September 13 - 5MVG Relaunch

[Zeke]

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Surprise! Â After a week of Next Gen material, here's the latest section relaunch: [bost_uid0]Five-Minute Videogames[/bost_uid0].


This subsite is overdue for an overhaul. Â I've had quite a number of video-game fivers waiting to be published, and the front page was probably the worst-organized page anywhere at 5MV. Â So, after working on this behind the scenes throughout NGW:TNG, I'm now ready to make it public. Â The subsite has been reorganized into four series pages (for [iost_uid0]Mega Man, Tomb Raider, Legend of Zelda[/iost_uid0], and [iost_uid0]Final Fantasy[/iost_uid0], the four most-covered game series so far) and a front page listing the other fivers outside those series. Â You'll find the following new material:

[*]First and foremost, IJD GAF has completely knocked himself out with [iost_uid0]Tomb Raider[/iost_uid0]. Â He's got the first five games done for your reading pleasure, and the third is something we've never done before at 5MV: a [bost_uid0]multifiver[/bost_uid0]. Â You'll see what that means when you read it. Â IJD's [iost_uid0]Tomb Raider[/iost_uid0] project has been in the planning longer than you'd believe, and I guarantee you'll love what he came up with.[*]My contribution to the event is, at long last, [iost_uid0]Mega Man 7[/iost_uid0]. Â I haven't fived a Mega Man game since the first six way back around Christmas 2001; I'll have to come back sooner this time, because I had great fun with MM7.[*]I've kept Derek Dean waiting far, [iost_uid0]far[/iost_uid0] too long to see his parodies of [iost_uid0]Super Mario Bros.[/iost_uid0] and [iost_uid0]Legend of Zelda[/iost_uid0] published. Â Here they are at last, and if you'd known you were waiting, you'd still have found them worth the wait.[*]Tate, a guest writer whose fiver for TOS's "Operation: Annihilate" you may recall, has done his sophomore parody: [iost_uid0]Chex Quest[/iost_uid0]. Â You know the cereal Chex? Â They once made a game, based on the [iost_uid0]Doom[/iost_uid0] engine, where you're a piece of Chex running around shooting soggy monsters called Flemoids. Â I'm not making this up. Â The game was included as a premium in certain Chex cereal boxes, making it the only first-person shooter you had to buy cereal to get... and now it's yours in fiver form. Â Bon appetit.[*]Finally, first-time guest writer Dekar brings us [iost_uid0]House of the Dead[/iost_uid0]. Â That's a two-player arcader where you make your way through a house shooting zombies, and it's the only arcade game I've played much -- I got to the final boss once but didn't have enough quarters to beat him. Â There's a movie coming out, so Dekar figured now was a good time to do the game. Â Makes sense to me. Â (Except the part about making a movie of [iost_uid0]House of the Dead[/iost_uid0], but that's Hollywood's fault.)[/list]So there you have it. Â 5MVG has roughly doubled in size, and from now on it'll be a real player among the subsites, not a page that just kinda sits there. Â Hope you enjoy.[/colorost_uid0]