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Posted on Oct 11th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (SirPsycho)
Posted under Atlus, rpg, sega, saturn, sony, playstation, nintendo, 3ds, turn based

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Greetings for another year of RFGeneration's Spooktober Reviews. This year, I'm doing something a little different. I'm finally taking the time to start talking about one of the best series of role playing games that mixes quite perfectly with everybody's favorite cosplay holiday. Shin Megami Tensei is a long running series that is confusing to follow from start to finish, partially because so many games remain exclusive to Japan. Our game today was among the titles of games Western fans never thought they would play outside of a fan translation patch. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, is originally a Saturn release, and later got a port to the Playstation. In 2012, Atlus released an upgraded port for Nintendo's 3DS, and this version was released internationally the following year.


Continue reading Spooky Plays: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers



Posted on Oct 7th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (MetalFRO)
Posted under Review, Game Boy, Game Boy Guru, Solar Striker, shmup

[img width=320 height=286]http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/1/4/0/21140_front.jpg[/img]
Image shamelessly linked from GameFAQs.
I love classic video game box art like this. It symbolizes
the imagination many artists put into the artwork. Imagination
that unfortunately, rarely ever captured the true look and
feel of the game. Still, it gave us hope of the contents within.

One of the video game genres that I've been a big fan of over the last 20 years or so is shoot-em-ups.  No, I'm not talking about "shooters", those fast-paced, first-person games where you brandish a firearm of some sort and snipe guys at 300 feet, reveling in every headshot.  I'm talking about the scrolling shooter, one of the staples of what we now know as classic, or "retro" gaming.  You see, from the early-mid 1980's, until around the mid-late 1990's, the scrolling shooter genre evolved tremendously, from humble beginnings like 1942, Vulgus, Star Force, and the like, to highly sophisticated games with deep, complex scoring systems like Battle Garegga, Dodonpachi, Radiant Silvergun, and many more.  While I appreciate the complexity and replayability of games like that, give me a simple "shmup" (a term, coined by Zzap!64 Magazine) with twitchy game play, a simple control scheme, and solid action any day.  While there's room in my heart for "danmaku" games (aka bullet curtain, or "bullet hell" shooters), I generally prefer classic shoot-em-ups to their more grown-up descendants.


Continue reading Solar Striker, 1990



Posted on Oct 7th 2015 at 08:43:08 AM by (ReddMcKnight)
Posted under Gaming, FNAF, Super Smash Bros, Animal Crossing

At last! It's been ages since I've updated this thing, but here it is! Another episode of my many Gaming Adventures! Here we go!

Five Nights At Freddy's
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[To be written as soon as I gather the courage to actually play it]

Super Mario Maker
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This game, Super Mario Maker, is so freaking neat! As the name implies, it lets you make Mario Levels to share with friends and the world, and it is glorious! I really like how you can scan in Amiibos to use as Costumes for Mario! I haven't been able to easily put this one down, and I'm not even that creative! Highly recommended for EVERYONE!

Animal Crossing City Folk
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Now for something more relaxed and peaceful...yes, I'm serious. Mario Maker as a game is easy and simple, but people can make some damn hard levels on it. That being said, I figured it was time to pick up a more casual game. While this doesn't top the original AC for Gamecube in my eyes, it's still really good. It's easy to pick up and play, and barring the original, I can't think of a more relaxing game to play. At least not right now.

That's all for now, though the part about FNAF will be filled in as soon as I play it. I watched the fine people on Steam Train (a YouTube spin-off of Game Grumps) play it, and it was just great.



Posted on Oct 5th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (bickman2k)
Posted under Site News, RetroWorld Expo, Booger Star Destroyer, Mashed potato pizza, hashtags

As I write this, I'm sitting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport on a 3 hour layover. I've been up since 4:45am after going to bed some time around 2am.

Totally worth it!





Posted on Oct 2nd 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (Crabmaster2000)
Posted under Blog Quest, Staff Members, Employees, Hiring, Game Store, Video Games

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We've all heard that old chestnut at one point or another during our lives: "It takes a village to raise a Game Store". I've learned firsthand how true that is over the last couple years though.....


Continue reading Blog Quest: The Crew



Posted on Sep 30th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (wildbil52)
Posted under Arcade, games, collecting

[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/JJB4Qvg.jpg?1[/img]

OK, get ready for a long entry.  I had originally planned for this to be a 4 or 5 part series but it's been kicked into high gear to get it complete by the time the RFGen crew descends upon me for the RetroWorld Expo.   A lot of details to go over, a lot of assembly, a lot of art.  Time to settle down for the never ending control panel assembly.


Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part II



Posted on Sep 28th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (SirPsycho)
Posted under SNK, arcade, neo geo, psp, ps2, wii, playstation, playstation 2, playstation portable, shooter, run and gun

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Metal Slug is an arcade run and gun shooter developed by Nazca Corporation. The team behind Nazca likely started in the early 1990s, when they were an internal team for Irem. In 1994, Irem imploded as a result of extremely weak sales. The wholesale division for arcades became Apies, and with the development group behind Nazca going independent, all Irem had left was a team of video game developers for consoles. In 1996, Nazca released two games for SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade unit, Neo Turf Masters and Metal Slug. After a stellar sales performance, SNK bought Nazca outright.

SNK was in a precarious position at the time they acquired Nazca, they were busy at work on a fully 3D arcade board, which ended up being the Hyper Neo Geo 64. This upgrade was meant to help SNK produce high budget and top quality 3D arcade games. They were years behind their competitors in this market, and the system did not have any early hits. Their older series, the original Neo Geo MVS, remained the standard for the company, because of later released, fast-paced and fun 2D arcade games like Metal Slug.


Continue reading Psychotic Reviews: Metal Slug



Posted on Sep 26th 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (bombatomba)
Posted under Physical media, disk, cloth map, floppy, RCR, Retro City Rampage

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DOS is dead.  Well, about as dead as the Latin language, meaning that while it is still used today for many things, nothing new has been done in quite a while.  Searching for DOS on Google will net you a ton of abandonware sites instead of indie projects.  Ask your friends and they will wax nostalgic about their favorite games (perhaps many of them not even DOS games).  But there is a completed project, believe it or not, and it has recently been released as a physical, limited release game.  Yep.  A port, no less, of an already successful indie game that has seen physical boxes on the PS4 and PS Vita as well.  The name, you ask?  It's Retro City Rampage 486.


Continue reading Retro City Rampage 486 Edition



Posted on Sep 25th 2015 at 08:00:20 PM by (bombatomba)
Posted under Elite Dangerous Cost, Frontier, controversial, elitism, season pass, expansion pack

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Do yourself a favor.  Don't buy Elite: Dangerous.  Yet.



Continue reading Opinion - Don't Buy Elite: Dangerous. Yet.



Posted on Sep 24th 2015 at 12:44:37 PM by (slackur)
Posted under Bias, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, corporations, none as good as the ngage

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Good thing it told me.  Source: Jeremysaid.com

Let's be honest here for a minute.  You WHAT?  I'm... sorry, I think I have to call the police.

Er, let's start over.  If we're truly honest about it, people tend to be pretty picky, and that includes gamers being picky about their games.  And that's fine!  After all, we're dedicating our most valuable resource; time, and usually at least some of our income toward a leisure activity.  It only makes sense that we are discerning about how and what we play, and cater our playtime to match our preferences, as we do most other things.


Continue reading Good Thing My Bias is the Right One



Posted on Sep 23rd 2015 at 03:54:16 PM by (GrayGhost81)
Posted under gaming, zeitgeist, budget

It's rare for me to be on the cutting edge of new video game releases. They're so expensive first of all and as a collector I'm never short of other things to play. There are rare instances where a game comes out and I just can't resist the urge to be an early adopter. In recent memory I did it with Mass Effect 3, and I quite enjoyed being part of the discussion going on in the media about the game and of course, the ending.

I recently broke down again and purchased Metal Gear Solid V. At first I intended to wait until I owned a Playstation 4 to play it, but I don't know when that will be. After months of pre-release hype and the explosion of information coming out about the game after its release, I decided to purchase and download the Playstation 3 version of the game.

Metal Gear Solid V is an astoundingly good game, but that's only part of the excitement at this point in history, just after its release. There are pros and cons to being in the mix, but on the rare occasions where I get into the fray with a new game, I tend to find an added layer of enjoyment to my overall experience.

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First of all, I find it more fun to learn, discover, and share tips and gameplay tactics with the community as other people are doing the same thing. It's more exciting than pulling up an FAQ and looking up what you need. It's fun when there are things in a game that haven't been figured out yet. It's great to read forums where the other members are trying to figure the same thing out as you are, and no one is really an expert on the game yet.

Further, if the game is highly visible like MGSV, there will be constant news about it coming from gaming news sources, and sometimes even mainstream news outlets. It's nice looking in my social media feeds and seeing story after story about the game. From a psychological perspective, it's one of those things that helps reinforce a buying choice.

There's also the fact that publishers will support the their games closer to the release day, and one can expect diminishing returns from that point on. The servers will only be viable for a finite amount of time, so why not get in while they're being supported wholeheartedly by the publishers?

Of course there are drawbacks too, the main one being story spoilers. At a certain point, many people will have finished the game and the internet is full of people who really don't care that you haven't yet. In the case of MGSV, I was listening to a podcast recently where the hosts were about ten story missions ahead of me. As much as they tried to be spoiler free, there were times where I had to put my fingers in my ears and say "La la la la la" to drown them out until I could press fast forward. On the other hand, this encouraged me to push forward with the story missions and progress further into the game. Those aforementioned social media feeds can be a minefield (pun intended) of spoilers as well, with some outlets putting them right in their headlines.

So as much as classic games and overlooked hidden gems are my bread and butter, it is rewarding on occasion to jump in with the mainstream and join the meta-game of interacting with the gaming community at large. It's expensive, but rewarding. I probably won't do it again until Persona 5 is out...or maybe Fallout 4.




Posted on Sep 22nd 2015 at 09:27:45 PM by (bigbrutis)
Posted under PS2, PlayStation 2





Posted on Sep 22nd 2015 at 12:00:00 PM by (noiseredux)
Posted under PC

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Some of you may have noticed that I took a bit of a hiatus away from writing here for the past couple months. Mostly I just needed a break from deadlines for a bit. The Summer months can certainly get busy between yard work, vacation, beach days, and BBQ's. So I mean, there's good busy in there, but busy none the less. I did however get some gaming done as well, so I thought I'd take a look back at some of the stuff I found myself really into recently.


Continue reading What I Played On My Summer Vacation



Posted on Sep 22nd 2015 at 10:21:30 AM by (64bit warrior)
Posted under Retro

I have had a few people ask ne when do games become retro? I reply "What do you think?" Which normally ends up talking about the N64.
Personally I think that "retro" games for this era of gaming ends with the PS1 and N64. Why? Because the style of gaming and game design have changed since then. Platformers have turned to FPSs and "immersion" is the hot topic. There was very little hand holding but now we have on screen prompts and a big arrow telling you where to go.
What do you think?



Posted on Sep 21st 2015 at 08:17:59 PM by (douglie007)
Posted under Streaming , Sega, Genesis, Master System, 32x, PICO, Retro, Saturn, Dreamcast

I will be playing every game that I own for Sega systems I am doing this because I would like to be able to say I have played every game I own

Rules for my gameplay
  • Playing the games in Release order, If no US date could be found I used JP dates
  • Will Play until Game Over if possible, if no game over after 10 min will end playing
  • Sports to end of first Quarter/Inning (orbored )
  • Games will be recorded/Played off real hardware no Retrons or Emulators
  • if game has an issue or new, I may use an Everdrive

Game list and day I will be playing them on Twitch http://www.twitch.tv/douglie007 



If Preview doesnt Work https://docs.google.com/s...tml?gid=0&single=true

9/10/15 video stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?4zMQP6kVICQ

9/17/15 video stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?uGIOzv-h20U


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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