Gamasutra.com has an informative interview with Hip Tanaka, the man behind the music for many NES greats.

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Gamasutra.com recently posted an interview with Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka. For those who don't know, Tanaka currently heads Creatures Inc. (of Pokemon fame) and began his career in the video game industry with Nintendo composing music for classics like Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Balloon Fight; just to name a few. Below is an excerpt but for the full interview, check out Gamasutra.com or pick up the October 2002 issue of Game Developer magazine. Note that to read the full interview, you've got to register with Gamasutra first (don't worry it's free, and worth it if you're interested in making games).

If you think games cost too much, Fair Play wants you to stop buying games for the week 1st December to 8th December.

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Everyone cringes when it comes time to buy a new game. £40-£45 ($70US) is always hard to stomach, even for the well off. Video games have traditionally been viewed as a kid's hobby, so why have the prices skyrocketed past what most kids earn in allowance or odd jobs? The Fair Play campaign aims to fix that.

The campaign, based in the UK and headed by a number of industry professionals and concerned consumers, aims to cut the price of videogames and draw attention to the problems they see with the current cost at which they are sold.

The kid pictured in our Lizard Lick story over the weekend has some serious hardcore fans.

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Yes, it's a slow news morning here on Planet GameCube, and we've uncovered an even more disturbing link dealing with the disturbing "Lizard boy" picture we posted this past weekend.

This is very disturbing...if you can't tell.

At the Yoshi / Clash of the Tongues event held this weekend in Lizard Lick, North Carolina, there was a child that got his picture taken while he was getting his tongue measured.

Like Castlevania music and electric guitars? You came to the right place.

As many of our readers may remember, around E3 PGC made many mentions of OverClocked.org because the beautiful remixes found therein were used throughout our E3 2002 DVD. Since then, I've been wanting to create some remixes of my own.

*cliché warning*

Fast-forward a few months and I've just finished my third remix (the first two were not GBA or GameCube related so they weren't posted here). I originally intended to finish this remix in time for the release of Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance, but forces conspired against my free time forcing me to delay its release until now.

So who actually had the longest tongue? Possibly one of the most disturbing pictures you will see today...

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Tongue-Gifted Test Talents in Lick-Off Competition

Nintendo's Yoshi Finds Nation's Most Prolific Tongue-Slinger in Lizard

Lick

LIZARD LICK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2002--Today,

hundreds of local residents of Lizard Lick vied for victory in the

world's first "Clash of the Tongues" competition.

Check it out, PGC's got the entire intro to Evolution Worlds for your viewing pleasure.

PGC just got a hold of some Evolution Worlds video and we've got a treat for you! Linked below is a movie of the complete intro sequence. The video shows the hero and his girl taking a gem from a tower, and then running for their lives when the tower starts to collapse. Then the tower turns into a huge ray-gun and shoots a giant laser into space.

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Get ready for the most ambiguously obscene Nintendo promotion EVER.

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Lizard Lick, North Carolina is set to be the location of "Yoshi's Clash of the Tongues", where on September 28th, contestants will vie for the title of "Ultimate Licker." Other titles include the "Lengthiest Lick", "Most Imaginative Lick", and "Most Daring Lick".

We can't make this stuff up, folks.

Of course, this is all to promote the release of Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island. A Nintendo prize back will be awarded by Yoshi himself to the highest scorer. The mayor of Lizard Lick has marked the day as a town holiday ... "Yoshi Day". An official proclamation will be handed to Yoshi by the mayor in comemmoration of the event.

We've gotten our paws on Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and captured a few direct feed movies for you gear heads. What was that NWA said about the police?

We've uploaded a bunch of direct feed movies of the final version of Need For

Speed: Hot Pursuit 2.  Come see Billy drive terribly, wreck exotic cars,

piss off the police, and get busted! 

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Media Player to view this files.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2:

What!? Can the Q get any shinier?!?

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XenGamers is reporting that Matsushita is planning on adding a new feature to the already drool-a-riffic hybrid GameCube/DVD player, the Q. In addition to playing GameCube games and DVD movies (not to mention being downright sexy), this new model will have TiVo-like digital video recording capabilities. Yes, now you can finally watch TV and play videogames at the same time!

The second Ecks vs. Sever first-person shooter for GBA is on its way to stores.

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BAM! ENTERTAINMENT DELIVERS BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER(tm) TO GAME BOY® ADVANCE

Retail Availability Coincides With Debut Of Franchise Pictures' Feature Film

San Jose, Calif. (September 26, 2002) - BAM! Entertainment(tm) (Nasdaq: BFUN), a global publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced that its action title based on the film Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, begins shipping this week. Coinciding with the recent theatrical debut of the Franchise Pictures film starring Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu and Ray Park, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever Game Boy Advance marks Ecks and Sever's second appearance on the handheld unit. BAM! Entertainment shipped the critically acclaimed Ecks vs. Sever the video game last fall as part of its multi-title agreement with Franchise Pictures.