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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to Issue 5
repeat it” - George Santayana December 2000

“Unfortunately, those of us who do remember the past are Editor-in-Chief
Chris Cavanaugh
condemned to repeat it with them." - unaccredited cav@classicgamer.com
Managing Editor
X and the X-Box? Well, much to Sarah Thomas
-Box, Dreamcast, Play-
sthomas@classicgamer.com
Station, PlayStation 2,
the chagrin of Microsoft bashers

everywhere, there is one rule of
Gamecube, Nintendo 64,
Contributing Writers
Indrema, Nuon, Game
forgotten: Never bet against Bill.
Boy Advance, and the home business that should never be Mark Androvich

computer. Sound familiar? The Al Backiel
“experts” would have you believe This Issue Shaun Conlin
we are headed towards another We’ve made some exciting
videogame industry crash similar advancements over the past few Carl Forhan

to the one of 1984. However, this months here at the Classic Earl Green
time the problem isn’t an abun- Gamer Magazine offices. In case Leonard Herman
dance of inferior software but an you hadn’t heard, we’re now be-
abundance of superior hardware. ing distributed at Tower Records. Henry Hutcheson

Personally, I’ll take the latter So, we are now truly reaching a Chris Lion

“crisis” over the former any day! global audience. So, to our new Fred Pierson
But not to worry. The video- international readers, who might Damien Quicksilver
game industry has grown (and have difficulty reading English,
matured) immensely since the we give a hearty “hello and wel- Lee K. Seitz

“early days.” I believe, for the come.” And to our readers in Tim Snider
most part, that lessons have been Florida who had difficulty under- Kyle Snyder
learned from mistakes of the standing our layout, we’ve tried to
past. Yes, Sony has quite the make it a bit simpler just for you! Patrick Wong

hole to dig itself out of, but surely This issue we are welcoming Tom Zjaba
you can’t count them out. aboard a few new contributors.
Sega has returned with a Tom Zjaba of The Retrogaming Layout and Design
vengeance, producing a techno- Times will be relating his sober- Chris Cavanaugh—layout and design
logically wonderful console with ing experience with “Tapper,” Al Sarah Thomas— editing, subscriptions
Michael Thomasson—Cover Artist
quality games to boot. Backiel from The Digital Press
Nintendo? They have quietly is here to set us straight on Network Administrative Consultant
found their niche among the fam- Xonox cartridges, and Mark An- Ken Jong

ily gaming crowd. Mario isn’t go- drovich has kindly been loaned CONTACT INFORMATION
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DVD player. Besides, how else Quarter.” on the web:
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are you going to play Tempest It’s now time to turn your clock
3000? About the only dark horse back to when Pac-Man was king LEGAL JUMBO
Entire contents © 1999, 2000, 2001 Chris Cavanaugh and
in this scenario is the vaporous and spend a moment forgetting Classic Gamer Magazine. Reproduction in whole or in part
without permission is prohibited. Products named in these
Indrema console. Its Linux based about pregnant chads, the elec- pages are tradenames or trademarks of their respective
open architecture, which invites a toral college, and that Band-Aid companies. Classic Gamer Magazine and its staff is not
affiliated with the companies or products covered in Classic
glut of inferior software (see 1984 that was on Dubya Bush’s face. Gamer Magazine. Please consult the “Fair Use Law”
before you beef to me.
reference above), could spell its
doom in the long run. Oh yes, -Cav
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