. There was one with dark hair and bautifull bleu eyes. She was my second best. She was nice and I also had a chat with her. She was rather large. SECOND RUNNER UP Airracer (type of joypad controller wheel) had a team of very well wrapped up girls in skintight red suits. I have some need pictures of them with and without me. They were super sexy. And I had one on my lap and kissing me ;-p THIRT RUNNER UP There were 2 girls from Carmageddon in SM-like outfits, very nice! (not the Wild 9 girls) I have several pictures with them too and the one with the long blond hair was also very friendly. FOURTH RUNNER UP The nurse girl, I don't know with what stand she belonged, but she was also well shaped FIFT RUNNER UP At 3Dfx stood a girl with a yellow T-shirt. She was young and a bit skinny but had a must-see-smile. POO PRICE The Girls from Wild Nine (plastic SM dresses) looked like mothers (OLD) and were not nice at all! I shucked their pictures away. Now you can all start a discussion about how oversexed I am... I just want to let the ones know what they missed if they did not go. DEnnis..