After last weeks amazingly awesome features, I pretty much decided there was absolutely no way in bloody hell I could top Tan. So, I do what I do best, I decided I would simply make everything about me. The game of the week just so happens to be one of my all time favorite RPGs, the screenshot of the week just so happens to be of my favorite action game of all time(hard as balls too), the featured hardware is of a controller that is so unGodly uncomfortable I have blisters on my thumb from using the damn thing's d-pad while destroying all who oppose me in Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO. The featured collection is that of a user whom I've never talked to but have dreamt of having his username as my own, also his collection is nice and organized which I could only wish mine was like that.
So...Yay this week is about stuff relevant to me. Booyakasha to all those who disagree with the way I choose to do things around here. Actually, PM me because I'm running low on themes for the week <_<.
Anyway, the featured game is Shadow Hearts Covenant, and outstanding RPG from, gasp, Midway. The featured Screenshot is of Devil May Cry 3, which, if you have played the game, will make you cringe. The featured hardware is that of Nintendo's Wavebird, a fairly cool wireless controller. Finally the featured collection is that of Rajaat the Warbringer. Lots of NES games, nice cabinet, really organized. Damn I wish I could claim to be that organized.
Well there you have it. Sorry it isn't as outstanding as Tan's features. You only have to deal with this for a week my good chum.
Ever take pride in having your initials displayed on a high score list? As a kid laugh at the crude humor you or someone else created with 3 letters on a screen? Well if you do this weeks feature is for you! This week RF Generation salutes high scores and those who make them.
When games like Space Invaders and Asteroids hit the arcades nearly three decades ago, it brought one major aspect of gaming never before seen: high score records. Concentration, skill, sore fingers and loose change were rewarded with bragging rights, top scores and initials which brought gamers admiration from their friends and envy from their rivals. Websites like Twin Galaxies and publications such as the upcoming Guiness Book of Video Game Records keep this spirit alive for gamers both young and old.
This weeks featured game is Space Invaders for the Atari 2600. A game fairly representative of it's arcade counterpart and also the first ever game licensed from one company to another (Taito to Atari). A practice which is common-place and frequent in todays games with much success. This home version offered 112 variations of play and launched the 2600 into mass appeal at Christmas during 1980.
In keeping with this theme, first off we should give a big salute to welchracing33 who currently has a whopping 25 titles from the RF Generation Arcade to his credit! As well the featured collection this week is from blissfulnoise who has a very nice selection of arcade cabinets that makes me green with envy!
Finally we come to our featured hardware of the week. The Street Fighter series has always been one of the most competitive and acclaimed arcade series since it's debut in 1987. In 2005 Capcom and Nubytech teamed up and introduced a collection of official 15th anniversary Street Fighter controllers for both the Xbox and Playstation. This weeks image is of the Xbox "Akuma" controller pad, one of three for that system.
So take a deep breath, crack your knuckles and work on those RFGen arcade scores and those posted in "The Arena" sub-forum found in the message boards. Also as always, keep it on Channel 3!!
This is a friendly reminder, after yesterday's abysmal chat turn out, that every Monday at 8:00 PM EDT we have RF Generation Chat hosted by the one and only shaggy. There we talk about what ever we feel like, and it tends to be a lot of fun. Of course, you can not join in on the fun unless you are there, so be there or be square every Monday for RFG Chat.
Additionally, to eliminate any confusion, I would also like to point out that you can join the chat 24/7 provided that you are a registered member. Even if no one is in there a single person in chat tends to act as a seed, so don't be afraid of the chat.
See you in the chat!
Today I'd like to congratulate Tan on all the awesome work that he does. Tan is number one in submissions not by just a bit, but is such a hard worker that he has almost doubled the number two submitter. His, and your, submissions are not unnoticed, and we appreciate all of your hard work.
Times are changing yet again around here with this site redesign, and as it gets closer and closer to completion we need to make some changes. See, we have this nice new front page and news script that is going to grace the site, and I want someone to be the caretaker of the front page. I'd like the front page to be a true gateway and a place people will want to visit consistently, and for that reason I need someone who will focus on achieving that goal. For this reason, the directors of this site have decided to promote Tan to Front Page Editor. It will be his job to ensure that this goal is met. There are a lot of cool features that will be implemented into the front page, and he will, along with other staff members, work to ensure that these features are well used and make a desirable front page for people to see and visit.
Congrats to Tan! May our front page flourish!
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to drop in and give props to you all! We are now over 27,000 games, 37,000 images, and 1,000 pieces of hardware! That's one heck of a feat!
Want to help out? Hit Submit Site Info on the left side of the page or click this link. Just make sure to follow the guidelines seen here (games/hardware) and here (images).
And as always, keep it tuned into channel 3.
Well, believe or not...I am not making this up...It is National Egg Salad Week. I hope you like eggs, because you're going to get a healthy dose of it in this week's features! First off, we have the featured game, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg for Nintendo Gamecube. It's a very interesting game in which you roll eggs and play with eggs...you get the point. Secondly, we have our featured image. The image is for a not very well known egg-cellent game by the name of Eggomania. Just look at that image. Wow. Our featured hardware is the Pro Controller for the Atari Jaguar. Look at all of those buttons. Geez! Finally, our featured collection goes to one of our resident pack rats, Ghost Soldier.
Buy some eggs, cook some eggs, eat some eggs, enjoy some eggs. Don't throw some eggs, you'll get in trouble! And always, keep it tuned to channel 3 here at RFG!
Hi there, this is your neighborhood friendly Site Director telling you to come to RFG Chat, this Monday at 8PM EDT! As with every week, RFG chat is hosted by our resident host Shaggy, and is sure to cover very interesting topics! So yes! Visit our hosted chat tomorrow night by clicking the Chat button in the Main navigation bar or in the forum navigation bar! This chat room exists 24/7 (provided the site is up), so stop in at any time, if you sit around I am sure someone else will eventually stop by!
See you in chat!
Yup. April Fools day is going to continue a bit longer as we focus on toddler stuff this week. This may or may not be fun. The featured game is Fisher Price's I can Remember, a game which I can proudly say I own. The featured image is that of Sesame Street ABC/123 which is yet another game I own. The featured collection is that of Cobra Blade, congrats on being nominated and do not take offense to having the featured collection. I simply made the connection between Cobra and G.I. Joe. Finally the featured hardware is the purple Nintendo Gamecube because...
1. Kids like purple.
2. Nintendo is kiddy.
3. Nintendo is kiddy.
April Fools. Anyway, keep it tuned to channel 3.
Yes, it was an April fools joke, just like my personal favorite April Fools joke, Pretty Generation, where everyone was pretty as a posy. What a beautiful time that was.
For those of you who did not see the April fools joke, you can find Toddler Generation here. You can also find the posts of April Fools in the the April Fools category of the forum. This won't be a permanent category, and will likely be decommissioned in a week or two. So get to seeing those posts if you haven't seen them yet.
Luckily for you guys, unlike the previous two years the site remained fully functional today save for the hideous color pallette that was Toddler Generation. As such, any changes you made to your collection on April 1 will remain them, and any submissions made also still exist. I'd like to thank our resident graphic artist den68 and our Database Director Eddie Herrmann with assisting me with the joke, this would have been much harder without them.
For those of you who wonder about the previous April Fools jokes of the site, here is a list of them in chronological order:
As you can see, this is a reoccurring theme here at RF Generation, so you can expect to see another one of these jokes come again next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Having said that, we have a lot of things cooking at RF Generation. Our third birthday is coming up, and you can expect to see some contest and birthday bash in 4 weeks. Also, we've began the extremely arduous process in cleaning up the site and making it use CSS tags. I guess you could call it a site redesign. Don't expect to see the new site rolling out in the near future, but I thought that perhaps you might like to know what's cooking at RF Generation. As that gets closer to fruition I am sure more will be said about that project.
As always stay tuned to RF Generation. More is certainly going to follow when you keep it tuned to channel three.
Hey everyone! Just a little note to give props to everyone for adding images to the database! We're over 36,000 images and growing by the minute! Check out everyone's collection. Our members have been hard at work collecting and also adding pictures of their new finds!
Also, if you get a chance, head over to the messege boards and leave your opinion on a variety of topics! We love hearing from all our members!
As always, keep it tuned to channel 3 here at RFG!
I don't want to title this week, but if I had to, I guess it'd be....Sonic Week! Why? Well, while at home, watching TV, I would always see these wonderful commercials for the fast food chain Sonic. Well, they have these drinks that combine ice cream and flavored slushie, and I have always wanted to try them since we don't have Sonic in our area. Well, my wife and I went on vacation last week to the south and decided that we had to find a Sonic. Heaven, pure Heaven. It definitely beats our crap in the North. Anyways, I digress.
Our featured game happens to be the odd cartridge, Sonic & Knuckles. Most people love the fact paced platforming hyjinks of our hedgehog friend. This is a great game for everyone to play. Heck, it's like a 4 in 1 cart if you own some of the other Sonic games. The featured image is the Japanese front box version of Sonic Advance 2. Our hardware is one of the great "unknown to most" systems, the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (Japanese version). Last, but not least, our featured collection belongs to Fighter17. Fighter17 has one of the best collections on our site in my opinion. Nearly every one of his games are owned because he plays them. That is something us collectors do not do nearly enough of.
That's about it folks! So remember, keep it tuned to channel 3. Visit the forums! Visit our collection tools! And please, visit a Sonic!
After a long hiatus, the RFGeneration features are finally updated. My apologies about that. Kicking off this week we have a theme centered around a genre of games which seems to be unknown to the RFGeneration community. I am talking about the sports genre.
The featured game this time around is WWF Wrestlemania Challenge which I firmly believe is the wrestling counterpart to Tecmo Super Bowl. Our featured image is that of Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run which at the time had some of the most gorgeous graphics. The featured hardware is the classic Sega Genesis controller which is one of the most comfortable controllers ever made. Finally, our featured collection is the collection of Rabusma, a user whom has multiple versions of many systems.
So there you have it. Hopefully with the addition of sports week RFGeneration can become a bit more diversified. As always, keep it tuned to Channel 3.
I'd like to apologize for the slowness seen on the site this weekend. I do not know if it was necessarily our fault, but I have made some steps to ensure that our load on the mySQL server is decreased. Hopefully these improvements will allow for the increased responsiveness of the mySQL server, and subsequently our site.
Sincerely,
David Murnan
Site Director, RF Generation.com
PS: See you in Chat tomorrow!
Here is something for you all that not even the staff knew about. Want to pimp your collection stats in an easy, banner sized image? Here you go! This image generates in real time your collection stats for the games database. To get your stats up here is the general link:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...collectionstats;user=USER
Your stats will show up when you replace USER with your forum username. It may also be advantageous to save this as a separate image, as the loading speed is at the mercy of the mySQL server.
Enjoy!
After countless hours of programming and optimizations tonight RF Generation releases the submission system version 3.0, which you can find here. You may be wondering what this submission system allows you to do, well, here is the short list of new features:
- Ability to add Alternate Titles
- Ability to add Countries to a game, if it was not a region wide release
- Ability to add a game ratings and rating descriptors, such as for the ESRB
- Streamlined Media Formats
- More forgiving submission search scripts
- Ability to search by country in the advanced search
- Ability to see all the new features on the game and hardware pages
- Lots of backend improvements
We hope that these improvements and new features further solidify our place in the internet as one of the premier games databases and collection tools. I'd like to thank everyone on staff for helping to debug the scripts as well as the donors for unknowingly debugging the system as well. Hopefully their assistance will keep the occurrence of bugs to a minimum, however, if bugs do pop up please let me know, so I can quash them as quickly as possible.
From all of us at RF Generation, thank you for keeping it tuned to channel three, and we hope that you continue to keep it tuned in for years to come.
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