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So yesterday was the second episode from my twitch.tv channel. It took awhile to get going since my buddy showed up very late (over and hour late). We got it together finally and began broadcasting around 9:30PM.
I was having a great time beating my friend at Hi-Octane for the Sega Saturn when I noticed one of our fellow RFG members nupoile sent a message telling me that there is massive echo. In the end of the broadcast it is him helping me to mitigate the echo. It turns out that OBS software allows you to select one microphone for more than one mic input source. I still have some echo after removing it from the audio source, but I will be going over it with a fine toothed comb to ensure that the next broadcast is (hopefully) echo free.
I do post the twitch.tv videos to youtube, so if you don't have time to watch live, please feel free to watch on twitch.tv after the fact, or on youtube.
Still going to be broadcasting with my buddy (or buddies when I can get 3+ player games going) on Wednesdays at 8:00PM EST, and will start broadcasting single player more often, but I don't have specific times for it yet.
Anyway, hope to see more of you guys tune in!
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Certainly, I can't be the only one on this site who gets a little jealous when they read slakur's articles and hear about his weekly nights of gaming with friends. As I've mentioned before, I don't have a lot of friends who game and even fewer that actually collect games. However, over the last few weeks, a buddy of mine has been coming over to the house on Thursday nights to game. We have a great deal of fun playing some of the new games I've purchased (some of which I'm playing for the first time) and pulling games off the shelf that maybe he or I have never tried out. The best part of the night is that he always has a plastic grocery bag in his hand when I open the front door to my house and I feel like a kid at Christmas eagerly awaiting to see what goodies are in that bag. Our game nights are definitely making my wishlist increase and my bank account lessen.
This past Thursday, we had another great night of gaming and played such awesome titles as: Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis), Soldier Blade (TG16), Air Zonk (TG16), The Combatribes (SNES), and Choplifter III (SNES). As is always the case, we played a few stinkers as well and that night the list included The Tick (Genesis) and Tail of the Sun (PSX). However, out of all of the games we played, none of them surprised us more than Mobile Light Force for the original Playstation.
Continue reading Banana's Rotten Reviews: Mobile Light Force
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Have you ever been influenced to buy a game (or other item) from watching a TV Show, or hearing about it on the radio? I have, and in my honest opinion, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg.
That Guitar Hero 2 Controller for 360 and copy of Guitar Hero 3 for PC are prime examples of this. I recently watched the Season 11 Episode of South Park, titled "Guitar Queer-O", and as it's title suggests, it deals with the game Guitar Hero. After watching the whole episode (twice actually, it was really good), I went out to the local Goodwill Store to find the game, as I often see Guitar Controllers and Guitar Hero Games in stock there. (GameStop doesn't appear to sell them anymore). Upon tracking down a boxed 360 Controller for 3 Dollars, I opened it up, and the controller was there (minus the break-away end of the cable, but I already had plenty of them), but the game was nowhere to be found. I put the box in my cart, and proceeded to check the shelf of DVDs and Games for the game, but it wasn't there either. However, I did find the PC Version of Guitar Hero 3, also for 3 Dollars, so I grabbed that instead. I bought them, and rushed home, to have my new habit begin.
Granted, GH3 is not DDR, what with all the catchy J-Pop Music, and probably never will be, but dang, is it fun to play. As of this writing, I can't play worth a crap on anything higher than Easy, but I'm not out to break a World Record or anything. I'm just playing to have fun.
The point here is this: Even if your not very good at a game, if you enjoy it, you should still play. While taking a break from it last night, I talked to one person who said playing it "makes you look like an idiot". My response to this was "So what?". I've come close to breaking bones playing DDR, and I'm pretty sure I looked pretty stupid when I fell down, but I didn't care. It's best to just laugh these kinds of things off. Does playing Guitar Hero make you look a little weird? Maybe. Should you care? Absolutely not. My name is Redd, I am a Guitar Zero, and dang proud of it.
This blog entry was brought to you today by the letter G, and exists thanks to my enjoyment of Video Games. 
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As a fan of story based games, I have to say that I love a game that takes you on a ride. Catherine is the kind of game that you can sit back with, relax, and watch an incredibly compelling social dilemma unfold before the protagonist's eyes. Lately, I've been thinking about companies from Japan. So many people have been crying out about the doom and gloom of the market and how Japanese development has been lagging behind while the Western world advances. This couldn't be further from the truth, as Atlus is one of Japanese gaming's oldest surviving names, but fastest risers in the global market. Persona 3 got the name out, Persona 4 kicked the door open, and Catherine broke the door's frame. Persona 5 is currently one of the most anticipated Japanese developed games since Atlus presented its masterfully crafted initial trailer.
Catherine was released in Japan and North American in 2011, with Europe and Australia getting a release in early 2012. The plot revolves around infidelity and is one that many of us have likely heard about, if not experienced first hand. Vincent, the games protagonist, gets caught up with a blonde-haired, blue-eyed young beauty named Catherine one night after all of his friends leave him alone at the bar. From here, the player chooses whether he wants to court her for the long run or remain faithful to his girlfriend, Katherine. The girls represent the ideologies of "Law" and "Chaos." Law is doing the right thing no matter how much it might hurt; Katherine is a structured being in complete charge of her life and represents Law. On the other hand, Catherine is more of a loose cannon that Vincent can't seem to get rid of no matter what decisions you make; she represents Chaos. Which one of these ladies will you choose, or will you choose the single life?
Continue reading Psychotic Reviews: Catherine
I am a bit of a dichotomy, as a gamer. I consider myself to be reasonably knowledgeable with regards to video games, gaming history, and in general, gaming culture. I will fully admit that I'm not up on the latest thing in today's gaming scene, but from the standpoint of "retro" games, I have a pretty broad base of information. That said, I know that I don't know everything, and there are definitely some gaps in my knowledge. There are consoles I've never seen or played, games I've not heard of, and experiences I lack as a whole, that prevent me from being the "be all, end all" of video game know-how. I'm a student of life, like anyone else, and I'm always learning.
Bearing that in mind, why would anyone who admittedly doesn't know everything call themselves a "guru?" Why would I want to subject myself to the level of scrutiny that comes from identifying oneself as a "guru?" What is my motive for elevating myself so much, other than to draw attention to myself? Am I crazy enough to think that I know enough to even refer to myself with such distinction? Do I deserve to even be calling myself by such a title?
Continue reading The Guru Inside: A Clarification on the Use of the Term
Hello All!
This past weekend I managed to get a composite/S-Video capture device so I can capture my video game play. It has been my intention since early on starting with the collecting to eventually start broadcasting some videos related to playing the games.
The reason I am starting now is that I feel like I have enough games in my library to keep it interesting. I am going to focus on multiplayer action with the help of some friends who live local to play the games. The main point of this whole thing will be to have fun playing games new and old on the couch. I will do solo gaming as well, but initially I think I will focus more on multiplayer.
My Twitch.tv channel: http://www.twitch.tv/buckethealien
My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c.../UCUm7CTUi7S5vvyQramUpwUQ
I have not uploaded any "let's play" videos or anything yet, this is just announcing that it is coming soon, and I'm very excited!
I hope to see you guys checking out my videos when they are up.
I am hoping to have at least one video up, or a live stream done within two weeks time, good luck to me!
If any of you guys have something similar going on, I am curious to check it out.
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With the Northern Fan Convention setup all behind us, it was nearly time to kick open the doors and let the public in. A public that was still largely unaware that we existed. Even the ones that knew about us didn't know that we were getting into tabletop games. This was our chance to get people excited about us all over again and at the same time, get some feedback about our new merchandise before rolling it out in our store.
Continue reading Blog Quest: Un"Convention"al Appearance - Part II
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For this year's RetroWorld Expo, we wanted to have a good mix of games for our first year of tournaments. We wanted to choose games that anyone could walk up and play, but also those that have a good enough following that we could see some really heated final matches. We came up with 4 games from the 16 bit era that everyone can play but only few have mastered.
Continue reading RetroWorld Expo: The Tournaments
Has anyone else heard about the Fallout Anthology being released? It contains all of the Fallout games (except Fallout 4 of course) Game of the Year editions (all add-ons etc.).
I have all of these games, but I ended up pre-ordering this Anthology mostly for the mini-nuke packaging. I am such a big fan of the Fallout series, but I have virtually no Fallout merchandise. I never really thought about this type of thing before becoming a collector, but now that I am well into collecting, I want to not just have games, but really cool merchandise of my favorite franchises.
I honestly have almost no merchandise or collectibles or even posters from games with few exceptions.
So now I am on a side quest to obtain merchandise/collectibles/posters from the following franchises that are some of my favorites:
Fallout
Wolfenstein
DOOM
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
GTA
I am taking donations from anyone, and could potentially trade something (although I doubt there is much interest in the items I would be willing to trade), or if reasonable I would be willing to make a purchase.
Anyone else find that they are in need of some cool merchandise to spice up their collections? I would also be interested in seeing some posts of peoples really cool game related swag.
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I'm a fan of the British author, Nick Hornby. His style is very approachable for all readers, it's humorous and has a nice way of making the reader reflect upon his/her own life. If you're not a reader, you may still be familiar with his works through their screenplays. Some of Hornby's more well-known adaptations include About a Boy, Fever Pitch (sadly Americanized to replace soccer with baseball...), and my personal favorite, High Fidelity. High Fidelity tracks the diminishing relationship of record store owner, Rob and his girlfriend Laura. After they separate, he reflects on his past relationships to get a better understanding of "what is wrong with him," even going so far as to meet with his old girlfriends to grill them on his hang-ups. What ensues is quite comical and is really worth a viewing if you haven't already seen it. So what does this have to do with gaming you ask? Well, stick with me here a little while longer if you haven't veered from the page already.
Continue reading Your Video Game Collecting Autobiography
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In the mid-90s, it seemed that every company that had not already done so built a 3-D engine to enter the new world of gaming. With 3-D arcade games wowing audiences worldwide, it was natural that everyone was excited to see this new dimension ported to the next generation of home consoles. Gungriffon started off as one such project at Game Arts, and began its development with the vague working title 3-D Polygon. The game released exclusively on Sega's Saturn worldwide in 1996. The game's events take place in 2015 (what???); so when you play it, make sure the right side wins this mech war!
Continue reading Psychotic Reviews: Gungriffon
For a long time I have just been ignoring the loose games in my collection because they are relegated to a CD book. Most of them are not worth the money to buy an original intact case with or even without instructions. What happens is they sit in a CD book, and when I'm looking for a game to play, I never open the CD book, it's always something that is out staring me in the face that ends up being played.
Realizing this, I took all of my games out of the CD book (legitimate loose games) and put them into CD cases so they were at least out. This then had the next problem of not being able to identify which games they were. This then turned into me glazing over those cases again since I couldn't quickly identify them, and it seems like work to have to pull them out and look at each one individually.
This reminded me of my original issue, except that these were games that I didn't want to spend big money on getting official cases (even though that would be ideal of course). I wanted a much cheaper solution that would look nice also.
I then remembered that there are lots of people uploading high resolution DVD covers for a lot of these games. Now all I need are some DVD cases. I did some research online and quickly found the best deal, the only drawback is that bulk is necessary when ordering from this particular site (each unit is 10 DVD cases). I picked up one unit of singles, one unit of doubles, and one unit of 6 DVD cases which left me with quite a few extras, but I figure I will use them up eventually.
I then looked online and was happy to find that a lot of these games have high resolution scans of DVD covers, or even custom DVD cover graphics, SWEET! Then I found that there were games that did not have high resolution scans of DVD cases, or even original box art. What to do with that?
I noted the size of the DVD images (3225x2156) and downloaded whatever the closest thing I could find online to the box art as possible, and made custom images to print out for DVD cases. One example of this is Descent: Freespace Darkness Rising, good luck finding DVD image online for that. In some cases the CD box art was available, and I simply stretched the image to make it fit eyeballing where the spine would be (quite accurately I might add).
Anyway, I know this is nothing new, but if anyone else is finding that their loose CD's or DVD's aren't being played, put them in a case so you can see them. Side benefit, it looks really cool when you are done (I printed all of mine in black and white as my laser printer is black and white, but in the end I like the look also).
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*From Wallpaperup.com*
Two genre defining games were released within a year of each other, separated by a platform and the first letter of the genre descriptor. One is famous for showing the world a whole new way of presenting visualization and sound in RPGs, the other for forcing a genre twist onto a conservative group of gamers while still keeping both feet rooted firmly in the past. One is a prime example of a JRPG, and the other is a near textbook entry of a CRPG. But we are all gamers, yes? So please put down your tape measures and rulers, and join me for a gentle evening of Baldur's Gate and Final Fantasy VII.
Continue reading A Gentle Evening with Baldur's Gate and Final Fantasy VII
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So, you finally picked up an arcade machine and you are trying to figure out what to do first. Let me take you through some of the things you should check and some of the options that you have.
Continue reading So You Picked Up an Arcade Cabinet
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"Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd..."
I'm not a sports guy. Truth be told, I never really have been, though I did have some relative interest in sports as a kid. I was sort of into football, I was sort of into basketball, and I had a passing interest in a couple other sports. The sport I was most interested in, like many other red-blooded American youth, was Baseball. Yes, America's pastime was my preferred sport, in part because of the strategy, and in part because that's what my dad was into. My team was the Kansas City Royals, in part because of their proximity to where we lived, and my favorite player was the pine tar king himself, George Brett. Needless to say, as a chubby nerd of a kid, I played exactly one summer of little league and played poorly enough that I didn't feel like playing a 2nd year. Once the player strike happened, I quit collecting baseball cards and pretty much lost all interest in the sport. I guess I had no sympathy for guys who made more money in a month than my dad made all year, and them whining about not getting paid enough.
Continue reading Baseball, 1989
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