We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you the November 2021 edition of
RF Generation's Site News! In this issue, we announce our next Community Playthrough title, reveal next month's shoot 'em up club game, and of course, thank those members who sent in submissions to our site and registered approvals last month. Thanks for keeping it on Channel 3 and please continue to keep you and your loved ones SAFE!
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DECEMBER & JANUARY 2021 COMMUNITY PLAYTHROUGH???
This December and January, the RFG Playthrough guys will be taking a much needed vacation before rolling into the 8th season of the Playcast. We're sorry for any inconvenience this might cause for those who enjoy our annual site competition. We hope that all of you enjoy your holiday season and we will reconnect in January to announce our February playthrough title.
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DECEMBER 2021 SHMUP PLAYTHROUGH
In the mid to late 1980's, Konami was on a hot streak, having found much success with arcade games such as
Gradius,
Contra, and other games. And their Famicom/NES conversions were equally lauded, often taking the original games and changing up the formula a bit to better suit the home market, often resulting in what some consider definitive versions of the games. One of the games they didn't take too many liberties with, however, was the arcade shooter
Top Gunner. For those who are more familiar with the NES library, than lesser known Konami arcade games, you may know this game as
Jackal. Released in the arcade in 1986, and followed up on the Famicom Disk System (as
Akai Yousai: Final Commando) and NES in 1988 as
Jackal, this is a Konami classic that might not be quite as well known as some of their other 80's output, but it's no less relevant.
You take command of a unit of elite soldiers, on a mission to rescue POWs behind enemy lines. You take the fight to hostile territory, with only your wits, and your heavily equipped military Jeep. As you rescue some POWs, they can help outfit you with better weaponry, to give you a better tactical advantage. But the fight won't be easy, as you'll encounter soldiers on foot, turrets and cannon emplacements, tanks, and other enemy forces, all vying for your destruction. Join the RF Generation Shmup Club as we play something a bit more shmup-adjacent for December. Whether you play the arcade original
Top Gunner, the Famicom release
Akai Yousai: Final Commando, or the NES release of
Jackal, you're sure to have a good time!
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OCTOBER 2021 THANK YOU
In October, site members contributed a total of
579 submissions to our database. Of these additions,
561 were game submissions and
18 were related to hardware items. Of this total,
174 contributions were new images and
174 of these images were game submissions. A big thanks to all who submitted items to our database and to those who reviewed them all for the month of October! We appreciate your efforts in making our database and community a great tool for our users.
Our top submitters (those with a minimum of 50) for October 2021 were:
Schlibby 85
ugr 84
Bear78 73Thanks for another great month!
Top approvers for the month (with a minimum of 25) included:
slackur 271 Great work all!