Scribes – November 10th 1999

by Lerako on Nov 10th, 1999

Hi there ya Brit,
I’m going to put numbers beside my comments/questions so I can keep track.

  1. First off, I was just checking out the FAQ. I think it’s nice that you guys let people use your pictures on their own web sites as long as they respect your copyrights.
  2. Who the heck wrote the FAQ?… They actually respect the developers, games and fans. I never thought I’d see that on a Rareware site.
  3. What the heck is with the cheats in JFG. There better be more then 3. Sure the Mr. Pants cheat is one of the best cheats of all time. But that still doesn’t let you off the hook with only 3 cheats. There better be Unlimited Ammo and Invincibility in there somewhere!
  4. Thanks for making earn the cheats rather then putting in some lame-ass code.
  5. Thanks for keeping so many of the cool things about this game a secret.
  6. Wouldn’t it make more sense to call him Mr. Nopants. Just look and him!!!… HE HAS NO PANTS!!!
    Flyersfan
    P.S. I can’t wait for your first Dolphin game.

I’m not going to number my answers, because I’d rather squash them all together in a big bunch to upset your obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Jet Force isn’t exactly short on cheeky secret goodies – as the designer puts it, “Mr. Pants is the last word in cheats, there is tons of hidden stuff, and you must be a gibbon to need Invincibility and Infinite Ammo.” As for the FAQ, its very purpose is to clarify popular issues and forestall the most commonly-asked questions in as polite a way as possible (if only that worked in practice as well as it does in theory). And Mr. Pants – au contraire, sir, he’s wearing nothing but pants (and a bowler hat, though Mr. Hat is about as catchy as Mr. Shoes), so the name is only logical. It’s Mr. Trousers that wouldn’t have made sense.

Dear Blue Background:
So, assuming that Donkey Kong 64 will be long out, out, or almost out when the next Scribes roll around, I can finally end my five year long anticipation binge. Which makes me happy on one front, and sad on the other. Seeing how the anticipation gave me something to garp about seemingly means my garping days are over for a long time. Now that Donkey Kong 64 is out I might as well trash my Nintendo 64, seeing how I bought the system almost three years for the sole purpose of a Donkey Kong Country 64 game. Unless you make a Donkey Kong 64 2 to combat the evil ritualistic Pokemon that has engulfed the weakest of children over here in the Americas. But seeing how you are too busy with those Disney games at the time being, I guess we won’t be seeing a Donkey Kong specific game from Rare until near the end of the Dolphin’s life. So I’ll prematurely open the gates of Hell now.
1: How many levels are in “Donkey Kong Dolphin?”
2: Will Dixie and Kiddy be in “Donkey Kong Dolphin” as playable characters?
3: Will “Donkey Kong Dolphin” feature full co-op support?
4: When is the estimated “Donkey Kong Dolphin” release date?
5: Will you go edgy and push “Donkey Kong Dolphin” towards a teen rating?
6: And is full fecal flinging FINALLY a possibillity in “Donkey Kong Dolphin?”
Of course, you could try and tell me that “Donkey Kong Dolphin” is not in development, which would lead me to pet my rifle, back and forth, weeping into darkness…
SirSlush2@aol.com

No faith, that’s your problem. DK will be long out by the next Scribes, indeed. Hrrmph.
The Disney deal doesn’t preclude all other games on our part, you know, and neither (contrary to popular rumour) does the number of games involved go into double figures. We’ve got more than enough teams available to handle a whole range of projects, as always. And while nothing’s been said as yet, there’s a fair chance of DK and the gang cropping up on Nintendo’s next machine at some point, so feel free to pick up the reins of your obsession and carry on where you left off even as you devote months of your life to taming the almighty behemoth that is DK64…

Dear Scribes,
While I eagerly await Monday (or Tuesday depending on shipment punctuality) to play Jet Force Gemini for untold hours, I read the review NextGen magazine has (as they are probably the most objective source in the media). It appears that the basic gripe that the reviewer has is that JFG is TOO LONG. what?! WHAT?! No one has EVER said a game worth playing is too long, it isn’t possible, you never say “dang, if only there was less of this game, I wish I didn’t have anything to come back to later! Stupid replay value! Damn more game for my money! Freakin’ able to always come back for more!” Ahem… anyway, I would guess the reviewer was just scared of Floyd and his “Rar”ing. Bravo for making a game impossibly long on a “limited cart-based system”. I nervously look forward to it.
ExoByte

Yep. It’s “too long” and there’s “too much gameplay”, apparently. To this day we can’t work out how the various worldwide Testing departments managed to miss such glaring flaws. Still, the majority of reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, so you never know, we might still get away with it. (Sigh.)

Dear Sirs,
Could you add in Mr. Pants as an unlockable multiplayer character in Perfect Dark? PLEASE. You could make him two dimensional so that he can only be shot whilst looking directly at you or kind of to the side. I could imagine countless fun hours of running through crossfire (as Mr. Pants) and not being hit. My competitors would only see a thin black line floating by. Come on, imagine the possibilities! I figured that since you guys are taking a few more months to bring the pak to our sweaty palms that you might as well add him in. No 3-D rendering is required! 2-D! PLEASE. Thank you.
Jeff McD
P.S. I wonder if it would be possible to import him through GB Camera?
P.P.S. Are you delaying it because the Transfer Pak won’t be out by Christmas or just for the reason that a few features need to be tweaked?
P.P.P.S. I have a Japanese GB64 Pak that came with the ORIGINAL Pokemon Stadium.
P.P.P.S. #2. ARSE BiScUiTs!!!! (Just a little insurance to get this letter printed.)

I told you I’d been hassling people to spread the word of Mr. Pants. Look, Designer Boy’s almost succumbed to the pressure:
“Don’t believe for one minute that this hasn’t been thought of already. However, I will not go so far as to confirm or deny anything beyond the consideration of the idea. Given the highly special nature of the character, if it was included in the game as a reward, it would have to be as difficult to obtain as the invincibility was in GoldenEye…
“And I refuse to comment on other people’s arse biscuits.”

Dear Editor, Person or thing,
I was wondering why in Donkey Kong 64 you replaced Kiddy a fairly likeable character, for Chunky Kong presumably a ugly-type character. Moving boulders wouldn’t be a problem for Kiddy. Now on to Dixie, why did you replace this character (that has starred in 2 games) for a miserable character like Tiny? If Dixie crouched down a bit she could fill in for Tiny. The world does crave for new stuff but isn’t a bit of tradition good for a game?! (Boy I wonder if you like reading junk like this?)
From a Rare fan,
PPJ

It’s all to do with new blood, something of a tradition in the DK series. We happen to think that DK64’s mix of old (DK, Diddy, Funky, Cranky etc.) and new (Tiny, Chunky, Lanky) is pretty balanced – there’d have been plenty of complaints if we simply hadn’t bothered bringing a few new Kongs to the fold. Besides, you can’t really decide that a character’s “miserable” until you’ve played through the game with them, can you? Bet you didn’t like Kiddy until you started to get into DKC3…
I couldn’t possibly like reading “junk like this” as much as I like reading junk like the letter below.

Dear Scribes,
Why is everyone at rareware useless at making games. I bet Nintendo are wishing they never agreed to let you develop games for their machine. Your the cause of Nintendo’s downfall and Sony’s uprise, because you are incapable of releasing a game on time.
Don’t give none of that quality crap. You sit on your big fat arses drinking weak tea and biscuits, you bunch of old grannies. Put this on your web site and let everyone know the truth. Thank you.
From a very concerned person

And who are we to argue? Looks like it’s the end of the line for Rare now that the truth is out. You’re right to be concerned if we’re all useless and everything bad that happens is our fault. Sorry, everyone. I’m going to have to make my tea even weaker now because I’m feeling so fragile.

Hideee Ho,
I’ve been playing JFG for over a week now, and apart from loving it (another quality title – good work fella), I was interested to know whether the Widescreen option just squashes the image or actually expands the viewing angle and lets you see more on the edge of the screen? If so, looks like a new T.V. is on the cards, Doh! I mean Wohoo! Also I must give a special shout to the sound on JFG, absolutely amazing, the Dolby surround kicks the proverbial ass. More of it please. Will DK64 and PD have Dolby surround and Widescreen support?
Love to stay and chat some more but Tribal hunting I must go…
Bobby Dazzler

Official word from the JFG team is that yes, the Widescreen option does expand the viewing angle. No confirmation as yet on widescreen support for the other two games you mention, but Dolby Surround’s a cert. Big posh tellies all round, everyone! Huzzah!

Dear, eh, damnit… I can’t think of a witty name!!!!!
Anyway, I wrote this letter because I am interested in the requirements you have for posting a letter on Scribes. I have noticed all the nonsense splattered across this page and letters which have no meaning whatsoever posted on this site, however, you claim that you only stick up these letters if they are “coherent.” It is difficult to tell when you witty Brits are sarcastic, so I’m e-mailing you. Here are a few of the many possible reasons you bother posting a message:

  1. You actually enjoy your job, reading e-mails and replying with humorous glee and an edge of sarcasm. Perhaps you just like reading these e-mails and thinking to yourself “Another letter from the idiotic masses! I simply relish the fact that I know how stupid these people really are! Muhuhuhahaha!!!!”
  2. You like having the satisfaction of publishing someone’s letter to the web and knowing that you make a little Christmas for them every time you put their e-mail out for everyone to see. (I doubt this one, knowing you are such a sinister fiend.)
  3. You find these e-mails insightful and have something to relate to them. You look at these letters and think “You know what, they’re right,” or, “Nah, that’s the biggest bunch of sh*t I’ve ever heard. I think I will counter it and prove how much I know.”
  4. You randomly choose messages and divide them up into two groups: The ones over 20 words go into the normal Scribes, and the others are placed into Snippets, whether they have good content or not.
  5. You check the punctuation and grammar of the letter and insure that it states a point and has an inner meaning… eh, maybe not…
    Well, I hope you post this on Scribes and let me call all my friends together to show them that I actually had my letter posted on Rareware.com and the infamous video gaming company made fun of me. I noticed that one of my earlier letters that made sense was simply sent right back to me and then saw the Snippets section… This leads me to believe that you only read every other e-mail, seeing as none of the Snippets have anything to say. I guess you just find them funny or something, you sick man you.
    And now I will close, paying my respects to Rareware and completing my discussion by saying one word: Arse.
    Patrick Mundy

There are no ‘requirements’ for getting into Scribes (which isn’t really that much of an honour anyway, let’s face it), so with regard to your categories it’s basically a case of ‘all of the above’. Yes, coherence helps, as do originality and something resembling a sense of humour. Being relevant isn’t essential. That’d just make things boring. I know it feels good to get your views aired in public, so I try to cram as much stuff in there as I can while keeping the whole page interesting for everyone else. And one last thing: if you’ve got a question to ask, bear in mind that I’ll have to try and wheedle the answers out of the relevant people, so don’t even bother with stuff you know won’t be divulged.
What’s that? Make fun of you? Alright… er… you smell.

Dear person who works at Rare who reads this,
I know you said that Cranky is DK’s father, but I have an idea, I have an idea. When DK was really young, something happened to his parents, so Cranky, DK’s Grandfather decided to be DK’s father, so he would have one, then Cranky told him when he got older. But he wasn’t as Cranky then, he got Cranky when he changed his name to Cranky. And why are all the Kongs in DKC3 wearing pants, the only ones that aren’t are DK, and Diddy, but they’re barely in it. And the Kremlings aren’t wearing any clothes. What happened? Did some of the Kremlings get Klump, and Krusha fired, so they stole all their pants, and the only way they would give them back was for K. Rool to hire them again, and that happened after DKC3? No, I have a better idea, Mr. Pants felt sorry for the Kongs, and stole all the Kremlings’ clothes, luckily K. Rool’s wife knew how to sew, and made him a Dr.’s suit. And what ever happened to her? Did she die or something? And when you said all the Kongs would be in DK64 did you mean Bluster, the guy who owns the barrel factory in the DKC show, and do you have a picture of him? One more thing, is that one Kremling that wears a jacket, Krunch? It looks like him a lot. One more thing, this is really the last, what is the name of that blue Kremling with a jacket on?
Devin529@aol.com

We didn’t say that all the Kongs were going to be in DK64, and we certainly didn’t say that we were going to include non-Rare characters from the TV show such as this so-called Bluster. Pant-wearing policy within the Kong clan seems to be a fairly radical “if you can be bothered” sort of affair, and we don’t even know if K. Rool has a wife, so it strikes us a bit weird to be fretting over what’s happened to her. Oh, and the big blue Kremling (assuming you mean the one in the screenshots) apparently goes by the name of Kasplat. How’s that for service, eh?

Dear Scribes,
JFG is a superb game. One question though. When I heard that the chief bad guy’s name was Mizar, I thought it sounded perfect as an evil king type person. A few days later it hit me. Prince Caspian’s uncle in The Chronicles of Narnia was an evil tyrant called Miraz. Did the name, perchance, stem from that fictional character?
Samir Rahman

Er… no. It’s just the name of a star, man – a star which happens to have a twin star named Alcor, who was going to make an appearance as Mizar’s comedy drunken general before we decided that perhaps this wasn’t such a great idea after all.

Dear Scribes,
I am just writing in to confirm something that both I myself and a fellow Scribe have noticed. [The fellow Scribe being the long-named “Amanda Marie Schroeder, a.k.a Kablooie, evil twin of Kazooie (Bwaa ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa!)”]
She spake thus, saying: “Floyd looks like an arse with tail lights.”
Yes! She’s right! And so am I! I am even working on a whole designer range of panties and pants featuring the evil arse-droid Floyd, for the use of such people as Mister Pants and Mrs Pie.
Also, to allow for people like Ms Dark, Orchid, and Uncle Tusk on Saturdays who wear top-body undergarments too, there will also be an exciting range of Floyd “Over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder” brassieres and corsets.
Please print this letter – I believe that through this innovation I am well nigh one step away from Ms Karen in New York and messieurs Gaultier et al in gaye Paree.
Cdvile
PS Would you like me to send you a concept picture of the J.F.G-string I have planned? Enough to make the eyes water, my dears!

Why would the endlessly talented Mr. Pants and his good lady friend need to rely on any third parties to design their kegs for them? Anyway, such natural modelling chic would simply overshadow anything developed for the mass market. And as far as I know, Floyd’s rectal resemblance is purely accidental – if any of us had noticed it before, he could have taken an active role in the top comedy pointlessness that is Ants Into Pants mode.

Dear Scribes,
I dragged my arse all the way over to Twycross, and I managed to catch a glimpse of Mr. Pants’ house, right next to Rare HQ. I met THE Mr. Pants and Mrs. Pie AND I got to have some huckleberry pie. If you don’t believe me, then just look at the photo I’ve attached to this letter.
Mr. Pants also told me about Arsebolts 64, a REAL video game that he caught you making. You really thought you could cover it up, didn’t you? I saw all of those Arsebolt enemies, and the Captain Knacker at the end of the game.
Mrs. Pie, on the other hand, makes one hell of a pie. I think she makes it from arse, though, because there were some crusty spots.
SirNick5@AOL.com
P.S. And Mr. Pants also showed me some of the love letters that you wrote to him.

I feel embarrassed answering letters about the criteria for getting into Scribes when I don’t think twice about printing stuff like this.

Dear Scribes,
I might have guessed that your favourite T.S. Eliot poem would have been one that begins “When the evening is spread out across the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.” Well, all right then, I’ll give the conversion of “The love song of Alfred. J. Prufock” a go:

The Love Song of Chris T. Allcock (With apologies to T. S. Eliot)
(A.K.A Visit to Twycross)
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a designer curled up around a workstation.
Let us go, through Leicester’s half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of tester’s nights in one-night cheap hotels.
And grimy pubs with beery-smells.
Zoos that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
“When is Banjo-Tooie coming out?”
Oh, do not ask “When is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
In the canteen testers come and go
Talking of Donkey Kong being slow.

(At this stage, the length of the poem will have lulled the average AOL user to sleep, and so the poet feels he can safely skip the rest of the poem. Let’s face it, T.S. Eliot was completely out of his face.)

No, that’s no good, I’m admitting defeat. You cad. How can I get revenge…? I know: Questions! Hee hee hee…
1) Can we have an official Rareware Discussion Forum, please? That way all of the babbling fools (like the ones that write poems) can post to the forum instead of bothering you, and putting Scribes down to a handy five letters a month. Hmm… now that I think about it, that’s the electronic equivalent of locking them all in a room with big sticks. Except even more fun to watch.
2) Have you any idea of the arse-related madness you have started? I’ve seen literally eight suggestible Americans gratuitously signing letters with “Arse”. You’ve handed them OUR secret word on a platter! Oh well, it’s not too bad – we can fall back on our emergency supply of words that they’ll NEVER understand – ‘sod’, ‘chimney’, ‘satire’ and ‘speaking quietly’. I’m in trouble now…
3) Do you think that keypress cheats gradually being phased out (by Rare and by other companies) in favour of secrets, task-based rewards and Easter Eggs is a good thing or a bad thing? Discuss. (Sorry, but it’s getting near to exam time.)
4) What CD’s of Rare music have been produced (“Killer Cuts”, etc) and where can I get them?
5) Why is it that you don’t get your face mapped into GoldenEye, but Mr Pants gets his own cheat mode? I certainly hope that you got credited as “Assistant Artist” or something.
6) Any chance of putting all of the forum entries into a long html file (using the “cut and paste” feature, don’t panic) so that I can read them all without running up a huge phone bill? Get someone on Work Experience to do it or something.
Anyway, have a great Christmas and I look forward to reading this in the new Millenium, when Scribes is posted.
(It’s funny, because when I read back over my questions it never sounds to me like I’ve been particularly sarcastic – no, what am I talking about? Of course it does.)
Regards,
Chris Allcock

TS Eliot was so far out of his tree, he could probably have climbed back into it from the other side. It’ll be a long time before anyone can match his raw poetic fruitiness – but nice try all the same. Oh, bugger. You’ve got questions.
1) No no no – get away to Usenet with your rec.games.video.rare and all the uncensored swearing and garbled insanity that’d come with it. Scribes might be crap, but at least it’s monitored crap.
2) Hey, any arse publicity is good arse publicity. And I hope you’re not suggesting that Dick Van Dyke’s boisterous Cock-a-nee accent in Mary Poppins was anything less than 100% authentic.
3) We’ve found that keypress cheats don’t work too well without a keyboard. Haha.
4) Well, there’s Killer Cuts, of course, and then there’s… er… the original DKC one, and the new DK64 one, and they’ve also been produced for KI Gold, Banjo and DKR… oh yeah, and some Blast Corps ‘choons’ were featured on a multi-game “Best of N64” type CD soon after the system was released. As for getting hold of them, check with Nintendo because we haven’t got a ruddy clue.
5) Mr. Pants is far more of a celebrity than I’ll ever be, and rightfully so.
6) We don’t do the work experience thang, and I’m too busy setting up violent staff member pratfalls for use in the Rare newsletter caption competition to be concerned with such frivolities.

Dear Scribes,
Geeyod I love JFG! All the excitement of collecting those furry Tribals (which by their actions and the need to be collected, I have determined that they MUST have evolved from Jinjos, and Jeff from Mumbo) and then killing those nasty ants! ¡Squash! Ugh, now I have to clean my shoes, those are some BIG nasty ants! And then my little TANK DOG! Roof! Yip! Awrooo! Go Lupus! And Vela! Swim! Don’t breathe, just swim! Who needs that lousy air? Not you! And Juno! Uh, yeah, Juno… You have a woman’s name! Go JUNO!
Whoever designed the Water Ruin, please thank them for me. If anything I have ever seen in a game that could be called beautiful, that was it. The sky, the water, the ruins of the castle (even the skull hearth) all of that touched me like no other image has. (I think it might be because I had dreams about a place like that for a week straight about a month ago…) Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the Water Ruin.
Amanda Marie Schroeder, a.k.a Kablooie, evil twin of Kazooie
(Bwaa ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa!)

I forwarded your praise onto the JFG team, and word from the designer suggests that “the artist concerned is deeply moved”. Ahhhh. However, I really think we should nip those Tribal evolution theories in the bud right now before we bring chaos and ruin down upon ourselves – as if the whole ‘Mumbo is a Jinjo/woman/Kremling’ thing wasn’t bad enough…
And how do you know that it wasn’t the Queen of the Roman Gods who had a man’s name, eh?

Dear evil murderous Kong-killers,
You B#!@”$(s! You, You killed her! YOU KILLED WRINKLY KONG! And you gave her a sex change too! Why? What did she ever do to you eh? All she wanted to do was live her life like a normal ape, doing Kongy type-stuff like exercising and building her collection of Banana Birds. You’re SICK you are. I hope all go to hell and… erm… I mean… COOL GAME! Yer.
Your Anythingtogetonthescribesedly,
Lozza

We didn’t kill her. She was ancient anyway, and seeing as the team “needed a ghost character to pop out of obscure places”, the connection was a pretty obvious one to make. Fear not, though, as we’re not quite done and dusted with old Wrinkly just yet. She’ll be back, you wait and see… well, she might.

Dear Pokéfriends,
I have figured out why you have kept PD back so long; You have decided to change the character at the heart of the conspiracy. Yes, yes, it’s everyone’s favourite communist, Tiptup. I’ve already sent you all of the details of this before, and I couldn’t be arsed to write it again. I’ll just say this: Tiptup was a Blofeld/Dr. Evil hybrid, with his cute little cat and all, and the end sequence was some crap about Joanna and her friends eating turtle soup.
Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if the final story is about Joanna’s company giving her a Pikachu and Team Rocket would try a new, ingenious plan to capture it every level. This story would have been pants, but at least it would have been amusing pants. You could even change it so it was called Perfect Pants.
I have also written the new sequel to replace B-T: Juno-Vela(ie). Juno runs around with Vela in his backpack and Lupus pops up from time to time to teach them new moves.
Now, maybe, some real questions:

  1. You didn’t really give N64 Gamer a PD cartridge to play with, did you? Because if you did, I would have to make the money to go overseas and kick all of your arses.
  2. How come in the credits of Super Smash Bros. Rare was credited as having given permission to Nintendo for the use of Donkey Kong? I would have thought you had just given them a model, which they already would have had from Mario Party.
  3. Can you make one of the cheats for PD ‘Pokémon Mode’, where the aliens are changed into Pokémon? Nintendo would let you. You’d sell millions more.
  4. How about making a Safari game where you take photos of Rare characters? Many characters will be in it (mainly N64), but disappointingly few overall. I can see the introduction now: Joanna Dark walking through the forest with her camera, something runs along beside her. She turns to take a photo, but all she gets is a picture of a bowler hat. Joanna goes through all of the courses with her magical machine, taking photos of Tiptup (bonus points for a picture of Tusk cutting him in half!) and the like, and eventually goes to the Mr. Pants bonus stage. It will be a modern classic.
  5. What’s the Australian release date for JFG?
  6. Did you read IGN’s scathing review of JFG?
    Thankyou,
    Togepi_Ikari@hotmail.com
    P.S. Death to Tiptup! (I do realise he is fictional, but he is really annoying. I mean- ‘Hey, it’s Tiptup!’ What is Tiptup? He is Tiptup, damnit!)
    P.P.S. Take2 hates B-K, so I hate Take2.
    P.P.S. I knew who Brian Boitano was! I watch South Park.
    P.P.P.S. He also won in 1993.
  1. Eh? Who?
  2. They produced their own model, based on ours.
  3. I don’t think Nintendo would really jump at the chance to let you unload a semi-automatic into Pikachu’s head, do you? That’s if our Mature target audience even knows what Pokemon are.
  4. It’d probably work quite well in a bizarre, hopelessly inconsistent kind of way, but I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve seen it somewhere before…
  5. Dunno. Ask Nintendo Australia.
  6. It wasn’t exactly ‘scathing’. They just seemed to have a whole set of problems with it that nobody else even noticed. Bless.

Mr Shoes (groan)Hey baby! (or Rareperson, your pick)
What’s up with this Mr Shoes guy who you accidentally (or was it?) exposed in the latest Scribes? Is he maybe Mr Pants’ new sidekick or will he get his own game (he’s before Tiptup, right?)? Since he has no clothes will he get R-rated or will he be available for the youngsters as well? If you are indeed making Mr Shoes 64, I have a few ideas for you to consider. First, I think maybe Mr Shoes 64 could be like Sonic the Hedgehog in the way that he could run really fast and have lots of cool friends and (Stop it! Stop it right now! – Ed.)
Yours truly,
Mr Socks
PS I’ve included a picture of Mr Shoes for your convenience (it’s only the beta version, mind you).

And I think that’s as far as it should go, don’t you? Maybe you won’t be so taken with Mr. Pants as a role model when I reveal to you the shocking truth about his extra-marital affair with Mrs. Pie… yeah, that’s shaken you up a bit, hasn’t it?

Dear Scribes,
Wow. I just rented Jet Force Gemini and Tonic Trouble from my local Blockbuster, and, well, I never really got around to playing Tonic Trouble. Jet Force Gemini is the most amazing game I’ve ever seen in my life! I like it so much, I wrote a song about it (it’s a parody, really) and it’s supposed to be sung by Lupus, and sung to the tune of “Mambo No. 5” by Lou Bega. Here it goes:

“The Jet Force Mambo”
Well, that’s it. Scared of me now? Some of my friends are… Anyway, here’s the sucking up part: You guys are great I’ve never played better games or been to a better website in my life I hope you keep making good games and make a sequel to Jet Force Gemini because it’s the coolest game in the world, etc. That’s about it. I just made this wonderful song and wanted to share it with you. Goodbye now.
Mario Mario

Not scared, no. Slightly disturbed, but not all-out scared just yet because we know you’re just trying to be affectionate in your own unstable way. The song’s very nice. Could you perform it for us while strutting around in a white suit and cavorting with a host of semi-naked laydies? We just want to get the full impact, you know.

Dear Rare,
Let me just get this out in the open right now… Jet Force Gemini is my favorite game of all time! The style of this game is perfect, I love this game in every way! Can we have a round of applause for the composer of the music? OYE… the music in this game is worth the purchase! I just want to say that Rare games are the best games. King of the Hill and Tawfret are awesome. Er… and to my question… I just wanted to know if you guys are thinking of possibly making a sequel to this great game? :::Cough, Dolphin, cough::: That would truly be awesome. If you could just simply reply back to me or even post this… I would be greatly obliged. Thank you Rare, thank you for making such awesome games… I can’t wait for DK64 and Perfect Dark!
Thanks again.
Animator7@aol.com

Jet Force sequel action will basically depend on how well it does in the marketplace, so it’s your solemn duty, Scribes readers, to go out and buy it in your droves and thus assure its status as ‘economically viable’ in a Michael Douglas Falling Down-stylee. Certainly, the designer muses that “We would like to do one, and it would be great on the Dolphin, and it may even feature Mrs Pie…”
But whatever happens, we’re grateful for so many people being willing to place their faith in a completely new and original title with no precedent to rely upon, and it’s particularly good to see that none of you are regretting it. You’re stars, you are. You’re our besht mates (hic).

Dear Scribes,
I just was thinking about the past, scrolling through Rarewhere, when I thought: “Hey, why not look at the first Scribes?” You know, the ol’ days. Then I read the first Scribes. IT SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how many times ‘arse’ was used? ONCE!!!!! AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY LEIGH!!!!! SirSlush hadn’t written in, and ONLY LEIGH SAID ARSE!!!!!!!!! I mean, Scribes has come a long way, from being a stupid, half-assed, one-and-a-half page assortment of crap. There was no talk about DK64, JFG, or Tiptup 64, or Arse 64! (Though surprisingly, there was talk of PD). Scribes is now a stupid, full-assed, five-page-long assortment of funny crap. You’ve come a long way, Scribes. I hope you keep Scribes this way, and forever keep us happy.
Wussupman2000@aol.com (yes, that really is my address)
P.S. thanx fur rdeing mei ltert, mna!!!!!!!11!!1!!!!1!!!!!!!

I’ve just had a look and I think that Scribes #1 stands up pretty well, all told. Okay, so the Followers of Arse were few and far between and there wasn’t much in the way of previously-established irrelevant rubbish to build on, but it was a solid start. And it’s hard not to enjoy the community spirit we’ve got here in Scribes these days – admittedly it’s a community of nutcases and psychopaths, but you know, we do okay, considering.
For no reason at all other than to share the pain, allow me to leave you with this appalling ‘joke’ from the back of the choccy bar I’ve just eaten:
Q. What do you call someone who steals baby octopuses?
A. A squidnapper.

Categories: News

0 Comments

This post has been left all alone with no comments. Don't leave it lonesome - give it some company with a comment.

Comments are closed.