| Dreamcast
Gaming Page updated at 10:40AM |
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| Sonic Adventure (US$65)
is now in stock for the Dreamcast. We've only had a chance to view the magnificent intro
but this will be the game that we'll be curling up with this weekend. |
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| Sega's
follow-up to this past summer's Godzilla VMS arrived yesterday in the form of the Mothra VMS (US$35).
Here, you raise Mothra from a cocoon into the mighty winged fighting insect that monster
cinema lovers know and adore. As a nice bonus, a three headed dragon figure is included in
the packaging. |
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Mothra
Attack! |
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| The
next shipment of Dreamcast consoles will arrive on December 29. Starting in the first or
second week of January, NCS should be able to keep a sizable inventory of Dreamcast units
in stock so that it will be no problem for customers to simply call us up and order one.
The days of waiting for bulk shipments may be coming to an end and we're working towards
maintaining a revolving inventory of stock. As prices begin to trend down next year, we
will again start contacting customers on our reservation listing to check if the prices
are more suitable for their budgets and target price ranges. NCS will post any new
Dreamcast price changes on our products listing as well as our daily updates when they
happen. |
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| NCS shipped a number of Dreamcast orders where the customer wanted a DC
S-Video cable. Note that the cables did not come in and will only be available next year,
sometime in early January. As a result, all S-Video cables will be shipped when we take
delivery. NCS apologizes for the delays. |
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Gaming / Everything Else |
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| Street Fighter Zero 3
(US$51) for the Playstation is now available. NCS will be frank in
that we did not expect much - after all, we're used to Capcom doing their best console
work on the Sega Saturn. However, SFZ3 is surprisingly good and crisp - the game is fast,
the control is taut and the conversion is top tier. Impressive stuff from the fine lads at
Capcom - we just wish we had more time to play it this morning - very, very busy. |
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| NCS
will be at work for the full business day tomorrow. It's too busy to leave early since we
still have a lot of orders to process and ship with Express Mail Service. Please note that
orders should be submitted by 3:00PM to ensure timely dispatch due to earlier pick-ups on
Thursday. |
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| A
neat little Beatmania handheld game arrived this morning. The unit is
self-contained and may be played on the train, in the car, at the studio, wherever. NCS
will post full details and a review of the unit tomorrow morning. Orders are welcome at US$29. |
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| NCS
went short the S&P500 with a single futures contract on Tuesday. If we see further
weakness today, we will add to our position in increments. To hedge our speculation, we
bought a single call on IBM for the January 180 strike. These are short term positions
that we will not hesitate to close out if the market moves against us by more than our
threshhold and pain points. Occasionally we will let small positions like the ones that we
initiated yesterday run for the duration of the contract but we still believe in capital
preservation and that nimble trading is the only way to play the current market. We keep
in mind that December and January are usually bullish for the market. |
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Send e-mail to ncs@escape.com
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