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redress the balance by emulating Classic Games From The Odys-
Kangaroo, Food Fight, Arabian, I Ro- sey2. Another Activision archive of
bot, and Major Havoc. 30 forgotten gems from my all-time
favorite console, including K.C.
Munchkin, K.C.’s Krazy Chase (with
SNK’s Last Gasp. Before SNK Voice emulation!), Pick Axe Pete, Kil-
throws in the towel in the U.S. just ler Bees, Attack of the Timelord, UFO,
because we all failed to buy into the Alien Invaders Plus, Quest For The
Neo Geo Pocket, they could at least Rings (without that cumbersome
give us a collection of their arcade game board!), Computer Golf, Base-
classics, including Vanguard, Warp ball! and many more. Sure, I’d miss
Warp, and Fantasy (my all-time favor- punching my name in on the mem-
ite arcade game). With my luck, I’d brane keyboard, but that’s why I keep
have to get a Neo Geo Pocket just to a real live working Odyssey2 in my
play this collection… game cabinet. This one would be for
all the folks who thought the Odyssey
never had a decent game made for it.
The Mario Files. Probably proprie-
tary to the Nintendo 64 or the upcom-
ing Dolphin console, this collection would at Zaxxon As you can see, Santa, there
long last bring home perfect are a lot of games just waiting
emulations of such Nintendo to be released, if not begging.
games as Donkey Kong, Don- MAME is okay, but it doesn’t
key Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, always get the sound right, and
the original Mario Bros., Pop- the speed isn’t always right, and
eye, and Space Firebird. you sure as heck can’t play full-
motion video laserdisc games
on MAME. The days of classic
Namco Museum, Volume 6. gaming are coming back…and
Come back, Namco! Don’t we hey, even if the video game
need a wing of the museum de- publishers can’t get it in gear to
voted to Jr. Pac-Man, Dig Dug produce any of the above in
II, Hopping Mappy, Professor time for Christmas 2000, maybe
Pac-Man, and maybe even a they could let this letter be their
video pinball “emulation” of the guide as they consider what to
otherwise un-emulatable Baby resurrect next. If even three or
Pac-Man? We know that the four of the above titles come
latter game was more Bally/ true in the next year, I promise
Midway’s train wreck than yours, I’ll be real good…and, with a
but it’d still be fun to take an- little PlayStation practice time, I
other crack at it. Popeye might even work my way up to
“better than good!”
Arcade’s Greatest Hits: The
Other Williams Collection. Not
so fast, Midway – Williams Elec- P.S. – I was just kidding about
tronics gave us more than just a having the elves bust heads,
half-dozen great games. What- Santa.
ever happened to Make Trax and
Motorace USA, among others?
Laserama! No, not a light show
at a Pink Floyd concert, but a
compilation of laserdisc games
translated to DVD format for use
on the PlayStation 2 (which is
DVD-capable). Dragon’s Lair,
Dragon’s Lair II, and Space Ace
have already been turned into
normal DVDs, so why not Inter-
stellar Laser Fantasy, Cliff
Hanger, Bega’s Battle, and so on? Motorace USA
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