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- 0924Y00F05prime09Y00J1Y00C6NSONY PLAYSTATION: THE TRUTH
- 0819Y00F05pearl08Y00C3NA review and chilling short story by the master of suspense FISHBOY
- 0819Y00F05prime08Y00J0N
- 0806Y00C2NThe Sony Playstation. Is it any good? Well by now you've heard all the hype
- 0801Nand read all about the injunction Fisher Price tried to slap on Sony's
- 0801Nsloping neanderthal forehead for copyright infrigment on their range of train
- 0801Nset add ons (joke). But can you belive all this hype? Let me, with the aid of
- 0801Nmy truth spewing monkeys anylize the FACTS in a sort of a "bit like Alan
- 0801NParker Urban Warrior before he went on TV and started being crap" way. In an
- 0801Nattempt to make this article the most gramatically incorrect article in the
- 0801Nmagazine I have beaten my head to a bloody pulp in the process of writting
- 0801Nthis. Here , if you can be bothered reading all this shit (and I can't see
- 0801Nwhy you'd want to, I'm only writing this to pass the time till Legend Of The
- 0801NFour Kings is on TV, (see elsewhere in this issue)) ,then is the truth. THE
- 0801NTRUTH IS DISSEMINATED ALONG WITH TEA AND BISCUITS. THOSE BOURBON ONES WITH
- 0801NTHE CHOCOLATE CREAM ALTHOUGH IF YOU DESPISE DECADANCE YOU COULD ALWAYS HAVE
- 0801NRICH TEA OR DIGESTIVE OR SOMETHING!
- 0801N
- 0801NIts alright. Its got some good games. Its got some bad ones. Its got some
- 0801Nfucking awful ones. For a console thats supposed to have incredibly advanced
- 0801Ngraphics its got really bad graphics. Sorry, Now I'm just pissing about. Most
- 0801NPlaystation games want to be good. They have music by credible bands
- 0801N(Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Pop Will Eat Itself, one has stuff by Rancid
- 0801Naccording to the omni prescent Citizen Fish who owned the Playstation this
- 0801Ntest took place on, although don't quote me on that). They have good sound.
- 0801NThey have fancy adverts all over the place. THEY HAVE LUDICROUSLY BAD
- 0801NGRAPHICS! What is going on? Toshinden is bloody brilliant, Ridge Racer
- 0801NRevolution has not a trace of Polygon Bend. Why do all the other games look
- 0801Nso poor?
- 0801N
- 0801NI wanted to like the Playstation more then the Saturn. I hate Sega, I don't
- 0801Nknow why, I just hate them for ripping people of with the MEGA-CD and the
- 0801N32X, so I do know why, see? see? (Sorry, I'll try not to keep doing this).
- 0801NPast glorys like the Golden Axe Trilogy (of which there were actually four,
- 0801Nwhy?) do not cut the ice any more. You decieved the public Sega. You deserve
- 0801Nto die. When the first Playstation games came out I put the polygon bending
- 0801Nand really poor horizon fogging down to inexperianced programming. After all,
- 0801Nit took 8 years for people to start programming the A500 properly (Elfmania,
- 0801NStardust, Uridium 2) and the Amiga died before the A1200 had even started to
- 0801Nshave. But the horrifically bad first Saturn games like Virtua Fighter and
- 0801NDaytona have been replaced by the likes of Shining Wisdom, Guardian Heroes,
- 0801NSega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2. All the new Playstation games are just as
- 0801Npoorly made as the first batch.
- 0801N
- 0801N"Ahh but I'd rather have a game like Tekken 2 running fast with polygon bend
- 0801Nthen slow without like Virtua Fighter 2" says the average Playstation owner
- 0801Nfound skulking in Electronics Boutique. "THEN YOU ARE BLIND MATE" I shout
- 0801Nback, "YOU ARE SO FUCKING BLIND I WANT TO INFEST YOU WITH MY FILTH RIDDEN
- 0801NDOGS LICE!", "VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 RUNS AT 50FPS WITH NO SLOWDOWN AND NO POLYGON
- 0801NBEND AND LOOKS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. AND, UNLIKE THE HORRIFIC GAMING MESS
- 0801NTHAT IS TEKKEN 2, IS A FUN GAME WITH A PERFECT LEARNING CURVE". He looks at
- 0801Nme blankly. "AND WHATS MORE", I continue to bellow, "NOT ONLY DOES VIRTUA
- 0801NFIGHTER 2 ON THE SUPPOSEDLY INFERIOR SATURN KICK THE SHIT OUT OF ANY OTHER
- 0801NBEAT EM UP EVER INCLUDING THE MIGHTY STREET FIGHTER 2 ARCADE MACHINE IT
- 0801NSUPPOSEDLY DOESN'T EVEN PUSH THE SATURN TO ITS FULL", I pause for breath, all
- 0801Nthis shouting is tiring me out. "VIRTUA FIGHTER 3 IS IN DEVELOPEMENT AND
- 0801NAPPARENTLY IS EVEN BETTER GRAPHICALLY". I collapse in a heap on the floor my
- 0801Nenergy spent. "Paper.... Pen..." I whisper to the concerned Electronics
- 0801NBoutique staff, "I must finish me article...", They comply with my wishes.
- 0801N
- 0801N"The Playstation isn't that good really. Don't belive the hype. Saturn games
- 0801Nare still getting better. Playstation ones... er... should be, but they're
- 0801Nnot, well, not at any significant rate anyway. I've been told time and time
- 0801Nagain that the Saturn is vastly inferior to the Playstation and going by the
- 0801Nfirst batch of games I thought it was. But it isn't. Anybody can see that.",
- 0801Nthe concerned Electronics Boutique staff look down at me.
- 0801N
- 0801N"Quick" says one, "He's delirious!",
- 0801N
- 0801N"ANYBODY CAN SEE THAT!", I howl, "ANYBODY WITH HALF A BRAIN CAN SEE THAT THE
- 0801NSEGA SATURN IS BETTER THEN THE PLAYSTATION...", but I am cut off because one
- 0801Nof them has gagged me. Strange I think... I remember seeing his face in an
- 0801Nold Amiga Power interview with Psygnosis... And he's wearing a Playstation
- 0801NT-shirt and...
- 0801N
- 0801N"Don't be silly", he tells me, "Next you'll be telling me that Quake is just
- 0801NDoom with nice graphics and that Civilization 2 is a good game and that Atari
- 0801Nmade the best arcade games till they went bust and IBM bought them out, and
- 0801Nthat the Falcon was better then the Amiga 1200 but was killed off by lack of
- 0801Nsoftware support...", He grins and with the help of the now silent
- 0801NPlaystation Boy carries me into the store room. He removes my gag.
- 0801N
- 0801N"But all that is true!", I blurt out, "Civilization 2 IS great and Quake IS
- 0801Ncrap, and the Saturn IS better, and the Atari WERE great...", my voice tails
- 0801Noff as I notice my capturer has drawn a dagger from his belt.
- 0801N
- 0801N"Sorry", he says putting the dagger to my throat, "But you know too much
- 0801Nalready. The truth must never be allowed to emerge..."
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