tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70847274173628171162024-03-13T14:39:03.165-03:00! RetroGame Mania !Old Video Games: A passionVulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-79649821874678202352012-01-12T12:15:00.000-02:002012-01-12T12:15:17.511-02:00You mean Metal Gear<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Hello guys<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Yesterday I was replaying Metal Gear Solid 4, appreciating the superb gameplay (ando not so superb story), and then I realized that despite my blogger alias, I don't talk much about metal gear here, so now's the time, right?<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, you know you're getting old when games you played as a teenager are "old" today, that's the case of PSOne's Metal Gear Solid, this wonderful jewel of dramatic story, great characters and awesome voice acting. But that's not the game I'll talk about today. I'll talk about the beggining of everything: Metal Gear for MSX2!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Ok, first I must confess that I not played Metal Gear at the time it was released (1987), I only played it some good 20 years after, in the PS2 port (with Metal Gear 3 Subsistence) and later in a MSX2 emulator. One can think that playing an ancient game today can be a frustrating, but truth is, Metal Gear is awesome, even today!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Considered the "father" of stealth games, the gameplay had all essencial characteristics we saw in today's sequels: require strategy, tactic and smart thinking, creative use of itens, such as the signature cardboard box... it's everything there for the "new" fans.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4tvLrRD2-sc/Tw7pB4ZjZSI/AAAAAAAAAFk/X66cwrq4fK4/s1600/6a00d83452989a69e20105355435cc970c-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4tvLrRD2-sc/Tw7pB4ZjZSI/AAAAAAAAAFk/X66cwrq4fK4/s320/6a00d83452989a69e20105355435cc970c-800wi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I FEEL ASLEEP (sic)"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Another thing worth saying: its a hard game. along the mission infiltrating Outer Heaven, you'll die plenty and in lots of different ways, and the more you get close to the end, your faithful mentor Big Boss will start to have certains... slips of memory, codec-guiding the rookie agent Solid Snake to traps such as electrified floors (sound familiar?) and enemy ambushes.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">So, you'll have to make maximum use of the various weapons and itens found along the way to sucessful infiltrate Outer heaven, avoiding enemy sentries, surveillance cameras, claymore mines... it's all there. So the game is highly reccomended, for fans or whatnot. But if you can, find a complete fan translation, or play the MGS3 susbsistence version, because the original english version has a very incomplete and sloppy translation, with errors and omissions.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1DAi1JNHBos/Tw7qnbyDmuI/AAAAAAAAAFs/N1vXeXJwxYE/s1600/STOP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1DAi1JNHBos/Tw7qnbyDmuI/AAAAAAAAAFs/N1vXeXJwxYE/s320/STOP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Big Boss rapes the 4th wall </i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Before Metal Gear Solid, there's still two alternative sequels. MSX2'S <i>Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake </i>(the "official" one) and NES's <i>Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge</i> (devloped by a konami team without the participation of Hideo Kojima).<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">So, anyone of you played the old Metal gear Games? What's your opinion about them? comment!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div>Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-29382894600149038062012-01-10T10:04:00.001-02:002012-01-10T10:04:59.146-02:00Legendary Wingsnow, I'm sure everyone here have played a shooter before<br />
no, not first person shooters kids! I'm talking about old arcade shoot'em up shooters, top-down view! yeah, that's right, little airplanes and energy shoots all around the screen, power ups that make your weapons shot 2, 3 times more, this kind of thing.<br />
well, this games are SO much fun for a one-shot run, trying to see how far you can get, and today I'll talk about one of my favorites: Legendary Wings, or <i>Ares no Tsubasa</i> (Wings of Ares) in Japan.<br />
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Well, I'm really suspect to talk about this, because I have memories to play it coop-mode with my mother, as a child, then it's overwhelming nostalgia ahahah!<br />
But aside my personal experiences, it's a great and solid game! Released by Capcom in 1986 for arcades and later, in 1988 for the NES, the game story is is set in a distant future where an alien supercomputer named "Dark", which has been helping human civilization achieve a new state of enlightenment since ancient times, has suddenly rebelled against mankind. Two young warriors are given the Wings of Love and Courage by the God of War Ares (yeah, same greek god that screwed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(video_game)" target="_blank">Kratos </a>all over) in order to destroy Dark and ensure mankind's survival.<br />
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The game's controls consists of an eight-way joystick and two buttons which changes depending on the context. The game consists of five areas with two different playing styles: the first segment in each stage is a top-view vertical scrolling segment in the player flies across the sky, shooting at airborne enemies with their gun while dropping bombs at ground enemies, in order to reach the palace at the end of segment. When the player defeats the guardian and gains entrance to the palace, the game switches to a side-scrolling perspective, in which the player moves towards their goal on foot until reaching the boss at the end. There's also lots of bonus levels, "trap" levels where you'll have to escape, and power-ups. Playing it alone is half the fun. I reccomend to find a friend and play it co-op!<br />
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So, guys, that's it. I'll not gonna stay here long, because i'm actually sick of my stomach, just stopped by quickly to show you more nostalgia. Ah, and before I forget, Legendary Wings is available to play via Web emulator right <a href="http://nintendo8.com/game/205/legendary_wings/" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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so, Cheers!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-29168265455312570972012-01-08T16:25:00.001-02:002012-01-08T16:26:00.837-02:00Play old games online!hey folks<br />
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so, in yesterday's post I left a link for you guys play yo!noid online... and then I went and searched a little more for cool things like that, and came back with more interesting links:<br />
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NES emulators online:<br />
<a href="http://nintendo8.com/">http://nintendo8.com/</a> (the one I talked about yesterday)<br />
<a href="http://www.virtualnes.com/">http://www.virtualnes.com/</a> (this one let you change button configuration :D)<br />
<a href="http://www.playnes.net/">http://www.playnes.net/</a> (big screen)<br />
<a href="http://www.nesplay.com/">http://www.nesplay.com/</a> (another nice one)<br />
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Master System emulator online:<br />
<a href="http://mastersystem8.com/">http://mastersystem8.com/</a> <br />
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Snes emulator online:<br />
<a href="http://snessy.com/">http://snessy.com/</a> <br />
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the only thing you need is the Java plug-in, that your browser will ask you to click and install. very easy, really.<br />
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and if you have more reccomendatiosn, post on comments, and i'll be happy to edit the post and add it, with credits ;)<br />
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so, have fun!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-89958763185510709932012-01-07T13:58:00.001-02:002012-01-07T14:01:26.781-02:00YO! Noid, the returnyo, guys<br />
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some days ago, I posted about one of the classics of mine (and lots of people's) childhood, a NES plataformer called Yo! Noid, but I feel I didn't talked enough, hahaha, so, here's a little more detailed review.<br />
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Lauched in 1990, by Capcom, the game features the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noid" target="_blank">Noid</a> (Domino's pizza mascot) as its main star. the gameplay consists in going through fourteen different side-scrolling levels throughout various locations of New York City (including an 8-bit rendition of Central Park) to battle his evil duplicate, Mr. Green, for the public good, and for the massive pizza reward!<br />
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As was the case with many Capcom games based on cartoon characters, Yo! Noid had detailed cartoon graphics and sound effects for its time. I remember when I first played it, I felt in love instantly, even though I didn't even know what was Domino's pizza (I'm not from USA), but the great gameplay, creative use of itens and fun visuals in general really caught me.<br />
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You are reading it, but don't know WTF I'm talking about? or you're a long-time fan of this game and now craves for some yoyo-enemy-bashing? don't fear, oh curious reader. you can play it online <a href="http://nintendo8.com/game/345/yo!_noid/" target="_blank">right here</a>! ;)<br />
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fun facts:<br />
-the back cover of the instruction manual included a $1 off Domino's Pizza coupon.<br />
-Yo! Noid was actually a modified version of a game called Kamen No Ninja Hanamaru.<br />
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So, going to eat some pizza and play some NES now. see you guys next post!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-70399403509833874552012-01-05T12:37:00.000-02:002012-01-05T12:37:32.279-02:00Filler + Guitarwhat's up guys?<br />
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so, today I'm a little out of time to post, but I'll leave you with a great Megaman X guitar cover<br />
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seriously, fans of the series should check this guy's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cezarbatistao?feature=watch" target="_blank">youtube channel</a>. LOTS of awesome covers.<br />
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cheers!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-59339101263939673962012-01-04T12:18:00.001-02:002012-01-04T12:19:33.224-02:00Alex Kidd<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Ok, so, let's talk about Sega today, back in the day one of great players in the games market, and responsible for many good memories of people in mid-to-late twenties today!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Who is Sega's beloved symbol and mascot? Sonic the Hedgehog, right? But it was not always like this. Before the rise of the blue runner, there was a monkey boy some of you will remember fondly: Alex Kidd!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">It was 1986 when Kidd's debut in the world of games was lauched: <i>Alex Kidd in Miracle World</i>, built in into the Master System II (without the need for a cartridge to play) was a great success. Its gameplay featured mainly sidescroll platfoming, but with aspects of strategy and roleplay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4w4Ri5xLI_w/TwRfw7gLz4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/ntGkCdminSs/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4w4Ri5xLI_w/TwRfw7gLz4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/ntGkCdminSs/s1600/3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">The game was lots of fun, besides the great gameplay, the choice for buying various itens and vehicles between stages added to the experience. And, of course, there was the (in)famous jan-ken-po boss battles!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pi5d1jm7q7E/TwRfVVDm1cI/AAAAAAAAAEg/R2u77rwlyLE/s1600/janken_final.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pi5d1jm7q7E/TwRfVVDm1cI/AAAAAAAAAEg/R2u77rwlyLE/s320/janken_final.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Alex Kidd was not up for competition with Nintendo's Mario, and later was dropped as a mascot in favor of Sonic, but the hours we spent punching rocks looking for secret passagens or trying to guess if the evil boss was going to put rock or scissors... they will not be forgotten anytime soon</span></div>Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-25744260779214626302012-01-03T12:51:00.001-02:002012-01-03T19:10:02.168-02:00Mario Bros. (less "Super")hey fellas<br />
more nintendo nostalgy today: and I ask: how many of you played Mario Bros.?<br />
No, not SUPER Mario Bros. only "Mario Bros.".<br />
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don't know what I'm talking about? check it out:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This game have a very special meaning to me, because it was the very first video game I ever played in my life, back when I was like 7 year old! the same afternoon I played some Pac Man too. and then... it was a lifepassion with the two plumbers and everything related to electronic games!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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The (very complex) story of this game revolves around two plumbers, Mario and Luigi, who are working in the sewers. The sewers are overrun by waves of enemies and the Mario Bros. have to defeat the enemies and get coins to receive their pay.<br />
The game features a simple stage in which the player plays in an endless game. Enemies come from the pipes on the top and head downwards, where they may enter the pipes again to return to the top. The goal in each Phase is to defeat all enemies. This is done by jumping against the floor when enemies are walking on from below to knock them out, and then the player has to kick them away.<br />
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also, as some of you may remember, this same game was featured in Super Mario 3 as a (sort of) competitive minigame, when Mario and Luigi met on the overworld map!<br />
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so many memories right now...Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-63339300930929039732012-01-02T16:41:00.001-02:002012-01-02T16:42:03.402-02:00Some impressive covershey fellas, how are you today?<br />
well, today I'll show you some sweet guitar covers, since these are two of my greatest passions in life: guitar and video games.<br />
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let's start with MARIO - LEVEL OF SKILL: ASIAN<br />
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and a very nice folk-sounding one-man band version of Zelda's theme<br />
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another one-man band version of sonic the hedgehog's well known green hill theme:<br />
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and, for more awesome, Megaman Project: a jazz band playing metalman theme!<br />
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hope you enjoy, cheers!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-33983396765372997222012-01-01T18:08:00.002-02:002012-01-01T18:39:35.446-02:00Donkey Kong and.... "Jumpman"?sooo how you guys spent your new year? so much hangover today, I bet!<br />
I can also bet some of you spent it playing some videogame (drunk or sober, doesn't matter)...<br />
all that matters is having fun, right?<br />
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well, but to the subject of today... I'm going to talk about a game that gave origin to two of most adored characters of all video game history... it's Donkey Kong!<br />
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I'm pretty sure all of you played Donkey Kong Country on the SNES sometime in your life! or know the charming gorilla from mario kart, super smash bros or other nintendo game. Donkey Kong is a hero, right? well... not always! In fact, in the old arcade game he was the villain. (and the game was named after him)<br />
Well, if he was the villain, I want you to tell me who was the hero, without looking to the picture above. Guessed already? that's right! It's <strike>a me</strike> Mario!<br />
This time, Mario didn't have a name, he was called just Jumpman. and he had to save his girlfriend (familiar lady too?) Pauline from the raging kong, that throws barrels at him.<br />
Fun fact: in 1982, Universal Studios of Hollywood sued nintendo, for similarities between Donkey and... King Kong. fair enough?<br />
Well, needless to say, despite of problems with copyright, the game was so much of a success in the 1981 arcades, that gave origin to 2 of the most acclamed franchises of the wolrd of video games. First was Mario, and (a lot later) Donkey Kong Country!<br />
The more you know, children...<br />
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and you guys? someone played the original Donkey Kong in the arcades of life? Share your experience!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-90139363757728402422011-12-30T16:57:00.002-02:002011-12-30T19:48:01.062-02:00Happy New Year!well, this blog will be closing for the holydays, but I wish to all of you people out there a HAPPY 2012!!!<br />
lots of fun, health, love, money videogames, ahahaha whatever makes you happy!<br />
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and, by the way, I would like to thanks for all the audience and comments, is good to know you people like old games and nostalgia as much as I do.<br />
and [2] I wanna ask you for suggestions, since it's a fairly new blog! what would you like to see more in RetroGame Mania in the year of 2012? reviews? videos? rants? your ideas will be much appreciated!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-55629584525142863532011-12-29T12:26:00.001-02:002011-12-29T15:09:59.811-02:00Cartridges!hey guys<br />
<div>now, a little nice something I found while walking around the street commerce tents here where I live:</div><div><br />
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</div><div>it's too bad I don't have a SNES anymore, or else I would buy it for sure, lol!</div><div><br />
</div><div>So, it reminded me... of the time when games were hard to came by, one had to search a lot for good games (specially RPGs and indie games) for rent. nowdays, the torrent generation is used to have every game just clicks away, and while that's a good thing.... I don't know, gaming kind of lost a little magic, you know? the "waiting so long to play THAT special game" thing.</div><div>well, I'm a nostalgic person, can't help! </div><div><br />
</div><div>and you? agree, disagree?</div><div><br />
</div><div>(p.s.: I'm not an english native speaker, so sorry for any mistakes ;) )</div>Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-83313879941039854912011-12-28T12:22:00.003-02:002011-12-28T23:56:28.103-02:00The Legend of Zeldawell, let's talk about a classic of classics.<br />
I frequently see younger people whose childhood was marked by Ocarina of Time, but lots of people doesn't know the revolutionary origins of this wonderful series, in 1986:<br />
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Shigeru Miyamoto's inspiration for Zelda is an interesting story... With The Legend of Zelda, Miyamoto wanted to take the idea of a game "world" even further, giving players a "miniature garden that they can put inside their drawer." He drew his inspiration from his experiences as a boy around Kyoto, where he explored nearby fields, woods, and caves, and through the Zelda titles he always tries to impart to players some of the sense of exploration and limitless wonder he felt. "When I was a child," he said, "I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to stumble upon it. When I traveled around the country without a map, trying to find my way, stumbling on amazing things as I went, I realized how it felt to go on an adventure like this." The memory of being lost amid the maze of sliding doors in his family's home in Sonobe was recreated in Zelda's labyrinth dungeons.<br />
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And so, we have the fantastic ambientation, adventure feeling and open world the Zelda games have today!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">great gameplay and graphics. fun fact: in japan it was called power blazer, and the hero was not the shadew-wearing-schwarzenegger-clone that's on the US version.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">it was also called Power Mission.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">many names, but one great game! mandatory for fans of old sidescrollers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Television engineer Ralph Baer conceived the idea of an interactive television while building a television set from scratch for Loral in 1951 in the Bronx, New York. He explored these ideas further in 1966 when he was the Chief Engineer and manager of the Equipment Design Division at Sanders Associates. Baer created a simple two-player video game that could be displayed on a standard television set called Chase, where two dots chased each other around the screen. After a demonstration to the company's director of R&D Herbert Campman, some funding was allotted and the project was made "official". In 1967 Bill Harrison was brought on board, and a light gun was constructed from a toy rifle that was aimed at a target moved by another player.<br />
Bill Rusch joined the project to speed up development and soon a third machine-controlled dot was used to create a ping-pong game. With more funding additional games were created, and Baer had the idea of selling the product to cable TV companies, who could transmit static images as game backgrounds. A prototype was demonstrated in February 1968 to TelePrompTer Vice President Hubert Schlafly, who signed an agreement with Sanders. The Cable TV industry was in a slump during the late '60s and early '70s and a lack of funding meant other avenues had to be pursued. Development continued on the hardware and games resulting in the final "Brown Box" prototype, which had two controllers, a light gun and sixteen switches on the console that selected the game to be played. Baer approached various U.S. Television manufacturers and an agreement was eventually signed with Magnavox in late 1969. Magnavox's main alterations to the Brown Box were to use plug-in circuits to change the games, and to remove the color graphics capabilities in favor of color overlays in order to reduce manufacturing costs. It was released in May 1972 as the Magnavox Odyssey.<br />
Digital electronics<br />
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The Odyssey was built using a combination of analog (for the output, game control) and digital circuitry. Many collectors confuse the use of discrete components to mean the system is analog. However, the games and logic itself are implemented in DTL, a common pre-TTL digital design component using discrete transistors and diodes. Likewise, Ralph Baer himself considers the system digital.<br />
It was not a large success due to restrictive marketing, although other companies with similar products (including Atari) had to pay a licensing fee for some time. For a time it was Sanders' most profitable line, even though many in the company had been unsupportive of game development.<br />
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Many of the earliest games utilising digital electronics ran on university mainframe computers in the United States, developed by individual users who programmed them in their spare time. In 1961, a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology programmed a game called Spacewar! on a DEC PDP-1. In 1970 Nolan Bushnell saw Spacewar! for the first time at the University of Utah. Deciding there was commercial potential in an arcade version, he hand-wired a custom computer capable of playing it on a black and white television. The resulting game, Computer Space, did not fare well commercially and Bushnell started looking for new ideas. In 1971 he saw a demonstration of the Magnavox Odyssey, and hired Al Alcorn to produce an arcade version of the Odyssey's ping-pong game (using Transistor-transistor logic), called Pong.<br />
Home video games achieved widespread popularity with the release of a home version of Pong in the Christmas of 1975. Its success sparked hundreds of clones, including the Coleco Telstar, which went on to be a success in its own right, with over a dozen models.<br />
The first generation of video games did not feature a microprocessor, and were based on custom codeless state machine computers consisting of discrete logic circuits comprising each element of the game itself. Later consoles of this generation moved the bulk of the circuitry to custom "pong on a chip" IC's such as Atari's custom Pong chips and General Instruments' AY-3-8500 series.Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-60404352291846135342011-12-27T17:32:00.002-02:002011-12-28T23:56:12.704-02:00Little Ninja Brothers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">now this is the first rpg I ever played!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ok, it's very simple, but the gameplay is great, and the game is so charming overall...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">anyone else remember jack and ryu?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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but how many of you have actually played the Elder Scrolls series from it's very beggining?<br />
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena was released in 1994 for DOS PC systems. The game was intended for players to assume the role of an arena combatant, but development shifted the game into a role-playing game (RPG).This game began the tradition based on the principle of "[being] who you want and [doing] what you want" that persisted throughout the series' history.<br />
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so, have fun!Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-8933344075983198342011-12-26T12:23:00.002-02:002011-12-28T23:58:56.762-02:00YO! Noid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">hey guys</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">who else remembers this? GREAT sidescroller. spend way too much hours playing it on my old NES. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">damn, I play it today on emulators!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">nostalgia FTW!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/wz3BuYYhnn0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Vulcan Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18091972632943316781noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084727417362817116.post-33646228708632147792011-12-25T21:17:00.002-02:002012-01-02T16:42:23.201-02:00Megaman 2 guitar remixes part 2!!!and now for part 2!<br />
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megaman and guitar<br />
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so let's start with one of my favorite scenes of all time:<br />
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