EGM: Lurkin the 'net!
Daniel Kaminsky
net...and is active damn near everywhere else...hmm! He's scared of us!
Oi...well, EGM supposedly(doesnt show up on GEnie directory, but then
again, I'm not a whiz with that thing) can be reached at
e...@genie.geis.com, but if that fails, cgr-...@genie.geis.com will
definitely work, as that is what he was posting from. I'll post his,
"Heya, wassup" post right now(and if he already announced himself here,
apols, but my newsreader didnt show anything from him or to him)
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So we have a few believers present, eh? Fire away and I'll do my best to get
back to you on a regular basis.
First of all, I find it difficult to see how you can so easily label EGM
as a
pro-active extension of the First Church of Nintendology. It has always been
our goal to provide equal coverage to both systems and the merits of
particular games are based on their specific qualities. We don't heap
attention, praise, or glory on one game just because you plug it into a
Nintendo, and deprive another from receiving it just because it interfaces
with a Sega machine. If you look at the editorial in the March issue, it
proclaims Sega the winner at CES and asks Nintendo some tough questions about
where they expect to be in a year. Still touting the wizardry of their
Project Reality with exploding stage productions and video clips of what
people might see in 1995?
While we're dealing with Vapor-Ware, let's stay on the subject of Nintendo
and the Nintendo CD that someone brought up a dozen or so messages ago. The
Nintendo CD specs that made it to print in EGM were absolutely, totally
factual in content. They were given to the magazine by a game developer who
had attended their CD developers conference and been given a complete
overview of what the unit would do. Do I feel that Nintendo had the
intention
of creating a CD peripheral for their Super NES system? Yep. Were those
plans changed because of Sega's announcement of Saturn, the hype behind the
3DO, and Sony's announcement to get into the hardware wars? Yep. Do I blame
Nintendo for changing their plans to accommodate the new directions that the
industry was heading? Nope. Did I personally feel that EGM readers would
want the complete, detailed specifications of the Nintendo CD (what it could
do and what powered it) at a time that was months before they officially
decided to can the project. You bet.
In hindsight, looking back with the clarity that hindsight affords, was the
information that EGM presented incorrect? No, not in the least. I could draw
a hundred analogies to other forms of media that present facts as facts, only
to have outside influences change their stories, but from what I'm
hearing the
real complaint that the people here on GENIE have is that they don't
want to
know about new developments and technologies as we here them from sources
within the industry. They don't want to know that the Sega Genesis was
actually the Atari Tomahawk for two weeks before the Tramiels got greedy and
blew the deal. They don't want to read about specs for a Nintendo CD that
Nintendo had a developers conference to tell programmers about. They don't
want to know about anything until it's on store shelves.
Unfortunately, you're in the minority. Because if it were after-the-fact
100%
bone-numbing truth that people were looking for, Video Games magazine would
have the highest sales in the industry. They don't - EGM does, according to
the independent auditing firm of ABC, the most respected auditing firm in the
good 'ol US of A.
I'm not hear to fault your desire to have factual information presented
in the
video game, movie, or newsweekly mags you read. You should expect it. But
being in tune with the inner workings of the gaming biz creates problems when
you have to work with that information for 4 weeks before anyone sees
it. If
we go to press and find out the next day that company X has decided to
buy the
Atari Jaguar instead of company Y, then we look totally inept to groups such
as yourself who have stronger ties to the industry and better access on a day
to day basis with other industry reporters like The Big Boss Man, Andy Eddy.
But when ink is put to paper, the info contained in each EGM is as
factual as
it can get.
From here on out I'm hoping to have a slighty more interactive relationshi
with other members of the GENIE network, but putting misconceptions in their
proper lights is necessary before moving on. And for everyone who's still
convinced that EGM is the root of all video game evil, you have (or at least
you WILL have) even more of a reason to hate EGM in the coming months.
We go bi-weekly in June.
See you in the asylum...
-Steve Harris
SENDAI
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After a few replies he blasts some guy's "second hand information" and
stuff...lets just say I dont flame people unless they ask for it...
Later,
Gasman
P.S. Love how he somehow doesnt understand that when EVERYONE on EVERY
board on EVERY net says that his mag is the epitomy of BS...he says,
"We're number 1, so screw off!" and doesnt realize that there actually is
a problem...<sigh>
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