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...parts--for example, Donkey Kong 64 ($59.99 from Nintendo) or Crash Team Racing ($39.99 from Sony). According to Francis Mao, vice president of Game Pro Magazine, Chu Chu Rocket ($29.99 from Sega) has even the Quake fanatics at the magazine hooked. Here at TIME, we're digging the new Shogun: Total War ($39.95 from Electronic Arts), which is more about strategy than swordfighting. As always, a family should keep its PC and gaming console in a public place in the home and pay close attention to the games that command the kids' attention. Recently, I had Sunday dinner...
Given the amount of bloodshed, lawlessness and internecine intrigue associated with 16th century Japan, it's a wonder no one ever turned the era into a successful computer game. Until now. Shogun: Total War, available later this month from Electronic Arts, is about to do for your PC what the mini-series did for television. Shogun is a grand strategic epic that has been crafted with so much loving attention to detail that it overshot its release date by about 12 months. It was worth the wait...
...both a place and a time frame. It was the old name of the city we call Tokyo, and "Edo period" denotes the 2 1/2 centuries during which an absolute regime, founded there in the early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over all Japan through 15 generations of his descendants. The symbolic moment at which the period began to close was 1853, when Commodore Perry's black ships, crewed by their blue-eyed, spindle-nosed, strange-smelling gaijin, the Americans, sailed into lower Edo Bay and broke the seal of isolation from the West...
...certain inertia in the Japanese system. It has been a successful system. They are conservative by nature until they run up against a wall. It takes some time to forge a new consensus that something has to be done, and new directions agreed. Then the samurais go to the shogun, and off they go. I don't know how long this will take...
...very day that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president...