jdodson1

Joined 01/23/2012
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I'm an Engineer and built the video game community Cheerful Ghost and text based mini-MMO Tale of the White Wyvern.

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Games Are Still Being Made On The Original NES? Metal Jesus & John Riggs Talk About New NES Homebrew Carts.
Metal Jesus and John Riggs cover a ton of NES Homebrew carts in this pretty great video. As I enjoy dark humor I thought Super Russian Roulette looked fun.

Not covered in this video are other NES Cart repros and i'm really been wanting to pickup Wisdom Tree's new NES cart pressing of all thier original NES games such as Sunday Funday, Exodus, Joshua, King of Kings, Bible Buffet and Spiritual Warfare. As a kid my parents bought me these bible games and even though i'm not religious now I look at all Wisdom Tree games with affection. I mean, some of them aren't great but I stand by Spiritual Warfare as the best NES Zelda clone ever made on the actual NES.

http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/store.html#!/Wisdom-Tree-Collection-NES/p/72433164/category=0

Watch The Whole 2017 Nintendo World Championship Now!
Clocking in at a little under 5 hours, the Nintendo World Championship stream is a marathon session that the hardcore Nintendo lovers should watch. Featuring matches of Metroid: Samus Returns, Balloon Fight, Mario Kart 7, Donkey Kong Country Returns and Splatoon this Championship is a good mix of current Nintendo titles. It's a fun stream and the announcers do a good job of keeping things interesting.

Humble Bundle Was Acquired By IGN
"Announcing our biggest bundle ever: Humble Bundle is proudly joining the IGN family! We will continue to bring you all of our humble products, but with more resources and help from IGN.

We chose IGN because they really understand our vision, share our passion for games, and believe in our mission to promote awesome digital content while helping charity. I can’t think of a better partner than IGN to help Humble Bundle continue our quest.

We will be working harder than ever to bring you the best gaming bundles, book bundles, and store sales, while nurturing the Humble Monthly and our new publishing initiative. We will keep our own office, culture, and amazing team with IGN helping us further our plans. We will raise even more money for charity."

What do you think about Humble Bundle being acquired by IGN?

http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/166366386976/humble-bundle-is-joining-forces-with-ign

Sega Genesis Flashback HD Coming November
AtGames, the current keeper of the Sega Brand and games is releasing a new console next month that aims squarely at the success of the NES & SNES Classic called the Sega Genesis Flashback HD. Sporting an 85 game lineup, 720p HD, wireless controllers and the ability to play Sega Genesis games and use your old controllers it's a pretty interesting prospect. It's just that... well... it's not reviewing very well.

Kotaku gave the system and resounding "meh" while Kotaku basically think's it's terrible. How is it actually? I'm not sure, but it's a compelling system with actual Sega Genesis playback and the 85 included games is a compelling prospect. I think i'm going to wait for some Amazon reviews of the system before I decide to pick it up but if it even has average reviews I think the value might be right.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/13/16051258/sega-genesis-flashback-hd-review
https://kotaku.com/sega-genesis-flashback-hd-the-kotaku-review-1819380165

Portcenter Looks Back At Final Fantasy VI
Ben Paddon is back with another episode of Ports Center looking at what I consider to be the highlight of the series, Final Fantasy VI. He concludes that the best port of the game is the GBA version, which I agree with him on except the music. Most things on the GBA version are superior including the graphics, translation as well as the addition of extra dungeons and items but the music isn't as good as the Super Nintendo version due to the limitations of the GBA sound hardware. One fix for this is to play the FFVI GBA version with a SNES Music ROM Hack, which i've done and it significantly improves things.

Final Fantasy III is included on the SNES Classic and that's a good version of the game too and frankly I kind of like how strange the old versions translations were. I'm torn between which version i'd come back to play though as I will be playing my SNES Classic in December and i'd love to run through FFIII/VI again on it.

"In this episode, we look at the porting history of the Final Fantasy series -- these are games that seem to find their way onto almost every system, but it almost didn't happen! Ben explains why..."

This The Donkey Kong Country Promo VHS Tape Is Totally X-TREME!
Somehow I got this tape in sent to me in the 90's and I loved it. It really got me excited about Donkey Kong Country and as such the hype was so real I bought it. After I played and beat the game about a zillion times I came back to watch the tape and it never really hit me the same way after playing the game. As time passed I ditched the tape, which in hindsight wasn't a great idea but my young self didn't really realize that kind of thing might be useful to keep around someday. Nor that i'd be collecting VHS tapes 20 years later.

The Donkey Kong country tape video embedded above is 17 minutes of 90's Nintendo at the height of it's power and majesty. The video is extremely dated and as such totally cringe worthy including that TOTALLY X-TREME HOST. But that was a big part of that 90's "Bart Simpson rebel cliche" character that was so TOTALLY IN YOUR FACE as the host is trying to do! Plus this is a good video to study ways to overuse Digital Toaster effects because you can.

DF Retro Analyzes Each Doom Console Port From The Worst To The Best!
Makes sense that DF Retro's longest episode to date covers Doom, one of the most important games ever made. In this nearly hour long opus DF Retro talks about each Doom console port and how they nearly all relate to each other. He also talks about the Doom console ports history, limitations and playability.

"id software’s Doom played a key part in gaming’s transition from two to three dimensions, and its legacy of technical innovation continues to this day. On this episode of DF Retro, John explores its origins on the PC before comparing and contrasting this against every official console conversion. There's a lot of ground to cover so buckle up for the longest episode of DF Retro yet."

I can't strongly recommend this video enough if you love Doom and want to dig in to an interesting part of it's long history.

Lose Your Life To The Latest Humble Endless RPG-Lands Bundle
Do you have a hole in your gaming life that needs to be filled with Borderlands? Do you love endless RPG's and want something else to play? Humble Bundle has just the thing for you in the new Humble Endless RPG-Lands Bundle featuring: $1 Tier (Borderlands. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut, Wurm Unlimited), $4.97 Tier (Borderlands 2, Endless Legend - Classic Edition & Guild of Dungeoneering) & $10 Tier (Borderlands the Pre-Sequel). And for a couple bucks more you can get both Van Helsing game Soundtracks, which is a nice bonus.

I can't say enough great things about Borderlands beyond the reality that I keep coming back to play these games over and over and plan on doing that for many more years to come. I can't vouch for the rest of the games but they seem to be well worth looking into.

https://www.humblebundle.com/endless-rpg-lands-bundle

Awesomenauts Free To Play Gets Massive Update In Brawls & Daily Quests
http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3948077/e876624a01b6b62c9a5d0de91e2683328bea61e5.jpg
Awesomenauts is a really fun 2D sidescrolling take on the MOBA genre that hit things pretty hard when it launched and has been getting massive updates since. This year it went entirely free to play and now is getting a huge update making freemium game progression easier and giving people more things to do.

Brawl of the Week

This latest update also introduces Daily Missions. These missions challenge players to complete matches with a specific type of character, to claim victory in a certain number of matches, or to fulfill another objective. The reward for completing these missions? Sweet, sweet Awesomepoints that players can use to purchase additional characters or unlock other cosmetic upgrades.

Daily Missions

In addition to these new gameplay features, we’ve also further refined the experience for players who are new to Awesomenauts. To welcome these new players into our community, we’re providing them with new features that help them predict the effective range of their abilities, and are providing them with a set of daily missions that help them explore the various features Awesomenauts has to offer. We're sure many of these changes will also benefit veteran players who are experimenting with newer characters or returning to the community.

Awesomenauts is one of the more accessible MOBA's i've played and if you are looking for a fun free game to play with your friends online or at a LAN, you really can't go wrong with it.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/204300/announcements/detail/1469721435682506733

When I Found You, I Saw Raw Untamed Power - New Last Jedi Trailer!
The new Star Wars The Last Jedi trailer dropped and it's great. It's a bit darker and way more edgier than I was expecting. As I was watching the trailer Luke looked... really on the edge of a breakdown or maybe it's the fact that he's been living as a hermit for a while?

What do you think? I've been watching the new Star Wars movies on opening night for the last 2 years and I plan to do the same here too.