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This week geeks and jocks alike can rejoice as two of the biggest video games of the year, Sega's NFL 2K3, above left, and Madden NFL Football 2003, above right, go head to head for the hearts and thumbs of armchair quarterbacks everywhere. As connoisseurs know, the matchup between the two faux football titles is one of the greatest rivalries in video-game history. Which to choose? Both games feature bruisingly realistic graphics and obsessively detailed playbooks. (Safety Bait? Strong Y Flood? You make the call!) Both have player drafts, combines, trading deadlines and mini-camps for those...
Viewed more broadly, a lot of good things have happened in Japan in the past couple of years--finally. Hundreds of companies like Nissan and Sega have taken Western-style restructuring to heart. The government is letting more companies fall under foreign control, including top financial institutions like Shinsei Bank and consumer-electronics maker Denon. U.S. firms have surpassed mighty Nomura Securities in domestic stock underwriting and merger advice. Corporate bankruptcies are more frequent, as are takeovers--sorely needed to clear away deadwood and reinvigorate competition...
MONKEY BUSINESS Meet Aiai, Sega's newest superhero. Beneath that sickly sweet exterior beats the heart of a dangerously addictive video game. Aiai is the star of Super Monkey Ball ($50), Sega's first title for the Nintendo Gamecube. The game, which hits stores this week, sends Aiai and his pals through an endlessly shifting universe of tilting floors and floating bananas. Pikachu: watch your back...
...week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, and there will be business casualties. Both systems are scheduled for fall release. The winner could easily oust Sony's PlayStation 2 from the top of the charts, while the loser could just as easily go the way of Sega's defunct Dreamcast, which sold only half its projected 6 million units before Sega pulled the plug...
...When I asked if he'd done much exploring yet, he gave me a look like a domestic pet suddenly thrust into the middle of a jungle. Not yet, he said. What would I recommend? I mentioned what was then the hottest title for the Sega Dreamcast, Crazy Taxi. "Dream, Cast and Crazy Taxi, eh?" said Regis. "Well, I'll have to check them...