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Well Running Dry (4/21/99)
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Odds are, if you're the kind of person who'd like to play a wide variety of Sony PlayStation games on his or her G3 Mac, you bought Connectix's Virtual Game Station at your first opportunity-- whether that meant shelling out your hard-earned cash on the show floor at last January's Macworld Expo where it was unveiled, pre-ordering from Connectix's web site and waiting anxiously for the UPS guy to show up, or simply setting up camp outside your local software store to make sure you got the first copy off the truck. But if, for some reason, you've got a G3-powered system and a hankering to play Oddworld: Abe's Exodus and you don't yet have a copy of VGS, it's time to hurry up and snag one.
See, as you probably recall, Connectix's introduction of VGS last January took pretty much everyone by surprise-- including Sony. Sony was none too pleased to discover that someone was selling a product that emulated their own proprietary game console without paying them one red cent (or even telling them), and sued for trademark dilution and trade secret violation and all kinds of fun stuff like that. However, that lawsuit didn't stop Connectix from shipping its product and even releasing two updates to improve performance, compatibility, and features. Temporarily, though, the party's over; Connectix just issued a press release indicating that shipments of VGS have been halted "in compliance with a San Francisco Federal District Court decision."
That doesn't mean that people who bought the software have to send it back, nor does it mean that stores have to stop selling copies they already have on the shelves; however, it does mean that, for an indeterminate amount of time, no new copies are being shipped to resellers, so once the current stock runs dry, that might be it for a while. In other words, if you want it, get it before it's gone. (By the way, Sony has since filed suit against another PlayStation emulation product, Bleem, so at least they're consistent.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/21/99 episode: April 21, 1999: Content creation on the Mac takes a big hit as Avid confirms that they're moving all of their video editing applications development to that "other platform." Meanwhile, Connectix halts shipments of Virtual Game Station as Sony's lawsuit progresses, and Play Incorporated offers the coolest bundle offer we've seen in a good long while...
Other scenes from that episode: 1479: Avid Done Me Wrong (4/21/99) Sometimes it's easy to imagine that the Mac platform is past its darkest days and it's all sunshine and roses from here on in. What with six consecutive Street-beating Apple profits, phenomenal iMac sales, hardware and software that just keeps getting insanely greater, and Steve Jobs holding hypnotic sway over the majority of the media, it's tough not to relax a bit, kick back, and enjoy a frosty beverage... 1481: Turning the Tables (4/21/99) Bundles are fun, aren't they? It's a great way for all the various resellers to differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack. Sure, everyone's pretty much selling the iMac for the same price, but at one place you might get a free copy of Tomb Raider, while at another they might throw in an extra 32 MB of RAM...
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