Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.
The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:
Being There Deluxe Edition (15.99 DVD, 19.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
Charlie Bartlett (19.99, Fox)
The City Of Ember (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, EIV)
Doctor Who: The Rescue & The Romans (29.99 DVD, BBC)
Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder (15.99 DVD, 28.99 Blu-ray, Fox)
Get Smart (19.99 DVD, 26.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
Hardware: Series 1 & 2 (19.99, Network)
Hunger (19.99 DVD, Fox)
Monkey Magic (15.99 DVD, 19.99 Blu-ray, Showbox)
The Last Word Monologues (19.99 DVD, BBC)
Who Killed Nancy? (15.99 DVD, Soda)
Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder:
FUTURAMA is an animated sci-fi created by Matt Groenig, the mastermind behind THE SIMPSONS. The story centres on Philip Fry, who in 1999 accidentally got himself cryogenically frozen while working a dead-end job as a pizza delivery boy. Waking up in the y
ear 3000, he's given another chance, and goes to work at the Planet Express Corporation, again as a delivery boy, but this time to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
He also befriends Leela, a beautiful one-eyed mutant alien, and Bender, a robot with a substance abuse problem. In this fourth full-length instalment the infamous and down-at-heel crew of Planet Express is about to embark on another adventure. This time L
eela is on the run, Bender is in love and Fry is, well, saving the universe from some dark creatures threatening the future Green Age to come.
The TARDIS gains a new crew member then travels back in time to Nero’s Rome in these two classic adventures starring William Hartnell.
The Rescue:
Arriving on the planet Dido in the late 25th Century, the time travellers come upon a crashed spaceship from Earth. Its two occupants are living in fear of a creature called Koquillion, but everything is not as it seems…
The Romans:
The time travellers are enjoying a rare holiday, staying at a villa not far from Rome in the year 64 AD. The Doctor soon becomes restless and sets off to visit the city. Having been mistaken for the famous lyre player and asked to perform at the Emperor N
ero's Court, the Doctor has to devise ever more elaborate schemes to avoid revealing that he cannot actually play the instrument.
DVD Special Features include:
Commentaries with cast and crew
The making of The Rescue and The Romans
Radio Times Billings • Photo Gallery
Coming Soon Trailer • Production Information Subtitles
Doctor Who: The Rescue & The Romans is out now on
DVD (£17.98)
Hunger.
This harrowing drama explores the real life events of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. HUNGER stars Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, and Brian Milligan. HUNGER marks the directorial debut of renowned artist
Steve McQueen.
Based on the sixties hit TV series Get Smart follows the perils and adventures of Agent Smart (Steve Carell, The 40 Year-old Virgin) as he is sent on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crim
e syndicate known as KAOS.
When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the chief (Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamed of wor
king in the field alongside his idol Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock). Smart is partnered instead with the other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely but lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada). Chaos and
hilarity ensues in this action-comedy.
Loco Roco 2: The bizarre fun continues on Sony PSP...
Out now :
One of the weirdest games I've ever played gets a sequel. It's bright, colourful, great fun to play, but I can't understand
a thing that's going on. Still, that's not important since you'll be hard-pushed to find a better PSP title around at the moment
(or any, come to think of it since there's never much released these days).
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
declares that Jo Ann Kelly is the best ever British blues-woman. You can decide for yourself with this 16-track compilation
released in her memory as it's 18 years since she passed away, aged 46.
Will Taylor believe that Jack's no longer rogue as the 7th Season of 24 continues...
As the seventh hour proceeds, Jack finally gets to meet the new President after realising they need their resources, but
can they also save her husband in time?
Find out what
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen
made of this episode in this new review, which premiered on his excellent site, Dan's Media Digest.
A review of
24 Season 7: Episode 8
is online and the next episode is on tonight on Sky 1 at 9pm, with several repeats throughout the week.
Mark Selby served a writ at the Welsh Open...
Yes, it's very 'inappropriate' as was commented at the time...
CHARTS: Lily Allen vs U2 - who got the new No.1...?
Stuck for something to do this weekend? The list of films showing at
Manchcester Showcase Cinema can be found on this page, and won't differ
much from what's on in the rest of the country.
The new films out include: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Push and Cadillac Records.
Yes, the Grammy Awards may have been and gone, and now we know who've won,
but
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
has taken a look at a great compilation of 20 tracks from nominated artists
in this year's ceremony.
At the age of 60, Seasick Steve has been a long time coming as an overnight
sensation, but he recently played at the Apollo in Manchester and
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
enjoyed it thoroughly.
Released just after Xmas, this is a fantastic movie the content of which I was far from expecting. It's like a combination of
Dexter (without the morals), the Jim Rose Circus (if you're not sure who they are, google them - but not from work!) and
all while living in Josef Fritzl's cellar...
It's a clear case of making sure you choose your work colleagues as carefully as you can.
Jah Wobble has clashing cultures down to a fine art on CD...
A one-time member of Public Image Ltd, this album is a piece of music which was intended to be accompany a visual performance,
but does it stand out on its own? Find out from
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
Starrcade: The Essential Collection (29.99, Silver Vision)
Stephen Fry: HIV And Me (14.99, West Park Pictures)
Taxi 4 (15.99, Optimum)
Thick As Thieves (15.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Lions Gate)
Whitechapel (15.99, 2 Entertain)
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008 (17.99, Silver Vision)
High School Musical 3: Senior Year:
High School Musical 3: Senior Year finds the East High School gang facing new challenges as they prepare to graduate from high school and head off in different directions.
With Troy and Chad both offered basketball scholarships to college and Gabriella invited to attend Stanford University, the students all join together with the Wildcats to stage a spectacular end of year musical and plan their prom.
High School Musical 3 features incredible new music and exciting dance numbers all designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen and deliver even more high energy entertainment
Rob’s girlfriend has left him… for Duncan from Blue. Now they’re getting married and to make matters worse – they’ve invited Rob to the wedding.
Rob is out to settle the score; he MUST find a girl who is comprehensively more impressive than Duncan to accompany him to the nuptials in a bid to outshine the happy couple. Rob’s quest knows no bounds; he bribes a child in order to win a date with Lisa
Snowdon, persuades singer Jamelia to be his best mate, humiliates himself to bag a date with a West End superstar, and inadvertently gets branded a pervert while trying to impress his first love.
Rob receives little encouragement from his brother Rich (Nigel Harman) and his sister Rebecca (Ingrid Oliver). Even his friends Paul (Steve John Shepherd) and Laura doubt his pulling power.
“So all you’ve got to do now is solve the unsolvable and catch the most famous serial killer that ever lived.” --D.S. Miles
The streets of London’s East End are awash with blood. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. But this is not the 19th Century; this is not Jack the Ripper – this is a copycat killer and once again t
he police remain clueless…
For fast-tracked, media savvy DI Chandler it’s his first big murder case; for front-line, hard-bitten DS Miles, he’s now saddled with a boss who would rather talk about Emotional Intelligence than gut feeling. Neither of them have a clue, until renowned ‘
Ripperologist’ Edward Buchan draws their attention to the similarities between the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888 and the modern-day murder.
The race is on to succeed where police officers failed over 100 years before – to catch the copycat killer before he strikes again.
For those left unsatisfied by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's near-lack of shared screen time in Michael Mann's masterful HEAT, RIGHTEOUS KILL promises a prominent pairing of the two legendary actors. De Niro and Pacino star as two cops who team up to catc
h a serial killer in this crime thriller from director Jon Avnet (FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, 88 MINUTES).
Carla Gugino (SPY KIDS, SNAKE EYES), John Leguizamo (WILLIAM SHAKEPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET, MOULIN ROUGE!), Donnie Wahlberg (THE SIXTH SENSE, SAW 2) and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson co-star in this compelling thriller.
Stuck for something to do this weekend? The list of films showing at
Manchcester Showcase Cinema can be found on this page, and won't differ
much from what's on in the rest of the country.
The new films out include: Friday the 13th (2009), Bolt, Hotel for Dogs, Notorious and The Pink Panther 2.
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
sums up this album as a combination of high-energy decibles, high-pitched
vocal gymnastics and epic guitar work. Find out all about it in this review.
Brian Cox makes a bid for freedom in The Escapist on DVD...
Released today :
It's a prison movie with a twist that I never saw coming, and Brian Cox is a tour de force in this new movie, leading a tower
of talent that includes Liam Cunningham, Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Steven Mackintosh and Damian Lewis.
It's not "Prison Break: 30 years later", but you may be forgiven for thinking that as aged Frank Perry (Brian Cox) learns that
his daughter is ill and in need of help and as he's not a well man he wants to do what he can to see her.
Keith's daughter, Alfie's sister, one-time chat-show-host... she comes across as a jack of all trades but just how many is
she a master of? And is singing one of them? She had a good hit with Smile, but a lot of the rest of it seems to be
cockney warbling, so what did
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
make of her second release?
President Taylor talks tough in 24 as the 7th Season continues...
As the sixth hour proceeds there's terror in the skies as Dubaku steps up his attempts to prove that he means business
to President Taylor's intransigence, but can Jack and Tony stop things in time?
Find out what
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen
made of this episode in this new review, which premiered on his excellent site, Dan's Media Digest.
A review of
24 Season 7: Episode 6
is online and the next episode is on tonight on Sky 1 at 9pm, with several repeats throughout the week.
Breakfast - Christian Bale's f-word slips out...
Yes, we've all heard about the actor's expletive-filled rant on the set of Terminator: Salvation, but in a bid to show
how such language in the workplace is a *bad thing*, BBC's Breakfast accidentally played the clip unbleeped and... well, a few
people complained, but the Daily Mail was outraged! (obviously)
Press release: Mick Jones on the British Music Experience...
Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.
The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:
Beverly Hills 90210 Season 5 (24.99 DVD, Paramount)
Burn After Reading (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Universal)
Gomorrah (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Optimum)
The House Bunny (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Sony)
Invaders Season 2 (24.99 DVD, Paramount)
I've Loved You So Long (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Lions Gate)
Metal Mickey Series 2 (14.99, Network)
Mission: Impossible Season 5 (24.99 DVD, Paramount)
Nights In Rodanthe (15.99 DVD, 26.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
Numb3rs Season 3 (24.99 DVD, Paramount)
Star Fleet: The Complete Series (39.99 DVD, Fabulous Films)
Taken (19.99 DVD, 28.99 Blu-ray, Fox)
Underbelly Season 1 (39.99 DVD, Contender)
Burn After Reading:
The Coen Brothers re-team with George Clooney for this blackly comic film set in the world of a former spy. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton are along for the sure-to-be wild ride filled with the Coens' trademark humour. Wit
h their overtly comedic follow-up BURN AFTER READING, the Coen Brothers return from the dark, dank recesses of the human psyche they traversed in their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.
For those unfamiliar with the landscape of modern movie psychoanalysis, this puts the fraternal filmmakers square in the cruel, misanthropic, and farcical realm of their 1990s-era body of work, somewhere between the tragicomic crime thriller of FARGO and
the disconnected noir-homage anti-storytelling of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with 2007's NO COUNTRY retroactively adding new nihilism-tinged dimensions of smart scepticism to the proceedings. In a more linear trajectory, BURN AFTER READING also stands as the third
entry, after BLOOD SIMPLE and FARGO, in what could be an unofficial Tragedy of Human Idiocy trilogy, wherein characters make the most outlandishly moronic moves to devastating consequences simply by adhering to true human behaviour. Indeed, Carter Burwel
l's emotionally weighty score, which washes over biting scenes of explosive, anesthetizing belly laughs, is very reminiscent of his FARGO work.
BURN AFTER READING is ostensibly structured and propelled by a spy-thriller plotline involving a classified CD lost by a disgraced CIA spook and found by two simple gym employees. The CIA superior who learns of the film's events (always second-hand and so
metimes along with the viewer) doesn't know what to make of it, and why would he? This is the first Coen film in almost 20 years not shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins, yet the ‘new’ guy, Emmanuel Lubezki (CHILDREN OF MEN), has created as visceral and
emotionally fraught a high-definition cartoon as any since BARTON FINK.
"I'm an expert in parties and boys. I'm a Bunny! Men write to me from prison--sometimes in their own blood!" So declares ex-Playboy Bunny Shelley, tossed out of the Mansion by a rival for her advanced age (27--"59 in bunny years," she's told). As played b
y the utterly fearless and appealing Anna Faris, Shelley becomes an unlikely post-feminist heroine, who finds a great use for her not-too-considerable expertise: being sexy.
With nowhere else to live, Shelley finds herself as the house mother for a dying sorority, the Zetas, who are the audience for the rallying cry above. And the slightly misfit sisters, though wary, end up giving Shelley a sisterhood she could never have bu
ilt back at the Grotto. To help build up the sorority, Shelley gives the young women her own peculiar tutorials in charm school--helping them raise their campus profile and recruit new pledges in the process. "When I'm done, every girl on campus will want
to pledge Zeta!" Ignore her at your peril, girls.
If the formula is a bit predictable, the pace is lively and the cast, headed by the wide-eyed Faris, is aces. American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee is a natural on camera, as is Rumer Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. The supporting cas
t includes the capable Colin Hanks and Beverly D'Angelo, and a bit too much screen time for the real-life Hugh Hefner, who maybe should have stayed on the set of The Girls Next Door. Still, Faris channels the cheerful, girly determination of Reese Withers
poon's Elle Woods--no surprise since The House Bunny was cowritten by Kirsten Smith, who wrote Legally Blonde. Fans of silly romances, hop to it.
Ken Wilberforce creates a robot to help around the house. While good-intentioned, Metal Mickey tends to cause chaos. Features all the episodes from the second series.
Kristin Scott Thomas (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, THE ENGLISH PATIENT) stars in this searing French drama about a woman who reunites with her young sister after a 15-year separation. Philippe Claudel directs a cast that also includes Elsa Zylberstein (TH
AT DAY).
Stuck for something to do this weekend? The list of films showing at
Manchcester Showcase Cinema can be found on this page, and won't differ
much from what's on in the rest of the country.
The new films out include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, He's Just Not That Into You, Punisher: The War Zone and The Secret of Moonacre.
A relatively new blues muso, Seasick Steve is certainly making a name for himself
with his latest album, I Started Out with Nothing and I've Still Got Most
Of It Left, and this is one of the tracks from it, courtesy of
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts.
One of the pop masters from the 70s and 80s with hits like Love Really Hurts
Without You and When The Going Gets Tough, Billy Ocean sprouted
some heavy dredlocks almost 20 years ago and now makes a comeback with this
new 13-track offering, but how many of those tracks stand out like he used to?
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
lends an ear.
Faintheart: A British comedy with a difference, on DVD...
Released today :
And the difference is how it was made, touting for actors and musicians via Myspace rather than casting via the usual routes,
which has led to some great discoveries. As for the film, it features some class talent including Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner,
Jessica Hynes and Bronagh Gallagher.
Tonight: Franz Ferdninand release their third CD...
Well... not tonight, but 'Tonight' is the title, and the band that burst onto the scene with the wonderful Take Me Out
back in 2004 hit rather a lull with their second album, so does
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Roberts
think they're back on top form with this new release?
Jack's back and Renee's in danger in 24 as the 7th Season continues...
But it's not only Jack who's having a bad day as his FBI 'partner' Renee isn't exactly having a bundle of laughs as the
fifth hour comes to a close, but before then we see Sean and Erika are dancing the horizontal mambo, even though he's married,
the irritating President Taylor is still wanting to invade a country that doesn't have oil (as if!) and Matobo and his wife
are trapped in his panic room...
Find out what
DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen
made of this episode in this new review, which premiered on his excellent site, Dan's Media Digest.
A review of
24 Season 7: Episode 5
is online and the next episode is on tonight on Sky 1 at 9pm, with several repeats throughout the week.
Total Wipeout - Jo and Carol cross the Big Balls!...
Returning to something we used to feature a while back, covering several uploaded clips online, the best thing put on Youtube
this week came from Saturday's Total Wipeout when not one but TWO people crossed those Big Balls for the first time ever from
a UK contestant!
Other recent uploads include various snooker clips including Jan Verhass squashing a moth and Michaela Tabb being strict, as
well as Charlie Brooker baring his bum and Rick Wakeman showing up Ian Lavender on Celebrity Mastermind.
Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.
The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:
The 39 Steps (2008) (15.99, ITV DVD)
The Accidental Husband (17.99, Momentum)
Alfresco: The Complete Series (19.99, Network)
Appaloosa (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, EIV)
Brief Encounter (19.99 Blu-ray, ITV DVD)
Burn Up (14.99, Universal)
The Chaser (15.99, Metrodome)
Death Race (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Universal)
Get Smart (19.99 DVD, 26.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
Good Arrows (19.99, ITV DVD)
Igor (17.99, Momentum)
JCVD (17.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Revolver)
John Adams (39.99, Warner)
Life Season 1 (24.99, Universal)
No Heroics (19.99, 2 Entertain)
Paris (19.99, Optimum)
The Pink Panther (22.99 Blu-ray, Fox)
The Pink Panther And Friends - Classic Cartoon Collection (24.99, Fox)
Roadkill 2: Dead Ahead (15.99, Fox)
Rocknrolla (19.99 DVD, 26.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
Sir! No Sir! (14.99, Stoney Road Films)
South Park Season 9 (24.99, Paramount)
Step Brothers (19.99 DVD, 24.99 Blu-ray, Sony)
UFC 87: Seek And Destroy (17.99, Silver Vision)
Unforgiven (19.99, 4 DVD)
Wild At Heart Series 3 (24.99, Acorn)
Death Race:
Mayhem rules in Death Race, a head-over-heels remake of the Roger Corman cult classic Death Race 2000, in which cars become lethal weapons. The strength of this new version is its total single-mindedness about vehicular homicide; it has the virtue of no c
luttering subplots or simpering sentimentality. And banish all memory of the original's wild satirical comedy: Death Race is as grim as a dinner tray to the face (a reference that will be explained in a key sequence).
In a slightly futuristic maximum-security prison, cons take part in brutal races around the island prison, their violent deaths watched live by millions of viewers. Jason Statham, possibly cast because of his driving dexterity in the Transporter movies, p
lays a man wrongly imprisoned for murder. Joan Allen provides her brittle cool as the warden, who recruits Statham to assume the masked persona of a legendary driver called Frankenstein. Tyrese Gibson is Frankie's main rival, Natalie Martinez provides the
fetching eye candy, but the acting honours go to Ian McShane, as the philosophical prison mechanic.
One misses the cross-country race from the original film, as the setting here is claustrophobic and the cars are largely colorless and indistinguishable from each other. Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) continues to display the sensibility of a
video-game addict, which will either be a recommendation or a turn-off, depending on your own tastes.
The film career of Guy Ritchie has endured a few bumps in recent years, with a collection of generally forgettable films from a man clearly capable of so much more. Thank goodness then for RocknRolla, which marks a smashing return to form, as he heads onc
e more to the criminal underworld of London.
This time, Ritchie is playing far closer to the likes of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and while RocknRolla may see the director playing on safer ground than of late, it doesn’t take long for the decision to be vindicated. The plot surro
unds a real-estate job with millions at stake, and it gives ample excuse to unleash a collection of raw gangsters and tough guys into the mix, who each fancy a bit of the action.
Thus, RocknRolla brings together Gerard Butler’s Scottish gangster, Tom Wilkinson’s London crime lord, Toby Kebbell’s drug-addicted musician and the likes of Thandie Newton, Mark Strong and Jeremy Piven too. And Ritchie’s cast serve him really well, makin
g ample mileage out of the lines they’re given.
Granted, all of this is hardly fresh territory for the director, but RocknRolla is nonetheless funny, action-packed and a good British mob film to while away an evening with.
Based on the sixties hit TV series Get Smart follows the perils and adventures of Agent Smart (Steve Carell, The 40 Year-old Virgin) as he is sent on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crim
e syndicate known as KAOS.
When the headquarters of secret U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the chief (Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamed of wor
king in the field alongside his idol Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock). Smart is partnered instead with the other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely but lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada). Chaos and
hilarity ensues in this action-comedy.
Nine seasons in, and South Park hasn’t lost its ability to upset people. This boxset brings together the 14 episodes from the ninth season, including the hugely controversial “Trapped In The Closet”, which is actually one of the weaker inclusions here (an
d we somehow doubt that it’s Tom Cruise’s favourite, either). However, it garnered headlines for its tale of Stan taking a Scientology test, and the repercussions of it.
That said, this particular series of South Park has much more to commend it. Across the episodes in what can be easily described as a lively season you’ll find the gang starting their own talent agency, a hippie music festival coming into town, and the sm
all matter of Mr Garrison switching gender. All of this is the foundation for a rapid-fire collection of gags.
What South Park isn’t given credit for often enough though is what’s bubbling up under the surface. The reason creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone never seem to run out of ideas is that very often they have something to say with their episodes. And while,
on one level, they can be enjoyed for being the quick hits of outrageous fun they are, there’s a wise intelligence in the midst of it all, too. Perhaps that’s why the show still shows no signs of running out of steam, and season nine is the latest eviden
ce to back that up.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
