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Gamequbed Archives (July 2001)

Our affiliate VGNation has a funny little article on their website about Bill Gates. It’s located Here. Apparently, he didn’t know that Nintendo of America’s headquarters was down the street from Microsoft.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 28, 2001
Source: VGnation

Nintendo has published a partial spaceworld list for this year’s show. Tendobox suspects that Rune is Camelot’s secret RPG they’re working on. Here are the lists for GameCube, GameBoy Advance and Gameboy Color:

GameCube

  • FIFA 2002 Road to FIFA World Cup (EA Square)
  • SSX Tricky [working title] (EA Square)
  • Bomberman Generation (Hudson)
  • Super Smash Brothers Melee (Nintendo)
  • Luigi’s Mansion (Nintendo)
  • Pikmin (Nintendo)
  • Wave Race Blue Storm (Nintendo)
  • Animal Forest Plus (Nintendo)
  • Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet (Nintendo)
  • Doubutsu Bancho (Nintendo)
  • Eternal Darkness (Nintendo)
  • Virtua Striker 3 ver.2002 [working title] (Sega)
  • Phantasy Star Online [working title] (Sega)
  • Super Monkey Ball (Sega)
  • Rune [working title] (company name withheld)

Game Boy Advance

  • Kiki Kaikai Advance (Altron)
  • Blender Brothers (Infogrames/Hudson)
  • Medarot Navi - Kabuto Ver. (Imagineer)
  • Medarot Navi - Kuwagata Ver. (Imagineer)
  • Hello Kitty Collection: Miracle Fashion Maker (Imagineer)
  • Advance Rally (MTO)
  • Battle Network Megaman EXE 2 (Capcom)
  • Gyakuten Saiban (Capcom)
  • Street Fighter ZERO 3 Upper (Capcom)
  • Breath of Fire II (Capcom)
  • EZ-Talk Mid-level (Keynet)
  • Nobunaga’s Ambition (Koei)
  • Kikaika Guntai (Kemco)
  • Phalanx (Kemco)
  • ZOE 2173 Testament (Konami)
  • Gradius Generation (Konami)
  • Genso Suikoden Card Stories (Konami)
  • ESPN XGames Skateboarding (Konami)
  • Field of Nine Digital Edition 2001 (Konami)
  • Yujo no Victory Goal 4v4 Arashi [working title] (Konami)
  • Jurassic Park III Advanced Action (Konami)
  • Goemon: New Age Shutsudo! [working title] (Konami)
  • Guru Logi Champ (Compile)
  • Minna de Puyopuyo (Sega)
  • Sonic Advance [working title] (Sega)
  • Columns Crown (Sega)
  • Telefang - Power Ver. (Smilesoft)
  • Telefang - Speed Ver. (Smilesoft)
  • Monster Farm Advance (Tecmo)
  • Mutsu [working title] (Tomy)
  • Zoids Saga (Tomy)
  • Game Boy Wars Advance (Nintendo)
  • Legend of Starfy [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Magical Vacation (Nintendo)
  • Tomato Adventure [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Yakuman Advance [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Luna Blaze [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Fire Emblem (Nintendo)
  • Domo-kun No Fushigi Terebi [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Batoland [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Didi Kong Pilot [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Saberwolf [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Happy Panechu! [working title] (Nintendo)
  • Super Mario Advance 2 (Nintendo)
  • Hatena Hatena (Hudson)
  • Bomberman Max 2 - Bomberman Ver. (Hudson)
  • Bomberman Max 2 - Max Ver. (Hudson)
  • Robot Ponkottsu 2 - Cross Ver. (Hudson)
  • Robot Ponkottsu 2 - Ring Ver. (Hudson)
  • Super Robot Wars A (Banpresto)
  • Car Battler GO!! (Victor Interactive)
  • Mahjong Advance (Hori)
  • Love Hina Advance (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • The King of Fighters GBA [working title] (Marvelous Entertainment)
  • Wizardry Summoner (Media Ring)

Game Boy Color

  • Hamster Paradise 4 (Atlus)
  • Gekisou Dangan Racer: Onsoku Buster Dangun-dan (Imagineer)
  • Hamster Club: Oshiemashu (Jordan)
  • Sakura Taisen GB2 Operation Thunderbolt (Sega)
  • Legend of Estopolis (Taito)
  • Kikansha Thomas (Tam)
  • Game Boy Wars 3 (Hudson)
  • Doki x Doki Sasete (Victor Interactive)
  • Bugsite Alpha Ver. (Smilesoft)
  • Bugsite Beta Ver. (Smilesoft)

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 28, 2001
Source: Tendobox

GameQubed has gotten another affillate. It’s VGnation. We will be putting them in our affiliates list as soon as possible.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 27, 2001
Source: VGnation

10 more games will be released on the GameCube from activision. All these titles will be released in the fiscal 2002 year as they won’t release GameCube software this year. Confirmed titles are Spider Man(based on the movie), Tony Hawk 3 and Stuart Little.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 25, 2001
Source: Tendobox

Our affiliate TendoGamers is reporting that SegaNet will merge with the ISP Earthlink. All existing SegaNet customers will be transfered over to Earthlink and still pay the $19.95 USD monthly plan. This is sort of a benefit, as Earthlink subscribers pay $21.95 USD per month. So instead of paying SegaNet for an internet service, Earthlink will be getting the check.

This comes as a surprise to me, as I was expecting SegaNet to be the online company for Nintendo GameCube games, but I think it will still be, as only the subscribers are being transfered, so games can still be hosted on SegaNet.

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 21, 2001
Source: TendoGamers

Nintendo’s 2nd party Retro Studios has officially cancelled “Raven Blade” for GameCube. The game was shown at E3 in video form.

The main reason for this was that Retro laid off all the artists and designers that were working on Raven Blade, plus some management, programmers and support staff. The rest of the programmers that were programming this game will head over to the “Metroid” project.

No word yet on whether [president] Jeff Spangenberg is still with the company. There’s speculation that he may be bought out by Nintendo or may still be there," said an anonymous source.

Nintendo said this: “Retro, along with Nintendo, has decided its most effective approach as a videogame developer is to focus on Metroid and give it the attention the franchise deserves. To do that, they refined staffing and are laying off 26 people, mainly the team that worked on Raven Blade. Raven Blade is now cancelled. It was a business decision and clearly based on the need to focus on Metroid and ensure it’s a great game, and also on the resources that would have been needed to finish Raven Blade.”

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 20, 2001
Source: Tendobox

Peter Main, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing will retire before February 1, 2002. His succesor will be Nintendo of Canada’s current President, Peter MacDougall.

“Sometimes the term ‘industry legend’ is overused,” states Arakawa. “But in the case of Peter Main, it is perfectly appropriate. Many common industry practices were literally invented by Peter over the last 15 years, and we would not have achieved our phenomenal success without him.”

Main will be retiring from about 15 years at Nintendo. He started working at Nintendo in 1987.

_Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 19, 2001
Source: Tendobox

According to Tendobox, Nintendo has released new details on it’s upcoming Spaceworld 2001 show.

Thursday, August 23, 2001 (the day before the official start of the show), there will be a press conference which is scheduled for early in the afternoon and will be held at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center “Tokyo Big Sight”.

Friday, August 24, 2001, Spaceworld will open it’s doors only for the media and trade only(Hours are to be announced)

Saturday and Sunday(August 25+26), the show will be open to the public.

The show will be held at the Makuhari Messe/Noppon convention center on Tokyo.

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 19, 2001
Source: Tendobox

According to several Nintendo websites, Nintendo will be hosting a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament for the public during Spaceworld 2001 in Japan. Since Spaceworld is so close to the GameCube’s launch in Japan, the game will probably be the completed version. The tournament is being held to promote the GameCube and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

The prize of the tournament is not known. There may be no prizes at all, or perhaps the winner will walk away with a GameCube and SSBM? Time will tell…

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 18, 2001
Source: TheGCube.com

Thanks to our new staff member, Dallas, we finally have some Advance reviews for you to whet your appetite on. They include a review for Super Dodge Ball Advance, and Tweety and the Magical Jewel, and Sonic Advance for previews. Thanks alot Dallas.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 15, 2001
Source: Reviews

Gamequbed gives a hearty welcome to the newest guy on our rebuilding squad. Dingo will help us out by doing some GBA previews and reviews, as well as a few Gamecube previews. You can mail him at dallas@gamequbed.com or visit him in the forums.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 14, 2001
Source: N/A

Nintendo has 10 simple questions on their website. They ask you your age, what country you live in and about your internet experiences. The survey is located here http://www.nintendo.com/survey.jsp And remember, this survey will probably affect how GameCube works online…

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 13, 2001
Source: Nintendo.com

It appears that Nintendo doesn’t like the direction that Retro Studios is taking with Metroid. This was fueled by several testers who complained about the lackluster of Metriod. Whatever Retro Studios plans to do, they have to get it ready in time for TGS (Tokyo Game Show), or else we’ll have a crisis on our hands.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 12, 2001
Source: N Nation

Tendobox has discovered that IGN has updated their GameCube FAQ. In their FAQ, there’s some interesting news about Capcom in it. Now most of us know Resident Evil 0 and 5 other high profile titles that the company has not announced yet.

Capcom is really big with their Street Fighter series. Perhaps Street Fighter 4(that’ll be the day, let’s deal with Street Fighter 3:“some title” instead**) and Mega Man will come along into the Cube. Hopefully more information will be revealed before Spaceworld.

**For those of you that don’t know, Capcom have made tons of different “Street Fighter 2” games, from Street Fighter 2 to Street Fighter 2:champion edition. To add to this library, Super Street Fighter 2 was released, then Super Street Fighter 2:turbo. To add to the delay of Street fighter 3, Street Fighter Alpha was released followed by a 2nd alpha game. I’m not sure if Street Fighter alpha 3 came out before Street Fighter 3.

-Jed

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 12, 2001
Source: Tendobox

I recently added previews for Super Monkey Ball, Eternal Darkness, Donkey Kong Racing, and Madden NFL 2002. I also updated the Metriod Prime preview. I can’t do any GBA reviews until I somehow snag a GBA; and that could be, well, whenever I get money.

Be sure to head over to the forums, where we already have 16 members and 300 posts!

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 10, 2001
Source: N/A

When Marionette was revealed on game lists at E3, people asked Perrin Kaplan about the title, and he simply replied “Think about that one”.

Tendobox did a quick domain search and found that Mario-Net.net is registered to Marionette Inc. So could Mario-Net be Nintendo’s online gaming network? It could be an online game too. More information will probably be revealed at Spaceworld.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 5, 2001
Source: Tendobox

According to SimcityHQ, Simcity 4000 is already under development. Simcity is basically a PC game, but it does get ported to consoles. Like for instance, Simcity classic(called Simcity at the time) was first released for PC. It later got ported over to the Super Nes in 1991. In 1994, Simcity 2000 was released for the PC. Again, it was ported over to the Super Nes(it didn’t play very good on the Super Nes either), The Sony Playstation and the Sega Saturn. In 1999, Maxis finally released the anticipated Simcity 3000…but with no port over to a console. Now with Simcity 4000 under development, and with Simcity 64 canned for released in North America, there could be a chance that Simcity 4000 will be released on the GameCube, not a big chance though. click here for more about the game

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 5, 2001
Source: Simcity HQ

After a long time of downtime, Tom has finally gotten the forums back. He installed them on July 1st. We are waiting on new registrations in the forums, so come on in. Just in case your wondering, we have an ikonboard.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 3, 2001
Source: GameQubed forums

The Peripherals section is ready for your viewing. Take a look at the Mobile Adapter, Ecard Reader, Game Link Cable and more! Click the link at the bottom to view it.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 3, 2001
Source: Advance Peripherals

Recent launch details were spilled and it appears the Gamcube will launch with two titles in Japan; Luigi’s Mansion and Wave Race: Blue Storm. These games will retail for about $54.00! Keep in mind that the North American launch will feature around 10 games for a retail of 60 to 90 dollars.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 2, 2001
Source: NPlanet

GameSpot is reporting that FFXI(Final Fantasy 11) will be indeed be released on multiple consoles. The game was originally only in development for PS2 and the PC. However, it is not known which platforms it will be released on, it’s likely that the XBOX will be one of them and a chance that the GameCube will get it too.

Posted By: Jed
Date: July 2, 2001
Source: GameSpot

Gamequbed is proud to announce it’s newest affiliate, NintendoFlare. They are an aspiring site loaded with content and frequent updates. It will be great to see them grow into a leading Nintendo site in the near future.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 2, 2001
Source: NintendoFlare

After having viewed the poll results from the past 2 or three months, it’s quite obvious that I have to get rid of that crappy ad in the banner. People have to realize though that the host requires that I place it at the very top of the page. I am also considering getting pay hosting; then there wouldn’t have to be any banner at all.

But instead of doing all that work switching servers, I’ll get my head together and see if I can make something that can please most of you. And as always, suggestions are always welcome.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 1, 2001
Source: N/A

I would have thought that the XBox was far away on the horizon, and that it wouldn’t launch until 2002! Boy, was I wrong.

During a closed doors conference at E3, Microsoft announced that they would retail their system at $299.99, and that the launch date would be November 8th. Ironically, Nintendo held their conference and announced a price of $199.99, but they said that the Cube would launch on November 5th! This is the first time in gaming history that two systems have launched side by side. We can only wait and see what the outcome will be.

Posted By: CoolAsIce
Date: July 1, 2001
Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly

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