I got an email request for some video of my game room. I immediately thought, “Hell ya, man!”. Soon after that I completely lost interest. Then I was thinking about it a couple days later and just hours ago decided that it might be a pretty rad idea, so I used my New Media Communications degree to it’s fullest potential and whipped this little crap-cake up in 45 minutes. I know the lighting sucks, but you get the gist of it. Enjoy!
The song is “Memory of Lightwaves”, aka the title screen music to the hideously underrated masterpiece Final Fantasy X-2. Yeah, I am a huge nerd. Deal with it.
Special Features: Season overview commentary, Sold Separately, Video Game Knowledge, Webcam Reviews, Famicom Disk System Special, RetroUSB promos, and HVGN Low G Man commentary.
After an excellent offering in Retroware TVs first season DVD set, John and Lance had a lot of hype to live up to. Now the groundbreaking internet based retro video games website and show has completed its second season run and has put together another top notch DVD package. First released at the end of 2008 to coincide with MagFest, the DVD set became available for sale publicly on Jan 5th. Those who were lucky enough to be among the first 10 to place an order received an art card signed by John and Lance (Retroware TV’s masterminds), Derek Alexander (the always excellent Happy Video Game Nerd) and Norman Caruso (the Gaming Historian).
I am happy to say that I am now the TurboGrafx 16 correspondent over at Recycled Gaming (www.recycledgaming.com). You can head over there to see my first post, a short review of the TurboGrafx classic Splatterhouse.
I recently read AJ Glasser’s feature over at Kotaku.com wherein she breaks down how to throw a gamer party. That’s all fine and good if you like playing new games, but what about all the other games? What about the TurboGrafx and the Super Nintendos?
Luckily, I have you covered. Having just thrown a classic gaming party this past weekend (before the article was published, coincidentally) I felt I would share some tips on how to throw a gaming party that covers all the bases.
It’s been a while since I have done a review, so I figured I’d focus on one of my favorite Famicom games of all time: “Akumajō Special: Boku Dracula-kun”, which translates to “Demon Castle Special: I’m Kid Dracula”. There must be some place in my heart reserved for the super deformed bastard offspring of horror franchises, because this game, along with Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti are two of my most cherished Famicom titles.
I have got a whopper for you today kids. Not only did I find one of the rare-elite and most sought-after North American SNES games, but this is a game that I have wanted for a really long time. It is also totally awesome that I found it for a hell of a good price. All it cost me was the trade-in of my second (completely unused) XBOX 360 controller, a copy of Condemned 2: Bloodshed and a copy of Gears of War. I present to you… Castlevania: Dracula X:
Before I begin, I know that I promised a review last Friday, but Thursday night I got pukey sick and Friday my one year daughter did, so needless to say it wasn’t much of a relaxing weekend. The review still needs some work, but in the mean and in between time, I did get a sweet package on Friday from Carl over at Famicom Shop.
Mighty Final Fight is a truly rad game. It was also released for the NES but I don’t think it’s very common. Mighty Final Fight plays like a super deformed version of the Final Fight arcade / SegaCD version. Think River City Ranson with body splashes and tornado punches. Awesome.
The Zelda game is the cart re-release of the Famicom Disk System orginal “Hyrule Fantasy: Za Hairaru Fantajī Zeruda no Densetsu”, or as we know it: “The Legend of Zelda”. The game is missing the suped up music of the disk version, although it does retain the compatibility with the Famicom’s second controller microphone. I spent a couple hours, between long intervals of feeling totally awful to demonstrate my complete mastery and down-right dangerously excellent Zelda skills:
That’s mine at the top. Damn straight. I forgot how good the first Zelda game was. More around mid-week, kids. Until then…
This just in, the season two DVD of Retroware TV is available for sale on their site. The best part? The first 10 sold get a limited edition postcard signed by John D, Ito, Derek Alexander (Happy Video Game Nerd) and Norman Caruso (The Gaming Historian). I just bought mine (here’s hoping I got #1 again), and you should, too. I will have a DVD review up as soon as I get it and have a chance to go through it with a fine tooth comb.
I finally got a chance to get to the post office to pick up my package this weekend. It had been sitting there since Dec. 31st, which was all the more heart breaking. But it was well worth it when I opened up the securely fastened box to find:
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