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Episode 9 is now available: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/duke.togo/RF-Generation-Collectorcast-Episode-8-NESpectacular-2362.php

I can taste it now.

Firsti...oh.

Better get my Optimus helmet on, my Nerf rifle locked and loaded, my Skylanders on full alert, and my banana supply filled to the brim.

Speaking of which:


And it tastes so banana-ey, doesn't it?

[img width=480 height=360]http://s3.vidimg02.popscreen.com/original/56/YUxtZ0t5eEo3SDgx_o_silver-eats-a-banananice-and-slowjust-for-you.jpg[/img]

You really shouldn't encourage me, you know.

Only made it through the Small Scores section for today, but as always you guys do a great job of bringing all the finds together and making me drool in jealousy, and of course somehow I laugh at your guys humor. Great work so far.  :)

Oh BTW that was me that picked up Sculptors Cut at the thrift for $4.   

It pays to always have a keen eye...

Apparently White Men Can't Jump is a Jag exclusive! Mystery solved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Men_Can't_Jump_(video_game)

EDIT: Fixed the URL

Re-birthday on February 28? That's my first and only birthday.

As for the Value Village CD-I score. I live in a suburb of Toronto in Ontario. And thanks for the tip Bil. Appreciate it. I'll ask the store staff for hardware I find media for.

I'm listening as I write this, so I'm excited to get to the NES portion.

Holy crap a 4 hour podcast.

Guess I'm going to be ignoring a lot of people at work today :P

I'm glad that people are generally OK with a long show but we have been talking about trimming the length a bit.  Bandwidth costs money and we've used up a lot of what we paid for so far (and when I say "we" I mean Duke and Crabby).   Until we are international celebrities with fast stacks, we'll have to watch our Jigabytes.

Let us know what you guys think. If you all really enjoy these long monstrosities, we can churn them out. If you feel it's too long, we want to hear that to. We're just here to keep you guys entertained and keep the site going.

@Fleach: It's a lot better than Dec. 29th, trust me.

Woah me and WildBil have the same birthday. :o

I'm cool with the long podcasts. If you're gonna trim them down, I'd prefer if they at least were kept to a 2 hour minimum.

(We also incidentally have a local pawn shop chain called "Wild Bill's." Kinda eerie...)

Loving this episode so far. Great stuff as always, guys. :)

I think the show could stand to be trimmed a bit. It's not for lack of quality content, but some days 3-4 hours is just prohibitively long.

would it be feasible to do shorter episodes more often? maybe 2 hour episodes every 2-3 weeks instead of a 3 or 4 hour episode every month or more.

edit: i'm fine with the length as is, but this might be a nice way to get more episodes out faster ;) and like invader said sometimes 3 or 4 hours is a bit much. a lot of times i can't watch it right away because i know i don't have the time to (i'd much rather do it all in one sitting than pause and come back if i can).

There are 2 issues:

1-Finding a time across 3 time zones that works for all three of us.  Usually not a huge problem, but sometimes we get busy and it gets pushed a week or so.

2-Duke finding time to edit the show.  It's definitely a quicker process than when he first started cause he's learning tricks and getting quicker, but since Duke has to listen to the entire show while putting everything together, editing a 4 hour show takes AT LEAST 4.5 hours.

A shorter show every few weeks may be something that we try to lighten Duke's workload.

ya that's what i meant, have something that takes less time to record and edit so that episodes could be released faster ;) . you could even do multi-part episodes for any topics you want to go longer.

I'd say editing this episode took probably 6 hours all together. I try to do it in chunks. Thanks for the feedback guys, and I'm sure we'll continue to tweak things as we go.

Crabby sounds like ROB for much of this 'sode.

Almost done with the show now. I always love the anecdotes about the relationship between Atari/Tengen and Nintendo during the NES days. That's one of the most fascinating stories in video game history, I think.

There's a great Retronauts podcast with a nice roundtable of former Tengen developers. Definitely worth checking out if you're interested.

This sounds amazing. I will look into this shortly.

Anyone have a link to the 'number-of-times-it-was-mentioned-in-Nintendo-Power' website? That sounds amazing as well.

I realized today that one thing I find incredibly interesting about these podcasts is how people pronounce different things. I never would have said Tengen with a hard G like Duke does. And then there's the names of different forum members... Sometimes you guys mention someone and I have no idea who you're talking about because I never even try to pronounce their name, its not until you talk about them for a while I figure it out.

Regarding the length, I vote for shorter episodes more frequently, but if that's not doable, I have zero problem with 4+ hour long episodes. While I'm working, I can either listen all day long or not at all, so one long episode is actually more convenient than several short episodes. But I know if I wasn't able to listen at work, it would take me several broken up listening sessions to get it all.

Also, I don't know how you guys spend 2 hours talking about the small scores thread actually a good listen, but you do it. If I had never heard an episode before, and was told there was 2 hours devoted to talking about things people bought, I'd think it'd be the most boring 2 hours of my life, but actually listening to it is always entertaining.

Just listened to some of the latest podcast, thanks for including me on the scores section!  On the Micro Machines deal, I already had the gold Camerica cart and someone on Digital Press had a few games for trade and one of them was a CIB Aladdin Micro Machines, so I got it while I had the opportunity.  I don't mind the 3-4 hour podcasts, but sometimes I have to listen to it in parts.  I would really like it if you guys could do 2 a month, each an hour or two long.

I kind of chuckled when you guys were talking about being born in December.  My wife and I had our first kid last year on December 20th and one of the first questions everyone asked us after she was born is what we were going to do about her birthday since it is so close to Christmas.  It honestly never entered my mind as a thing to worry about until people started asking me.

Gotta love Birthmas. Do her a favor and just start celebrations for her in the summer.

That's what my dad says they should have done for me. My birthday is on January 3rd.
My niece's is December 31st and my nephew's is December 30th.

I apologize for that. Not really sure what happened, but I hope to avoid it for the next recording.

Ha Ha. 

Love the work you guys are doing on this.  Keep up the good work.

You guys were 100% correct about Parappa the Rapper.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14by1t/my_college_purchased_a_3d_printer_it_was_like/c7bpbb9

Also, I remember that level being on the Underground Jampack CD that came with my Playstation, that could be another reason that EVERYBODY knows that song.

I'm famous!

I always knew the small scores was my ticket!



So yes, my wife did pick up a couple of import games for me on a business trip. Duke guessed she went to Asia, I guessed she went to Denver. I suppose we'll never know.....

If we were to assume the Denver area though, I'm fairly easy going, we can say Denver is in Asia. Maybe we can call it "Shangri-Denver".

The game store was actually in Loveland, (Osaklovelanda?) it is called "Games Ahoy!"



Your podcast length is fine by me, I promise I have more time to listen to podcasts than you have words to say.

Your story is a lot less exciting than the one I dreamt up.

Okay, um, how about this? I promise, the next time anyone I know goes to the exotic location of "Colorado", I will give them an extensive list of Famicom games for them to get. We can share in the spoils. All Night Nippons all around!

The podcast isn't long enough if you ask me.  I've build up a tolerance and i need more to get my fix.  I'm a true junkie

http://vgstats.blogspot.ca/2012/02/nintendo-power-coverage-project.html

That is a REALLY good point.  Now that I think about it, that Jampack disc is where I played the game for the first time.

I think more frequent (and shorter if needed) eps would be cool.
It would give you guys a chance to touch on a little bit more during busy weeks and not have to cut things short that you might want to keep expanding on during the long eps.

Loved Bils entrance to the show this time around.
Sounded like he was really rushed and coming away from his epic rescue.

Only 25 mins in so far but per usual things are great

EDIT
Double post... I thought my last one hadn't gone through wasn't paying attention..,.

Also YAAAAAYYYY i got a mention.
I actually hate downloadable content which sadly makes up the bulk of me collection now. It just takes up much less space around the apartment ;)

And since my gamerscore competition has ended my achievement hunting has slowed down a ton and hopefully my collection can rebound.


As for the Mortal Kombat II mention. It is generally regarded as the best in the series. My personal favorite was always UMK3 though and MKII was probably my least favorite. I believe it was also the most difficult.

I'm about an hour and a half in right now.

I don't care about the long length for a show that comes out monthly, for what it's worth.

Also, my second mention in two months! Yay! I'm about to go back to the thrift store where I got the $5 lot. Fingers crossed.

Once again thanks for the kind words and concern regarding the storm. We're pretty much back to normal as are most people we know.

Keep up the great work guys!

Wow Izret, 19,000 posts. That's nuts.

Thanks again for more feedback. I think if we wanted to do shows more frequently they'd have to be shorter, or we'd have to do a fundraiser for more server space. These monsters are pretty big files.

Listened to this episode on my way to the thrift store for good luck. See the small scores thread for the results.

I like UMK3 fine, but every time I go back to it it seems like I have to re learn all those dial-a-combos. It's very fun once you take the time to really get back into it, but I always found MK2 to have a lot more pick-up-and-playability. Plus I always found it kinda odd how incredibly cheap looking all the finishers in MK3 are, despite pretty much everything else having a high degree of polish.

I'm considering picking up an MK1 board sometime to throw in this cabinet. I'd do 3 as well, but I'd have to add that run button and I don't want to drill any holes into this thing.

I BOUGHT A POWER GLOVE BECAUSE IT LOOKED COOL!
It was missing parts so i wore it around for a day like a cyborg and then returned it.
EDIT
http://regularshow.wikia.com/wiki/The_Maximum_Glove

Fast forwarded the video for you to the part most appropriate. Generally the show features them playing on a SMS. I think one of my favotire scenes was them playing a 2 buttoned Guitar Hero.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzXXkb5GY0&feature=player_detailpage#t=106s

Speedy_NES is the man in the know for NES peripherals.
He shows up every once in awhile. Not sure if he got out of collecting or not but he was a great guy too.

While typing this:
LASERSCOPE LOOKED AWESOME I learned about it when i picked up this game from a local shop:
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/getinfo.pl?ID=U-027-S-03600-A
My copy happened to have the coupon in it still so that got scanned to :)


I wanted to get one to wear around with the power glove to complete the cyborg look. I was young....

EDIT
So i stop posting so many times in a row.
This was one of my favorite NES games
Abadox
http://www.rfgeneration.com/cgi-bin/getinfo.pl?ID=U-027-S-00090-A


EDIT
Last one. Finished listening. Bedtime now.

Since they mentioned us crossing the 70k threshold i happened across this screen cap (i took a LONG time ago) recently and didn't even notice the stats until NES_Rules had pointed them out...
September 24, 2004:
We had just over 12k games in the database. At the time hardware was not tracked. Members would submit missing titles into a thread and a staff member would then have to add them.
Just under 3,000 scans These were also uploaded to a thread, emailed, IMed etc to staffers who put them into the DB
Just under 4,100 screen shots - same procedures as the scans.

EDIT
I lied. For those who notice the error message on the side there. I can't remember what that was about but the issue was very limited and most other people could not replicate the error i was seeing. Much like most of my life today it was a unique problem that i was special enough to encounter. +1 for consistency.

Interesting commentary on the different Zapper models.  For the longest time I thought there was only the grey version (which I owned)

Someone should give him an achievement when he hits 20,000

My average is quite low though(IMO)
19012 (6.177 per day)
Funnily enough 6.1 was number of achievements i need to obtain each day to hit the goal i set for myself this year. It is up to 6.9 now though.

Dont get him started on achievements again. Then we'll unleash the beast and he'll have like 20,000 posts a year :P

Just listening to the podcast now.. how's Darksiders 2 Bill?

Metal Slug 2 was remade in to Metal Slug X.

Deja Vu 1 & 2 were released as a compilation for the GBC.  Pick it up if you see it in the wild.

It's good but there is something about it that I can't put my finger on that is holding it back from being great.  I re-played the first hour of Darksiders 1 and it just has a better feel for me.  Still, 2 is worth playing if you are a fan.

I liked Darksiders 1 better as well. Darksiders 2 has a bunch of different ideas that don't come together as seamlessly, and the ending is disappointing. Would you say Darksiders 1 is to Darksiders 2 as The Legend of Zelda is to the Adventure of Link?

Is there a Famicom/Super Famicom episode planned?

Famicom? Hmmmmmm, who knows..... ;)

FYI-

Today is the last day to get your donation in for your reward to be announced on Episode 10

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?action=paypal

I thought there was an auction thread in conjunction with the donation drive. Did I miss something?

Nope, it has just been postponed to coincide with the official RF Generation fundraising drive. Coming soon!

finally got around to listening to this one, i'm going to start the next ep tonight. great listen as always!