Tips & Tricks Issue 80

Systems Covered:

• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation
• Nintendo 64
• GameCube
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy
• Xbox
• Dreamcast

Features:

• Readers' tips (The monthly letter column)
• Game Track! (Release dates which may have nothing at all in common with reality)
• PlayStation 2 tips
• PlayStation tips
• Nintendo 64 tips
• Game Boy tips
• Dreamcast tips
• GameShark codes
• Pencil Puzzles (Games to play without your favorite console)
• Hint Hotlines (Your direct line to each company's own hint line)
• Hard Core (Custom Armored Core designs)
• Pokemon Report (News of all things Pokemon-related)
• Collector's Closet (Hints on collecting games and gaming-related merchandise)
• Tournament Report (The results of a slew of different tournaments all over the nation)
• Japan Report (What's going on over there, anyway...?)
• Cool Zone (Electronics, toys, and other gadgets gamers will find neat)

PlayStation 2 strategy:

• Madden 2002 (PS2)

Game Boy strategy:

• Pokemon Crystal Version (GBC)

PlayStation strategy:

• Power Shovel (PS1)

Dreamcast strategy:

• Sonic Adventure 2 (DC)

Select Games (Previews/Reviews):

• Tekken 4 (ARC)
• Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (GC)
• Castlevania Chronicles (PS1)
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
• Batman: Vengeance (PS2)
• Guilty Gear X (PS2)
• Dark Summit (XBOX)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (PS1)
• Ozzy's Black Skies (PS2, released as Savage Skies)
• The Simpsons: Road Rage (XBOX)
• Luigi's Mansion (GC)
• Star Wars: Obi-Wan (XBOX)
• 4x4 Evolution 2 (XBOX)
• James Bond 007 in...Agent Under Fire (PS2)
• Jade Cocoon 2 (PS2)
• Maximo: Ghosts to Glory (PS2) (shown here as Maximo)
• Stretch Panic (PS2)
• Phalanx (GBA)
• Gradius Galaxies (GBA)
• Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (GBA) (shown here as Crash Bandicoot)
• Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX (GBA)

Sports Desk:

• NCAA Football 2002 (PS2)
• NFL GameDay 2002 (PS1)
• World Series Baseball 2k2 (DC)

Notable Stuff:

• Tips & Tricks doesn't accept e-mail, unlike most other magazines. They claim it's because they couldn't possibly read every e-mail that comes in.
• This issue's Token of the Month comes from Sports World in Paramus, NJ, submitted by David Smith, from Highland Lake, NJ.
• Power Shovel was released in Japan with a special controller shaped to mimic the layout and handling of an actual backhoe. They can be found on eBay, but will set you back several hundred dollars to import.
• The number of games listed in their respective tips sections is prohibitively large, and thus are not transcribed here.
• The Jamaican Jammer takes first place in the Armored Core World Rumble Challenge. Good design work, Jason Westfall!