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Two years ago, we started Game Quest exclusively as a video game store. Now that we have the space, we've jumped into all sorts of other games. Many of these, like Magic and a lot of board games, I've played and am very comfortable with, but as we keep getting requests and bring in new products to try, I find myself exploring all sorts of new games, many of which have turned out to be a ton of fun!!
Continue reading Blog Quest: Look at all these games!!!
Episode 36 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...rum/index.php?topic=16022
We survived RetroWorld Expo and are here to tell the tale. Listen as we reminisce about our trip, the drive to Connecticut, and getting to hang out with everyone at the convention. As usual, some fantastic questions come from the listeners. Keep them coming!
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Show Notes
Music: Gradius II (Famicom)
Q & A - 10:10
Topic - 57:30
Outro - 2:51:35
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Today is International Play Your Vectrex Day! To find out how to join in on the fun, see details below and fire up that old, black box.
To join in on International Play Your Vectrex Day:
1. Play your Vectrex today;
2. Keep track of what you played; and
3. Edit the Vectrex wiki page for it (http://vectrex.wikia.com/...nal_Play_Your_Vectrex_Day) or contact Vectorguy via either private message or in the thread on the message boards, and he will enter it for you.
4. Have fun!
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If you grew up in the 80's, at some point your dreams were probably plagued by images of at least one of the super iconic kings of the slasher film. Though Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, and even Leatherface were not totally absent from appearing on the home console, most of these games (if not all) were very poor representations of their movie license. Of course, this had a lot to do with early censorship issues, which prevented fantasy blood, gore, and other forms of more "adult" content. Thanks to ESRB ratings (established in 1994), parents can now be more aware of what their kids are playing, and on the flip side and much to the joy of many modern gamers, the amount of mature content has greatly increased in modern gaming. Prior to ESRB ratings, many licensed horror games were "forced" to keep their games behind the counter or dull down the content for younger gamers. One of the most notorious (as in notoriously bad) games to come out pre-ESRB was Friday the 13th on the NES in 1989. Since then, no one has even attempted to make a more violent and mature video game based on this series.......that is, until NOW!
Check out more details, watch the project creators talk about the game, and JOIN THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN HERE!!!: https://www.kickstarter.c...h-the-game?ref=nav_search
**DISCLAIMER** - PICTURES AND VIDEOS BEYOND THIS BREAK MAY CONTAIN VIOLENCE, BLOOD AND GORE, AND ADULT MATERIAL THAT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Continue reading Friday the 13th on Kickstarter
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We have 5 areas to route, some Lexan to cut, a little paint to apply, and there was a slight delay with the artwork. All in another day's work when designing a control panel.
Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part III
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Our day of darkness grows ever closer ghosts 'n goblins. Tonight we shall gather around a campfire in front of a dark castle and fight! Darkstalkers 3 is an tournament fighting game developed and published by Capcom during the company's Golden Age of two dimensional fighters. Darkstalkers 3 was first released in the arcade in 1997, with console ports to the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation released the following year. Only the Playstation port was released outside of Japan, and it made it to Europe in 1999.
Continue reading Spooky Fights: Darkstalkers 3
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Once upon a time, I convinced my mother to buy me an Atari Jaguar on clearance for sixty dollars at our local K-B Toys store. I had a nice stack of games with it including some of the 'good' ones like Alien Vs Predator and Checkered Flag. However, two games my sister and I played together for hours on end were Ruiner Pinball and Val d'Isere Skiing and Snowboarding. Ruiner Pinball is a pretty basic pinball game with some great sound effects. I remember Val d'Isere Skiing and Snowboarding to be a pretty good downhill skiing game, and for its time it may have been, but as it turns out, I must have had my nostalgia-colored glasses on.
Continue reading Ski Paradise
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So here we are again; another Halloween, another month to write a deliciously themed article. Luckily this is a game-oriented site, else I would spin tales of true terror; of mortgages and debt, of teething and dirty laundry! Of blistering noise and thunderous silence! Of monkey's paws! Of sump pumps! Alas, I could not incur the wrath of my own conscience for such a deed, and must instead bring you a brief tale of stress and confusion. You would call it Siren for the Sony PlayStation 2.
Continue reading Siren - A Tale of Stress and Confusion
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SOMA is easily one of the best gaming experiences I've had, and I cannot overstate how harrowing, thoughtful, and encompassing I found the narrative. It is, of course, not perfect and not for everyone, but it comes with my personal highest recommendation.
If you want just the facts and none of the flavor, here goes;
SOMA is a first person narrative-driven game by Frictional Games, makers of the original Amnesia. It's out on PC and PS4, download only, for around $30. It has a hard, Sci-Fi theme with heavy psychological horror elements, and contains no combat, mild stealth gameplay, and a handful of fairly simple puzzles. It's a pretty easy game to complete by design, especially for the genre. There is thematic gore and (situationally appropriate) language.
SOMA is, by the end, more interested in the conversation it has with the player than it is about complex gameplay. There is more direct involvement than say, a typical visual novel, and more gameplay than purposefully limited exploratory narratives like Dear Esther or Gone Home, but everything is streamlined to the point of interaction-for-the-sake-of-exploring and world-building. It has obvious faults, including somewhat poorly implemented stealth and a jarring art style for character pictures and human models, which feel more like placeholders than artistic choices. Some have complained about the voice acting, but I found it to be very well done.
If you have the means and ANY interest whatsoever, please stop now, get the game, and slowly ingest it, preferably with no lights and excellent headphones. Take your time, as most of the story is in small bits scattered about. Done? Great. Breathe. Onward.
[MAJOR SPOILER TERRITORY FROM HERE ON, PLEASE ONLY READ IF YOU WILL NOT PLAY THE GAME OR HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED IT. LAST WARNING.]
Continue reading When a Game Asks Big Questions: Time With SOMA
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Undertale
Metagaming is a series where I force myself to play through Metacritic's highest rated PC games, working my way down the list one game at a time. There's no real goal other than giving myself an excuse to experience these critically acclaimed games. Sometimes I'll beat the games, and sometimes the games will beat me.
I started playing Undertale a couple of weeks ago, when it miraculously dethroned Half-Life 2 as the #1 PC game on Metacritic with a beyond impressive score of 97%. I say beyond impressive not because the top games are actually a six-way tie with 96%, but rather because Undertale is a pretty small, indie game developed by one guy using Game Maker Studio. I'm not knocking such a thing, since the same can be said for Spelunky, one of the most perfect games released in the last decade. But I mean, look at these graphics! The overworld map feels like we're in a SNES game and then the battles shift to something out of an Apple II game. It's all so lo-fi that I'm amazed - maybe impressed - at such a universal acclaim.
And maybe that initial hype simmered a bit as well. In the weeks since I've started playing, Undertale has received further reviews and dropped "all the way down" to #13 with an average of 94% where I suspect it will most likely remain comfortably wedged between Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Civilization II....still, not bad company to keep. Now before we go any further, I must warn you: to talk about Undertale at all is to give away spoilers. So if you're planning on playing these soon and want to keep as many surprises as you can, I suggest you stop reading here. There are plenty of other good posts to read on these blogs.
Continue reading Metagaming: Undertale
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November is the month to give thanks (unless you're one of those weirdos in Canadia  ), and what better way to show your thanks to RF Generation then to join our monthly playthroughs. We've got some exciting games lined up for you next month, so don't be a turkey and dine with us on a healthy portion of video game goodness. On the retro side, join singlebanana and Disposed Hero in the pet-friendly, SNES RPG, Secret of Evermore. On the modern side, Grayghost81 and Fleach host our playthrough of the action-packed title, Gravity Rush released on the Playstation Vita in 2012.
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Before we get into a brief description of our November playthrough games, we would like to take a moment to announce the games we have selected for our December 2015 Run 'n Gun Competition. These games include:
Contra (NES)
Rolling Thunder 2 (Genesis)
Metal Slug 3 (Neo Geo/XBox/various MS anthologies)
Please be sure to check our sign-up and rules thread, which will be linked on the front page game announcement in mid-November. This year's event will include a trophy hand-crafted by RF Gen's own singlebanana. If you saw the shump wrestling belt from last year, you don't want to miss out on this sweet prize! We're looking forward to another fun event and hope you'll join in.
Now back to your regularly schedule program already in progress....
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Continue reading Community Playthrough Announcement: November 2015 & December Game Announcements
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Time to update your collection, everyone, it's time for the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2015.0. RFGeneration's Secret Santa event is a fun and exciting holiday gift-exchange tradition that goes back several years.
For the full list of rules, information, and to sign up, head to the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2015.0 thread located here:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...15990.msg229936#msg229936
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Looking for something to do with your favorite black and white vector console on November 1? Play it with other Vectrex owners worldwide!
To join in on International Play Your Vectrex Day:
1. Play your Vectrex on November 1, 2015;
2. Keep track of what you play; and
3. Edit the Vectrex wiki page for it (http://vectrex.wikia.com/...nal_Play_Your_Vectrex_Day) or contact Vectorguy via either private message or in the thread on the message boards, and he will enter it for you.
See you then!
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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
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Join RFGeneration Playcast hosts, Rich (singlebanana), Floyd (Fleach), Shawn (GrayGhost81), and Steven (Disposed Hero) as we discuss September's retro and modern playthroughs. On the retro side, Shawn and Floyd discuss the tactical maneuvers, stealth, and cunning they used to take down Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid segment of our show. Later, Rich and Steven discuss September's modern game, the strange, QTE-driven, 3rd person "interactive film," Indigo Prophecy. We hope you enjoy the show and please leave us some feedback on our discussion thread.
Episode 18 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...m/index.php?topic=15970.0
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Continue reading Episode 18 - RF Generation Playcast
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