Nintendo’s Japanese launch of the GameCube was less than stellar. I’m sure many reasons factor into this. The bitter taste of the Nintendo 64’s semi-failure, little in the way of launch games, little in the way of advertisements or maybe it was because no pre-orders were taken.

Adventure games have existed since the dawn of computer gaming. The style of adventure games has ranged from simple text based games to complex modern adventures, which boast powerful 3D graphics, spoken dialogue and crisp sound effects.

I feel a sorrow for kids that are just now getting into the video game craze. While they are all playing their Dreamcast and Playstation, they will never get to experience the great joy of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I can still remember the Christmas that I received my NES; for it was this day that I became ecstatic!

Many of you may have noticed that, over the course of the past week or so, there have been a lot of rumors floating around concerning Square developing games for the GameCube.

When asked what images they mentally conjured up at the utterance of “video game history”, my friends all concurred that they envisioned Japanese geniuses in business suits toiling away at a computer screen, working on the “soon-to-be” hottest new release.

Why is it that some topics just never seem to go away? For several years now, the media has been dogging videogames as the source of teenage violence, and frankly, I am sick and tired of it. The latest anti-videogame rally is the result of a study on violent games from researchers at the renowned school Harvard.

The following is a conversation between Ryan Schaefer and Kaleb Rutherford about the GameCube and Xbox launches.

Obi-Wan is a third person action game with a unique and intuitive player control system that gives the player an advanced degree of control over the lightsaber, use of the Force at their fingertips, and the ability to pull flips, rolls and cartwheels with ease.