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   modshroom128@gmail.com to Andrew Ryan Chang   
   Re: Why are people pumped on Crash Bandi   
   09 Dec 13 21:57:46   
   
   On Friday, June 21, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Andrew Ryan Chang wrote:   
   > Serious up, I don't  understand the hype.  Sonic, Mario, Nights,   
   > and Bubsy are all rendered-on-the-fly-3D.  Bandicoot uses prerendered   
   > backgrounds.  Ain't that enough to make you wonder?   
   >   
   > 	As for talent behind projects, I'm fairly sure that Mario,   
   > Nights, and Bubsy have big names involved.  Sonic X-Treme ...er.. I'm not   
   > wild about this distortion lens- I want to see a quicktime before I   
   > decide, but anyways.  Nights has the original guy from Sonic, and Mario   
   > has the Mario guy, and Bubsy has ***Chuck Jones***!!!  The guy behind   
   > Looney Tunes!!  How can it not be great?  A concious decision was made to   
   > use flat rather than texture-mapped polygons.  It'll be interesting to   
   > see how this turns out.  Having looked at one or two pics, I feel that it   
   > does in fact have a vaguely Looney Tunes feel to it.   
   >   
   > 	Bubsy is coming out for both the PSX and Saturn, a   
   > cross-platformability I doubt for any of the others.   
   >   
   > 	Will the backgrounds move in Crash Bandicoot or be static?   
   >   
   > 	Oh well.  Odd that there are so many platformers in 3D coming all   
   > at once, huh?   
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