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In this episode, a mainstay of classic gaming: Mega Man. We'll look at it's rereleases on the Sega Genesis, PS2 and the PSP. How do all the ports, remakes and compilations compare to the original?
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So it is coming up on one year, since I decided to embark on a Game Quest (pun intended), and threw my hat into the world of game collecting. It was all driven by the same need for nostalgia as all of my other collections and started as a goal to reacquire all the games I once owned. Many of you have seen my small scores posts, or had a look at my collection and can see that for the most part, that I heavily favor the NES.
For me, the NES was the time of my life that features very prominently in my memory of childhood, as the most fun and excitement I ever had gaming. I had gotten my own Atari JR. for christmas in '85 and was pumped, because I had often played on relatives Heavy Sixers, but had longed for my own VCS. Two months later the NES came to the Great White North, and I had no knowledge of its existence at that point. In April of 1986, my cousin Colin got a NES Control Deck Set and upon viewing Super Mario Bros. for the first time, my life was forever changed. Cliche' but true.
Unfortunately, I have only really taken a collectors side to gaming in the past year, as I had always sold off most of game systems and games I had as a kid. Last summer i had 4 NES titles and probably 60 or so total games? Somehow, the fever of game collecting took me full force in the past year, my colection has boomed, and now I find myself writing my first blog on RF Generation about my newest collecting goal
NES: 10 to 300. Basically, I have crazily acquired 290 mostly loose, NES carts in the past 12 months. I am unabashed in admitting I make good money in my line of work, and am not shy about going after some of the uncommon and somewhat pricier NES titles, especially if it pays for a really good guys son to go to a decent college.
Which brings me to the point and title. The 10 to 300 (in no particular order)
1. Mighty Final Fight
This one is the last of the big and rare, for my Capcom subset.
2. TMNT: Tournament Fighters
Pending 30 day hold. grrrrrr.. The biggest Konami subset game left other than...
3. Contra Force
Gonna have to FORCE myself to add this critically panned part of the Contra series
4. Zombie Nation
This one, will be the most expensive of all of the 10, and in some ways, the one that I am most intrigued to try.
5. Fire N' Ice
Not sure why this is on the 10. I guess my OCD compels me to get it now, then try and get Solomon's Key after 300, then play Solomon's Key first....Moving ON!!
6. Ninja Gaiden III
Want to complete this series. Sorry, all I got for this one.
7. Jetsons: Cogswells Caper
Compared to Flinstones: The Surprise at Dino Peak and Little Samson, this Taito title will be easy on the wallet!
8. Gun*Nac
This one is on its way to me and is officially, the first of the 10 that I am acquiring. I look forward to blasting robotic bunnies!
9. Bomberman II
I have long been a fan of the bomberman series. This guy, Saturn bomberman, and Super Bomberman III are the priciest of the series I want to acquire.
last but not least
10. SCAT
I like shooters. Looks fun. Co'op!?!?!
Continue reading Unloved #28 - Overlord
I've been trying to get my brother to like "Old Games" but he'd rather call them "Crap" and play newer games like "CoD Ghosts" and basically all of the games made for xbox 360 from 2012 to present! So I might actualy give up  . let me know if I should give up.
Naoki Kodaka is one of the most listened to 8-bit composers. I'm sure most of you have heard some of the music from the games he worked on, but may not have realized how many classics he had a hand in. Kodaka is known for his work at a company called Sunsoft, and he spent the better part of a decade composing soundtracks for the company. His first one was a shooter for the Famicom Disc System, Dead Zone in 1986.
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His next game would also be exclusive to the FDS, Nazoler Land. Sunsoft was stepping up in the world and got the rights to port a couple of popular games to the NES. Activision's PC hit Shanghai and Bally Midway's arcade smash hit Spy Hunter were both ported to the NES by Sunsoft, and the soundtracks were re-arranged by Kodaka.
Sunsoft soon went international as a result of the success of these ports. In 1988 their Zapper game Freedom Force and first international sensation Blaster Master both had soundtracks composed by Kodaka and his fellow associates at the company. Naohisa Morota developed a sound engine that lead to Sunsoft's unique bass heavy sound style. This is now known as Sunsoft bass as a result of how much it stands out and the high quality of the company's soundtracks from the NES era. This year closed out with a port of Platoon and the Japanese FDS exclusive Nankin no Adventure.
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The following two years are arguably the golden years of 8-bit soundtracks, with Kodaka and Sunsoft being one of the biggest reasons for this. In 1989 the company released Fester's Quest and Batman. The next year saw the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Batman, as well as the almost Terminator game Journey to Silius, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Nantettatte!! Baseball was the last of Sunsoft's Famicom exclusive games. All of these games had Kodaka at the musical helm.
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Sunsoft was rather slow to convert to the 16 bit systems overall. They did release Batman for the Genesis, but continued pouring a great effort into the declining Famicom. Still, some great games and soundtracks came about from this arrangement. In 1991 Sunsoft released Ufouria seemingly everywhere but North America, they developed an updated version of Spy Hunter called Super Spy Hunter, and followed up on Batman with Return of the Joker. 1992 saw the release of Super Fantasy Zone for the Mega Drive. Again, these are all Sunsoft's games that had Kodaka as the lead composer.
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Kodaka's output finally started slowing down when Sunsoft had him start work on their flagship strategy RPG series Albert Odyssey for the Super Famicom in 1993. The following year would have Albert Odyssey II and Sugoi Hebereke release for the SFC.
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A two year break would follow before the third Albert Odyssey game released, Sunsoft moving the to the very popular in Japan Sega Saturn. North America had this game released by Working Designs as Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean. Kodaka's final composing project before retiring from video games would be Out Live: Be Elimiate Yesterday for the Playstation, and exclusively in Japan.
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Zagnorch Productionsin association with  presents SEVEN-DAY SCORE CARD: NINTY MEGA-HAULSWeek of 28 April to 3 May 2014This week's episode sponsored by Leon's Firewater and Boomstick EmporiumNow with two locations in downtown Cincinnati to serve you
Monday 28 April: The first day of this thrifting week commenced with the acquisition of a grape Game Boy Color with nine kiddie-game carts and carry case for $19.99 (the case's back zipper pocket stored a Disneyland autograph book for some reason). Then it was off to the local Savers, which yielded a loose GBA SP with F-Zero: GP Legend cart for $6.99. Rounding out the day's finds was a sealed box of ten 5.25" floppies for my C64 for $1.99.
Tuesday 29 April: This day belonged to PlayStation, as I picked up three back issues of PlayStation: The Official Magazine for $0.29 each, as well as the CIB PS2 games Barbarian, Defender, Jumper: Griffin's Story, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX for $2.99 a pop.
Wednesday 30 April: "Hump day" was a fitting term for this day, as it plateaued with a mighty stack of Ninty goodness. The timing was absolutely perfect as I caught the Goodwill clerk rolling out a large assortment of N64 and Genesis carts on its way to the electronics showcase. From that assortment I dug out Super Smash Bros., GoldenEye, Pokemon Stadium, Yoshi's Story, Diddy Kong Racing, and Banjo-Kazooie, along with Out of This World and Earthworm Jim 2 for Genesis, all for $2.99 each. I also snapped up Pokemon Gold and Silver for $1.99 each, and a CIB Dream Pinball for $2.99.
Then it was off to Savers, where I discovered a complete hardcover Piggyback CE Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag strategy guide for $4.99 $3.49. This was a rather surprising find, considering how recently the game was released. Then there was the GameCube unit with memory card and WaveBird receiver that I grabbed for $6.99 $4.89. I'll take any and every opportunity to make sure WaveBird components don't fall into the hands of a certain deranged individual whose name rhymes with Gus Beeman.
 Force yourself to gaze upon the man's horrific handiwork, and be sickened.
Thursday 1 May: Starting this rather light day was a grab bag of video-game-related tchotchkes including several Skylanders dog tags and a couple Marioverse character dangly-charm thingies. Then there was the GameShark Game Codes for PS2 box that contained an odd assortment of code discs for both PS2 and PS1. Ending the day was a CIB Flashback and Techno Clash I spent some trade credit on... along with a pack of Chuckles. Which I didn't know they even made anymore.
Friday 2 May: Another light day as I managed to wrangle a CIB Medievil Resurrection and XBox Live Arcade Game Pack at one place for $4.99 each. Then it was off to Savers where I discovered a Skylanders Book of Elements: Magic and Tech for just $0.69.
Then there's the showcase find of the day: a loose Tiger Mega Man 2 handheld for $2.99, a score that's likely bumming Crabby and RetroRage out something fierce right about now. Just wait 'til they see the next day's scores...
Saturday 3 May: The week concluded with the picking up of several NES carts at my workplace Goodwill for $4.99 each, including Donkey Kong Classics, Donkey Kong 3, Mario Bros., Xenophobe, Seicross, Kirby's Adventure,, a gold Legend of Zelda,...
...aaand Mega Man 1,3,4,and 5. That's right, I got the first 5 Mega Mans (Mega Men?) in just two days!
 Whattaya have to say to that, Crabs and Rets? Hmmm?
Oh, I also grabbed a CIB Sega Superstars Tennis for DS... not that you care or anything.
NON-VIDYA BONANZA: Just the usual suspects, including a Yamaha YT-2200 Tuner device for $0.79, and a slipcased HP 15C calculator for $4.99.
The big number-crunching hit of the week however, was this HP 48G...
...which came with all this other stuff...
...all for just $25.00.
Hey Nupes, whattaya think of that, huh? Pretty impressive, isn't-- whoah, what the hell are you-- oh, that is just disgusting! Stop that right now! What the hell is wrong with you?! G0dd@mn, get a room next time!
Until next week, this is your Thriftmaster Admiral signing off.
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Posted on Apr 18th 2014 at 04:38:01 PM by ( SirPsycho) Posted under soundtrack, zx spectrum, commodore 64, c64, amiga, windows, nes, snes, silver surfer, plok, ecco the dolphin, ecco, lemmings |
Tim Follin is one of the most influential Western composers in the history of the industry. He was rather young to be part of the earliest pioneers, but landed his first job in the video game industry working for Insight Studios at the tender age of 15. During his childhood he had no formal music training but attended a year of Liverpool's Sandown Music College. That was all he needed.
At first he was making arrangements for ports of arcade games with his first work being on his brother Mike's game Subterranen Stryker for the ZX Spectrum. He kept working with his brother for the first part of his career. Their second game was a Galaxian inspired shooter called Star Firebirds for the Spectrum, in which he learned how to use a 2 channel driver. His first 3 channel driver game was Vectron. For his fourth game, he also programmed one of the mini games, as well as the sound for Future Games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8cRpB1TYB4
After these first four games Tim and Mike were hired on at Software Creations. There he worked on arrangements for Spectrum and Commodore 64 games such as Agent X I and II, Chronos, Scumball, The Sentinel, Bubble Bobble, Renegade, Bionic Commando and various others. Many of these were nothing more than arrangements to fit onto the ZX Spectrum or C64 for ports of popular arcade games. One exception is the Agent X games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOZ8rbmlWrk
This trend would mostly continue as the various computers of the late 80s were filled with arcade ports, and Software Creations did a lot of them. He worked on arrangements for ports such as Peter Pack Rat, Ghouls'n Ghosts, and got his first experienced on the NES with the arrangement for Flying Shark which we know as Sky Shark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72SHi__VNI0
Tim Follin was still spending most of his time with the C64 and Spectrum despite his work with the ever popular NES. This could have something to do with the NES not being as popular in Europe as it was in Japan and North America. These PCs of the time were reigning supreme. He did compose the music for Target: Renegade for the NES, then composed for Chester Field, Magic Johnson's Fast Break, and Qix before his last PC game, until later Windows compositions, came in 1991, Gauntlet III for the C64, Amiga, and Spectrum.
A little bit before this he finally moved to the NES full time, composing the soundtrack for Solstice and one of the best for the entire system, Silver Surfer. Say what you will about whether or not the game is actually good, you cannot say anything bad about the soundtrack. He also worked on Kiwi Kraze, Treasure Master, Pictionary, and the Taito version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade before mostly moving onto the Super Nintendo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A
One last game he worked on before going to the Super full time were the handheld and Master System ports of The Incredible Crash Dummies. For most of the Super Nintendo titles he worked on he was assisted by another one of his brothers, Geoff Follin. His first SNES game he composed for was Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge. Next he would create music for Leland's Super Off Road, Plok, Equinox, Silicon & Synapse's (Early Blizzard) Rock N' Roll Racing, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, the completed but unreleased Moto-X, and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. For the Genesis he also composed the unreleased Time Trax, which managed to leak onto the web in 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY
After this incredibly busy period of his career it took a downturn. He left Software Creations in 1993 and began freelancing. Despite this incredible resume work was slow and sporadic, with the most done in the following two years. He finished his 16 bit days composing the soundtracks for Batman Forever for Genesis and SNES, and Ultraverse Prime for the Sega CD, then a cancelled PC game Firearm. Afterwards he had a few years off before coming back for the Playstation's Batman & Robin, in which he only arranged pieces from the film's score. The 20th Century would end with arrangement for Bust-A-Move 4's Game Boy Color port.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuFXcgs606k
The 21st Century started with Tim working with Appaloosa Interactive for their revival of the Ecco the Dolphin series, with Defender of the Future for the Dreamcast and later Playstation 2. It would take another few years before his next piece of work, Starsky & Hutch in 2003 for all 3 major systems and PC of the time. Ford Racing 2 and 3 were composed by him as well as Future Tactics: The Uprising. His very last game before he officially retired from video game composition, citing irregular work patterns, was the remake of Lemmings for PSP, released in 2006. His work, from its earliest days, inspired many other European composers, as he was able to do things with early soundchips that nobody thought was even possible.
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Hey Everyone!! Well it's been a long time since I have done a blog on Game Hunting. For a while I was just posting in the Small Score's Thread, I might still occasionally post in there but probably not often. A few reason I have been away for a while is well got to have cash to spend which I didn't have much cheap but the best news is my brother Steven is back at collecting 100% as he was finally able to pay down some of his debt. Me on the other hand I got my taxes back and finished paying off all but one bill I have yet to get the total on as it's getting adjusted (but no need to get into details about that).
As you saw on the promo on this blog that it was under construction and coming soon with a Sega Saturn and Nintendo Logos :-) Well there is definitely more Sega Saturn in this month's score than anything. First thing is first this year I am taking a little break from NES unless I get some stuff cheap and I decided I am going to go CIB from here on out a little pricey you say? Yes it is but I also decided there is going to be a couple of titles IE Flintstones 2, Little Samson and probably Zombie Nation that I will not go for CIB.
I have been talking with a fellow member on here for a while about his Sega Saturn stuff as he has always had an impressive collection especially teasing me with photos of everything ;-) I want to send a shout out and a VERY VERY BIG THANK YOU!!! To TYNSTAR!!! This guy rocks buying a bulk lot of Sega Saturn Games is fun --meaning yes I am buying more :-) But for starters I got some of the big hits out of the way. SO this year I am totally focusing on a Complete Sega Saturn Set (Except for One game for now---although he does own it). Again Thank You Again Tynstar very much and can't wait to keep working with you!!!
The other member I have been talking to and have done dealings with in the past Shadow (Just plain Shadow :-) not or fearless leader Shadow Kirsuagi. I bought a ton of Nintendo Powers, books and strategy guides from him. Note I did buy a bunch of NP's that I already have BUT the reason I did is because I can use these ones to thumb through instead of the nice minty ones I picked up last September :-) Although these ones I bought are also in very nice condition as well :-) THANKS SHADOW!!! It has been a great pleasure hope to continue working with you too :-)
There is a ton of more stuff mostly of which either my brother grabbed or I grabbed. There is a ton of photos so hopefully everything will fit in this first blog OR I will just post another blog in continuation of this one :-)
Let's just start with the Sega Saturn Games from Tynstar to be Safe!
BIG BOX HUH!?!?! Biggest box I have ever had.
Some of my favorites and another picture of the Boxed System and Demo Discs!
Looks like I have more room :-) Next set of photos were either pick ups from my brother or me at a local store or on eBay. We did take a little trip to Lincoln and my brother was in his glory for big box PC Games. Me I just picked up another Saturn title to scratch off the list. We both picked up Xbox One's (sadly I am not enjoying it as much as I hoped at his point...needs to be a Halo soon!!!) Also I won't be giving it up as I know there is some good games on their way :-) ALSO KEEP IN MIND this all took place over the whole month of February as we both got our many at different times.
Little Brother's Grabs:
**He Bought Tailspin - CIB - Very Minty**
(I bought Galaxy Fight for Sega Saturn)
(I bought Shin Megami Tensei IV - The game is Sealed sadly the rest is open)
The Rest of the Grabs Mixed my brother and I:
**The Bravely Default CE - I had this thing on Pre-Order since the game was announced glad I did--and yes as with most of CE's it's staying sealed. ---The Panzer Dragoon Orta is the Demo Disc from Hollywood Video.
Stuff From Shadow 
Won these on eBay Cheap - mainly for one Box Had a blockbuster sticker on back got it off without any problems - The wonders De-Solve It and a hair dryer can do.
Monster in my Pocket & Racket Attack Manuals to complete the boxed copies in the earlier photo.
FINALLY GOT The last Working Designs game on Saturn we need - I have one or two better condition copies of a game or two coming from Tynstar in the next Lot I am buying :-)
Again I want to THANK a ton to TYNSTAR and SHADOW!!!
I was going to make a video --still might but please leave your comments below :-)
Growing up in the arcades led to my future nickname...
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What has gaming given you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LParGGVBhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGhg4Mypte0
Genesis Does What Nintendon't! Does it really? I never noticed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNWiVOknsU
Did you battle with your friends over which console was better? Or were you oblivious to the "raging war"?
I loved getting sick as a kid because it meant I was stuck home to play some video games!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upl7vns0HOI
What's your favorite video game to play when you are stuck home sick?
This week's episode focuses on a Mario title that really has it all when you want to talk SNES. Between the original release with 4 games on it , this title would later be re-released with a 5th title ( SMW ). Really adds to the quality of this cartridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOv3DfKm4Y4
I wanted to share some of my new gaming videos with the RF community. So here is one of my first gaming memories about making a huge video game regret.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDx8Y4TMjto
I'm sure we've all made the huge mistake of missing out on a piece for our collections, or getting rid of something that we didn't realize the value of. What are your video game regrets?
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