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Again, the Radar Malfunctions

by Mike Hrusecky - July 25, 2000, 9:30 am EDT
Source: DailyRadar

DailyRadar may have made a mountain out of a molehill in their latest blunder of an article.

Ahh, our good old friends at DailyRadar... how they continue to prove that they must not have a single person interested in Nintendo in the bunch. Or, I could be wrong, they could just be a bunch of idiots who don't bother to look into their info before posting their drivel.

Why is it that people equate the site with a pitifully predictable cog in the PS2 hype machine? Could it be the history of pathetic chest-thumping articles from Dan Eggar produced on almost a weekly basis trying to prove, yet again (and again, and again), why the PS2 is the second coming? Or is it that when something positive does manage to creep it's way out of Nintendo's deliberately-imposed wall of darkness they treat it with such poor coverage? What the hell, let's just say it is both.

OK, so in this article it is bad enough that they've managed to take a somewhat weak story (the source is the sometimes spotty Official Nintendo Magazine) and try to make something major of it, at least on the front page. OK, I can tolerate that they could waste the time of some faithful fans downloading a video that is useless in real

terms (don't tease folks, unfortunately some of the public is really easily deceived and lead astray). But let's get to the meat of the problem... NST didn't freaking make Wave Race or 1080! They didn't even exist when the games were created or released! EAD, a team of unquestionably talented individuals, deserve the due credit

for their masterpieces.

Honestly, yes I'm much more in a tizzy about this 'story' of theirs than I should be... but this is Wave Race we're talking about. Don't toy with my emotions when it comes to this game... not even for a moment. Hey, I have a high bandwidth connection, real or fake it all comes to me for my amusement, no sweat. But honestly, when did 'legitimate' sites out there begin posting things that aren't the real thing (even if they make it clear on the page itself that they aren't) just for a few paltry hits? Granted, a site or two come to mind in the fan community that are built on being a National Inquirer of the Nintendo scene... but a professional site? Sad. Compound that with not even managing to get the real info right and you have so much gone wrong. When oh when will DR find someone who can competently cover the Nintendo scene?

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