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NAME OF THE GAME

LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 16, 2002
Put your Spidey skills to the test
This summer, Spider-Man is the luckiest superhero alive. Not only does he have a hit movie that has left critics and audiences impressed, he's also in a very good new game for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and especially Xbox.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 9, 2002
Big guns duel on the courts
Not since the time of "Pong" have two prominent powers like Sega and Namco gone head to head on the lowly sport of tennis. Sega and Namco, the two biggest names in the arcade business, are serving up tennis on PlayStation2.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
May 2, 2002
Don't cast out 'Outcast'
"Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" will be released in the United States next month and a lot of movie goers have clearly got Jedi fever.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 25, 2002
Crash livin' large on Advance
The Crash Bandicoot games may only have been best sellers in Japan, but in the United States these were the games that defined the Sony PlayStation.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 18, 2002
Konami brings back the classics
Konami, one of the longtime superpowers of the video game world, has just released "Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced," a collection of six classic Konami arcade games from the 1980s.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 11, 2002
Heroes for the hardcore
America's comic book industry, a shrinking business to be sure, may be taking cues from Japan's popular manga.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Apr 4, 2002
Better to skip this 'adventure' and just go to Osaka
You've probably already been inundated with news that Universal Studios opened a theme park last year in Osaka. If you have any interest in seeing that park, do not try to preview it with "Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure" (UA), a relatively new game for the Nintendo GameCube published by a company called Kemco.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 21, 2002
Xbox ball: 'Inside Drive'
Strip away the marketing hype. If you want to know what kinds of people video game console makers are targeting, take a look at the kinds of games they play.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 14, 2002
Junior hoops nearly scores
"Backyard Basketball," a new PC/Macintosh game from Infogrames, is not what you would call a full-fledged simulation. You play most of the game using one button on your mouse, and it only has two professional basketball stars on its roster.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Mar 7, 2002
Xbox grapples for Japan footing
Imagine a Sumo tournament with a young Konishiki battling Akebono, the winner of which must then challenge Godzilla. Such a battle is going on right now in the video game arena.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 28, 2002
Make, don't play the green
If you are looking for a great game of virtual golf, try "Links Championship Edition," a PC game from Microsoft. "Links" is as close as you can get to real golf without picking up a club.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 21, 2002
Xbox gets a bit 'Wreckless'
Xbox is coming to Japan on Friday, and by all accounts, Japanese game players are pretty excited. Microsoft's new video game console is clearly the most advanced and most powerful video game console on the market. It is more powerful than Nintendo's GameCube. Sony's PlayStation2 is not even in Xbox's league.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 14, 2002
Utah host to more than Olympics
With the 2002 Winter Olympics happening in Salt Lake City, the world will recognize that Utah is America's greatest mecca for skiing. But Utah is also an exporter of video games.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Feb 7, 2002
Monkeys rate second look
Not many people jumped at "Super Monkey Ball" when it hit the market.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 31, 2002
Nautical 'kombat' game is a wash
Role-playing games, probably the most popular genre in Japan, have a moderate following in the United States. Americans prefer action-packed, top-down view style RPGs like "Baldur's Gate" and "Diablo" to traditional "Final Fantasy" RPGs.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 24, 2002
E.T. has left the building
The year was 1982. Steven Spielberg shattered all box-office records that summer with a movie called "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" about an ugly but good-natured space alien named E.T. who gets stranded on Earth.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 17, 2002
Nintendo's Arakawa surprises with retirement announcement
Nobody really cared who the president of Nintendo of America was when Minoru Arakawa founded the company in 1980. With games like "Radarscope" and "Sheriff," it was just another Taito wannabe trying to break into the U.S. arcade market.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 17, 2002
Magic elfin adventures of Jak & Daxter land in Japan
Back in August, The Japan Times ran a feature about a company called Naughty Dog that specializes in 3-D adventure games.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 10, 2002
Can you take the Payne?
"Max Payne" falls somewhere between "Pulp Fiction" and "The Matrix." Well, OK, "Max Payne" is a video and computer game, so maybe it only falls virtually between those two Hollywood blockbusters.
LIFE / Digital / NAME OF THE GAME
Jan 3, 2002
Sometimes the gaming is too rough
When it comes to video games, Japan generally gets the good stuff first. Nintendo, Sony, and NEC hardware generally comes out in Japan before the United States. "Devil May Cry," "Final Fantasy X," and "Luigi's Mansion" all came out in Japan before they made it to the United States.
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.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
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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