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"Whenever I think of asphalt, I think of Maureen. That's the last sensation I had before I blacked out, the thick smell of asphalt."
Tim Schafer, who was already known for his work on Monkey Island, proved that he was up to the challenge of leading his own project with Full Throttle. Please, I beg of you, play this game.
Continue reading Dust Off Your DOSBox and Play Full Throttle
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That's right, it's time again for the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2014.0. RFGeneration's Secret Santa event is a fun and exciting holiday gift-exchange tradition that several of the members of this site participate in annually.
For the full list of rules, information, and to sign up, head to the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2014.0 thread located here:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...14729.msg211331#msg211331
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Cosmic Carnage is a bad fighting game for the 32X. What makes the game bad?
Most people can tell if a game is good or bad from playing it for a short while, but what if you wanted to break it down and figure out what specifically makes the game good or bad? You could have a punch list and put little check marks or ratings in each box. But what are the criteria? Story, Gameplay, Control, Visuals, Sound, Replayability? It's hard to apply the same rating system to different types of games. It would depend greatly on the kind of game you are playing. All games should be fun. This can be a bit of an intangible as all of the pieces of the game, good and/or bad, come together to make up the overall experience. Let's take a look at the parts of Cosmic Carnage as they are presented to us.
Continue reading Cosmic Carnage is a Bad Game With a Great Premise
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With the release of Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth on the horizon, I thought it would be an appropriate time to look at the game that Beyond Earth has its roots in. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was released in 1999 , between Civilization II and III, for Windows and was later ported to Mac and Linux. No need to fire up DOSBox for this one.
Continue reading Dust Off Your DOSBox and Play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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I like to take things apart and put them back together again. Always have. My parents would come home from running a few errands and would find any number of electronics items from throughout the house disassembled on the dining room table. VCR, Computer, Stereo, anything I could get my hands on. Oddly enough, I never took apart a video game system when I was young. I was so afraid that it wouldn't work after I put everything back together and I didn't want to deal with the emotional turmoil of not being able to play RBI Baseball or Blades of Steel. Flash forward a few years and I have no issues taking a game console apart. So imagine my surprise when I do a little searching online for a Sega 32X teardown so I know what I'm getting into and I can't find one. I'm sure there a few out there, but if I search for something on the internet and what I'm looking for isn't in the top 4 or 5 returned pages, it might as well not exist.
Here we go, I'm sacrificing this 32X just to get a closer look at all of the little bits.
Continue reading 32X, Show Me Your RISC Chips
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Sometimes it's fun to be the bad guys, especially when their ships are so freaking cool. Tie Fighter is undeniably one of the best space combat flight simulators of all time. It withstands the test of time because it does so many things well and, even though it is dated visually, it is just plain fun to play.
Continue reading Dust off Your DOSBox and Play Tie Fighter
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Welcome to the first of a monthly series about my favorite bad system. I thought we would take a look at the name. Why would you name a system "32X"?
First, there was 8-bit (Not really, but for the purposes of this discussion just go with it). What is 8-bit, what does it mean? In the case of the NES, the term 8-bit is referring to the 8-bit microprocessor that the NES used as a CPU. That means that, at most, the CPU can handle data units that are 8 bits (one octet) wide. The Nintendo Entertainment System and the Atari 2600, or VCS if you prefer, weren't heavily marketed as "8-bit machines". Probably because there was not another apples to apples comparison. There were no 4-bit machines. When the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis came along, they were both heavily marketed as 16-bit machines. And why not? 16 is twice as much as 8, it must be twice as good! The 16 bit marketing worked well for both machines as it clearly demonstrated, in familiar terms, just how much better this product was supposed to be. Towards the end of the 16 bit era, whispers of a 32 bit monster could be heard all across the X-Band waves...
Continue reading The 32X: The Best Worst System
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Posted on Aug 24th 2014 at 04:51:11 PM by ( wildbil52) Posted under PC, DOS |
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The 11th Hour is an exploration puzzle solving mystery game that was released for Windows in 1995 and on Mac in 1996. It is the sequel to The 7th Guest and takes place in the same mansion as the first game, only 60 years later. The player takes on the role of Carl Denning, an investigative reporter who is looking for the missing producer of his TV show in the Stauf mansion.
Continue reading Dust Off Your DOS Box and Play The 11th Hour
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Posted on Jul 24th 2014 at 01:10:38 PM by ( wildbil52) Posted under PC, DOS |
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This is the first of a monthly series about older PC games that are not just great classic titles, but that hold up well enough to play today. Whether you are a long time PC gamer or just someone with a PC or Mac who is just a little curious about all of these amazing classic PC games that you have heard a ton about but have never played, I hope I can convince you to give some of these old games a try.
For this first entry, I thought I would talk about:
Getting Ready to Play Old PC Games
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The time has come, once again, to be the Secret Santa for a randomly selected RFGen member.
Head on over to the Secret Santa thread for details and to sign up http://www.rfgeneration.c...m/index.php?topic=13257.0
Due to the feedback of several members, and a little bit of common sense, we are trying something new with the Keep an Eye Out For Me board.
The old board was a moderately successful idea at first but once the thread grew to 10+ pages with a different post for each user, it became unwieldy to access in the field while hunting for other members.
The new Keep an Eye Out For Me is a child board in the Collection Connection area http://www.rfgeneration.c...orum/index.php?board=12.0
There is now a different thread for each major system. Once you post the items you are looking for with a bounty, myself or another staff member will update the thread and delete your post so that the thread is very clean and made up of just a few posts with everyone's list combined.
If you want to check it out, head over to the new board and read the READ ME FIRST thread.
Please PM me with comments, suggestions, ideas, etc.
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Want an excuse to play some cool 16 bit Disney games? For the month of June, the RF Generation community will be playing through
Aladdin
The Jungle Book
The Lion King
Goof Troop
If you would like to play, just say hello in this thread
You will find the list of other participants, achievements, discussion about the games, etc.
Hint for July's Game...
Fleach and I decided that since July is month seven and we think everyone should have a super time, there was really only one choice when it came to the game for July. We will reveal the game as soon as someone guesses it.
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Alright, the cat is out of the bag. I guess the secret is out that everyone's secret match with their Secret Santa is no secret. Several people sent PMs letting me know that they had figured it out and asked if this was done by accident. It was not. Let me explain.
Last year (2011) I was late to sign up for the RFGen Secret Santa and was matched up with one of the only remaining members who didn't have a match, Techie413. I figured it out, as most of you did this year, when I saw a very familiar return address.
Fast forward to the middle of November just this past year (2012) when I asked Shadow if a Secret Santa was going to happen on RFGen this year. He told me that the staff was swamped with other work related to the site and I offered to organize the SS campaign. I made the decision to match members up 1-1 because of the RFGen buddy I gained in Techie by knowing that he was my Secret Santa.
A Secret Santa is a lot of fun, but this site is about collecting. I believe that collecting is as much about the relationships that we make with awesome people as it is about the awesome things that we acquire. I hope that by knowing who you were matched up with, you gained an RFGen buddy like I did a year ago.
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First let me say that Die Hard is a Christmas movie so the picture makes sense. Also, finding the NES game complete would require a Christmas miracle so it's doubly appropriate.
Several users have still not returned their completed forms to Santa. If Santa doesn't get the completed form in time, you simply can't be matched up. THE CUTOFF DATE IS NOV 30th. If your letter is not received by Santa by Nov 30th, Santa cannot guarantee that you will be able to participate.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP AS LONG AS YOU RETURN THE COMPLETED FORM BY NOV 30th!!!! Send an email to rfgensanta@gmail.com requesting the sign up form and check out complete details on the Secret Santa thread http://www.rfgeneration.c...10624.msg153376#msg153376
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If you are participating in the RF Generation Secret Santa 2012 Extravaganza, PLEASE make sure that you have filled out your form that was sent to you from rfgensanta@gmail.com.
About half of the participating members have been matched up but Santa is still waiting on about a dozen letters before everyone can be matched.
If you haven't signed up and would like to participate, you can send an email to rfgensanta@gmail.com and request the sign up form. YOU WILL NEED TO RETURN THE COMPLETED FORM WITHIN 24 HOURS. That way, there will be enough time to match you up so that you can get shopping!
Details on the RF Generation Secret Santa can be found on this thread-
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