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Subject: ULTRA 64 CANCELLED!
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Taking a cue from Microsoft, video game giant Nintendo announced today that
they are CANCELLING the "Ultra 64" system.  Instead, they are releasing
a much more powerful, 96-bit system, in early 1996 - allowing them to
name the system "Virtua 96".  The name is an attempt to retroactively get
the profits from Sega's successful "Virtua Everything" series.

The V96 is expected to offer a lot of previously unheard of features,
including:

1.  Copy protection - every game will come with a unique ID chip, which is
burned in when the game is first run, to match the ID of the console.  This
will cut down dramatically on used game sales and other piracy.

2.  The V96 will not provide an RF out.  The signals simply wouldn't survive
being toned down that far.  Instead, it will provide digital RGB signals -
a must for the true gaming enthusiast.

3.  A new sound processor, tentatively called "Jerry", will provide life-like
digital audio.  To save on the huge costs of sampled sounds, the system will
ship with every sound effect it will ever need in ROM!

4.  A new video processor, tentatively called "Speedy Gonzales" will put
images onto the screen at an amazing rate, using a technique Nintendo calls
"blast processing".  They expect to be able to get an average of 70 fps
on a game similar in complexity to DOOM.

5.  To end the pad vs. joystick debate once and for all, the V96 ships with
controllers that have pads, but with optional suction-cup joysticks for
them.

6.  Up to three players at once!  The V96 will have *three* controller
ports - 150% more than Sega, their primary competitor, and *three times
as many ports* as the 3DO system.

7.  The main processor will be a specially modified Pentium.  The modified
Pentium has had the entire floating point unit removed, both to enhance
accuracy and to make the chip cheaper.  Additionally, they have replaced
the Pentium's native logic with 8086 logic, to make it *BURN* at 100 Mhz.


As you can see, this will be the MOST POWERFUL SYSTEM EVER CONCEIVED OF!
There's no point in buying game machines now; next year, it will be here.

Virtua '96.  Available from fine vaporstores everywhere.

Happy Holidays.

-s