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Posted on Jul 15th 2021 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, collection


Something a little different today, and it's a long one. This video is an overview of my entire video game collection. And a few vinyls. I go over my setups for playing and recording games as well as my collection philosophy and then get into a details of why I own each of these games. My collection focuses mainly on NES, Sega CD, PS1, PS2, Switch, PC big box and all the XBox consoles.



Posted on Mar 28th 2020 at 07:21:31 AM by (lucianalorrane)
Posted under video, games

Video games have always had a bad reputation. The adults brush them off as simply a waste of time and nothing more than a childs play. But, the truth is that playing video games can deliver a host of benefits to the player, far beyond the simple fun and enjoyment factor. The wholesale video games are certainly based on the fun factor, but that's just one aspect of it. And, on that note, given below are some of the lesser-known benefits of playing video games. If you like to buy a lot of video games, you can buy them at a low price from the wholesale video games supplier.

1. Video games are helpful in improving manual dexterity

The video games that come with controllers can be pretty good for your hands. Researchers have found that people who play video games are faster at carrying out advanced procedures, along with being less prone to making mistakes, compared to those who do not. Special games have been used for a long time as physical therapy to help victims of strokes to regain control of their wrists and hands.

2. Video games can increase the gray matter of the brain


Gaming is actually a fun workout for the mind. Multiple studies have pointed out that playing the games on a regular basis might improve brain connectivity and boost gray matter in it. The gray matter gets associated with spatial navigation, perception, memories, and muscle control.

3. Video games help people in becoming problem solvers


Multilevel, mission-based, and open-world games are made like complicated puzzles that take hours to navigate through. At times, the solutions differ depending on the actions you take in that game. You need to learn to think fast and strategize faster in that fantasy environment, and that is a skill that you can translate to this real world too.

Long term studies have shown that children who are involved in strategy-based games showcase better problem-solving skills, and thus, might even get better grades at school.

4. The mental health benefits of video games


Video games can work wonders in boosting moods, and these can improve heart rhythms, which is also a sign that they help in relieving stress. The relation between stress and video games is not casual, and it has been proven in multiple unrelated studies. This is the reason why these games have been utilized for therapy for decades now.

5. A fun way to get students to learn about varied things

These days you can find video games about anything and everything. The developers understood long back that these games could be useful in improving math and reading skills. Right now, you will find games that are based on architecture, chemistry, politics, cooking, world history, and so on that you might not even have started covering in school.

It is important to mention in this regard that one can only get these benefits when one plays in moderation. Playing constantly for the whole day every day will just negate all the benefits mentioned here, and might even be detrimental to a person's health.




Posted on Feb 11th 2020 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, snes


I somehow managed to go through my whole life never playing a Metroid game... until now. Today I'm talking about Super Metroid. It does some things really well, but there are some things I think could be better, or are unfriendly to new players.



Posted on Jan 12th 2020 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, top 10


2019 has been a great year for games, it was a struggle to narrow this list down to just 10 of the 31 releases I played this year. But I did it. Here are my top 10 games of 2019.

If anyone's interested, here are all the 2019 releases I played (didn't necessarily finish them all though):


Continue reading Pam's Best Games of 2019



Posted on Dec 13th 2019 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, fmv, PC


The 7th Guest was developed by Trilobyte and released for PC on April 1st 1993. It's an adventure game that focuses almost entirely on puzzles and uses live action video clips to tell the story as you progress. The game has an interesting development history and is notable for its place in pushing PC video game technology forward. This video takes a look at that history, the legacy of the game and how it holds up today.



Posted on Nov 15th 2019 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, nes


Today I'm looking at DuckTales! It's got an interesting history, from the creation of the Scrooge McDuck character, to a partnership between Disney and Capcom, similarities to Mega Man and changes made by Disney producers. Here's some history of the game along with my thoughts on how it plays.



Posted on May 12th 2019 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, platformer


Jackie Chan has starred in a few video games over the years. After Hudson Soft purchased the licence to use his likeness, they released Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu on NES.



Posted on Apr 12th 2019 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, shmup


Sine Mora was developed by Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture and first released in 2012. In 2017 an extended version was released which is available on PC, PS4, Switch and XBox One. It is a horizontal 2.5D shooter, which means the plane you control moves on 2 axes, while the backgrounds are 3D. The game has gorgeous environments, uses some novel time-based mechanics and has a heavy focus on story. However, I found a heavy story in a scrolling shooter wasn't that welcome of a feature. Check out the video for more.



Posted on Feb 16th 2019 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, history


Summer Carnival '92 RECCA is an impressive shoot'em up. As I played it, I wanted to know more about the Summer Caravan that spawned it. So here's a bit about summer gaming competitions, including Hudson Soft's All-Japan Summer Carnival and Naxat's Summer Caravan. Plus a review of RECCA.


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Posted on Jul 31st 2018 at 10:30:00 PM by ([maryfink:realName])
Posted under Video, games, new, technology

In a truly surreal experiment, Hod Lipson, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, asked two of his students, Igor Labutov and Jason Yosinski to set up a conversation between two chatbots, which are communications experiments designed by researchers to try to understand how human beings communicate. An example is cleverbot, a web site where anyone that wishes to, can have a conversation of their own with a chatbot. The video the duo made has gone viral on the Internet, racking up more than a million hits. I think this technology can be soon all the services will use chat bots: from food delivery to best betting site canada and, of cource, game industry.
 

How Do Chatbots work?
Chatbox applications are designed and written by skilled computer engineers who use linguistic algorithms to pick out the meaning of words in a sentence given to them; they turn those results over to a secondary system that uses a very large database of words and sentences to come up with something that resembles a reply. When the user then replies to their reply, the system uses that information, along with any new sentences typed, to form new replies. This process continues for as long as the user wishes, which means that the chatbox seems to know more and more about both the person it is chatting with and the things they are chatting about as the conversation ensues.

The real magic behind chatboxes isnt that they can seem to formulate replies that make sense but the psychology behind them that in essence fools the human brain into filling in missing parts of conversation without really noticing; sort of like filling in the images of an oral story told by another person.

Chatbox conversations generally work best when the human part of the equation is more open with what they are saying and in some cases is able to use a little imagination to nudge the chabox into broader topics.
How the Viral Video of the Chatbox Conversation was Made
Normally, chatbox conversations are text only. This makes things easier for the programmers. In the case of the chatbox conversation between the two chatboxes, both of the chatboxes were connected to a device that converts text to speech, and vice-versa, thus enabling us human viewers to see and hear the conversation out loud, rather than just reading the text on the screen. The end effect is eerily similar to watching two real human beings converse, proven by the number of comments on the YouTube site accusing the duo of faking the whole thing.



Posted on Jul 11th 2018 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under review, video, PS1, JRPG


May's game of the month here at RF Generation was the quirky musical roleplaying game Rhapsody - A Musical Adventure. It was fun to play through and discuss with everyone else playing along and gave me a reason to review a JRPG for the first time ever. Rhapsody is short and sweet, turns some typical rpg tropes upside-down, and includes great musical numbers. But does the gameplay hold up? Here's my take on the game.



Posted on Jun 13th 2018 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, analysis



With the recent release of God of War, I got to thinking about how many recent mainstream games have had you playing a father figure... and how few games let you play a as a mother. I go over a few examples of playable mothers, then expand the scope out to non-playable mother characters and the categories they tend to fall into in games.

Warning: If you're fussy about character spoilers, I talk about the fates of mothers in about 40 different games in this video. I don't think I've given away anything too shocking or unexpected though.



Posted on May 12th 2018 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under review, video, PC, adventure, LucasArts



In 1995 LucasArts released an adventure game that was a little different from anything they had developed before.  It deals with motorcycles, mechanics and murder. It's Full Throttle! I teamed up with the Adventure Game Geek to give you two opinions for the price of one. We played the recent remastered version of the game, though do compare it to the original.



Posted on Mar 12th 2018 at 12:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, Sega Dreamcast


The Dreamcast is a console I never really got into. I was more of a PlayStation girl. So this review is the first Dreamcast game I've ever finished. At only 25 minutes long, it wasn't too much of an effort.

Dynamite Cop is the follow-up to Die Hard Arcade. It's a very silly arcade beat'em up. Does it improve on the first game? Is it worth playing? Watch to find out.



Posted on Feb 14th 2018 at 01:00:00 PM by (Pam)
Posted under video, review, SNES, Castlevania


Castlevania is a series I never really got into. I didn't play it any on the NES or SNES when I was a kid, and it wasn't until Symphony of the Night on PS1 that I finally gave it a try. In an attempt to fill this gap in my gaming experience, I played through Super Castlevania IV. My initial impressions weren't great, since Simon felt very heavy to control, but... did it grow on me?


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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