Flux Issue 4

Features:

• System Error (Editorial rantings about the hype surrounding the next-gen systems)
• Backlash (Letters, fan art, etc...)
• Babewatch (Pictoral on the women of Baywatch: Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, and Alexandra Paul)
• Mortal Men (Ed Boon and John Tobias talk Mortal Kombat 3)
• The Top 100 Video Games (From Space Invaders (ARC) to Ecco the Dolphin (GEN), and everything in between)
• The 25 All-Time Worst Video Games (From E.T. (2600) to Silpheed (SCD) and everything in between)
• Banding Together (The XBand Modem and what it means for gamers)
• Basic Instinct (Strategy and Move List for Killer Instinct (ARC))
• Dangerous Curves (A look at the women of comics, from the 30's to the 90's)
• Sweet Dreams (Interview with Neil Gaiman on the future of Sandman)
• Animania (The ultimate insider's guide to Japanese Animation...in English)
• New Generation (J. Scott Campbell talks about a little comic series he just created called Gen13)
• Balancing Act (The interview with Van Halen you didn't even know existed until you read about it here, about Balance, their latest album)
• Don't Do This (Naughty, naughty suggestions for creating havoc and causing trouble around your school)
• Gearbox (Flux looks at PC screensavers, joysticks, toys, and books)

Static (news on games, anime, comics, and other stuff that doesn't suck):

• Mortal Kombat: The Animated Movie
• STD's new Saturn and Playstation third-party controllers
• Interview with Gretchen Stockdale (model for the ill-fated Tattoo Assassins arcade game)
• D!Zone for the PC (a metric butt-ton of user-created levels for Doom)
• Barbi Twins Adventures #1 from Topps Comics
• Reboot (ABC's all-digital Saturday morning cartoon)
• Two new Magic: The Gathering comics (Ice Age and The Shadow Mage)
• Jyhad card game name changed to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle

Screen Shockz (reviews):

• NASCAR Racing (PC)
• Crime Patrol (3DO)
• The Punisher (GEN)
• SeaQuest DSV (GEN)
• NBA Jam (SNES)
• Mega Man X2 (SNES)
• True Lies (SNES)
• Barkley Shut Up and Jam (GEN)
• Metal Warrior (SNES)
• Road Rash 3 (GEN)
• Supreme Warrior (3DO)
• B.C. Racers (SCD)
• Kasumi Ninja (JAG)
• Doom (JAG)
• Night Trap (32X)

Flux Reviews (Games, comics, music)

• Doom (32X)
• Virtua Racing (32X)
• Cosmic Carnage (32X)
• Star Wars Arcade (32X)
• Samurai Shodown (3DO)
• Inferno: The Odyssey Continues (PC)
• MTV's Club Dead (PC)
• Ignition Factor (SNES)
• RDF: Global Conflict (SCD)
• Zool 2 (JAG)
• Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales (JAG)
• Theme Park (PC)
• Godwheel #0 (Ultraverse)
• Rare Bit Fiends #1-5 (King Hell Press)
• Nick Fury/Black Widow: Death Duty (Marvel)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Lost Adventure #1 (Dark Horse)
• Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special (Dark Horse)
• Nexus: Wages of Sin #1 (Dark Horse)
• Happy Birthday, Martha Washington (Dark Horse)
• Cold Blooded: The Slayer #1 (Northstar)
• Agents of Law #1 (Dark Horse)
• Phantom #1-2 (Marvel)
• Doctor Strange #76 (Marvel)
• Elektra: Root of Evil (Marvel)
• KISS Classics (Marvel)
• Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (Marvel)
• Nocturnals #1-2 (Malibu/Bravura)
• The X-Files #1 (Topps)
• Lobo's Big Babe Spring Break Special (DC)
• Psyba-Rats (DC)
• Preacher #1 (DC/Vertigo)
• Legends of the Dark Knight #71 (DC)
• Power of Shazam #1 (DC)
• Black Flag #1 (Maximum Press)
• The Frankenstein/Dracula War #1 (Topps)
• Blank: The Encephalon Void #1 (Artery Entertainment)
• White Zombie: Astro-Creep 2000
• Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
• Fight: A Small Deadly Space
• Belly: King
• Funkdoobiest: Brothas DoobieF
• Face to Face: Big Choice
• Butt Trumpet: Primitive Enema
• Slash's Snakepit: It's Five O'Clock
• The Alkaholiks: Coast II Coast
• Steve Vai: Alien Love Secrets
• Grip Inc.: Power of Inner Strength

Codes of Dishonor (cheats and stuff):

• NBA Jam: T.E. (SNES/GEN)
• Earthworm Jim (SNES/GEN)
• Madden NFL '95 (SNES/GEN)
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (SNES/GEN/SCD)
• Star Wars Arcade (32X)
• Doom (32X)
• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES)
• The Lion King (SNES/GEN)
• Alien vs. Predator (JAG)

Noteworthy Stuff:

• Despite the big #1 on the cover and spine, this is really issue #4.
• This issue has two covers. People who bought the magazine from a comic shop got the one displayed (Shi, Lady Death, and Vampirella), while those who got it off the newsstand got a Mortal Kombat III cover.
• Barbi Twins Adventures sold so poorly for Topps that they never printed issue #2. Sorry, Sia and Shane...back to the calendar with you.
• Top 100 lists are always sure to raise a stink, but at least the editors explain their reasons behind their selection for every game, so it's not just a quick-and-dirty list.
• Basic Programming (2600) is considered one of the worst games of all time by the editors. Isn't that kind of like naming your C# compiler as one of your least-favorite video games? Why waste a space on something that wasn't meant to be a game, but rather a learning tool, guys?
• If you ever wanted to know what it was like growing up in the 90's before anime was available on every street corner and streaming online service, take a look at the titles from the Animania list and get to watching. Most of their ratings for these are spot-on.
• It's doubtful anybody considered Van Halen to be "America's heavy metal heroes" even in 1995...