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E3 Special Report
E3 Special Report
The New
Tetris
• Several play modes including: vealed if you can watch DVD mov-
single, ultra (clear as many ies on it. Nintendo “Dolphin”
lines as possible), marathon, Apparently legendary game de- System Summary
sprint (best score in three min- signer, Shigeru Miyamoto has been
utes) and vs. CPU licking his chops at creating the
next Zelda adventure for the new CPU
console. At E3 he said, “I’d always
The Skinny: The New Tetris envisioned what a game like Zelda • 400 MHz Clock Speed
could look like, and with the N64 I
Format: Nintendo 64 was able to create it. Now, with the • Semiconductor Process 0.18
Gekko processor, I can see an op- micron Copper Technology
Publisher: Nintendo portunity to take game designs to a • IBM Gekko Processor
Developer: H2O & Blue new level.” Graphics
Another feature being touted by
Release: July 26, 1999 Nintendo is the ability to • Custom Chip Designed by
“counterfeit proof” their software. ArtX, Inc.
Price: $39.95 No details on this technology have • 200 MHz Clock Speed
been divulged but Nintendo’s chair-
man, Howard Lincoln told Forbes • Semiconductor Process 0.18
Magazine, “By ‘counterfeit-proof,’ Embedded DRAM Technology
we mean to say that we will make it System Memory
Nintendo “Dolphin” financially unfeasible for piracy
Project rings to counterfeit Nintendo soft- • High speed DRAM Technology
ware.”
Nintendo claims that the release • Memory Bandwidth
In an attempt to steal the E3 of the new console is scheduled to 3.2 GB / second
show spotlight away from Sega coincide with the 2000 Christmas Software Medium
and Sony, Nintendo released the season, but don’t hold your breath.
details on their next generation You can probably expect its re- • Matsushita Unique DVD
game console. lease sometime in 2001. Technology
The system, codenamed
“Dolphin,” will be powered by an • Enhanced Counterfeit Protection
IBM 400 MHz copper central proc-
essor codenamed “Gekko.” It is
designed to be the most powerful
chip ever created for a home gam-
ing console. Late reports indicate
the Dolphin won’t be blowing the
PlayStation 2 out of the water but it
will be just a bit more powerful.
The Gekko will be paired with a
3D graphics chip designed by ArtX,
Inc. of Palo Alto, California.
Nintendo will also be ditching
the cartridge format and incorpo-
rating cutting edge DVD tech- Will Nintendo’s “Dolphin” make leaps
nology, but they haven’t re- over the PlayStation 2 and the Dreamcast?
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