☆Top 20 Retrogaming Title Screens Of The Week Quiz☆ @Hive_5 #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

After a week of wonderful RetroGaming screen-shots from our favourite Twitterer of 2014 so far ( @Hive_5 )

We love a good pixel art title screen so we thought we'd compile 20 of our fave title screens from some of the beauties we've seen from @Hive_5 so far this week......

Firstly follow @Hive_5 for your daily fix of RetroGaming Screenshots

 

Now take a look at these fine examples and see if you can name the game and console!

(Some Are Tougher Than Others)

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See How Many Titles and Systems You Can Name And We'll Do a Separate Post Tomorrow With The Answers!

☆Pang Man Part 6 – "My visit to the Square Enix store in Tokyo"☆ @SquareEnix #GamersUnite

Pang Man is one of the coolest dudes we know and he's knocked our socks off again this week by telling us all about his trip to Tokyo and in particular his journey to the Video Games Mecca that is the Square Enix store.

As usual we are very jealous of The Pang Man's exploits.

Luckily for you Pang Man has taken some pictures just for the Freezer Fraternity!

Let's see what the Man has to say in PART 6......

"One of the coolest places for a gamer to visit in Japan, was the Square Enix store. 

Located in Tokyo, it was the perfect place to pick up some gaming collectables.

Square Enix is a software company formerly made up of the 2 gaming RPG giants Squaresoft and Enix.

Squaresoft was well known for creating the Final Fantasy series of games, as well as the beloved SNES RPGs, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger. 

    

Whilst Enix brought us Actraiser, as well as the long running Dragon Quest

The store itself was located in Shinjuku and was located within a short walking distance of the station.

(Update: the Shinjuku store has recently relocated to and has now developed into café/bar/store hybrid)

Dragons Quest merchandise was prominently featured, with King Slime front and centre of many of the displays. 

 

His smiley face was everywhere! In fact I think it was the most smiles I have seen in one place!

 

Not to be outdone, Chocobo and Cactuar merchandise from the Final Fantasy series were also given significant store space. 

There were at least 5 different varieties of Chocobo plushes(!)

Besides Final Fantasy and Dragons Quest, there were also quite a few figurines from Kingdom Hearts. 

(I even saw Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. Not sure if he is from the game though?)

 

Huge posters of Lightning , Vanile and Serah from Final Fantasy XIII, Cloud, Aerith and Tifa from Final Fantasy VII  and Yuna from Final Fantasy X adorned the walls.

 

The highlight of the store was an amazing lifesize Sephiroth statue embedded within a transparent tomb.

 

On the top floor of the store, the more, high end figurines, costing thousands of Yen (which sadly I could not afford!) were showcased.

 

Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII

Vanille from Final Fantasy XIII

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII

 

Cloud Strife and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII

A lifesize Vincent Valentine Final Fantasy VII costume!

 

Back on the ground floor my eye was drawn to the display of mini trading figurines from the Final Fantasy series. 

I was keen to buy them but the shop assistant informed me that each box contained a random figure so I would not be able to find out which character I would be getting, until I had purchased them. 

 

In the end though I could not resist and I went ahead and bought two of them at random anyway. 

Imagine my delight when I discovered I got the Ninja Yuffie as well as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII!

I also got a Chocobo just ......because......

 

Overall I was extremely chuffed with my purchases and I would highly recommend a visit for anyone planning a trip to Japan.

Thanks for listening."

Pang Man

 

BIG Thanks To The Pang Man For Filling Us In With The Cool Details On The Square Enix Tokyo Store Experience......

 

We LOVE The Final Fantasy Series Mini Trading Figurines!

 

What Would You Buy If You Were Let Loose In The Square Enix Store?

 

★Games Freezer's InfoGraphics #1 "Half Life 2 - Review Scores"★ #RetroGaming #GamersUnite #InfoGraphic

HALF-LIFE 2

We've wanted to dabble in the world of infographics for a long long time now

We've seen a few beautiful examples of video games related infographics and really wanted to have a go ourselves.

One of the things that we were stuck on, was.....

 

"What Would Be A Good Subject To Make An Infographic On?"

Well today we got our inspiration from a pic we saw of Call Of Duty Ghosts and its review scores.......

That got us thing about RetroGaming classics.....

Then it struck us HALF LIFE 2!

HL2 is easily one of our favourite games of all time and most of our days are spent dreaming of Half Life 3....

So we went to our trusty friend, Metacritic , to dig out the raft of amazing review scores for Half Life 2 and plot them into our infographic....

It's our first attempt so be gentle with your comments.

We've tried to keep to the Games Freezer styling and keep it simple for our first attempt.

We Used Pik To Chart to create our very first masterpiece and we have now got the bug to create more!


Take A Look at Our Handy Work Below And Let Us Know What You Think ...

Let Us know What You Think Of Our First Attempt....

What subjects would you like us to cover in the future?

What Infographic software do you use?

★Games Freezer Comments - "Flappy Bird"★ #GamersUnite #RetroGaming @dongatory #FlappyBird

Here at Games Freezer we don't normally get involved with the latest casual time-killer fad type game, but we couldn't help but pay attention to the ultra trending, ultra newsworthy (for some reason) "best worst" game that we have ever encountered that goes by the name of "Flappy Bird"

Think of Badlands gameplay crossed with Mario Bros styling and you are not far off what it looks / plays like.
 
We downloaded the game in the name of scientific research and we were confronted with a game that doesn't work in the traditional game-play sense of the way we envisage our games to work.
 
This game is a prime example ,in our opinion, of something that has been downloaded and played because of social media rather than favourable reviews.

We could say it's fun to play but it isn't really, it's a pain in the Ice Box!
 
What amuses us with this game though is the way it has entered the global psyche and that such a poor game could get people so involved that they cause an online outcry when it was recently announced by its gamedev, Dong Nguyen, the game is being "pulled" from the App Store and Google Play!

The saving grace of the game is its retro style, which made us look at the game in the first place and with that in mind that's really why we thought it was worth a comment.

Obviously there was also the reputed figure that it was making per day from ad revenue of $50,000 dollars that made us think WHY? HOW?

But hey fair play to this guy he's put an app out there that's caught people's imagination and piqued their interest to a point whereby it is seen as COOL to play this frustratingly difficult and annoying game!

It seems to us though that this Game Dev is a clever cookie as the story of the game being pulled has probably earned him more publicity than he could of ever imagined and now you can bet that his next game (no matter how poor it may turn out to be) will be an instant success.

Not sure how that makes other Game Dev's feel who pour their heart and soul into games only to see them do moderately well and yet a casual game such as this can turn into a money making machine.

But hey, we guess it depends how you measure success? $ or Reviews.....

To us it feels like a "Gangnam Style" one hit wonder of the Video Games world.....

A sort of social phenomenon for all the wrong reasons, but hey what do we know?

The Flappy Bird Timeline

• Released In MAY 2013 >>>

• Went "viral" JANUARY 2014 >>>

• Pulled From App Store & Google Play FEBRUARY 2014 >>>

You Can Also Check Out Dong Nguyen's Other Games At GEARS STUDIOS

 

Let us know what you think of "Flappy Bird" And All The Madness That Surrounds This Story!!