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  1. Under the Select Games section which contains previews there is a game called Colliderz for the N64. From limited research, it was planned to be released for the Saturn & PlayStation, but not for the N64. So it's possible it's an error on Tips & Tricks part, or it was supposed to be on N64 as well, but not widely reported.  

  2. This issue previews Beyond Good and Evil 2, which at this time holds the record of the longest development period of a AAA video game, beating out Duke Nukem Forever

    Talk about development hell.

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  3. I decided to edit the content of this entry today, and found something rather interesting. Under the "Next Wave" section that shows previews, it has a game for the Genesis under the title "Nightmare Circus".  This is the first game I've seen in a gaming mag that ended up being a Brazilian exclusive. There was a NA release planned but cancelled. I realize there were MANY Brazil only releases over the years, but I never see them mentioned in mags of the time.

     

  4. Interesting bit in the Reader Mail section of this issue. A reader writes that some friends of his are big fans of the RPG PC game MapleStory. His friends told how MapleStory was headed to the DS and he did not believe them as MapleStory was about 400 MB on the PC and couldn't fit on the DS. Tips & Tricks replied that it was indeed headed to the DS in fall of 2007 in Korea and in North America soon after.

    Well, it didn't hit the DS till April 2010 in Korea and November 2011 in Japan, but no NA release. 

    Apparently it VERY popular in Korea in mobile devices as there seems to be a game released every year on Mobile since 2004. 

  5. This issue stated that 4 video game franchises were having films made. Uncharted, Lost Planet, Mass Effect, & Everquest.

    Uncharted didn't hit theatres till February 2022 (delayed partially because of the Covid-19 pandemic)  

    Lost Planet never got far into development. The writer submitted a script to the studio in 2014 but never went farther.

    Mass Effect released in 2012 as an animated feature under the title Mass Effect: Paragon Lost.

    I couldn't find anything about an EverQuest  in my limited research.

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  6. Another April issue means another April Fool's joke. This one should seem rather obvious as there's no way this would fly on a major system at this time. There was a preview of a game called "Valkyrie Wilde: Full Frontal Assault", in which the main character was a fully nude female. Needless to say, the game does not exist. Although apparently PSM had an artist draw Valkyrie Wilde in one of it's swimsuit issues a few years later. 

  7. One thing I've found interesting when I've been indexing these magazines is checking out the previews and finding games that never ended up being released. This issue ended up with my personal high I've seen with SIX! 4 Sega CD games and 2 Genesis games. Plus there was a Super NES game previewed that didn't release in North America but did come out in Japan on the Super famicom. 

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