This week's theme is about the Earth! Why? No idea, but there are a lot of games made with Earth in the title. More than all the other planet's combined actually! Go ahead, check; I dare ya!
Anyways, the featured game is Earthbound. Some gamers consider this the best RPG of all time, mostly due to the story line, gameplay, and flow. It's not graphically superior to most games of it's time, but it just works.
The featured image is from Earth Attack from the Atari 2600. Atari gets no love, so it's nice to feature it here and there. It's a very peculiar game with some incredible artwork on the cartridge. Check it out!
Our hardware feature is for the Atari 7800 Pro System. Sometimes considered the bastard child of Atari, this system was far too neglected. It had some great games!
Last but not least, our featured collection. This belongs to LifeGame. He has a wonderful collection as seen in his photos! Take a look!
Well, another week passes and time keep flying by. Spring is on it's way, and I bet we all can't wait. In the mean time, please come to our forums. We love hearing from new people. Don't be afraid! We talk about way more than video games, and we even have a trading fourm, so maybe you can get the game you've been looking for!
Hope to hear from you all soon, and may RFGeneration be with you!
Posted on Jun 7th 2007 at 02:06:30 AM by (St0rmTK421) Posted under Site News
hanks to the suggestion of DevIancE, a new feature has been added to the "All Collections" page. It is now possible to sort the collecions by hardware and software, so that you can now view people's collections as separate hardware and software collecions.
I've done it...you've done it...we've ALL done it! We have all, at one time, cheated.
No, no, I'm not talking about that late-night show on G4...I'm talking about cheat codes! Those glorious unlockable rewards hidden in nearly every game in existance.
To celebrate Cheaters Week here at RF Generation, our Featured Hardware is the good ol' Game Genie. The featured game of the week is Serious Sam for the Xbox, which has a moderate cheat menu hidden within the game. The Featured Image is a screenshot from Serious Sam: the Second Encounter for the PC.
The honor of Featured Collection goes to GagaMan, with his real nice collection of Dreamcast and Megadrive games, so be sure and check it out!
To further promote Cheaters Week, I'd like to send out a personal challenge to everyone to submit as much "Cheat" info as possible. Cheat codes, whether they be your standard "up+down+circle+circle" or the old Game Genie codes, can all be submitted under "Easter Eggs" in each game page.
With all that being said, let's all go forth and promote God Mode to the underachievers in gaming!
Well everyone, here it is, the week we have all been waiting for. Yes, it is the week where Shimra presents another halfway thought out article and declares an even more poorly thought out week. Yes everyone, it is the week you have all been waiting for, it is of course Super Quirky Handheld Games Week.
Now that you have let the awesomeness seep in, I shall present to you the featured game of the week. It is an outstanding game where you take the role of a rookie defense attorney whom is quickly raising in the ranks. Yes I am of course talking about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Our featured image is of Trace Memory, a unique point and click adventure for the DS. Our featured collection would be DevIancE's. The reason being that DevIancE has tons and tons of handheld games and systems, not to mention the name DevIancE is pretty amazing.
Well there you have it. As always, keep it tuned to Channel 3, and may we never forget Michael Collins.
Posted on Jun 7th 2007 at 02:03:05 AM by (St0rmTK421) Posted under Site News
We've finally rolled out our SQL-based collection system. The new system should be faster than the previous system and will be more friendly towards future database expansion.
A few new minor features have been added: - Hardware/Software dropdown menu - Sort by Hardware/Software in stats - View all page to view your whole collection
The first time you use the new system it may take a while to transfer your collection over. After the first page load, it should run quicker and you should be ready to go! Please post any bugs in the announcements forum. Enjoy!
Today is a momentous occasion for RF Generation, as today is the day that we hit 1000 members! We are quite humbled to have reached this milestone in under three years of operation. We hope you enjoy the community we've got going here, certainly we here on staff do. Are you not a member yet? Feel free to join by clicking here! All the cool kids are doing it!
You might be wondering who the lucky 1000th member is. The answer to that question is Yurf! Congratulations on being the 1000th member! We hope you enjoy the collection tools and community as much as everyone else does!
Also, since today is Monday, we have a new set of features for you to enjoy! Our featured game this week is the decidedly different Mario Paint. Is it a good game, or is it something to be passed on? Be sure to check out Mezmoron's opinion on the game. Our featured collection belongs to nupoile! Primarily an NES collection, nupoile also has such treasures as a Vectrex, Odyssey^2, and an Atari 5200! Be sure to check his collection out. Rounding out the features are the featured hardware, the Memory Card 251 [Pokemon Box Red-Blue], and image, of front cover of the box for Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd. Special thanks goes out to Mezmoron for getting those features up with his very busy schedule.
From all of us here at RF Generation, thank you for helping us get to this milestone. We couldn't have done it without you, and we hope that you decide to keep it tuned to channel 3. Stay tuned, more is always to follow when you put it on channel three. See you in the chat!
Posted on Jun 7th 2007 at 02:00:37 AM by (shaggy) Posted under Site News
Hello, fellow RF Genners. The weekly polls are up in the Video Game Generation forum and in the Idle Chatter forum. Please participate in the polls and don't forget our weekly Monday night chat at 7p.m. Central Standard Time. This week we will be talking about Windows Vista, the likes and dislikes between PC gaming and console gaming, and whatever else turns up. See you on Monday and don't forget about our polls. Take care and keep it tuned to RF Generation and Channel 3.
It's hard to believe. One year has passed since RF Generation lost its webmaster and co-founder, Michael Collins. In that year, we've had the time to cope, adjust, and move on, but I am sure I am not alone when I say that I miss Mike. I grieved, like many people grieved, and it still sucks to this day that Mike is gone. Mike touched the lives of many, and the community lost someone special when he passed away. Without Mike there may very well never had been this website. This website, its content, values, and community, are a reflection of who Mike was. It's special knowing that fact.
You may have never known Mike, or perhaps you were one of his good friends. Regardless of who you are, we hope that you will never forget that Mike was not only one of the driving reasons behind this site, but also a friend to many and one of the nicest leaders you could ever meet. Mike had this crazy idea when he founded the site that "No one should be forgotten". Well, if that is such a crazy idea then mark me insane. No one here should ever be forgotten, especially someone as wonderful of a human being as Mike. We will never forget you Mike, and we hope that neither will you, the members of our wonderful little community on the internet.
Mike touched the lives of many. Knowing this and what a wonderful person Mike was today we launch our memorial of Mike. Mike may be gone, but he is certainly not forgotten. We hope that on this day you will take the time to read a bit about why Mike was such a wonderful person to many. Perhaps you would like to contribute to our memorial through your own memories or reflections, and if so we encourage it. We hope though that you will take the time though to at least get a glimpse of who Mike was and why he was a friend to many.
Today RF Generation pauses to remember a friend who has passed on. Mike, you are gone, but you certainly are not forgotten.
This week is Super Heroes week! Whether they fly through the air, use their cunning and skills, or, like the featured "super-hero" this week (The Punisher), use guns and guts to fight the bad guys, we love them all. Our featured game of the week is, surprise, The Punisher for the Xbox, one of my personal all-time favorites. The game, while somewhat similar to most 3rd Person shooters, includes some unique attributes, like interrogation that you might find interesting, to say the least.
The featured image this week is the Punisher for the NES and the featured hardware for the week is the Super Scope 6. A big gun ANY super hero might use...maybe.
Our featured collection is that of DatenshiBlue who not only has a great game collection, but a respectable game-related action figure collection.
Check out the game page for The Punisher for Xbox and see all the cheats for the game as well as the latest review.
Posted on Jun 7th 2007 at 01:55:45 AM by (Mezmoron) Posted under Site News
Today RF Generation reached several milestones. The first milestone is that we now have over 14,000 screen shots in our database! In addition, we now have over 33,000 images in the database! These feats are a huge accomplishment, given that a little under a week ago we announced that we had passed the 32,000 images mark. Many thanks go out the following people: Tan, freak_boy, kevincal, JWKobayashi, RAMBO, Fuyukaze, AndyC, Belgarath, bum-man and anyone else I may have missed. Without these guys there is no way we could have gotten from 32,000 to 33,000 images so quickly.
In addition to the milestone that we reached in the images category, today we also passed the 8000 mark for the number of approved submissions made since we began logging submissions back at the end of October of Last Year! I would like to thank everyone who has helped to make this feat possible, but there are a few people that I would like to give special thanks to. Tan and Fuyukaze are our two submitting machines. Tan has had almost 2350 submissions since the logging system began, and Fuyukaze has almost reached the 1500 milestone. Thatââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s a lot of submissions made between the two of them, and we appreciate the dedication it took to complete all those submissions. We also would like to thank everyone who helped us reach this milestone, while there are too many people to specifically name please know that we very much appreciate all the submissions that are made to the site. Do you want to join in on the submitting fun? Click here If you would like to join in the submission party! So far 2007 has been a great year. Since January 1st we have added over 4000 images to the database. Lets all keep up the great work. Maybe we can get to 50,000 by the end of the year! Keep them submissions coming! Surely weââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ll be able to make this goal with your help!
I'm in mourning! Chespirito (or Roberto Gomes Bolaños), one of the biggest idols from my childhood has just passed away at the age of 85.
I suppose that many of you who live outside Latin America may never heard about Chespirito/Roberto, so let me introduce him briefly: he is a mexican actor, writer and director who created probably the biggest and the most iconic characters and TV shows in Latin America, such as Chapulin and El Chavo.
El Chavo is his most popular show, being aired here in Brazil (as Chaves) uninterruptedly since 1984 and still a HUGE success, enjoyed by kids to adults. It is a sitcom that addresses the interactions of a group of people who live in a poor neighborhood. I've watched all these episodes TONS of times and i know by heart all the lines, but i still keep laughing every time, and i'm assure you i'm not the only one.
Cool, but what it has to do with videogames???
Well, his work has generated cartoon shows (which sucks by the way), books, toys and also VIDEOGAMES!!!
Unfortunately, the games are not worth the plastic they use on the packaging (well, the racing one is not that bad), but as a fan i saw myself obliged to buy them. Here they are:
Well, all this stuff was just as excuse to pay a homage to this great man. It will be quite strange to watch these shows from now on knowing that El Chavo (or Chaves, the way we call this character in Brazil) is not here anymore.
R.I.P Chespirito/Roberto and thanks for make me laugh for the last 30 years!
Last fall a coworker of mine named Sidd took a vacation to Japan. He had studied abroad there when he was younger and has a deep love for the country and its people. Knowing that my fandom of Japanese culture veers between low-key otaku and hardcore weeb depending on what day it is, Sidd asked me if I'd like him to bring anything back with him from the land of the rising sun. Of course I jumped at the chance to get some authentic souvenirs, but I didn't want to just give him a list of video games to bring back. I enlisted the help of Adam Bickman2k for some ideas. I'd like to thank Adam for his suggestions because without them my list of requests would have consisted of "Game Boy games" and "Godzilla stuff."
I thought about doing a top 10 list this year, as I always try to do, but I'm just the latest in a seemingly endless string of writers saying 2020 was unlike any year I've seen in my lifetime. I feel like I have an excuse every year for why I didn't play as many games as I would have liked, but frankly, I feel less apologetic about it this time.
On the bright side, this was a great time to dip into the warm, fuzzy, comfort food of pixel art. I recently came across the book Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type and hadn't seen anything like it before. As the name suggests, it highlights early gaming fonts and details the differences from the perspective of someone who is a trained typeface designer. Paging through it was just the kind of happy place I've been going to a lot this year, and I have a feeling it'll spark some interest with this group as well.
Following a successful Kickstarter Campaign in 2014, Lizard is the latest NES focused homebrew from developer Brad Smith, who previously released chiptunes cartridges Moon8 and 2A03 Puritans. Lizard forgoes powerups, lives, and timers and instead opts for an open world platforming adventure. It's an adventure four years in the making so let's put on our Lizard suit and take a look.
We are a community of collectors, gamers and the likes, and some of us enjoy to let the world know what is on our mind. For those members, we have the community blogs, a place where they can publish their thoughts and feelings regarding life, universe, and everything. Some of those members might even choose to write about gaming and collecting! Whatever they write about, you can find it on their blog. You can either see the latest community blog entries in the feed you see to the left, or you can browse for your favorite blog using the menu above. Interested in having your own blog hosted on RF Generation? It's rather simple, first be a registered member, and then click the "My Blog" link that you see in the navigation above. Following those two steps will certainly get you on your way to blogging.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy our entries, rantings, and completely unrelated series of thoughts. We write for you to read, so we certainly hope that you enjoy our material.
