Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: SirSniffy on February 05, 2009, 11:42:21 AM
Title: Retro Gaming Challenge?!
Post by: SirSniffy on February 05, 2009, 11:42:21 AM
Hey Guys,
Anybody getting Retro Gaming Challenge? I am kind of excited about it. I had no idea the game was even coming out here! XSEED is slowly becoming one of my favorite publishers.
In Japan, the game is based on the TV show license.
Amazon shipped my copy today... c'mon Super Saver!
I bought my copy at gamestop today!
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Post by: Nick DiMola on February 11, 2009, 11:37:51 PM
Arghh, tried to find this today in-store, but couldn't find it anywhere. Guess I'll have to look again tomorrow...
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 12, 2009, 01:25:24 PM
Amazon is shipping my stuff from weird places lately. Usually, free shipping from the Dallas warehouse takes just a few days, sometimes as soon as two, to get to me after it actually ships, with some exceptions. But when I really want something soon, they ship it from someplace in Indiana! Another package is coming from Delaware. Delaware?! Delaware.
If I don't play this game this weekend, I'm blaming Indiana and everyone in it.
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Post by: KDR_11k on February 12, 2009, 02:05:58 PM
I guess that depends on where the stock is.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 12, 2009, 05:35:43 PM
I can't remember the last time I ordered a non-rare video game or movie from Amazon that didn't ship from Dallas. Books, hardware, and pretty much everything else tends to come from who knows where. Considering Retro Game Challenge is the only thing I ordered Amazon hasn't pimped on the site or in emails, I'd guess it's the game responsible. The question, then, is why didn't the Dallas shipping center have the stock for this order? Was it because the game is selling faster than anticipated, Amazon didn't bother to stock much because the buyer thought he worked at GameStop thanks to blunt head trauma, or somewhere in between?
My money's on "glitch in the Matrix," personally.
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Post by: AV on February 12, 2009, 06:38:02 PM
the game reminds me if they got 9volt from Wario Ware and gave him a game. seems cool
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 17, 2009, 09:58:43 PM
Yay, finally got my copy! It's a good sign that the first game is a Galaga clone -- I've always been unusually good at Galaga, can play for ten or fifteen minutes on one quarter.
So if anyone is curious about Game Center CX, the Japanese show that this game is based upon, there are a lot of subtitled episodes on YouTube. Here is the hilarious first episode, in two parts:
Watching this makes me really want an American version of the show, where some masochistic host plays through Western crap-fests like E.T., Donkey Kong 64, etc.
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 18, 2009, 07:52:44 PM
zomg Star Prince is awesome!
I'm really enjoying this game (RGC) so far. The writing is cute and funny, other than the letters to the magazine. It's odd and funny seeing famous game journalists' photos in the magazine.
All the games seem to be fairly easy so far, although Haggle Man got more difficult in the last challenge. One thing I find annoying is that you have to complete all four challenges of each game before the next game is unlocked, so it all feels very linear, and you're forced to play through every game, even if there's one you hate. It seems like the next game should arrive after you beat 3/4 of the previous one's challenges, and then maybe there could be some token reward for the optional task of completing all the challenges. I bet something like this has been implemented in the sequel.
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Post by: KDR_11k on February 19, 2009, 06:53:17 AM
It's odd and funny seeing famous game journalists' photos in the magazine.
Does that include this one (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Xynta)?
Note: Link includes some NSFW ads, so click at your own risk.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 19, 2009, 12:04:42 PM
I am sooo not clicking a link to a picture on ED.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 19, 2009, 04:03:01 PM
Jonny to make things easier you can use codes in most of the games to get the challenges (I did that with the lame racing game). There is a code for that game that eliminates all the racers and allows you to be invincible making it SUPER EASY.
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 21, 2009, 03:14:29 PM
I know, but the challenges are all pretty easy anyway. The only difficult one I've seen is the fourth challenge on Guadia Quest. I'm now on Haggle Man 3, and holy crap it's awesome. Ninja Gaiden + RPG elements = WIN.
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 26, 2009, 04:44:45 PM
Is no one else playing this wonderful game? :-(
I finally beat the last game yesterday, so that completes the final challenge (finish every game). Robot Ninja Haggleman 3 is definitely the most advanced and most interesting game in the bunch. It's like Ninja Gaiden mixed with... Metroid? Starts off really easy but gets extremely difficult towards the end.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 26, 2009, 05:00:15 PM
I would be if I weren't so tired all the time this week. I hope to get into it this weekend.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 26, 2009, 05:03:37 PM
I finally beat the last game yesterday, so that completes the final challenge (finish every game). Robot Ninja Haggleman 3 is definitely the most advanced and most interesting game in the bunch. It's like Ninja Gaiden mixed with... Metroid? Starts off really easy but gets extremely difficult towards the end.
I do though right now I'm finding the 4th challenge in Guardia Quest to be extremely tedious. These old school RPGs are horrible when it comes to mindless grinding.
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 26, 2009, 07:25:29 PM
I recently beat the final challenge and the game. I think I'm inspired to write a reader review about this wonderful game!!
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 01, 2009, 10:51:05 PM
Collector's Edition for Game Center CX 2 (Retro Game challenge 2)
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on March 02, 2009, 04:21:27 PM
I didn't get as much time with it as I'd have liked, but I did finally start the game. So far I'm impressed that the retro games actually have some interesting ideas, like the doors and hidden stuff in Haggle Man. They went above and beyond, and I can't wait to see what's in the rest of the games.
It feels like kind of a waste to not have any more challenges after the next game becomes available. There should at least be extra-hard optional challenges. I mean, the Galaga clone has 64 levels and two kinds of level warps, but the challenges only ask you to get past level 5. Where's the challenge to reach level 64 by any means necessary?
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 02, 2009, 05:04:21 PM
I didn't get as much time with it as I'd have liked, but I did finally start the game. So far I'm impressed that the retro games actually have some interesting ideas, like the doors and hidden stuff in Haggle Man. They went above and beyond, and I can't wait to see what's in the rest of the games.
It feels like kind of a waste to not have any more challenges after the next game becomes available. There should at least be extra-hard optional challenges. I mean, the Galaga clone has 64 levels and two kinds of level warps, but the challenges only ask you to get past level 5. Where's the challenge to reach level 64 by any means necessary?
The very last challenge of the game makes you beat all 8 games
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Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 03, 2009, 02:52:28 PM
I agree with UPB. It's so satisfying to complete the challenges that I wish there were more of them for each game. As long as only a few are required, it wouldn't hurt the pacing from game to game but would give you more to do after all games are unlocked. However, I'm still going to keep playing some of these in Freeplay when I have some random DS time.
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Post by: NWR_DrewMG on April 28, 2009, 11:27:29 AM
I got this about a month ago, and I was really excited to get it. I played it a lot the first few days, but when I hit Gaudia Quest, it just killed my momentum. I'm hoping to finish it soon, but I have to say that there's a reason I didn't play a ton of NES RPGs back in the day - they're very frustrating. Where the hell do you get the item that lets you raise one of your team?
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Post by: walkingdead on April 29, 2009, 03:32:43 PM
gaudia quest was the reason i bought RGC. i was playing DQ4 and loved it, got nostalgic for dragon warrior and remembered this game. went out bought it and loved every minute of it.
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Post by: Peachylala on May 06, 2009, 04:19:32 PM
Haggleman 3 reminds me of Ninja Gaiden.
God I love this game so much.
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Post by: Caliban on May 06, 2009, 09:48:30 PM
It has been said that the sequel to RGC will not be brought overseas. Not enough copies of the first RGC were sold to justify North-American sequel.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on May 07, 2009, 11:12:15 AM
Sometimes I really hate my fellow NA gamers.
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Post by: Peachylala on May 07, 2009, 11:41:50 AM
It was pretty stupid of X-Seed to even think RGC would sell well in the first place.
The hardcorez of today need everything given to them on a siver plater.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on May 07, 2009, 12:13:04 PM
Everything about RGC should appeal to the much touted lapsed gamers. Forget the hardcore. They should have taken a page from Nintendo's playbook and shown a pretty celebrity mom playing it.
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Post by: KDR_11k on May 07, 2009, 03:02:44 PM
Everything about RGC should appeal to the much touted lapsed gamers. Forget the hardcore. They should have taken a page from Nintendo's playbook and shown a pretty celebrity mom playing it.
I doubt X-Seed can afford a celebrity mom.
A pity though, Scamco Bandai did a great job getting the 8-bit feel down pat.
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on May 08, 2009, 08:36:35 AM
It was pretty stupid of X-Seed to even think RGC would sell well in the first place.
The hardcorez of today need everything given to them on a siver plater.
XSEED is a company that tries to appeal to fans, and also try to get what they could from publishers. Retro Game Challenge got a lot of praise when people heard it was coming to America, unfortunately that praise didn't translate to sales. XSEED said that the game started off good, but it didn't have legs.
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Post by: Peachylala on May 08, 2009, 11:28:27 AM
How would they expect a game that is basically a collection/spoof of 8-bit NES/Famicom to have legs. RGC would only appeal to a small fraction of the DS fanbase.
While I was very pleased with the game, I am still displeased that X-Seed based the need of translating the sequal on sales.
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Post by: Flames_of_chaos on May 08, 2009, 12:13:26 PM
How would they expect a game that is basically a collection/spoof of 8-bit NES/Famicom to have legs. RGC would only appeal to a small fraction of the DS fanbase.
While I was very pleased with the game, I am still displeased that X-Seed based the need of translating the sequal on sales.
Localization, publishing and etc costs money and like any business they are in it to make money. If sales aren't guaranteed based on the performance of the predecessor, it would be a huge financial risk for a small company which is bad especially for a company as small as XSEED.
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Post by: jakeOSX on May 11, 2009, 06:35:45 PM
ah 8-bit frustration.
this game is great.
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Post by: jakeOSX on May 14, 2009, 10:09:12 AM
why does rally king hate me?
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Post by: TheFleece on July 08, 2009, 09:53:02 PM
I bought it two weeks ago and I'm getting close to beating Gaudia Quest, but the dungeon is just so tough! I really like all the games, but I play Haggle Man and Star Prince the most. XSeed is a great developer - maybe they will be convinced to release it in the future. I mean if Electroplankton can be farmed out on DSiWare maybe Retro Game Challenges could be put out the same way?
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Post by: kraken613 on July 08, 2009, 11:33:25 PM
I know it's not 100% accurate but is a general estimate.
AFAIK VGC fails badly at tracking tiny numbers like that.
Well at least they track them as sucky. Really there is no other source for those numbers, have to take what you can get.
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Post by: yoshi1001 on July 12, 2009, 09:14:51 PM
Just picked this up yesterday. Loved the Wizard reference-anyone know if that was in the original? Maybe if there' a third in Japan, there'll be some on DSiWare since they can compartmentalize them in advance.
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Post by: Patchkid15 on July 15, 2009, 12:06:03 PM
I was just browsing my best-buy shelves, looking to pick up Chrono Trigger when my eyes began to wonder. I saw Retro Game Challenge, seeing how Jonny speaks so highly of it I had to pick it up. Hopefully i enjoy it as much as the rest of you have.
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Post by: vudu on July 15, 2009, 01:33:35 PM
I'll be honest--I didn't enjoy RGC nearly as much as I had hoped. I LOVE the idea of the game, but the execution fell short.
I'm hoping that despite all odds the sequel gets localized and (hopefully) fixes a lot of the problems that the first game had.
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Post by: SixthAngel on July 15, 2009, 10:55:56 PM
I think a big problem was the box art and name. Everytime I saw it in the store I assumed it was a collection of old games like Space Invaders and Centipede so I never looked at it. I didn't know what it was until I saw it in a forum.
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Post by: Patchkid15 on July 16, 2009, 01:49:39 PM
Well after a good night of playing, I am up to Gaudia Quest, on the final challenge. I think the game is terrific. Thanks to Jonny for tipping us off about this game via the podcast.
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Post by: Patchkid15 on July 16, 2009, 07:34:14 PM
Well, after a good day of playing i am done with all of the normal challenges. The only thing left is for me to complete the game 100%, i was very pleased. This game took me back to when i played games like these. I enjoyed every second of it.
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Post by: DmentD on July 17, 2009, 02:04:48 PM
In the GameFan Magazine Apr 1986. page 6/13 Says you can make your car indestructible in Rally King by simply pressing select while holding left on the control pad in the title screen, and your car should become green. I have tried this at least 10 times and cannot get it to work. I try it where it says Rally King and shows the van going through the desert and says push start....I assume this is the title screen? Suggestions?
I have figured it out. The Magazine in the game is incorrect. The code for invincible is actually... On Title screen, hold UP + LEFT + SELECT. I tried it and it worked the first time. You can find all the cheats for Retro Game Challenge here....
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/953/953530p1.html
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Post by: Stratos on August 01, 2009, 06:38:16 AM
I just ordered this on Amazon. It is only $20 there now.
I got the game and have been playing it most evenings before bed. I love it to death but I do agree that the only glaring issue with it is the forced 'one challenge at a time in a specific order' matter.
I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone who enjoyed and appreciated games from the 8-bit era.
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Post by: Mainframe on August 23, 2009, 01:12:55 AM
I just picked this up today on sale at fry's for 17 bucks. Been looking around for it, so I"m pretty stoked to find it and can't wait to play now :)
