I don't know if there's anyone out there who waits fo this each week, but in case there is, I'm sorry it's late this week. I haven't quite gotten use to 40 hour work weeks yet, so this was on the back burner until now.
Not a bad weekend, much better than I was expecting it to be actually. On Thursday, my sister called me to ask if I would house/dog-sit for her while she and her husband went away for the night. I didn't really want to, but I agreed because their fridge is always stocked full of beer. Although, there was nearly no food in the house... Anyway, on Friday evening, I see a post on FreeCycle from a guy who is always posting good stuff that I never manage to get, this one entitled "Assorted Game Pads" I figured it was a bunch of dirty/broken Atari joysticks and paddles, but since I was at my sister's house, I was only a few minutes away, so I sent a reply and hoped for a response. As Saturday came around, the plan my dad and I had made for garage saling went to shit. He was supposed to pick me up at 8:30 and then we'd head out for the sales. By the time 10:00 rolled around he still wasn't there, so I called him and he said that he didn't think I wanted to go. He finally arrived at 11:00 and our first stop was to pick up the "assorted game pads." Once I got there, the guy showed me the box of controllers, I was content with it and agreed to take them of his hands. But then he tells me he has a box of disks too, and asks if I was interested. Of course I told him I was and he pulls out a huge box full of old computer games. I glanced through them and chatted for a little bit, giving him the limited information I knew about them. So I walked out of there with: Suncom Tac 3 joystick Set of Atari paddles 2 Gemsticks 500XJ Epyx Joystick Wico joystick Playstation power cord and AV cable RCA cable joiner Where in the world in is carmen sandiego Deluxe edition (CIB) Mac 6 3.5" floppy disks Super Bowl Sunday (CIB) Commodore 64 5.25" floppy The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (CIB) Commodore 64 5.25" floppy Invaders of the lost tomb/dark tower (CIB) C64 5.25" floppy Kids on keys (CIB) C64/Atari 800 cartridge Spitfire Ace (CIB) 5.25" floppy Q*Bert (CIB) C64 cartridge Gunship (CIB)C64 5.25" floppy High Roller C64 (CIB? It's like a folder, kind of similar to a record jacket) 5.25" floppy) The Bard's Tale (CIB? same as above) 2 5.25" floppies Music Construction Set (Missing disk, same as above) 5.25" floppy? Castle Wolfenstein (CIB) C64 5.25" floppy Blue Max 2001 (CIB) C64/Atari 5.25" floppy Battle Chess (CIB) C64/128 5.25" floppy Club Casine (box, disk only) Mac 3.5" floppy Kinder Comp (CIB) C64 cartridge Geoworks Ensemble (CIB) PC 5 3.5" floppies California Pro Golf (disk only) C64/128 5.25" floppy Karateka 5.25" floppy only L.A. Swat/Panther 5.25" floppy only The rocky horror show 5.25" floppy only The Hulk 5.25" floppy and paper sleeve only Spider-Man 5.25" floppy and paper sleeve only The fourth protocol 5.25" floppy and manuals only. Final Fantasy IX Online strategy guide Few dozen copied game 5.25" disks Dozens of 5.25" floppy files/programs, mostly copied stuff.
Despite the fact that we only had a couple hours of saling time left and the scattered rain showers, the rest of the day didn't turn out too bad.
Slim PS2 with hookups, DualShock, and Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast (no manual) for $10. The guy said make an offer so I just randomly said $10 thinking he would say "oh no that's not nearly enough", but amazingly he accepted. All I could think was "damn, should have said $5"
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace LEGO Racers Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Sonic Mega Collection Aquaman (This thing has a Gamestop, Pawn Shop, Game Crazy and garage sale price sticker on it, took 5 people for it to find a permanent home) Starfox Adventures All CIB and in excellent shape, paid $20 for them all. They had some PS2 games too, but they were beat up pretty badly, the kid must have like the PS2 more than the GC.
And in non-gaming finds, I got this stuff. All in all 75 .50 caliber muzzleloader bullets and a nice blaze orange sweatshirt (not pictured) for $10. The bullets on the left are nearly identical to what I use now, so they'll be for hunting, the others are for target practice. I was really excited when I saw the sweatshirt because it was marked $0.75 and fit me perfectly, and it was the first thing on a rack of nice hunting clothing. Unfortunately, it was the only thing on the rack priced cheaply. I was tempted to buy another pair of brush pants, but they weren't insulated and not that cheap ($15).
Also in the trash, I got a table-top air hockey table which I'll probably sell for a few bucks, and a 2 video cables from a pair of PC monitors and a power cord. I'll splice the VGA cables together, so I can use my LCD TV as a PC monitor.
On Saturday afternoon, my sister called to say they were staying an extra night, which meant I had to stay another night, but I planned on going to the flea market on my way home Sunday morning. But they ended up coming home at 11:00 that night, and they blocked me in the driveway, so I couldn't leave until they got up around 10:00 so by the time I got to the flea market it would have been around 11:00 which is really too late for good deals, so I didn't bother. However, my dad did go and he picked me up a PlayStation Mad Catz MC2 steering wheel he got from the trash. The cable that connects the pedals to the steering wheel is cut though, so I need to find out which wires go to which pins so I can solder on a new plug.
Pretty light week for consoles, but a great week for handhelds.
Playstation 3
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
... Go buy MGS4 you tool.
•Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm
•Wacky Races: Crash and Dash
PSP
Nintendo DS
Playstation 2
•Secret Agent Clank •Space Invaders Extreme
•Arkanoid •Code Lyoko: Fall of XANA •Imagine: Rock Star •Petz Dogz Fashion •Space Invaders Extreme •Tamagotchi Connection Corner 3 •Wacky Races: Crash and Dash
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Secret Agent Clank seems good enough based on the demo, but sort of lacking the heart and soul of the Insomniac developed games. However, there is one game that each and every one of you must buy and that is Space Invaders Extreme. I don't care if you hate buying games for full price, this is one that you need to buy. I've played the Japanese demo for the PSP, and it is a STUNNING update of the classic. The game is just like the original but now there's boss stages, bonus stages, colored enemy matching, and a new remixed techno soundtrack. Just go buy it dammit! It's only $20 on your platform of choice.
Quick update: The US edition of Space Invaders Extreme does not have support for the DS rotor controller. If you want to play this game with the rotor controller, import it.
There's no intro needed I guess, here's part 2 of my Video game card collection. Not too much to say about these. They were E-reader cards that were used with the GBA port of Super Mario 3. I got them for free so I decided to throw them in. Just seeing the sprites again brings back fond memories. From Artbox is the Megaman Anniversary Card set. I loved Megaman since I was little so I had to hunt these down. They feature some pretty neat artwork and cover everything from the original series to the Zero series. After buying about 120 packs of these (thankfully I found a good deal) I almost have the complete collection of these I just need the Bass & Treble Holo card. Maybe one day I'll find it. And finally the only Japanese cards in my collection features one of my favorite RPG series, the Tales of series. Some of the games featured are Destiny, Symphonia, Abyss, Eternia(or Destiny 2 here in the states) Phantasia and Lagaendia. I have a lot of the major character, save for Raine and Kratos from Tales of Symphonia. I like the art and design of these also, I wish they would translate these in to English, I'm curious of how to play this game.
Well that's it for now If I decide to do this again I might show off some of the video game figures that crowd up my room. But for now thanks again for reading.
You know, I happen to live in Cincinnati. It’s sort of an advertising / marketing Mecca. That’s bound to happen when Procter and Gamble happens to be based in your city. You know, Ivory Soap, Tide, Pringles, Gillette, Old Spice, Febreeze, etc… that company. Not to mention all of their recent divestures, we are home to the company who spends lots of money on their brands. In fact, they spend the most money of any company. So, certainly, we in Cincinnati have a company who knows how to do things right. God bless P&G. They make Cincinnati proud.
Some companies try very hard to be good at advertising. They try very hard to project an image. They’re so good that they do so at the expense of royally ticking off their old fan base. Nintendo seems to be that brand. It’s sad though, as they try to be just like Apple, but that’s hard when you have people like Laurent Fischer.
Lot 1 Working PlayStation 2 (fat) -2 first party controllers -1 third party memory card -1 first party memory card Six games: -Beach Volleyball: Summer Heat -The Mark of Kri -Tetris Worlds -Grand Theft Auto: Vice City -Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas -Onimusha
Total: $20
Lot 2 Working Genesis Model 2 w/ all hookups -Turbo controller -Super Battleship game
Total: $5
Lot 3 Working Game Boy -Baseball -Tetris -Cool Spot -Plastic cases for all three, as well as big Game Boy case
Total: $7.50
Lot 4
XBOX: Azurik Rise of Perathia Bloodwake Shrek Blinx (Brand new and sealed, Platinum Hits) Blinx (opened, non-Platinum Hits) Wreckless The Yakuza Missions Dead to Rights WWF Raw Outlaw Volleyball Mercanaries
PS2: Jeremy McGrath Supercross World Seek and Destroy NASCAR Heat 2002 The Thing Black & Bruised The Mummy Returns Max Payne Spider-Man
GAMECUBE: Super Monkey Ball Shrek Extra Large Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Total: $10
Overall Total & Summary for the Day: $42.50 for 31 games, a PlayStation 2 (w/ 2 controllers & 2 memory cards), a Genesis (w/ 1 controller), a Game Boy, and a Game Boy case
Today was a good day for last gen gaming. All last gen games had cases, most had manuals too
Now, in about three days, I can officially say that I am a Civil Engineer. Now, Civil Engineers do a lot of things. Designing Bridges, Creating Dams, Building Things, Creating Traffic Jams, Mitigating Floods, yeah, we do all that and much more. See, there is this thing though. Most, if not all Civil Engineers specialize in something. I, for example, specialized in transportation. Seamar, specialized in structures. See, from an ethics standpoint, we agree only to practice in the fields we're competent in. We know better than do attempt to do something when we have no idea how. So, we know better than than to do and market things that we have no idea how to do, so why does Microsoft then try to do something it doesn't really know how to do?
Microsoft does a bunch of things well. I personally enjoy their Wireless Mice and Keyboards. Windows XP was and still is amazing. So Microsoft can in fact do things well. But there are certain things that Microsoft doesn't do well. Vista, for example. Windows 98 is to Windows XP like Windows Me is to Windows Vista. So, some things that Microsoft do are just terrible.
So, Microsoft has this wonderful little console that many of you might lovingly refer to as the Microsoft Xbox 360. It's lovely little console, but it had some problems. These problems caused Microsoft to issue a recall for the 360, and with that recall came quite a monetary hit on their ledger. So, what caused this problem?
So, this wonderful guy at the Gartner Group, Bryan Lewis, who happens to be their research VP and chief analyst, has stated that the source of their gigantic recall lies in the fact that Microsoft decided to design their original GPU by themselves. Did you know that Microsoft designs GPUs? Neither did I. When I think Graphics Accelerator, I think NVidia and ATI. Turns out, once a massive recall is initiated, that Microsoft also thinks ATI for their graphics needs, as that's who they contracted to redesign their 360 GPU.
Here's to you, Microsoft. If only you had used ATI or NVidia to begin with, you wouldn't have had this massive recall and all those extended warranties. I bet you all don't care, as your warranties are longer. But then, there are probably several of you who wish they didn't have to send their 360 in because of a RRoD. If only Microsoft stuck to what it could do well and contracted out that what it couldn't, you might have never had to send out your 360.
I've been meaning to write another blog for a while now so I've decided to write about some of the other video game stuff I've collected over the years. Since I was younger I loved card games. Starting with Poke'mon I moved to DBZ, then Yu-Gi-Oh, then to dot//HACK, and last Magic The Gathering. I was a senior in High School when I decided to quit playing/collecting and sold all my cards. This eventually lead to me collecting Video game but that's a different story. Anyways my love of collecting cards never really faded and after a friend from work gave me a bunch of Nintendo Power Super Power Club cards I decided to collect Video game cards. The first few pages are filled with the scratch off/ sticker cards from Nintendo's Game Packs made by Topps. I wish I knew about these when I was younger. These are almost 20 years old so the stickers don't stick well and the scratch off material have kinda set in. The stickers have little tips that cover the 6 games the cards depict: Super Mario Bro., Super Mario Bros. 2, The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Punch Out! and Double Dragon. I managed to buy a whole display bow of these with the box but sadly it has a big black X on it. This is the only Complete set I have in this binder, Im lucky I guess to get them all in one box. Next is the Nintendo Power cards. For a time in Nintendo Power printed these cards and put 6 of them in issues for fan of the magazine to collect and trade. They featured Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Gameboy games. On the back of each is a description of each game and 3 challenges for Novice, Intermediate and Pro players. There are a lot of these to my understanding and I'm just happy to have some of my favorites like Final Fantasy 3, illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer and Super Metroid. Not pictured, but I also have a few non Power Club Cards from Nintendo Power, a set of Mortal Kombat 3 cards and Mega Man X2 Cards featuring the Robot Masters. After all this is the UFS Series. These are actually Card Game cards. The UFS series covered a few different Fighting franchises including DarkStalkers, Street Fighter and my all time favorite Soul Calibur. I really enjoy the artwork of these and it kind of makes me want to pick it up and find someone else to play with. I have a few different copies of my favorite characters and 3 starter decks. Most of them are Soul Calibur except for a few Chun-Li cards in back.
That's it for now, I have more to show you all but it'll have to wait. Thanks for reading!
Gamers love GTA IV and its gritty, realistic, and wide open world. Well, one guy likes GTA IV so much that he decided to recreate the intro to the classic Leslie Nielson comedy The Naked Gun inside of the game. The result is nothing short of spectacular.
Friday was a hot and miserable day, I think it was over 90 for the majority of the day, but it was probably my last Friday to go garage saling this season (or at least for the next 10 weeks) so I had to go. In the end, the only thing I came home with was a wheelbarrow I picked up in the trash. It's actually in good shape, but not something I needed.
Luckily Saturday was a little better, although just as hot.
We started out by going to a somewhat large community sale, I didn't find much but my dad got some stuff. The only thing I brought home was this: It's complete, even has 3 extra plastic dots (yes, I counted all 71 of them) paid $0.25 for it. It actually came from a Sportsman's club I didn't know existed and I might end up joining because it was pretty nice.
Some other boring stuff: Paid $1 for it. Just 2 more reasons I should get an Xbox. Paid $0.60 total, both CIB. I would have offered $0.50 for both but it was a kid selling them and he had them priced so cheaply anyway. And they're in really good shape for kid-owned games.
The joysticks were marked $1 each, so I offered $1 for both, she accepted and then asked if I had seen the game in the garage. I told her that I did but wasn't interested in it but she told me I could have it and actually insisted I take it. It had a $2 sticker on it but was marked down to $0.25.
The controllers are just about garbage unfortunately, they both have the grips on the sticks ripped off and the sticks are loose on both, one so badly that it really doesn't work. The system powers on and the game plays but the controller ports don't seem to work. The only good thing is that it has the digital video output (those are still in demand, right?) and it was $5 for it all.
Today was a good day at the flea market, despite the fact that the indoors part of it burned down Thursday afternoon. And damn, it was burnt all the way down, the only thing left of the 80-something year old building were the bent and twisted steel girders. In the end of the building where the fire started you could see some any of the metal stuff inside that hadn't moved, like the metal shelving, washers & driers, it was kind of creepy looking actually. They even had security guards posted around the remains to keep people from stealing the scrap metal!
Anyway, what I brought home: The SEALED Game Boy Rechargeable Battery Pack/ AC Adapter was $5. This is now the 4th sealed GB accessory I own, I wonder where they're coming from and why I can't find any sealed NES stuff. The Super Mario Galaxy (CIB) was $25, I'm very excited for that because I was going to get it for $40 at GameStop sometime this week.
The woman selling this stuff wanted $3 each but said she'd give a better price if I got a lot of stuff, so I made up my own little pile of Genesis games and asked for a price, she was thinking about it, so I offered $10 and then she said $8 at almost the same time. So I picked up the PS1 game and gave her $10. She had a Japanese Soul Calibur II for GameCube also and I thought about buying it but I've got no way to play it so I didn't and I'm not sure if it was her or another guy looking, but one of them had really bad BO and I had to get out of there.
Oh and Blast Works for the Wii looks great as well.
There's also Nascar 09 (PS3, 360, PS2), Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit (PS3, 360), Don King Presents Prizefighter (360), Backyard Baseball '09 (Wii), Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles (DS), and more crappy DS shovelware, but who cares? There's only one game that TRULY matters this week.
There are some games that people just think are pipe dreams. Games, in development for so long that many of you were not even Teens yet. Games in development for 12 long, painful years. A game that lends its abbreviation to imply something that is destined to never come out. You know, that game.
What? You've become so jaded that you don't believe me that there could be footage of that game on the internet? Well, you go on your merry way. Everyone else might want to search the above video, you might just find footage of that game.
Yo, sup homies? After outgrowing our previous server and temporarily moving operations to WordPress, we are finally back in action on our home base right here at RFGeneration.com. In celebration of our triumphant return, the game companies have dumped a massive load of (hopefully) great games for you to look at this week.
Playstation 3
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
•The Bourne Conspiracy •GRiD •The Incredible Hulk •Kung Fu Panda •Lego Indiana Jones
•The Bourne Conspiracy •GRiD •The Incredible Hulk •Kung Fu Panda •Lego Indiana Jones •Ninja Gaiden 2
•Cabela's Trophy Bucks •The Incredible Hulk •Kung Fu Panda •Lego Indiana Jones
PSP
Nintendo DS
Playstation 2
•Lego Indiana Jones •Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2
•The Incredible Hulk •Kung Fu Panda •Lego Indiana Jones •Paws and Claws Pet: Healing Hands •Summon Night: Twin Age
•The Incredible Hulk •Kung Fu Panda •Lego Indiana Jones
In a week with so many games, it's tough to give out a pick of the week. However, I've got to go with GRiD. The game is made by Codemasters, the same team behind last year's awesome rally racer DiRT, and attempts to bring the style of racing game presented in that game onto the streets. GRiD stands apart from most other racers in that it is neither a simulation like Forza or Gran Turismo nor an arcade style game like Burnout or Project Gotham, but somewhere in the between. It definitely has some great physics, but it isn't too overbearing for casual racing fans. Better yet, it carries over the amazing menu design philosophy as seen in DiRT, which is arguably the greatest interface ever seen in a video game. The game is available now on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC. If you're interested in the game, be sure to download the demo for it on your platform of choice...it's definitely worth your time.
Check back next week where there will undoubtedly be a ton of games for me to cover.
Just today, Tomonobu Itagaki announced that he is leaving and suing Tecmo over unpaid bonuses. He claims a completion bonus for Dead or Alive 4 has gone unpaid; further stating, "President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, but also turned defiant, telling me 'if you are dissatisfied with the decision not to pay the bonuses, either quit the company or sue it.' " So far, Tecmo has yet to respond.
Tomonobu Itagaki (via his translator, Andrew Szymanski) has contacted a number of news outlets requesting prompt reporting of this story. This news arrives the same week as the release of the highly anticipated sequel, Ninja Gaiden II. This severance of ties to Tecmo ensures he likely won't be able to work on any future Dead or Alive or Ninja Gaiden projects.
Itagaki is most known for his work with Team NINJA where he created the Dead or Alive series and the modern reincarnation of the Ninja Gaiden series. He derives his success from incorporating 'fun' into his projects to ensure satisfying gameplay. Itagaki's cognizence of Western gamers' interests also allows his hits to become international successes instead of Japan-only treasures.
Another trailer has been released since the Street Fighter IV 'debut trailer.' This 'epic trailer' shows more gameplay. Also announced this week are two fighters that will only be available on home versions of the game and not in arcades. These new fighters are Fei Long and Dan Hibiki.
Now i realize that there are probably hundreds of thousands of gamers my age in high school, but I think that i am a big exception to all of em. Now most of my friends that are my age are the guys that have the PS3, 360 or Wii, especially my best friend, who has a Wii and 360. i am not like any of them. Most of my friends think that i am strange because the most current console that i have is an old xbox. But i actually dont care for most of the next-gen games. In my room, i have the old games. Even my xbox collection has 4 of the games that have 20 or more old skool games. The systems i prefer to play are the Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and Genesis. I mean, i grew up playing the 16-bit games. I grew up playing the SNES and Genesis. I grew up with games like Super Mario World, Super Star Wars, Super Mario All-Stars, and DKC. And strangely, as i got older, i was introduced to 8-bit systems. I first played the NES when i was 8 years old, and back during the winter, my dad gave me his 2600 stuff that he had at the time. It has then since grown by about 20 or 30 games since then. And also, 1 year ago, i bought my own NES. Now my NES and 2600 collections combined have over 100 games.
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Secret Agent Clank seems good enough based on the demo, but sort of lacking the heart and soul of the Insomniac developed games. However, there is one game that each and every one of you must buy and that is Space Invaders Extreme. I don't care if you hate buying games for full price, this is one that you need to buy. I've played the Japanese demo for the PSP, and it is a STUNNING update of the classic. The game is just like the original but now there's boss stages, bonus stages, colored enemy matching, and a new remixed techno soundtrack. Just go buy it dammit! It's only $20 on your platform of choice.
Now, in about three days, I can officially say that I am a Civil Engineer. Now, Civil Engineers do a lot of things. Designing Bridges, Creating Dams, Building Things, Creating Traffic Jams, Mitigating Floods, yeah, we do all that and much more. See, there is this thing though. Most, if not all Civil Engineers specialize in something. I, for example, specialized in transportation. Seamar, specialized in structures. See, from an ethics standpoint, we agree only to practice in the fields we're competent in. We know better than do attempt to do something when we have no idea how. So, we know better than than to do and market things that we have no idea how to do, so why does Microsoft then try to do something it doesn't really know how to do?
METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
In a week with so many games, it's tough to give out a pick of the week. However, I've got to go with GRiD. The game is made by Codemasters, the same team behind last year's awesome rally racer DiRT, and attempts to bring the style of racing game presented in that game onto the streets. GRiD stands apart from most other racers in that it is neither a simulation like Forza or Gran Turismo nor an arcade style game like Burnout or Project Gotham, but somewhere in the between. It definitely has some great physics, but it isn't too overbearing for casual racing fans. Better yet, it carries over the 
Just today, Tomonobu Itagaki announced that he is leaving and suing Tecmo over unpaid bonuses. He claims a completion bonus for Dead or Alive 4 has gone unpaid; further stating, "President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, but also turned defiant, telling me 'if you are dissatisfied with the decision not to pay the bonuses, either quit the company or sue it.' " So far, Tecmo has yet to respond.