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River City Ransom is a Blast

Apr/25 in Personal, Video Games

rcrbox Looking for a new virtual console game to play on the Wii, I downloaded and tried out River City Ransom.  After hearing all over the Web that this game was an awesome old school NES release, I fell for the hype and gave it a shot.  I have to say I am now joining the fan boys in saying that this game is a lot of fun.  Never played it before yesterday (I missed most of the first generation of Nintendo) but I was happy my five dollars was well spent.

Pretty much it is a game like Final Fight, but with RPG elements built into it.  So you can buy items and power ups to make yourself stronger – but the game is all based around a side scrolling punch, kick and throw way of thinking.

If your needing help, found this large map (looks as if it was scanned in from an old magazine article).  Final thoughts are that the whole thing reminds me of a bad 80′s movie – but in a good way.

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Need a Better Game Review?

Mar/25 in Online Apps

Video Game Reviews From time to time, I’ll go to the video game review sites like Gamespot and others to see what is new in the world of video games.  Unlike the other areas of tech I seem to be involved in, video games are purely for pleasure and nothing else. 

The problem comes in when you want to just get some reviews.  You have to battle through popup ads, pretty graphics and ten page articles.  If you don’t have much time, and you just want to know how good a game it try No Fuss Reviews.

This site will deliver you what you want, need and love most about video game review sites the easy to read thumbs up or thumbs down.  Type in any game title and then the console that it is on and you can get a simple one through ten review of the game. 

Another neat feature is, let’s say you don’t know what the title is exactly but you know it is for the Wii and it has "Mario" in the title.  just type in Mario, select Wii on the side and it will give you all the Wii games with Mario in the title.

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Wii Will Take Your Money!

Mar/10 in Personal

wii-crazy I have had my Wii for a little over a week now, and I do love it dearly. In my opinion, it is the perfect system for my generation – the one that was raised with a bottle in one hand and a video game controller in the other hand.

Right now I could care less about graphic innovation, home entertainment or anything that the others are pitching. What I want is something that is fun to play which Wii wins at hands down.

One aspect that I didn’t think would be so damn addictive is downloading the Virtual Console titles. I download one, play it for a while and say.. “Gee, I sure would like to play that” and download another, then another, then well.. just one more. Ok, this will be the last one I promise! I am at the point where I think I may just have to set myself aside a “Wii budget” so I am not tempted to go overboard.

One more money related issue that bugs me about the Wii is that they sell the nunchuk and the Wii-mote as two different (and expensive) controllers. As far as controllers go I have 2 Wii-motes, 2 nunchuks, and 2 “classic” controllers. This way I figure I’ll get half of my controller costs out of the way. Spending $40 for the Wii-mote and then $20 for a nunchuk seems to be a little ‘bit of a money grab to me.

Well damn you Nintendo and your gaming goodness, you grabbed me. Now I’m off to go wait curb side for Super Smash Bros. Brawl to be delivered… what are you talking about, I don’t have a problem!

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