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Week 19 - 2001
Coming
	Bleemcast Now let's see what this turns out to be...
	Intellivision I didn't recall how much this ruled!
	Linux kit on PS2 Could this be something cool on the dreaded thing? A collectable-to-be at least.
Going
	Geographical distances Clearly, nature did not have trades in mind when the continents drifted apart.
	Dreamcast in Finland Aw crap. No release info anywhere, very few new games arrive...
	Windows 98 OK, so I just lost all my emails. Great.
Games we've played this week
Lock'n'Chase (Intellivision), Grandia (PSX), Midnight Club Street Racing (PS2), Um Jammer Lammy (PSX), Baku Baku (Saturn), Fighting Vipers (Saturn), Darklight Conflict (Saturn)
Mikko's rant
There have been no updates for a couple of weeks, due to me being both very sick (no fun vomiting your guts out) and very very busy. Just one more week of studies to go before the summer, though. On the games front, I just spent $15 to buy a piece of plastic, i.e. the PS2 vertical stand. Oh yes, it does look cool, but I can't imagine it would have like killed the company to include it in the "cheap" system package. And still it doesn't make the games any better... Midnight Club is kind of fun, pretty much like Midtown Madness but it doesn't have the real cars or quite as much traffic. Nice graphics though. Still, the best kicks came out of digging up the old Intellivision and having a go at Lock'n'Chase. It had been a long time since I played this, and I had forgotten how good it was. Nevertheless, it has to be said the Coleco remains my all-time favorite classic system. On a sidenote, last weekend I was at a party with some of my girlfriend's friends. I took the PSOne with the Thrustmaster mat & Jungle Book with me since I thought it might appeal to this audience. When I spread the mat on the floor, everyone was going "now what's that supposed to do", but when they saw the game, the crowd went bananas. Everyone was up and dancing until around 2 in the morning.
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