ISSUE: 25Content
Features:
- Start (Editorial: With big names jumping to PS2, is the PS1 doomed?)
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PSM's Video Game Toy Mania '99 (Game-inspired toys are exploding; PSM gets to play with all of them and brag about it)
- Letters (Reader questions and other stuff)
- Pause (Question of the month: "Why hasn't Lara taken it all off yet?" ie: if the ESRB has a Nudity descriptor, why isn't anyone taking advantage of that?)
- Top This! (Challenges based on Driver and Um Jammer Lammy this month offer a slew of action figures, light guns, controllers, and other peripherals to those capable of rising to the occasion)
- Marketplace (Sell, trade and buy without setting foot anywhere near Wall Street)
- Reset (Coming next month: a Final Fantasy tribute, part 2 of the Legacy of Kain walkthrough, and a guide to get Regina through Dino Crisis without becoming Tyrano-chow)
Monitor (News, gossip, rumours, juicy goodness):
- Sony's Metreon Opens (one big traffic jam down from the PSM office, it turns out)
- Square Update (Saga Frontier? Vagrant Story? Legend of Mana? Chrono Cross? Dew Prism? Oh yeah, Square's just getting warmed up...)
- New 989 Games (The PlayStation sports lineup continues its' EA-inspired tradition of new games in the same franchises every year. Woo hoo...?)
- Bleem! Ships, Sony Still Sues (The PlayStation emulator really gets Sony's panties in a bunch...who would have thought?)
- Rumors (Robocop, Time Crisis 3, EA's Koudelka, new Dragon Quest makeover, and an Extreme Golf game?!)
- Peripherals (PSM editors put their asses on the line, literally, to test out the Universal Rocket Seat Massager and the Interactive Battle Chair, then give a quick nod to Nyko's RF Max 900 AV switch, and Interact's Concept 4 racing wheel)
- Chasing the PS2 (New tech demos, an announcement of a Tokyo Game Show reveal, a list of who's making what for the next-gen system, Sony's online strategy [hint: there isn't one], and a couple screenshots from launch title Kessen)
- Q&A (PSM throws Core's Director of Operations, Adrian Smith, into the inquisition chamber...he responds by spilling his guts on Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation)
- Checkpoint (PlayStation game release schedule and sales numbers)
- Banzai Chibi-chan's Nihon Game Otaku (Otaku supreme Banzai Chibi-chan waxes loquacious about gaming goings-on in Japan)
Reviews:
- Chessmaster II
- Konami Eighties Collection
- Driver
- Echo Night
- Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman
- NFL Xtreme 2
- You Don't Know Jack
- Um Jammer Lammy
- Tarzan
Previews:
- Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
- Ready 2 Rumble
- Thrasher - Skate & Destroy
- Vigilante 8: Second Offense
- CTR: Crash Team Racing
- Fighting Force 2
- South Park
- Army Men: Air Attack
- Fear Effect (still called Fear Factor at this point)
- Gekido
- Medal of Honor
- Mag 3
- Eagle One: Harrier Attack
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
- Metal Gear Solid: The VR Missions
- Spyro 2
- Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- Jet Moto 3
Strategy (Killer tips for navigating the roughest gaming waters):
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver walkthrough
Code Junkies (Cheating our way to victory, one Konami code at a time...):
- Driver
- Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
- Chocobo Racing
- Gex 3
- Formula 1 '98
- R-Type Delta
Noteworthy Stuff:
- The pull quote from Adrian Smith's interview? "Lara's all soft skin now, so she looks a lot better, a lot smoother." And just in case you missed that, here's a pic of her lounging about in a bra and panties, because there isn't a nude code, but we like to tease.
- Marketing research group NPD puts Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete as the best-selling PS1 game for May/June of 1999. Retailer Electronics Boutique puts it at number 2 for their stores, just behind Driver.
- Chibi's drifting a little into hentai territory with his Phantom Menace editorial. "...who cares about [Jar Jar Binks] when there's the delicious Queen Amidala to ogle at!" Dude...she's fourteen in the film. Buy an eroge and get it out of your system.
- Japan's Consumer Entertainment Software Association isn't making any friends by trying to ban the sale of used video games. They're using the same stodgy, worn-out arguments then that companies are using today.
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin tops the list of Japanese best-sellers, proving they know RPGs better than anybody else.
- That is one metric butt-ton of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Gameshark codes in Code Junkies.
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PSM remarks in response to a reader who is worried that game developers might charge full retail prices for games and then charge additional money for downloadable updates, "That probably won't be the case [...] The publishers can still make a profit selling downloads online." Oh, PSM, if only you could have looked ahead about ten years...you'd understand why we're all crying with laughter.
- That is one stunning piece of Parasite Eve fan artwork in the Letters section!
Features:
- Start (Editorial: With big names jumping to PS2, is the PS1 doomed?)
-
PSM's Video Game Toy Mania '99 (Game-inspired toys are exploding; PSM gets to play with all of them and brag about it)
- Letters (Reader questions and other stuff)
- Pause (Question of the month: "Why hasn't Lara taken it all off yet?" ie: if the ESRB has a Nudity descriptor, why isn't anyone taking advantage of that?)
- Top This! (Challenges based on Driver and Um Jammer Lammy this month offer a slew of action figures, light guns, controllers, and other peripherals to those capable of rising to the occasion)
- Marketplace (Sell, trade and buy without setting foot anywhere near Wall Street)
- Reset (Coming next month: a Final Fantasy tribute, part 2 of the Legacy of Kain walkthrough, and a guide to get Regina through Dino Crisis without becoming Tyrano-chow)
Monitor (News, gossip, rumours, juicy goodness):
- Sony's Metreon Opens (one big traffic jam down from the PSM office, it turns out)
- Square Update (Saga Frontier? Vagrant Story? Legend of Mana? Chrono Cross? Dew Prism? Oh yeah, Square's just getting warmed up...)
- New 989 Games (The PlayStation sports lineup continues its' EA-inspired tradition of new games in the same franchises every year. Woo hoo...?)
- Bleem! Ships, Sony Still Sues (The PlayStation emulator really gets Sony's panties in a bunch...who would have thought?)
- Rumors (Robocop, Time Crisis 3, EA's Koudelka, new Dragon Quest makeover, and an Extreme Golf game?!)
- Peripherals (PSM editors put their asses on the line, literally, to test out the Universal Rocket Seat Massager and the Interactive Battle Chair, then give a quick nod to Nyko's RF Max 900 AV switch, and Interact's Concept 4 racing wheel)
- Chasing the PS2 (New tech demos, an announcement of a Tokyo Game Show reveal, a list of who's making what for the next-gen system, Sony's online strategy [hint: there isn't one], and a couple screenshots from launch title Kessen)
- Q&A (PSM throws Core's Director of Operations, Adrian Smith, into the inquisition chamber...he responds by spilling his guts on Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation)
- Checkpoint (PlayStation game release schedule and sales numbers)
- Banzai Chibi-chan's Nihon Game Otaku (Otaku supreme Banzai Chibi-chan waxes loquacious about gaming goings-on in Japan)
Reviews:
- Chessmaster II
- Konami Eighties Collection
- Driver
- Echo Night
- Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman
- NFL Xtreme 2
- You Don't Know Jack
- Um Jammer Lammy
- Tarzan
Previews:
- Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
- Ready 2 Rumble
- Thrasher - Skate & Destroy
- Vigilante 8: Second Offense
- CTR: Crash Team Racing
- Fighting Force 2
- South Park
- Army Men: Air Attack
- Fear Effect (still called Fear Factor at this point)
- Gekido
- Medal of Honor
- Mag 3
- Eagle One: Harrier Attack
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
- Metal Gear Solid: The VR Missions
- Spyro 2
- Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- Jet Moto 3
Strategy (Killer tips for navigating the roughest gaming waters):
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver walkthrough
Code Junkies (Cheating our way to victory, one Konami code at a time...):
- Driver
- Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
- Chocobo Racing
- Gex 3
- Formula 1 '98
- R-Type Delta
Noteworthy Stuff:
- The pull quote from Adrian Smith's interview? "Lara's all soft skin now, so she looks a lot better, a lot smoother." And just in case you missed that, here's a pic of her lounging about in a bra and panties, because there isn't a nude code, but we like to tease.
- Marketing research group NPD puts Lunar: The Silver Star Story Complete as the best-selling PS1 game for May/June of 1999. Retailer Electronics Boutique puts it at number 2 for their stores, just behind Driver.
- Chibi's drifting a little into hentai territory with his Phantom Menace editorial. "...who cares about [Jar Jar Binks] when there's the delicious Queen Amidala to ogle at!" Dude...she's fourteen in the film. Buy an eroge and get it out of your system.
- Japan's Consumer Entertainment Software Association isn't making any friends by trying to ban the sale of used video games. They're using the same stodgy, worn-out arguments then that companies are using today.
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin tops the list of Japanese best-sellers, proving they know RPGs better than anybody else.
- That is one metric butt-ton of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Gameshark codes in Code Junkies.
-
PSM remarks in response to a reader who is worried that game developers might charge full retail prices for games and then charge additional money for downloadable updates, "That probably won't be the case [...] The publishers can still make a profit selling downloads online." Oh, PSM, if only you could have looked ahead about ten years...you'd understand why we're all crying with laughter.
- That is one stunning piece of Parasite Eve fan artwork in the Letters section!
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