Lollipop Magazine

X – Beyond the Frontier – Review

June 1, 2000

Occasionally beautiful, oddly compelling, excruciatingly boring, and tantalizingly full of promise, this is a unique experience few will appreciate.

Coroner’s Corner – Human Viscera: A Tasty Guide – Column

June 1, 2000

I don’t know about you, but I believe any film could’ve been rendered more effective with the addition of flesh-ripping zombies. Something about dead and decayed people trying to eat warm, live people really strikes me as beautiful cinematography.

Star Trek – Armada – Review

June 1, 2000

Virtually identical in design to Warcraft, Starcraft, or Myth, Armada has one truly unique feature: Each ship’s crew is a separate commodity from the vessel.

Soldier of Fortune – Review

June 1, 2000

Needs expansion packs, more complex missions, and better enemy AI. It has a great engine, look and feel, but single-player gets as monotonous as Rambo movies.

Road Rash – Jailbreak – Review

June 1, 2000

Jailbreak adds the first quest-like storyline to the series and includes some long-awaited variations on the standard racing format.

Frogpile: One Enchanted Evening, Codpiece Optional – Fiction

April 1, 2000

It was “One Enchanted Evening.” It sounds corny, I know, but we’d heard of it working at another house. We put up a stage flat in front of the door, to make it look like the entrance to a castle. We bought pink champagne. We even got costumes.

Coroner’s Corner – The Linda Blair Bitch Project – Column

April 1, 2000

It opens with the ominous white on black statement “in 1999, 400 young filmmakers set out to parody the Blair Witch, but only one film starred Linda Blair.”

Vigilante 8: Second Offense – Review

April 1, 2000

More mid-’70s vehicular destruction for those not brave enough to weld a flamethrower onto the hood of an El Camino and speed into the side of a garbage truck.

Toy Story 2 – Review

April 1, 2000

Toy Story 2 does a very good job of creating a game simple enough to engage children, but complex enough to stand on its own with an older audience.

Space Invaders – Review

April 1, 2000

Unlike the infinitely superior Pitfall 3-D, Space Invaders has nowhere to go, no storyline to expand on, and no concept to perfect.