Star Tech Journal

would make a great game. Also
included in the project is Alan
Munrow who was Effects Super-
visor for Addams Family 1 and 2,
Beetlejuice, Predator and Night-
mare on Elm Street Part 5. For
Tattoo Assassins, Alan designed
the characters and the back-
grounds.
The man responsible for the
make-up effects is Bob Short,
Academy award winner for his
work in Splash and Cocoon.
The game shown at the AMOA
was only about 50% complete,
but promises to be a great fight-
ing game according to Joe
Kaminkow. The story of the
game involves tattoos coming to
life, and each character will be
able to perform 200-300 moves
including combinations. The
player will also be able to per-
form the standard finishing
moves along with nudalities and
fartalities.
CD ROM GAME SYSTEM
American Laser Games is said to
be the ultimate street machine.
The first game system to off er a
continuous selection of super hits
and earnings at a low cost.
I think not.
What American Laser Games
has done is installed a 3DO home
system into a cabinet and selling
you their scaled down CD ROM
versions of their laser disc games
(ie. Mad Dog II), which are the
same CD's available to the home
market.
VIRTUA CoP
The third game from Sega to in-
volve the virtua type polygon
graphics., this time with a police
officer theme. Virtua Cop fea-
tures the 32 bit, 3-D graphics en-
gine. Texture mapped at 300,000
polygons per second with auto
zoom in and out and lock-on
sight.
So you are better off spending
$400.00 for your own 3DO and
placing it in your own cabinet.
Then go to any computer store
and buy your own titles and cut
out the mfg & the middle man.
BusT-A-MovE
I thought the game play was great
and I felt totally immersed in the
game. Like virtual reality without
,-¢.e bulky headset. This was the
..>est gun game at the show. Virtua
Cop is available in 50" & upright.
STAR*TECH JOURNAL
CID
November 1994
A Taito game for your Neo•Geo.
If you are looking for a new
puzzle type game in the same
money making style as Tetris and
Arkanoid, Bust-A-Move is the
one for you.
Bubby and Bobby return to the
video screen in this exciting fast-
paced bubble shooting puzzle
game. Stack three or more
bubbles of the same color and
watch them explode into valuable
points. Don't let your bubbles
stack-up below the base line, or
you're a goner.
PoGs
The latest craze sweeping across
the country. Said to be "the
marbles of the 90's". The game of
flipping milkcaps has been played
since the pre-depression era.
POG is an acronym for a 25 year-
old Hawaiian tropical juice drink
called Passion Orange Guava
juice produced by the famed
Haleakala Dairy in Maui, Ha-
waii. In the early 1970's the
Haleakala Dairy began stamping
their milkcaps with "POG". Dur-
ing the 1990's an elementary
school teacher reintroduced the
milkcap game to her Hawaiian
students. Within months, the
milkcap game became a favorite
pastime for children and adults.
POG brand milkcaps soon be-
came the number one choice for
playing and collecting throughout
the Hawaiian Islands.
To play the game POG, players
stack an equal amount of the pa-
per discs face down in one pile
and slam a heavier disc called a
slammer or kini onto the pile.
Whatever POGs are flipped over,
the player gets to keep. When the
pile is gone, the game is over. The
player with the most PO Gs is the
wmner.
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