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From: vincent.ket@student-kmt.hku.nl (vincent)
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Subject: Re: ECTS: Viewpoint... DEnnis..
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:58:40 +0200
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Hi All,

I feel this is going to be a rather long one, so be prepared.
Personally I have to agree with a disapointing ECTS. My personal
highlight was the meeting and hanging around with the other NY-guys.


- NINTENDO:
I expected a lot of DonkeyKong64, Jet Force Gemini and Perfect Dark. And
each of them was a disapointment to me. Maybe I did expect to much of
them. DK64 was not more special then Marioland64, Zelda64 or even Spiro3
in my opinion. Like last year I still think the ColourGB lacks of real
attitude. The coulours are pale and limited, the hardware is just a
little to slow for some games and a lot of the games are like cheap
shareware. I must say that I did have a lot of fun with Super Buster
Bros (if I'm right). I don't think I would buy the game but for a
4-player arcade-play it was pretty good!
I also noticed that Nintendo put some better-looking girls in their
booth compared to last year. Last year the girls were actualy scaring me
of at Nintendo. But this time, the silver-shirted girls were very
atractive.
But like last year, no freebee's or gimmicks. Last year I did get a free
Nintendo Polo, but this year I even had trouble getting a press-pack..
even with a Press-card!


- NEOGEO:
An interesting gadget. Although rather overpriced as far as I
understood. I don't think I'd buy a handheld-system for the same money
that I would have to pay for a N64 or a PSX.
The brochure said it would last for 40 hours on one set of batteries,
well that is impressive... if true.
Screen-quality was far better than Nintendo's Colour-gameboy, although I
had the impression of seeing some ging-quality GB's with far better
coulours and smaller Pixels. These GB's were far better but probably
expensive as well.
The system felt well and the D-pad was a lot better comapred to the GB.
The games were a little to far-east-oriented, but that could change.


- SONY:
Like always, Sony had the most (and probably the best) freebee's. That
started with keyholders and stickers, until T-shirts, Mousepads and
wipeout Bags. Since they spread a lot of stuff, you will also see greed
turning up. Here I can't exclude myself. I came off with 2 nice shirts
and a PSX-bag, but was still a little disapointed I did not get a
Wip3out shirt or bag. I know, I'm scumm..
The girs are actually rather ok at Sony and so this year as well.
Although they start up nice and giving a lot of stuff, in the end they
see the greed and get fed up with it. If you want, you could ask for a
specific freebee during the first day, the second day will already be
harder and the last day, only the nice girls still can take it.
The PSX2 movie was rather impressive on a large screen, although the
"room" was really hot. Actually the whole stand was really hot...
Again!! It was good that you could get free drinks....

well. Study starts again..

I'll finish this one later..

Cheers,

DEnnis..