Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor Morley 6977307 entertainment Winnipeg free press August video Cowboy Todd Mowatt Batman forever game is awesome Bat fans will be Happy to know that acclaim will be re leasing the vide game ver Sion of Batman forever on 7 for All to publicize the based on the blockbuster movie that made More than million its opening acclaim is joining for the first time with Warner do comics and America online Al in an interactive promotional am pain that is offering gamers a free sneak peek at the making of the Bat Man forever video a the Limite Dedi Tion carom offers a full motion video account of the making of the As Well As Batman forever movie Art and sound and a free Al Startup kit with 10 online plot of game i recently visited acclaim offices to get a preview of the Batman forever and it looks you can play As both Batman and and the plot of the game Fol the plot of the the game uses am technology in terms of it looks like Batman meets Donkey Kong coun the game play is unique and its easy to if youre planning to buy Only one game before you toss in the 16bit buy Batman forever for the super Nintendo or Sega Gen this game is going to be that my fellow one element of acclaim Bat to school promotion includes a Short feature starring Batman and Robin stunt doubles that will be shown in More than Cine Lex Odeon movie acclaim will also Combine with the Meer com Pany to produce Ultra 95 Batman forever trading right my fellow in trying to find out where the cd rom will be available in the video Cowboy mailbag was full of bad news it seems As though Mark Zink of Winnipeg and a fellow Eric Haven received their prizes from a couple of recent in Here to Tell you Ive put together packages for each of you fellow and theres a Little something extra in each to thank you for your after i get the High sign that these two fellas have got their contest Well move on to the next big you never know what ill pull out of the Back of the video Cowboy stage so stay in the get your so la powered word processors going pens or pencils will do and Send me a letter to enter the video Cowboy Howdy partner Send me All of the game Genie codes you can find for All of the top or you can give me some tips on your favor Ite ask me a question about one of the new gaming or just Tell me what you did on your summer i read All of my and ill even share the question or tip you Send me with about two million of my closest friends the Loyal each and every of the video cowboys if you have you can mosey on Over to your computer and Send me a Mes Sage at . Its time to put a few tips in the video Cowboy tip trough for you to Obi wan has taught you my Young and now its time to take the Star wars show to the this trick allows you to master the Star wars at any Point in the press the pause Button and hit these codes Only work if youre using a genesis six Button controller and it will give you the piano Mode sound to get the time reset pause the game and hit to make the dead walk and if you want to fight the forces of evil in a Quick and easy use the Fol lowing codes for Warlock second Stone or Var third Stone a girl fourth Stone dins fifth Stone Bobys sixth Stone write the video do elec tronic gaming 1920 High land suite writer soft on Winnipeg Alison Gordon keeps Prairie roots Ken free press Gordon finds consistency in Lake of the Woods by Linda Rosborough entertainment reporter she was born in new raised in Cairo and but Toronto based mystery writer Alison Gordon has a soft spot for i think the Prairies Are sort of the soul of says during a recent Stop in town to promote her latest crime striking Gordon comes by her attraction to the Prairies her King Magazine editor before he joined the United nations from her dads work made Gordon a cosmopolitan but regular visits to the family Lake of the Woods cottage gave her roots to the Retreat that was the one consistent thing in my Back to the Lake of the she in Between bites of Saskatoon Berry she was in town to spend time at the beloved Retreat and attend a family members Gordon feels so drawn to the in she made Saskatchewan the Birthplace of Kate the recurring character in her like Gordon worked As a baseball writer in she covered the Blue jays for the Toronto Star from 1979 to and although she loved that Era and even won a National newspaper award citation of she confesses she want much of a i value she the necessity of the invasion of privacy was something i could never get used during baseballs she found general news assignments hard to prying into personal grief and or asking for photographs from a murder victims family were less than i would Wake up in a cold she i was 38 years old and was wanting to hold the thermometer up against the Light bulb and i have a i have to stay so when Mcclelland Stewart asked her to write a nonfiction Book about she jumped at the foul balls five years in the american league was published in a yearlong Battle with Hodgkins disease brought life into focus for i didst want to die at the she the time comes in your life to make the that was the the decision to quit her Job was made easier because husband Paul a criminal was bringing in a Good i was Lucky enough to have the most important attribute of any Canadian husband with a Day she her first crime the dead pull was released in 1988 and was shortlisted for both the Stephen Leacock award for humor and the City of Toronto Book the Book introduced the irreverent Kate whose adventures continue in Safe at Home night game 1992 and now striking in striking Kate expects a quiet summer during the baseball strike of things liven up when Kates police officer Boyfriend is almost killed in the line of and the homeless woman living behind her House Gordons Mcclelland and will not release sales but spokesman Kelly Hechler reports sales Are and improving with every Gordon says she has faithful fans As far afield As where her mysteries Are popular her audience seems to be growing and a production company has optioned the rights to the Kate Henry character for a possible to movie and Gordon must be getting Rich at this mystery novel right she smiles wryly at the i make less Money than your average parking meter on an hourly the nets cube fear appears lost in space by the net should Star a shortsighted Geek who lives in his parents but this would have questionable f ice this Titan miss computer espionage thriller features san dra who tries her Best to seem like nerdy cube jockey Angela Bennett by Wear ing Sleppy clothes and staring at the ground when she talks to the nets premise is terrific and soon after Bennett receives a mysterious Dis her insulated internet surfing exist ence is menaced by a shadowy group of by with a bit of a twist on the conventional cat an mouse its not so much Bennetts physical body that is tracked and but that virtual self that is spread through the internet the Trail of movie air line Fedex govern ment records and credit cards that have be come the sum of her identity in absence of any real human its a paranoid scenario worthy of an Oliver Stone but the potentially Seething by be fear never really this Lack of tension comes out in the to its not Bullock sure Shes a but Shes a cute movies Alison Gillmor the net starring Sandra Bullock and Dennis Miller Garrick and Grant Park parental guidance out of 5 but evil Hacker Jack Devlin Jeremy who is clearly supposed to be hav ing a complicated love hate struggle with the woman Hes been hired to just comes off As a on dimensional bad Guy supercilious englishmen being Hollywood Vil Lains of Choice these and Bennetts relationship with her Only trusted played with an shallow Charm by comedian Dennis is also perhaps its because Hes her sex Sandra Bullock tries her Best to seem like a nerdy Lover and her what is it with Hollywood shrinks All they do is sleep with their As its hard to generate cinematic sus Pense from the duelling hacking Between Bennett and her since it tends to involve people sitting at keyboards and typing with great though in no computer Whiz i tend to treat mine like a glorified the net seems to play fast and Loose with the rules of cyberspace in a couple of which undermines the integrity of its serious techno thriller and it Doest do much better with the characters when there in real or As one of Bennetts invisible net friends Calls to distinguish it from sitting in the near dark and looking for emotional gratification in a glowing computer tuesday j j i alive empty prime time James of Point be the fatal vows the Alexandra Ohara show trek 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