Wow! Hello there

I know...I haven't updated this in a long time. For those that do read this I am sorry.
Basically a few things have happened that prevented this. First off I became an Admin on RetrowareTV so I was doing lots of editing and posting on there for my own stuff and the other contributors. So double posting on here with a little blogging kinda fell to the wayside. Secondly I've been heavily active in both my solo acoustic music and my new band. Music is my career first and while making these video has become very important to me and I try and combine the two passions from time to time it gets hard to maintain so much.

But the main thing is, I'm not sure what to do here. I'm thinking a new site is in order but no matter what this one needs to be cleaned up. So suggestions are welcome! I've been thinking of new videos I can create on the side and semi quickly that I can post outside of RWTV like I use to as well which would be a good thing for a site like this.

That is all for now!
-Kev

New videos!

I've been so bad about updating this since all my videos actually have their own page at RetrowareTV now. I need to clean this whole site up and make it more productive.
Anyway! There have been two new videos!

Yeah! So I decided to review a modern game. But I compare the new Wii remake (or Wiimake) of GoldenEye to the classic for N64. 

In this video I basically continue the Ghostbusters Halloween Special and review the Ghostbusters game for Sega Genesis. I got a lot of "Why didn't you review the Genesis game!?" comments when I made my halloween special....WELL HERE IT IS GET OFF MY BACK! I'm just kidding! I was going to get to it eventually. 

Also my awesome title card artist changed her Deviant Art account so now go here and follow her! Tell her she is awesome as well. 

http://captainsenator.deviantart.com/

Merry Christmas!

Oops! I've been pimping this all over the web but forgot to post this here! Have a Merry Christmas!

TWO videos and big news!

Yep that is right! RetroActive is now a MAIN contributor on RetrowareTV.com. What does this mean you ask?   Well, I get my own fancy page, forum, and a new bump in front of my videos. But it should mean more exposure, which is always nice. I'm pretty excited about it! You can see the new page at http://retroactive.kdubproductions.com or just go to http://www.retrowaretv.com and click the RetroActive button.
With that I released a new video!
I round out my Tiny Toon Adventures reviews with Buster's Hidden Treasure for the Sega Genesis!

Click the image to go watch it!

As a bonus to my blog readers you can see the video that will be up tomorrow!

Click click click!

Oops!

Ok, so I completely forgot to post the most recent videos! There have been two since the Halloween special with hopefully one coming in the next week. Then it is the Christmas special!

First up we have! (click to go to the video)

This was a great video game back in the day and I still love this little arcade classic. 

Then we had!

If you remember a while back I reviewed the NES original then I compared it to a SNES sequel. Well I decided to look at the second game for the NES! Next up will be Buster's Hidden Treasure for Sega Genesis. 

A Ghostbusters Halloween Special

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I am SO excited to release this video. For those that know me Ghostbusters is a good chunk of my life so this video was going to happen eventually. This video has a guest appearance by Vee and some other shenanigans by yours truly. The very first video I ever made was about Ghostbusters (The Real Ghostbusters for Game Boy to be precise) and it was great to get back to talking about the franchise. I had a lot of fun making this video and I hope you have a lot of fun watching it. 

RetroActive: Halloween Mini

Aka: The Darkness Comes


This review is pretty much super late and this is the first time I have not gotten a new video out within a week and a half after the last one. It has been three weeks and I was getting pretty frustrated by that! Originally the video that was to come after the Tony Hawk Game Quickie was a top 10 list (which juggled topics). But due to some life things it got put on hold. Once it had gotten closer to Halloween I decided to do a more holiday related video to precede my Halloween Special and since I had already re-written the top 10 list several times I figured it was for the best anyway.

Sk8 or Die!

The Planet Smashers Site

I had decided I wanted to make this music video of sorts a while back which is what made me decide to do the Game Quickie about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. I figured they would be a good compliment to each other. Retro gaming combined with one of my favorite series of games that has continued into the current gen with Ska...perfect combo for me. I hope you enjoy it! 

Game Quickie: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

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Another great title card made by Vee

Oooops I forgot to make a post for this when it came out four days ago! In any event here it is! Tony Hawk games were constantly in my Gamecube and while the first game is probably my least played it certainly has had an influence on my gaming and gaming in general. Plus, you HAVE to love that soundtrack! I mean it has Suicide Machines AND Goldfinger. You guys know I love me some ska right? Well now you do if you didn't!  Also before you ask; no I hate Reel Big Fish and to a lesser extent Less then Jake. What were we talking about again?

RetroActive: The Dreamcast Theory

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This super sweet title card made by Vee

Once I stopped being lazy this video wasn't actually all that difficult to make, though I had some issues balancing pictures and game footage. But in the end I am really happy with it, I think I'd put it in my top 5 videos so far. The issues came with that fact that with it being 11 mins long and with so much going on the file was huge. So knowing blip I decided to upload my own FLV as there would be no way they would convert it without timing out.

RetroActive: Classic 80's Price Guide

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Man I just keep having tough videos to do lately! So my retro store (Game X-Change) closed it's doors a little while back. Heartbroken I had to look for a new one and stumbled on Trade-N-Game about the same distance away in the opposite direction. Upon going in I found a store dedicated to guys like me, very small but very cool. I bought some Atari games and a NES game and talked to the owner who was there about his shop and retro games in general. Of course I had to bring up my videos and we talked about RetrowareTV (which he had heard of) and how Racketboy had just been there last month to do an interview with him for the website.

Game Quickie: Adventure

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I originally planned for my second Game Quickie to be about another Atari 2600 game (Berzerk) but had the cute idea for this title card and really wanted Vee to draw it. So I changed my mind completely based on the cute title card. If you do not get the reference you should tune your TV to Cartoon Network and watch Adventure Time on Monday nights.

http://www.blip.tv/file/4043023

RetroActive: Dynamite Headdy

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Title card made by Vee 

 Another tough one to get out! I spent a lot of time gathering footage and when I went to edit it together I noticed there were an awful lot of scan lines. Testing after testing I came to the conclusion there wasn't much I could do about it. It seems to be an issue with the Genesis 2 I have; I know it has degraded quality then the first model but I never really noticed till now. On my TV it isn't really noticeable (well it is more so now of course because I'm looking for it) but once captured into my computer on the HD monitor, very noticeable. Once again you must live and learn! I haven't done too many reviews with fotoage from a Genesis game and I planned to change that but this may be on hold until I can fix the quality issue (I'd rather avoid emulation). So I may look into getting a model 1 or a clone. Any one wanna help me out? :P

JoyPad Podcast: Episode 6

Game Quickie: Star Fox

Check out the classic Super Nintendo game Star Fox in all its 3D polygon glory.

Watch it at RetrowareTV

http://www.retrowaretv.com

My first Game Quickie! I have been hoping to do one since I first started making Retro Gaming videos. But of course when I started I was not good enough to do one and wasn't part of Retroware. It was shortly after I realized I couldn't do a 6 to 8 min video every week so I decided to do the Shorties to fill the space. I will confess they were both for my sanity and a brown nose/attention grabbing attempt haha. The name was conceived the have something "similar" and kind of a tribute to them and was the best name to describe what they were; plus I thought the name was really catchy with its multiple meanings in culture today. For example as the current slang goes it describes a cute girl and I meant for these to be cute and light hearted more so then the normal episodes.
Anyway as the video says in the beginning Star Fox was a request by fan and friend Ron. I had been putting this off long enough and now here it is! Still really excited to be on Retroware and hope you all enjoy the video!

RetroActive: Kirby ReDub

This title card might be my favorite yet!

Check out Vee's work: Click Here

Watch this video at Retrowaretv.com

So this partnership has been in the works for a little while and I am so happy to be apart of the site. It all started with Ben (from VGTO) and I can't thank him enough. So from here on out all RetroActive videos will be posted over at RetrowareTV and I encourage you to go be apart of the site. If you are a Retro Gaming fan it is the site for you. I am still going to be providing content to The Geek Fighters on occasion and am thankful for their help getting me this far. I will still distribute my videos to Youtube so if you subscribe there you will see them; how this is gonna happen is in the works.

JoyPad Podcast 5: Featuring PeanutButterGamer

Episode 5! We welcome the special guest Austin also known as PeanutButterGamer.
Check out his stuff http://www.youtube.com/peanutbuttergamer
Chris could not join us this week he was at OtaKon

We discuss the Kinect price, 3DS launch date, and bad consoles of old. 

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RetroActive: Tiny Toon Adventures

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It is a double feature! Check out two licensed games for the NES and SNES from Konami based on that awesome cartoon series.
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Title card made by Vee http://anime-vee.deviantart.com

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JoyPad Podcast: Episode 4

In this episode the JoyPad crew discusses Blu-Ray and the possibilities of flash media, Ghostbusters 3, and Mega Man Universe.

 

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Magnetic Tape: My Pet Monster

So I've finally completed something I've been tossing around for a while. Besides my passion for music (video on that soon) and retro gaming I love cheesy not so great movies and have a decent little VHS collection. So I decided to make a series for that; I'm not sure how long it will last or if it will continue but here is the first episode!

Click here to watch!

Title Card made by Vee http://anime-vee.deviantart.com

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