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...sure, it's unlikely that Chairman Arafat's headquarters would have moved from Tunis to the West Bank without the intifada. The PLO's efforts to launch guerrilla warfare against Israel from neighboring Arab states had been singularly unsuccessful. Arafat's headquarters had been in Jordan in the late '60s and Lebanon in the '70s and early '80s, but by 1987 he was billeted in far-off Tunisia with few instruments to pursue his nationalist struggle. Then came the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. The young men of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 may have suffered...
...this Sony-sponsored launch party was hardly a tough audience. Many of the well-dressed game gawkers were actually foot soldiers in the Sony empire, loyally cheering on a product crucial to the company's future. The real test for Sony comes this week when it rolls out 500,000--mysteriously down from a promised 1 million--of the $299 black boxes in stores across the U.S. Game magazines and Internet sites are already buzzing with the question of the season: Is PlayStation2 the great hope of computer gaming or the great hype...
Even before this Thursday's official launch, Sony has lost goodwill, not to mention sales, for PlayStation2 with its glitchy product rollout. The company's recent announcement that it was cutting the number of PS2s available on launch day by 50% was a cruel blow to parents who had promised Junior one of the first units. And it is a headache for the 20,000 retailers selling PS2s--many of which began taking orders six months ago. The stores are bracing for hordes of irate customers. "There will be people lined up in front of the doors," sighs Dan DeMatteo...
...proof of a game platform is in the playing, and by that measure PS2 is getting mixed reviews. The gaming community has been grousing about the lack of top-grade games available at launch. There are only 26 PS2 software titles, and Sony is promising about 50 by the end of the year. The list contains some reputed standouts, including Madden NFL 2001 (which some are calling PlayStation2's killer app) and the snowboarding game SSX. But many of the most eagerly anticipated titles, like Metal Gear Solid 2 and the Bouncer, won't be available until spring...
...early word on the playing experience--outside of Sony's launch party--is not particularly enthusiastic. "There is nothing on the PS2 that I've seen that gave me that jaw-dropping feeling I got with the Sega Dreamcast last year," says Dan Clark, 29, CEO of a New Hampshire credit union and an active gamer. Madden NFL 2001 is good, he says, but no better than games currently available on Dreamcast...