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future issues.
Cosmi Software was showing off their latest creation,
O nce again we journeyed to the 115 degree heat of Super Huey III, a remake of their 1985 release, Super
the desert and endured bad food, watered down drinks, Huey. This Huey helicopter simulator features attractive
and broken escalators, all for the love of classic video- 3D graphics, intuitive controls, and over 35 missions. Its
games. expected ship date is September 1, 2000 and will sell for
Classic Gaming Expo 2k was held the weekend of July the low price of $14.95. Also, if you were fortunate
29-30 at the Plaza Hotel in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. enough to visit Cosmi’s booth, they were handing out
This annual lovefest celebrates the rich history of classic free copies of the original Super Huey, playable on an
videogames and allows the opportunity for the every day included C-64 emulator.
gamer to get great deals on games, meet Rick Riley of Retroactive Games had a
fellow hobbyists, and mingle with the hands on demo of his game, Trancen-
games’ designers on the show floor. sion: Forces of Virtue. Programmed en-
But if you came to play games, odds are tirely in Qbasic, Trancension features a
you didn’t walk away disappointed. Arcade complex plot, huge levels, and will par-
games such as Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, ticularly appeal to fans of the Ultima se-
Tempest, Gyruss and many others littered ries. While only 70% complete at this
the show floor (all set on free play, of stage, a demo can be downloaded for
course!). And, in case you felt you had the free at his website (www.retroactive-
Right Stuff, Walter Day of Twin Galaxies games.com). When completed, Rick
and Ron Corcoran of Snipercade were on promises the game will be very inexpen-
hand to record your high scores in the sive to purchase. Rick also hinted at a
many tournaments that were offered. possible deal to bring his game to the
Game Boy.
VENDORS Other notable booths included Joe
Vendor booths, while certainly not plenti- Santulli’s Digital Press, which was shared
ful, offered a good assortment of products. by the Cyberroach gang and Lee Krueger
Carl Forhan of Songbird Productions of ResQSoft fame. Marvin Lambright
held onto a steady flow of customers as he Sales was the booth to be at for great
showed off the latest and greatest for the loose and boxed cartridge deals. Blast
Lynx and Jaguar. Crystal Mines II: Buried From the Past Amusements featured
Treasure and Remnant: Planar Wars 3D many cool products including Pac-Man
were the newest offerings for the Lynx and and Galaxian clocks and Atari license
were made available as CGE2K exclusives. plate frames; they also introduced their
The Cyberpunks released a new video, arcade game sales and restoration ser-
Stella at 20 Volume I, which tells of the early vices. Howard Scott Warshaw was also
days working at Atari. Volume I is an excellent video and on hand, albeit for only half a day, to sell his Atari his-
is much easier to watch than Volume II since it tends to tory video, Once Upon Atari. Hasbro/Interactive stayed
focus on anecdotes, rather than the technical details of busy handing out free Atari CD-ROMs and showed off
the games. their latest and greatest games including the latest Pac-
Intellivision Productions returned to celebrate the Intel- Man, Frogger 2, Breakout: The Great Escape and the
livision’s 20th birthday complete with birthday cake and much improved (from the E3 demo) Galaga.
party favors. They also hosted a round of “Intellivision The one odd standout at the show was the Imagine
Karaoke” where teams of players would dub in their own Media booth. While they achieved a CGExpo first: booth
voice sound effects to Intellivision games being shown on babes with jump ropes, I had difficulty making the con-
a monitor. Yes, it was quite a sight to behold and was nection to classic games. But as someone later ex-
enormously funny. The people at Intellivision Productions plained on the Internet, “What’s not to get? Hot chicks
definitely scored creativity points on that one. We were jumping rope!” Touché. Good point.
also fortunate enough to get our hands on three new
games being released for classic systems. The first two, THE VIDEOGAME LOUVRE
Sword Fight and Sea Battle, are playable on the Atari The Expo, once again, hosted a Classic Videogame
2600, and Steamroller is playable on the ColecoVision. Museum to showcase many gaming rarities which can’t
We will feature more in-depth reviews of these games in be seen anywhere else. Some of the more unique items

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