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Wow, it's been a while. I am really sorry about that. You guys deserve more credit than when I feel like it. Hopefully we can get more consistent updates as to our database's grow from here on out.
Anyways, we've had quite a few submissions in the last two months, 4989 to be exact. 2167 new images. Damn! Who did all these submissions? Why, it's people like ga5ket, who is kicking ass and taking names as the top submitter so far of 2009! But, he's not making submissions alone, Pop_Culture_Portal, Funk_Buddy and Fuyukaze are right behind him in the hunt for top submitter. They're not alone though, and these people have also done their part to keep our site growing with 50 or more submissions in the last two months:
- ga5ket
- Pop Culture Portal
- Funk_Buddy
- Fuyukaze
- Tan
- ApolloBoy
- y2ritchie
- eaglebeak99
- Donkey Kong Kid
- Madir
- NES_Rules
- theGrue
- Sirgin
- Data
- Tynstar
- Cambot
- Zenki
- Moriya Hanzo
- Darth Sidious
- Rajaat the Warbringer
- sharp
Of course, when there are all these people making a whole hell of a lot of submissions, we need to have a dedicated group of staff members to review your submissions. Well, who's been doing that, you ask? Why, it's been mostly Tan and NES_Rules, our number one and two reviewers! Of course, Apolloboy, Fuyukaze, bum-man, and Funk_Buddy haven't been slacking around either each doing their part for more than 50 submissions in the last two months. Thanks goes to them for their hard work.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for your submissions, even if you didn't make enough to get mentioned explicitly in our post, know that your submissions keep our site growing and strong. For that, we are truly thankful.
Ok let me first say this is possibly one of the rarest handhelds that I know of so its very hard to come by. This review will be a bit different because i will go into detail about the levels, bosses items, etc. Anyway here's the review
This is a simplified version of the hit psx game. You play as Alucard, Dracula's son. Alucard however wants to stop his father's evil reign because he is half-human half-vampire and doesn't want to destroy the last of the Belmont clan Richter Belmont. In this simplified version you can pick up weapons such as: Ax, Cross, and Throwing Dagger. Alucard starts his journey with has dagger, but the cool thing is your weapon upgrades as you progress through the game. You have 3 hearts if you lose all of your hearts the game will be over, but you can pick up more they are scarce though so be careful!
Level 1 is the Castle Entrance where you will fight medusa heads and zombies. The final boss of the level is Medusa. She is fairly easy to beat
Level 2 is the Royal Chapel. In this level you have to contend with zombies, medusa heads, and bats. the bats are tricky to dodge. This level has 2 different sections the lower and upper part. You go on the top to dodge bats on the bottom or pick up a throwing dagger and throw it at them,, but be careful if you choose to doge the bats from the bottom you will have to deal with bats attacking from behind. The boss of this level is Hipogryph. He's tricky use the Ax to defeat him and collect the Silver Ring.
Level 3 is the Catacombs where you must fare with the magical spells of the Salem Witches and other enemies from previous levels. The boss of this level is Succubus; defeat her to obtain the Golden Ring, then prepare for the final battle with your father Dracula!
Level 4 you must first fight off a swarm of enemies. After all of them are destroyed you face Dracula and use the Holy Cross to defeat him.
Well that concludes my review of this gem of a handheld. One final word if you see this game anywhere pick it up its worth it.
Here is a link below to see gameplay footage done by me. Please rate comment and subscribe to my youtube acccount.
Welcome to another Random List, now it's no secret that I'm a big fan of video game music, some of my favorite composers include Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, and Motoi Sakuraba. Today's list is a compilation of some of my favorite updates to songs from games of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, I'm sure many of you probably remember hearing many of these songs at some point, as for me many of these songs are nostalgic due to my being young when playing many of these games for the first time. My only real restriction for this list is the the updated song has to be from a game, so no fan made stuff on this list, and all of the songs will be presented within for your listening pleasure. Anyway, without further ado, here are some of my favorite updated video game songs...
Continue reading Random Lists #2: Updated Classics
I've not managed to pick up tons of stuff again this week, encountering a total failure to find anything worth buying in my hometown. Work was a different matter, I hit paydirt in one of the Charity shops, scoring 14 Master System games, complete for 99p each.
Golvellius: Valley of Doom
Sagaia
Black Belt
Pac-Mania
The Jungle Book
Castle of Illusion
Desert Speedtrap
Alien Storm
Submarine Attack
Ace of Aces
Terminator 2: Judgement day
Robocopy Vs The Terminator
Gain Ground
Captain Silver
Oh, and a MB Pac-Man boardgame (1982) for 1.99
Week: 15.85
Months total: 143.81
Year to date: 278.36
Unless you've had your head in the closet for the past 25 years, you've atleast heard of Street Fighter. You know, that game with men who are fighting. In the streets. And occassionally indoors when circumstances permit. However, incase you've been locked inside a bunker with Brendan Frasier waiting the apocalypse for the last quarter century, clutching your copy of Red Dawn as if it were some sort of survival guide for the Commie infested future let me sum up the gameplay of a fighting game - you punch and kick guys who are trying to punch and kick you until someone falls over, twice. Believe it or not, this formula hasn't really changed at all since then, and with good reason. It's fun. If I could make punching people my occupation, I'd give up my life of excess over at Gamestop with gusto and spend all my money on lotto tickets and cocaine for the rest of my existance.
Continue reading Week Old Reviews: Street Fighter IV
After coping with losing two auctions on rare games on one day and mentioning it on my blog, some of you people gave me advice on how to avoid it happening again. Well...I have won an auction today (you'll find out what I won in the next entry) and that'll be the last auction using my old technique. So instead of bidding early and waiting till the end, I'll try and bid at the last minute.
Continue reading A Change of Plan
Welcome to Ask-a-Blog Numero Dos! Today's question: 'How did you find rfgeneration?'
Fairly simple, but again, let's here those answers! 
My story is *drumroll*:
I spend a lot of time on Google. A lot. A lot a lot. A lot times a lot. You get the idea. The year is 2006, and I am perusing the following search query: "Video Game Collection Organizer". At around, oh, I dunno, page 7 or so, rfgeneration.com caught my eye. I clicked it, looked around, and decided it was nice, and something I would come back to. Bookmarked.
Fast forward to 2007, April of '07. I'm organizing my bookmarks, when I see a logo that I'm not too familiar with. 'RFGen'. Out of curiosity, I click the bookmark, and actually LOOK around the site. I missed a great site, and knew I should join up immediately, and promptly so. My official register time stamp is April 22, 2007, 10:31:31 AM, user number 1263. And I have been hooked ever since. The spring/summer of 2008 is when I really got hooked though, and became an active member in many aspects of the site, including the Forums, Blog, Blog Commenting, and Database...
So, there's my story. How's about your story (if you pardon the colloquialism...)?
'How did you find
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So we know a bit about some of the people here on RFGen. But mostly we just know their username or handle.
I was thinking about interviewing the members of RFG maybe so people could get a better sense of each other, learn something interesting, find some random commonality maybe?
I don't want your phone numbers, addresses or even your social security* or bank account information*.
Basically what this blog boils down to is what do you want to know about each other or let others know about yourselves?
Who do you most want to see interviewed?
What kind of questions would you be curious to have answered?
This won't be limited to staff or donors or members. Those who are active on the site, blogs, boards or our long time (and new) drifters/trolls/
Hopefully this will turn into a tome of many (or maybe even all) of our members who make RFGen what it is.
The basic questions I would like to ask are:
How did you find RFGeneration?
What made you join?
Whats your favorite game or series? Why?
What do you do outside of RFG?
So what does everyone else think?
*Though if you are interested in donating me this information i will be sure to only sell it to the highest bidder or keep it to myself 
The DSi will be released outside of Japan in just over a month, it's common knowledge that the new handheld is a mere upgrade to the existing DS Lite, but what has truly changed? The goal of this article is to let you know what's new, both from a technical and cosmetic standpoint, and to shed some light on some of the available DSi Ware, so hopefully when you're done reading, you'll know if upgrading to the DSi is right for you.
Continue reading The Nintendo DSi: Is it right for me?
Today is a day of sadness, but not emo, as I lose my chance of getting two very rare games to add to my collection. To help me explain, I will use comics made by me in the form of the style of Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw (Zero Punctuation, EscapistMagazine.com).
Continue reading Sad News
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[img width=300 height=290]http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/images/articles/mg-blogs/blog-22Feb09-1.jpg[/img] I was surfing the tube the other evening and happened across an episode of Madden Nation. Though not particularly foreign to me, I can't fully admit that I had ever sat through any given episode in this series for more than five consecutive minutes. Television offerings were extremely weak that night - Clean House Comes Clean did have its appeal, but ESPN ended up winning my viewing time. In hindsight, "Trish the Yard Sale Diva" and crew would have probably been a more entertaining choice (just for the pure eye candy). Madden Nation was more enlightening for me, and in a way I did not expect.
Being a huge Madden fan since back in the days of the Sega Genesis, I was a bit intrigued in seeing the new generation of footballers duke it out on TV in this latest rendition. I was thoroughly impressed by the skill and complex button combinations utilized to deftly guide their respective team across the digital gridiron. But as much as I was in awe of these adept performances, I was similarly disgusted with the amount of showboating, trash talk and other equally tasteless behavior exhibited by the majority of the participants. I am all about poking some fun as well as personally being the punch line, but these guys just had no class whatsoever. This was not so back in the day. For example...
As you probably know, I am an old school gamer and began my gaming 'career' back in the 70's. My buddy Dragas would shoot over little Marriott_Guys house to huddle around a 13" color television to play a game of Football on my parents newly acquired Texas Instruments TI-99 4A. Now this is as basic as you can get in a football game - a choice of 4 plays on offense and 4 for the defenders. Once your 'rock-paper-scissors' selection is made, you are basically at the mercy of the CPU. While on defense and Drago in a 3rd and 3 situation from his own 14 yard line, I locked into my "Goal Line Stand" formation. I stole a look at him, hoping to get some sort of read on his play selection. By the glint in his eyes I knew I was probably screwed. There are two dreaded words that no one wants to hear while in my current defensive alignment - I was pretty sure those were about to beat on my eardrums. My friend did not disappoint. He sucked in some air and in his best Froggie voice impression uttered those feared words - "The Bomb". All I could do is laugh and sit back and watch the beating unfold. A high-five would eventually come his way 22 seconds later once his football helmet sprite finally crossed into the end zone (this system was slow!). Gamesmanship was always a part of the equation for us and is until this day.
The players on this specific episode of Madden Nation really displayed nothing even close to sportsmanship. Maybe being in front of the camera drove their need to posture to their crew back home. Maybe these guys are asses in real life and slept through life's lesson in humility. Who knows. The over-the-top, ratings-driven antics by these clowns are undoubtedly condoned, possibly even orchestrated, by the ESPN producers of this show. Whatever the case, I would like to assume this is not a fair representation of today's gamer. Maybe I am wrong.
All I can say is this - if I didn't know why I had never before made it through an installment in this series, now I do. Those blowhards were not worth my time. Yes, shame on me choosing to watch it for that 30 minute interval. Shame on ESPN for showing the absolute worst behavior of gamers.
Trish, darlin', I'll see you next week.
As most of you probably know, the US economy is not exactly in the best of conditions right now. Reeling is a good term to use, really. So, in this time of great uncertainty and sadness, why not check out this lighthearted take on the Second Great Depression?
Well, that explains a lot about the economic collapse. Also, I'd totally buy that game. It's full of win.
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