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Cinemarcade
                                                                                              Now here’s a creative guy!
                                                                                          Dave Dries has produced a
                                                                                          number of small, animated
                                                                                          movies about classic video-
            The Dragon’s Lair Project                                                     games.
                 With the upcoming release                                                     A couple of highlights in-
            of a new 3D Dragon's Lair                                                     clude the 3D Worlds Preview,
            game for the PC (Christmas                                                    which Features 3D rendered
            2000), we thought you might                                                   worlds of the arcade classics,
            like to learn everything you can                                              and Classic Arcade, which is
            about the original game.  And,                                                a 3D rendered walkthrough of
            once you've done that, you                                                    a classic arcade straight from
            might have the urge to re-                                                    the early 80s, complete with
            search other laser disc games.                                                authentic marquees, sideart,
            The Dragon's Lair Project, cre-                                               and controls.
            ated by Jeff Kinder, started out                                                   Another section on the site
            as a site devoted solely to                                                   showcases the “movie
            Dragon’s Lair.  It has now                                                    posters”  of the films.
            evolved into a giant source for all laser   Toonarific                 http://www.cinemarcade.com
            disc games.  You can choose to see        Feeling a bit nostalgic towards the
            each game's promotional flyers,    cartoons you grew up with?
            downloadable audio and video clips,   Thanks to The Toonarific Car-
                                  pictures,    toon Archive, you can spend
                                  and the      hours remembering your
                                  tech center   childhood car-
                                  (which dis-  toon friends.  The
                                  plays        vast site currently has
                                  manuals,     over 1500 titles to choose
                                  schemat-     from and well over 10,000 pic-
                                  ics, ROM     tures!  Each cartoon gives you
                                  images,      dates, channel info, character
                                  tips, and    names, voices, plot, and
                                  more).       screenshots to fully immerse you
                                  They have    in the memory.  It's very much a labor
                                  expanded     of love;  one that will surely bring back
                                  Dragon’s     a lot of good memories for you.
                                  Lair cover-  http://www.toonarific.com
                                  age to in-
                                  clude        Jaguar Front Page News
                                  news, a
                                  walk-thru,
                                  and
                                                     merchandise.                  The World of Spectrum
            http://www.dragons-lair-project.com                                         Everything you need to know about
                                                                                   the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and then
            The Space Invaders Shrine                                              some.  Martijn van der Heide’s site fea-
                 What if there was a magical place                                 tures, emulators, utilities, documenta-
            you could go to pay homage to Space                                    tion, and of course, plenty of games.
            Invaders?  Well, you're in luck!  The                                  http://www.void.jump.org/
            Space Invaders Shrine, built by Ger-
            man Dirk Behlau, is such a place.
            We're not talking about a love of clas-       A great place to satisfy your Jaguar   Got A Site??
            sic games in general here;  we're talk-  cravings can be found within
            ing about a love (obsession?) with   classicgaming.com's website.      Want your website to be considered
            ONE game - Space Invaders.              This Jag site from Mike Dolce fea-  for a listing in this column?
                 Visit this site to read just about eve-  tures regular updates, reviews, ratings,
            rything associated with the game, from   previews, articles, chat, press releases,   Just send us your particulars. . .
            images, sounds, flyers, articles, and   support groups, and further links of in-  website URL, contact name, and a
            books;  to manuals, history, emulation,   terest.  Go play where the big cats are!    valid e-mail address to
            clones, and tips.  We bet you'll be im-  http://classicgaming.com/jfpn/   cav@classicgamer.com
            pressed!
            http://www.spaceinvaders.de/


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