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We started out January of this year with a *BANG* by shooting our way through Angel Land and the streets of some unknown Middle Eastern locale. Currently, we are tromping through Hyrule to rescue the descendants of the Seven Sages and unlocking the mystery behind the 9 doors of a sinking vessel. The month of March will be no slouch either and will be jam-packed with furious action! On the retro side, we join an unlikely, and undead, hero in his quest to defend the land of Gallowmere from the return of an evil sorcerer in MediEvil for the PSX and PSN. On the modern side, we make our first return to the Batman series (since our playthrough in April 2013) as we once again take up the cowl and cape of the Dark Knight in the third installment of the Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Origins on the PS3, 360, WiiU and PC. We hope that you will join us for one, if not two, great games next month!
Continue reading Retro & Modern Playthroughs: March - June
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The sun heads west and the world spins as you make your journey through the desert to Mount Distant.
Sandstorm is a small game for the PC developed by Daniel Linssen with a simple premise. You play a wandering traveler on his pilgrimage to Mount Distant. Nothing is known of your destination, just that you must arrive safely and brave the treacherous sandstorm that obscures your vision.
Continue reading Indie Review: Sandstorm
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Sega's surprise launch of the Saturn in North America caught retailers and developers off guard. As a result, the pickings were slim. The Saturn's Japan launch happened only six months before the North American launch, so most Japanese third parties did not have anything ready for international release either. The launch date that was originally announced was September of 1995 for North America, but instead, they decided to launch it in May, right in the middle of E3! For a gamer that was anxiously anticipating the Saturn, that might sound like a good deal at first, but it meant that many games would be a full four months behind the launch. As a result, only Sega's first party games were available at first, but there was a decent spread of genres available. Panzer Dragoon was one of these games and became Sega's cinematic action game for the North American launch.
Continue reading Psychotic Reviews: Panzer Dragoon
Episode 29.5 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...rum/index.php?topic=15126
** WARNING: MAJOR FAR CRY 4 SPOILERS **
In this special spoilercast episode, we delve into Far Cry 4. We discuss the story, the characters, and all the tough choices that we had to make. We even tricked Crabby into playing another first person shooter! Listen in as we dissect our experience, give our opinions, and discuss the joy/revulsion to massive video game violence. If you have played Far Cry 4, jump in the discussion forum and let us know your thoughts!
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When we were little kids tossing a football or shooting a basketball, we rarely stayed ourselves for long. Even if we didn't know any popular athlete's names, we were the star of the game; kicking the ball through the defense, knocking out the winning home run, slamming the puck into the net in our imagination. If we weren't pretending to be Michael Jordan or Arnold Palmer, we were a superior athletic version of ourselves, making all the right moves and showing off our skill to the crowd of our mind's eye.
Even for sports-challenged adults, such as I, a good book or movie takes us to a different place or time, our thoughts vicariously transporting us somewhere else for awhile. The potential benefits of such mental journeys extend well beyond escapism and can be informative, reflective, inspiring, even transforming.
Being the newest media on the block, video games embody much of the potential and problems of its siblings. As technology grows in leaps and bounds, so too grows our toolsets to create previously unheard-of experiences in the interactive entertainment realm. And yet, we can still use many of the same methods of examining our perspective as in other media.
Continue reading Gaming the Perspective
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Posted on Feb 7th 2015 at 05:00:00 AM by ( noiseredux) Posted under PC |
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Nostalgia can be cruel. We've all been there. You know that game that you swear you loved back in the day? And then you play it years later and almost wish it had just remained a quaint memory that you used to have. That's a little bit how I feel right now about the Double Dragon Trilogy, the new PC re-release of the first three arcade games. But to be fair, these aren't awful games. Well, at least two of them aren't. So let's take a closer look.
Continue reading Review: Double Dragon Trilogy
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You guys are helping RF Generation start off the new year the right away. Lots of new submissions hit the database last month and we want to show our appreciation to the hard working staff members and community members who keep this site going and continue to make it awesome.
In January there were a total of 3834 submissions and of those, 3611 were game submissions, and 223 were hardware submissions[/b]. Last month, 541 image submissions were also made in the database.
Our top submitters were:
Bildstar - 1470
Shadow Kisuragi - 589
Flee - 475
Confiusion - 348
Sauza12 - 107
ae.tc - 100
Raidou - 100
The major database entry approvers were:
Bildstar - 347
Shadow Kisuragi - 330
Flee - 320
ApolloBoy - 62
Tynstar - 60
A big "Thank You" to everyone who made a submission, approval, or forum post last month. We really appreciate your efforts and involvement here. Don't forget... "You're good!"
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Join RFGeneration Playcast hosts, Rich (singlebanana), Floyd (Fleach), Shawn (GrayGhost81), and the newest member of our playthrough crew, Steven (Disposed Hero) as we discuss January's retro and modern community playthroughs, Kid Icarus (NES) and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (360/PS3). During the retro segment, we are joined by Duke.Togo of RF Generation's Collectorcast.
Episode 10 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...x.php?topic=15102.new#new
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Continue reading Episode 10 - RF Generation Playcast
So you've been operating your retro game store for a few months now and things are going better than you could have hoped. Customers are happy, new stock is getting traded in on a regular basis, bank account is moving in the right direction. Nothing can bring you down. Cue Bylaw Enforcement Officer..........
Continue reading Blog Quest: Getting Political - Part I
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It has been a long time in the making but I can finally announce the news that I have been teasing on the Collectorcast:
The RetroWorld Expo will be held on October 3rd, 2015 at The Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT
It feels good to finally say that out loud. We made the announcement at the RetroWare TV panel at Magfest and now we are spreading the news to the rest of the world. Tickets will go on sale very soon.. I'm happy to announce RFGeneration.com as a primary sponsor of the RetroWorld Expo. The other 2 primary sponsors are RetroWareTV and Retro Games Plus.
Continue reading The RetroWorld Expo
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It's been a while since we've had a "People of RF Generation" blog. Actually, it's been a really long time since these posts have gone up. That's why I'd like to breathe some new life into this fun series and let members know a little bit more about the people in our community.
I thought this month would be the perfect opportunity for us to get to know the newest member of the Community Playthrough team, Disposed Hero. So, without further ado, let's get to know more about this gentleman.
Continue reading People of RF Generation: Disposed Hero
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It's finally time for me to review a Zelda game! This is far from the first game I've played in the series, that honor goes to Oracle of Ages on the Game Boy Color. I played the Game Boy Advance port of the predecessor of this game, A Link to the Past on my handheld. I loved it and now own the original Super Nintendo release, and still have my original boxes for Oracle of Ages, GBA Link to the Past, and the Minish Cap. Since I went so long without a home Nintendo console, it was only recently that I picked those up. A Link Between Worlds is the most recent original game in the long running series and was released in 2013 for the Nintendo's 3DS. It uses the world design and map of A Link to the Past as a base, and weaves a new tale in a familiar world.
Continue reading Psychotic Reviews: Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
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Posted on Jan 25th 2015 at 05:00:00 AM by ( noiseredux) Posted under PC |
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While 2014 was a great year for new games, it was also a great year for old games. As a PC gamer it's been great seeing all the retro love making its way onto my platform of choice recently. In fact, we've seen so many games of yesteryear re-emerge on Steam, GOG and the likes, that it's almost been tough to keep track of them all. But as much as I've made the conversion over to pretty exclusively gaming on PC, there's still plenty of console games out there that never made it to PC. I could easily list hundreds of games I'd love to see brought over to PC. Heck, my secret fantasy is that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft would all take a cue from Sega and just become software developers so that all games were on the same platform. But that sort of wishful thinking is borderline fan-fiction, so instead I'd like talk about console games that I'd like to see ported to PC because these games would specifically benefit from the platform itself.
Read on for an utterly biased wish list for 2015...
Continue reading PC Gaming Wish List, 2015
Episode 29 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...rum/index.php?topic=14997
What better way to kick off the new year than to take a look at the last one? Crabby returns to help us run down our personal top 5 games that we played in 2014. You'll hear a wide variety of favorites in this show, with only one game making it to two of our lists. Will one of your favorites make it? Be sure to listen to find out. As always our Q&A section provides some quick digression, and we appreciate them all. Thanks for listening!
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Show Notes
Music: Ninja Gaiden III - The Ancient Ship of Doom (NES)
Off The Charts Special Offer: 46:01
Topic: 48:26
Outro: 2:51:54
As all of you who followed December's fund drive know, our staff donated several wonderful prize lots for our donors' raffle (http://www.rfgeneration.c...m/index.php?topic=14799.0). For every $10 donated, participants received a ticket into this year's prize raffle. Names were placed on tickets, these tickets were mixed up and placed into a bowl, and 6 names were drawn at random to determine the winners.
As the rules for the raffle stated, the first name drawn will have first choice of the six lots, the second member drawn will choose from the five remaining lots, and so on and so on. Congratulations to this year's winners! You will be contacted soon to claim your prize. Also, thank you again to everyone who donated during the fund drive and helped to keep our site going for 2015.
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