Count_ZeroOrNextGen #45 (September 1998)
https://countzeroor.com/2025/09/06/nextgen-45-september-1998/
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NextGen #45 (September 1998) - Breaking it all Down
We are approaching the final hurrah for Sega’s consoles. Cover Sega’s last console hurrah, the Dreamcast, is coming. Intelligence No industry interview kicking off the issue this time. Instead we’re talking about industry efforts against software piracy, particularly for-profit piracy for systems that are currently for sale. On the one hand, I can’t be too…
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 141
https://countzeroor.com/2025/09/03/nintendo-power-retrospectives-part-141/
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Chris ChapmanNew scan! MCV #67 from Christmas Eve 1999.
• The Review of the 1990s: they pick their Publisher, Developer, and Cock-up of the Decade, among others.
• PS1s are now in 25% of British households. Seems high!
• Top of the all formats chart this week: Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation, FIFA 2000 and Tomorrow Never Dies.
• Trivia quiz, page 17. I scored a paltry 5.5/20.
Blog post: https://savestate.site/mcv-issue-67-24-december-1999/
Fernando BrianoThe Video Game History Foundation has acquired the rights to Computer Entertainer, one of the first American video game magazines:
We’ve digitized the entire run of Computer Entertainer for the first time and released the magazine into the Creative Commons, allowing anyone to use it for research, publication, or any other purpose.
Nicholas A. Ferrellhttps://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/elmos-bad-fur-day-07-14-25/
I just learned that Elmo, the popular red Sesame Street muppet, went “full Nazi” on X on Sunday, July 13, 2025 [Paul Rois for Breitbart, July 13, 2025]. To be clear, by full Nazi we mean in pro-Holocaust sense instead of the everyone I don’t like is Hitler sense. People are saying “Elmo” was hacked. This may be true. But I am not jumping to conclusions. See, I was not born yesterday. I am old enough to remember the video game magazine writers were all tingly about Conker, a little video game squirrel who was a selectable racer in Diddy Kong Racing and star of the children’s Game Boy Color adventure Conker’s Pocket Tales, reemerged on Nintendo 64 as degenerate potty-mouthed alcoholic in Conker’s Bad Fur Day. While I suspect that “the people” are almost certainly correct in guessing that Elmo’s X account was hacked, there is a tiny possibility that this is part of a dark, Conker-style re-branding (but with less alcohol and potty “humor” and more “just asking questions” and Nazis). Time will tell.
(Aside: My only video game experience with Conker came in Diddy Kong Racing. I never had any interest in playing Conker’s Bad Fur Day, but I remember that it was a hot topic in the video game magazines for several months.)
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The New Leaf JournalI share 54 things I learned in 2024, with links to sources for each thing I learned. End your year by learning what I learned.
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 139
https://countzeroor.com/2024/08/28/nintendo-power-retrospectives-part-139/
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