Making hoop dreams come (almost) true

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NBA 2K offers well rendered professional basketball action for the home video gamer. The players' simulacra approach TV image quality, except when the user chooses certain close up camera angles from among 8 options. Users can draw on actual teams and players for matches, or make up a team, or even make up a player from a menu of characteristics. In portraying actual game play, the software does not succeed as well. The play gives more attention to the offense, leaving the gamer on defense with fewer moves to counter the stars' acrobatics.

Statistical Data Included, Software single product review, Sports/gambling game, Computer sports games, Online gambling, Sega Sports NBA 2K (Sports/gambling game)

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Creepy virtual being, attitude included

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Sega of America's new computer game 'Seaman' includes 'gillmen,' virtual sea creatures with human faces and speech. The game player interacts with the gillmen and must feed them and be attentive to their needs. The game requires a Visual Memory Unit hardware piece that allows the player to communicate with the gillmen.

Electronic computers, Household audio and video equipment, Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics NEC, Product description/specification, Consumer electronics, Sega of America Inc.

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Speeding breakneck toward the future, dangerously free

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Four racing-themed action games are reviewed. Xicat International's $39.95 Ballistics offers an exciting simulation of racing over natural terrains at speeds approaching 4,000 MPH. Sony Computer Entertainment's $49.99 Kinetica propels racers wearing wheeled suits at simulated speeds of up to 350 MPH. Acclaim Entertainment's $49.99 Extreme G3 is a handsomely designed game that simulates a motorcycle moving at speeds approaching 1,000 MPH. Sega's $49.99 Super Monkey Ball is an offbeat game in which players roll a monkey toward a goal in a shifting landscape.

Japan, Column, Software multiproduct review, Action game, Computer action games, Acclaim Entertainment Inc., AKLM, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., Xicat Interactive, Xicat Interactive Ballistics (Action game), Sony Kinetica (Action game), Extreme G3 (Action game), Sega Super Monkey Ball (Action game)

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