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. 

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.

RetroActive: The Dreamcast Theory

Watch it on RetrowareTV
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.

RetroActive: Dynamite Headdy

Watch it at Retrowaretv.com!

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

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.

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

WE HAVE SHIRTS! http://store.kdubproductions.com

RetroActive: StarTropics 2

Travel back to the past and relive the overlooked sequel to a great game.

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Title Card Made By:

http://anime-vee.deviantart.com

RetroActive Intro Videos! A look back

Today I have retired the second of two intro videos I made for the RetroActive series.
While maybe not a big deal to you these mark two big points in the young series' life for me. The first being the first attempt ever at serious video editing and producing my own series and the second retirement marking when I've moved up in technology, popularity, and as the series grows into other sites wanting it exclusive to their site. It has been a crazy ride! On July 4th I will have been doing this for only 4 months, and it is hard to imagine. I've met and worked with several nice people, watched people tell me they love my work, and found I have talents I was not aware of in the slightest.  Of course there has been the bad like people telling me I need to shave my ugly facial hair (yeah...) or that I am boring; but even that has been fun!

Here are the two videos and I hope you enjoy them! Thank you so much for watching and your support!


Technically the first video I ever made for RetroActive as it was completed before I ever finished the first episode. Was retired and replaced with one a little more "intense"

Little secret, all the scenes with me talking not only were never filmed for a review but I'm basically saying things like "Here is me talking about something in order to have something for my intro video"

The song is from Kirby's Adventure, the Green Greens theme


Was used one last time on the Gremlins 2 review.
Music is Kirby's Adventure Boss Theme

RetroActive: Gremlins 2

Take a look at this challenging and often over looked NES title where you control the adorable Mogwai Gizmo in his attempt to stop the Gremlin infestation.

View the video on Blip ( Choose Master to view HD)
View on The Geek Fighters Site
(And maybe register to talk about the video in the forums)

http://www.thegeekfighters.com
http://www.twitter.com/kevinwska
http://www.youtube.com/kevinwska 

RetroActive: Sonic Retrospective Part 2

Enjoy!
Tomorrow is moving day!

Contest!

ENDS MAY 9th!
Here are the links again!
http://www.kdubproductions.blip.tv
@kevinwska

RetroActive: Pac-Man 2

The new RetroActive! Hope you guys enjoy this one!
There seems to be something odd with the footage (of me) lighting after the compression and this hasn't happened before so I'm gonna look into it. Sorry guys!


So two new things!!
This site can officially be found at its own .com! http://www.kdubproductions.com

Also I'm gonna start streaming at Justin.tv! Thanks all who to came to the first one!
http://www.justin.tv/kevinwska

RetroActive: Kid Icarus LvL Run

As an attempt to try some new things for RetroActive and content for just my youtube page I have this quick lvl run with commentary of the 3-4 fortress from Kid Icarus. Hope you enjoy it!

RetroActive Episode 2: Whomp 'Em

I actually managed to do a second episode in a week like schedule!

So in this episode we look at the Mega Man "clone" Whomp 'Em by Jaleco. A decent game, and one of the games I have owned the longest and by some miracle I still have it in box with manual. Is it worth you picking up? Well watch the video and see!


Some updates about RetroActive:
-I originally said I was going to keep the show diverse and review things outside of retro gaming. This is no longer the case! Though I will do these type of videos they will be under a different name at a later date.
-The show will probably now be bi weekly and I will flip between doing an episode of Spooky's Corner then RetroActive.
-I will not always do full length episodes and will fill gaps with Quickie videos.

Spooky's Corner returns next week!

P.S please remember to share and leave feedback! :)

Retro Active Episode 1: Kirby's Adventure!

Welcome to the first RetroActive video!
I know this video makes it seem like it but I DO NOT intend to just focus on retro games. I want to look at movies, TV, toys, music etc. Basically anything Retro I still am Active with. Get it? :P

There will be a lot of game stuff though! Probably the first few videos

I hope you enjoy it! Please share and share...and share....and share... ^_^

Edit: Yes I said "Nintendo Entertainment Center" one time in the video and never caught it...sorry... slip of the tongues happen.