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From: "Nick Ferguson" <ferguson@hkstar.com>
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Subject: Re: virtual boy elbow
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 09:00:09 +0800
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Derek da Silva wrote in message <75r3g9$2291@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
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>Just wondering what your best/worst of 1998 were?  Here's a few of mine:


Best/Worst? OK, here goes....

Best games of 1998:

- BioHazard 2 (even though I got the Jap version, it was zombie gaming
heaven)
- Banjo-Kazooie (kept me going all summer)
- Metal Gear Solid (kept me going for 3 days, but it was fantastic while it
lasted)
- Half-Life (the most absorbing game I've played for YEARS)

Best things in 1998:

- Going to ECTS and (yes, most of you didn't know this) the GDUK awards.
- Going to Hong Kong each uni holiday - cheap games, cheap hardware. I'm
gutted that this Xmas will be my last trip out here :-(
- Becoming a Net Yaroze member, writing a crap game in less than 6 months
and having loads of emails every week (because of my diary on the public
site).
- Completing my "Holy Trinity" of consoles - PS, N64 and Saturn. Yay!
- Colo(u)r Gameboy. I fell in love at ECTS, and now I have one of the
beauties (blue).
- DVD. I love it.

Worst Games of 1998:

- Mud 'n Blood + Amateur Wars :-)
- Extreme-G (dunno if it was 98 but I bought it - and quickly sold it - this
year)
- Parasite Eve (just didn't rate it much - v. disappointing from Square)

Worst things in 1998:

- Being totally unable to find an english-language NTSC version of Zelda 64
*anywhere*!
- My P133 w/ 32 MB and Voodoo 1 becoming virtually obselete gaming-wise.
- Nintendo stuffing it down the pan for most of the year.
- The N64 site I wrote for (www.n64gazetta.com) dying a long, drawn-out
death.
- Girlfriend buggering off round Pakistan for 2 months in the summer.
- Kewl hacker dOOdZ mailing me all the time for NY code, libs, etc. Fuck
off!
- Not doing much, NY-wise, since September. C'mon Nick, sort it out!

Most Looking Forward to in 1999:

- Finishing uni and (hopefully) getting a job in the industry, after dossing
about for 2 months in the US.
- European Dreamcast release (have to wait for the PAL version to get the
modem working properly, I guess)
- Perfect Dark (N64), Team Fortress (PC), Messiah (PC) and - in case you
were wondering - upgrading my computer so I can play PC games again.
- Playing Zelda 64 :-(
- Writing for a decent games-related site: www.loonygames.com
- More Net Yaroze members (yes, even 13 yr old ones!) and a busier 'scene'
maybe?
- and, last but not least, Star Wars: Episode One! July 16th in the UK,
everybody...

Not looking forward to in 1999:

- Millenium Bug nightmares (I'm v. pessimistic - doomsday scenarios, etc)
- Finals (equally pessimistic)
- Job rejection letters (uh-huh, pessimistic again)

Have a great year!

Nick F