The GameFan history thread

Apologies if this was already covered and I missed it within the pages of this thread, but does anyone remember the "Monkey Boy Rox" home page, which covered the Working Designs/Gamefan incident of when Victor Ireland discovered that Nick Rox had not played through the WD Sega CD RPGs he was reviewing?

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Originally Posted by Lyte Edge

Apologies if this was already covered and I missed it within the pages of this thread, but does anyone remember the "Monkey Boy Rox" home page, which covered the Working Designs/Gamefan incident of when Victor Ireland discovered that Nick Rox had not played through the WD Sega CD RPGs he was reviewing?

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I remember that page. That's the one where Vic posted a letter Dave Halverson sent to him regarding the Lunar 2/Nick Rox situation and made sarcastic little comments all throughout it, right?

Sadly, the page seems to be long gone.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

As promised, the Return of Monitaur comic where they wacked out the old editors.

First issue. More to come...

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*cringes*

Issue Three...sorry, Wolfie. Be proud of your work, dammit! ;)

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Issue Two...

BTW, who the fuck was the Blowmeister supposed to be?

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Wow... that was hilarious to see all that shit again. I had forgoten a lot of that...

So at first the Blowmeister was just the embodiment of all that was bad video games- an amalgom of all the suits who wanted to make a quick buck and put out shit games, like Chester Cheeto etc... then at one point a rivalry broke out with GF and EGM and it was an easy swap from Blow Meister (B.M.) to Blow Meister Games (BMG) then finally BGM. Something like that...

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...chmentid=13424
So true

:lol: Sweet!

Thanks for the scans Dolemite. Reading that last scan with E-Storm in the mullet ward having lost his mind is all the more funnier after having read through this entire thread.

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

Wow... that was hilarious to see all that shit again. I had forgoten a lot of that...

So at first the Blowmeister was just the embodiment of all that was bad video games- an amalgom of all the suits who wanted to make a quick buck and put out shit games, like Chester Cheeto etc... then at one point a rivalry broke out with GF and EGM and it was an easy swap from Blow Meister (B.M.) to Blow Meister Games (BMG) then finally BGM. Something like that...

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Wasn't Blow Meister a bull in a suit? I remember the bull and a pig...and other farm animals and Monitaur and the gang fighting them....or something

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Originally Posted by Glass Joe

Holy shit! His dad is Murdoc from MacGyver. :eek:

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No. Howling Mad Murdock was from the A-Team and played by Dwight Schultz.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776239/

Anyway, I loved and hated Gamefan. Loved it for turning me on to Gunstar Heroes, Ex Ranza, and all the other Genesis/Megadrive classics that we all love. Back then, no one else covered these games like Gamefan did.

And for every awesome game The Mullet hyped, he hyped some pure crap too. Silpheed and the entire Jaguar come to mind.

Great mag, I enjoyed every issue with a grain of salt.

Thanks Dole.

Never actually seen how that comic ended up :p