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NAME OF THE GAME

Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 17, 2003
Pokemon still Nintendo gems
Having sold a combined 4 million copies of the games in Japanese, Nintendo has finally made English versions of "Pokemon Ruby" and "Pokemon Sapphire," the latest entries in the ongoing Pokemon craze.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 3, 2003
Indy Jones excavates action
"Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb," LucasArts' new game for Xbox, PC and PlayStation2, marks the triumphant return of the world's most famous adventurer/archaeologist.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 20, 2003
That's pride messing with you
I once attended a Mike Tyson fight. If you think his fights are vicious on television, you shouldn't see them in person. Tyson hit the other guy so hard that we could feel it in the bleachers.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 6, 2003
The mayor's conundrum
"SimCity 4," a new and entertaining city-planning simulation for PC from the Maxis division of Electronic Arts, is a nightmare, and I mean that in the best possible way.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 20, 2003
Nokia fails to N-Gage Japan
Nokia's N-Gage mobile telephone/video game system, unveiled earlier this month, plays better than GameBoy Advance-quality games and has a built-in cellular telephone. So why aren't Nintendo executives shaking in their boots?
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 6, 2003
Gimme that old-time religion
Koei has recreated warfare in the time of the hegemon Nobunaga, and Taito has been making Samurai games since the early 1980s. Over the last two decades game players have relived the naval battles of World War II and the dogfights of World War I.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 30, 2003
Haven't I seen you somewhere?
Clones -- identical creatures built from the same DNA.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 23, 2003
Nintendo lights up Game Boy Advance
There is no mistaking it anymore, Nintendo does better in the United States than in Japan. Nintendo sold more than twice as many Nintendo 64 game console in the United States than in Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 16, 2003
LucasArts gives till it hurts
I have not finished the game "Star Wars Bounty Hunter," and I doubt many people will. But that doesn't make it a bad game.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 9, 2003
Not your grandma's ninja
Sega first introduced "Shinobi" as a harder-than-average arcade game, and the name became synonymous with ninja -- the stealth, star-throwing warriors.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 26, 2002
Arcade gem returns to glory
This is the time for bringing games back from retirement. Sega came out with new a new "Shinobi." Konami has a new "Contra." And Tecmo has brought back two great blasts from the past: "Ninja Gaiden" and "Rygar."
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 19, 2002
Ride a dream wave
Kelly Slater is a real surfer -- the high-profile world champion credited with helping reform the sport's image. But "Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer," a new game for PlayStation2, Xbox, and GameCube from Activision, is not about real surfing.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 12, 2002
New on DVD: a family-friendly list
Christmas blockbuster movies don't only show up in theaters. Most of America's big box-office hits are timed to be released in the summer and roll into stores on DVD and VHS cassette just in time for the Christmas shopping season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Dec 5, 2002
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... dull
"Superman: Shadow of Apokolips," a new game from Atari for PlayStation2, is an utterly forgettable 3-D adventure game in which Metropolis' man of steel vanquishes familiar foes.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 21, 2002
Beware of twists ... and shouts
One chestnut some claim to be the shortest complete piece of fiction goes like this: "The last man on earth sat in his room. There was a knock on the door."
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 14, 2002
Oooh no! There goes Tokyo!
Who can resist a game with a campy, self-effacing sense of humor? People like it in movies, and they like it in video games.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Nov 7, 2002
PlayStation stays ahead of the pack
When it comes to video games, Sony is the company that does no wrong.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 31, 2002
The spy who tickled me
"No One Lives Forever 2," a stylish PC game from Fox Interactive, provides tense moments and lots of laughs. As a first person-perspective shooting game revolving around spies, it has loads of guns and enemies; but it also parodies both spy movies and its own game genre.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 24, 2002
Namco puts up a fight
In 1990, fighting games really came into their own, as Capcom's "Street Fighter II" lit up video arcades like they hadn't been in nearly a decade.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Oct 17, 2002
Honor (and fun) among thieves
American-made adventure games do not typically hit the Famitsu top 10 rankings that determine what's hot in gaming in Japan. "Donkey Kong Country," a British-made Super Famicom game, was Japan's all-time best-selling foreign-made adventure game.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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