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Additional Details on PSX Version Jojo's Venture Copyright Capcom, 1999

CardGame vs D' Arby

Capcom released additional news pertaining to the PSX version of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure / Jojo's Venture. The PSX version of Jojo will have a new Super Story Mode, which follows through in the original Jojo Manga storyline.

The super story mode consists of the normal Arcade fighting scenes, digital comic, and mini-games such as scrolling action, card game and many others.

Coin Flood vs D' Arby

One example of the mini-game is a coin drop bet, depicted also in the original manga. In this game the player and opponent must take turns and drop coins into a cup full of water. When the water floods out of the cup, that player loses.

-Done on 5/22/99-
PSX Version Jojo's Bizzare Adventure Shown at E3 Copyright Capcom, 1999

Jojo's Bizzare Adventure was reported to have been on display at the E3.

While only Jotaro, Kakyouin, and Chaka were playable in the E3 version, the game's character select screen is reported to have been very different from the arcades, with 16 character slots in place of the 8 in the arcade.

*Possible* chnaracters which may be added in the 8 new spots :

Arcade hidden characters:
Dio, Shadow Dio, Young Joseph

Arcade non-player characters:
Vanilla Ice, Death 13

Characters reported to have been playable during development, but cut in the full version:
Hol Horse, Polnaref posessed by the Anubis Sword

-Done on 5/22/99-
The King Of Fighters 99 Announced Officially by SNK Copyright SNK, 1999

SNK has officially announced the development of their sequel to the hit series "King Of Fighters" -The King Of Fighters 99 for the Arcade. Announcement was made at the "Cospa" (Costume Play Party) convention in Japan at 5/4/99- as the convention was indirectly related to games, no media of that field had covered the news until the current, when SNK themselves revealed it.


While no specific information on the game is yet released, SNK's representative Souichirou Takatsu hinted the game "to be very different" from its previous in the series. SNK states that more detailed information on the game is schedueled to be released in upcoming weeks.

-Done on 5/22/99-
Additional Details and Images on BioHazard 3 Copyright Capcom, 1999

Capcom released detailed news and images on their scheduled game "BioHazard3 -Last Escape".

BH3 takes place right after BioHazard 1 (and BH2 follows after BH3 in the storyline). The main character is Jil, who comes back from her STARS operation in BH1 and gets ready to travel to Eurpoe where the Umbrella coroporation -responsible for the virus outburst, is located.


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-Done on 5/22/99-
Toshinden Subaru Revelaled By Takara Copyright Takara & Tamsoft, 1999

Takara has announced their 4th sequel to the 3D fighter game "Toshinden".


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-Done on 5/22/99-
DreamCast's King Of Fighters 99-Dream Match Delayed Copyright SNK, 1999

SNK has announced the change of the release date to their first DreamCast game, KOF99- Dream Match Never Ends, to 6/24/99.

-Done on 5/13/99-
Nintendo Reveals New Machine With Panasonic Copyright Nintendo, 1999

On 5/12/99, Nintendo announced their plans for their New Next-Generation Machine, which will be developed with Matsushita Corporation / Aka Panasonic Co, in aim to work together on "Network Appliances".


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-Done on 5/13/99-
Editorial since 3 Months and More Street Fighter3-3rd Shots Copyright Henry A. Moriarty, Capcom, 1999

Chun-li's got Big Buns.

A few months have passed since the last Editorial. Then again, Madman's editorial is more like a Diary... which noone reads. In the Editorial, some things on SF3-3rd are mentioned, and with it some game shots.

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-Done on 5/13/99-
Nintendo Announces Contract With Disney Nintendo, 1999

On 5/6, Nintendo announed their Contract with Disney Interactive Co. to allow the development of games with Disney characters.

A series of Disney games will be released from Nintendo, the first scheduled being "Mickey Racing" for the GameBoy Color, planned for release in December of this year. Other titles include "Disney Racing"for the N64 planned for December 2000, and "Mickey Adventure" for GameBoy Color and their Next Generation machine.

-Done on 5/13/99-
Psychic Force 2 Details Revealed Copyright Taito, 1999

Taito revealed details on their upcoming PSX game "Psychic Force 2", including illustrations of new characters.

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-Done on 5/13/99-
Konami Licenses with Microsoft Copyright Capcom, 1999

On 5/10/99, Konami announced their Cross-License between Mircosoft Co in an effort to open up their share of markets. This Contract will allow Konami to port their home console games to the PC, while letting Microsoft port their games to the home consoles (PSX, Saturn Dreamcast, N64, etc) through Konami.

The official announcement of game lineups will be made later on within the year.

-Done on 5/09/99-
Street Fighter Alpha 4 briefly mentioned in SCEI Okamoto Interview Copyright Sony, 1999

In another interview to Capcom's Yoshiki Okamoto- this time proceeded by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.(SCEI), Okamoto talks about his theories in game creation and advertizes the upcoming game "Gaia Mater" as a 300 Million Yen (Approx. 3 Million Dollars) Project based on his beliefs and studies that a good game should be one where the "player can play into the depth of their own mind".

While in the interview, Okamato also mentions breifly that BioHazard3 and Street Fighter Zero 4 will not be created in a likewise manner, since his beliefs in games may not agree with all players.

Although only a short wording within an interview, this makes the first mention of SFZ/SFA 4 yet by Capcom.

URL For the Complete article
http://www.scei.co.jp/lp2/friends/new/index.htm

URL For the direct page in which the quote can be noted
http://www.scei.co.jp/lp2/friends/005/04.htm

In a recent interview with Capcom's executive- Yoshiki Okamato, some information on the following upcoming games were made evident.
BioHazard: Code Veronica, BioHazard 3, Resident Evil2 -N64, Breath Of Fire

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-Done on 5/08/99-
Tidbits of News on Nintendo Games Copyright Nintendo, 1999

Nintendo has released Tid bits of news on Their upcoming games: Legend Of Zelda DD, Mother 3, Super Mario RPG2, etc.

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-Done on 5/08/99-
Additional Rival schools 2 shots and News Copyright Capcom, 1999

Additional news and images on Capcom's Rival Schools2 / Justice Academy 2 has been released.

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-Done on 5/07/99-
Street Fighter EX2 Plus Announced for Arcade Copyright Arika, 1999

Capcom has announced the sequel to the Polygon version of the Street Fighter series "Street Fighter EX 2 Plus", now in beta testing.

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-Done on 5/07/99-
SNK's Koudelka Demo Movie Downloadable Copyright SNK, 1999

The upcoming European Biohazard & FinalFantasy type game "Koudelka" can be seen moving in its trailor at Sacnoth's web site. The footages are virtually the same as those which were shown in The Tokyo Game Show on April 19-21.

Download Site:
http://www.sacnoth.co.jp/dl/dl.html

-Done on 5/07/99-
Gainax Co. Reveals Evangelion Stripping Mahjong Game and More Copyright Gainax, 1999

Gainax Co. announced their decision to port the Mahjong game "Eva to yukai na nakana tachi"(Eva and their funny friends) to the PC, and released news of some additional PC games based on Evangelion characters.


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