{"id":699,"date":"2015-03-03T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2015-02-26T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:54:30","slug":"onm-remembered-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #243"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Q: So did the disaster of the film have any psychological effect on your development?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Nintendo Pro issue 33 (2000)<\/p>\n

The Nintendo 64 got a little weird at the end of its era. Okay, I’ve said it was weird at darn near every<\/i> part of its life cycle, but you’d pick up the latest issue of ONM (or, in this case, the cheapest imitation the duty-free had on their shelves)<\/span>, leaf through the previews, and come across some games that just made you wonder… why? What audience was there for such a particular game, and what was the developers reasoning behind it? I mean, we had Donkey Kong 64<\/i> already, and Banjo-Tooie<\/i> came out just a month after this in America. I think we were sorted for 3D platformers ’til the next generation, lads.<\/p>\n

As light as it is on actual preview material (enjoy the blurry, context-free screenshots!), it does offer a neat little interview with Holly Hirzel, then-president of the Player 1 development studio, but has since made a name for herself in Microsoft’s Xbox Live department, which is a good step-up from duff bowling games. She mentions the challenge of Titus handing them the license out of nowhere, which I find amusing: both the possible (if unlikely)<\/span> notion that Titus were still<\/i><\/b> holding the Blues Brothers<\/i> license since 1991, and the reality that developers must face of being handed a completely outrageous license and asked to make a game out of it. A Trading Places<\/i> game, you say…?
\nIt also amuses me to read an interview with a woman in games development that isn’t harassing her about her credentials, but instead “did you really<\/i><\/b> like Blues Brothers 2000<\/i>?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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