Castlevania II: Simon's Quest by developer and publisher Konami—Nintendo Entertainment System Retro Reflections by Nick.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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QubicGames is Having A Christmas Sale on Nintendo Switch Until December 25th!
Starting December 6th, QubicGames is launching its epic Christmas Sale, delivering massive discounts of up to 99% on Nintendo Switch games. Whether you’re in North America or Europe, this is your ultimate chance to snag top-notch titles at unbeatable prices. With games starting as low as $0.19* in North America and €0.99 in Europe, it’s time to level up your library without breaking the bank.
*In North America, players who own any of the following QubicGames titles: Coloring Book (free), Hole io, Pocket Mini Golf, Mana Spark, Robonauts, or other selected QubicGames releases - can enjoy discounted prices on games.
Unmissable Highlights
Get ready to dive into these standout deals:
Full list of discounts is available on qubicgames.com/sale
Exclusive Discounts for QubicGames Owners
In North America, owning select QubicGames titles such as Coloring Book (free), Hole io, or Robonauts unlocks even deeper discounts. That’s right – loyal fans get the VIP treatment with extra savings on already heavily discounted games.
$/€ 1000 Contest: Win Big While You Play
To add to the excitement, QubicGames is hosting a contest with a total prize pool of $1000/€1000 in eShop credits for 20 winners. It’s your chance to not only score incredible deals but also win rewards just for joining in the fun.
Why This Sale is a Must-See
This is more than just a promotion – it’s a celebration of gaming! With an unbeatable combination of deep discounts and fan-favorite titles, QubicGames’ Christmas Sale is set to be one of the year’s most talked-about events in the gaming community.
How to Take Advantage of the Hot Deals:
- Visit qubicgames.com/sale starting December 6th until December 25th.
- Explore the deals, with prices starting at just $0.19 in North America and €0.99 in Europe.
- Check out the $/€1000 contest and let your gaming skills shine on our website. qubicgames.com/sale
Act now - these deals and the contest are only available for a limited time. Don’t miss your chance to grab amazing games at a fraction of the price and join the celebration of gaming excellence!
Happy Holidays from the Chalgyr's Game Room Team
From our team to you, we hope that every one of our readers has a safe and rewarding holiday season. We'll see you again with plenty of new articles and reviews next year!
Jaggy's Corner - Saturday December 15th
Over the last week or so, a number of holiday events have started in various video games, making our lives interesting because we want to play them all! Anyways, this week I'm going to talk about a game that I haven't really touched on before, and that is Destiny 2. I've been playing it since September and as a person that generally does not like shooters, I quite enjoy it.
The Dawning
Destiny 2's holiday event is called The Dawning and it requires baking cookies to give to people in The Tower and in some of the zones. When certain quests are completed, players will receive a new engram called WinterDrift Engrams which gives players new armor sets, emotes, and shaders. This is particularly good for players like me who are not yet at 600 power yet!
After making the first cookie for Zavala, players receive a quest to get a new exotic sparrow. I'm super excited about this. I like the sparrows... Anyways, a complete list of items, with pictures, can be viewed on the Destiny 2 Reddit thread found here.
So how does one begin The Dawning? First players have to go to Eva in the Tower, who is a stone throw away from Ikora. She will give you the initial ingredients to make a cookie for Zavala. Once that is completed, players have to farm the rest of the ingredients to complete the quest they receive. To make any of the cookies, players have to do their regular routine like completing strikes, bounties, gambits, etc... Since ingredients can be acquired as drops from every enemy, it's quite easy to make the first batch of cookies.
With that said, each kill and enemy type will drop different types of ingredients. Here is a handy list of the ingredient needed and what enemy or weapon type is required.
Common Ingredients
- Chitin Powder – HIVE
- Ether Cane – FALLEN
- Dark Ether Cane – SCORN
- Cabal Oil – CABAL
- Vex Milk – VEX
- Taken Butter – TAKEN
Rare Ingredients
- Bullet Spray – SMG, Machine gun, or Auto Rifle kills
- Delicious Explosion – Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher, or regular Grenade kills
- Sharp Flavor – Sword kills
- Personal Touch – Melee kills
- Perfect Taste – Precision Kills
- Flash of Inspiration – Orbs of Light
- Impossible Heat – Solar kills
- Null Taste – Void kills
- Electric Flavor – Arc kills
Anyways, initially, players need to use 15 of them in order to make a cookie while all the other ingredients require significantly less.
Once a player upgrades the oven to masterwork, each recipe will only require 10 Essence of Dawning. For more information about that and more can be seen in this video by Ninja Pups. Much of what I detailed in this article is in the video however, Ninja Pups goes into the best methods for farming Essences.
One final point about the Essences is the moment they are placed in the oven, they are consumed. In other words, make sure to have the right recipe before adding the Essence!
Final Thoughts
I've only been playing the Dawning content for a day and already I'm having a fun time with it. I definitely am going after the new sparrow and I like some of the ghost shells that can be received. I think it adds a light vibe to the game's content and The Tower looks pretty. Besides, I still need better gear!
How about you? Are you enjoying the Dawning?
Don't forget to follow Destiny 2 on Twitter for more updates.
Until next time!
Happy Holidays from CGR!
We have really enjoyed this last year in gaming, and we have thoroughly enjoyed sharing it with those of you who read our site. We've had a ton of reviews, interviews, previews (lots of words that end in 'views' there) and are really grateful that you all take the time to visit us.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
We just wanted to reach out and wish you all a very happy and safe holiday. Hopefully you got some gaming goodies to brighten up your winter months?
Merry Christmas - 2014
Whether you celebrate Christmas, observe some other holiday or simply go about your wintery business as usual, we here at Chalgyr's Game Room want to wish you all a safe upcoming weekend!
Merry Christmas!
I just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a very Merry Christmas here in 2012!
Retro Reflections - Elevator Action
Elevator Action was an arcade game by Taito that came out in 1983, and was one of my favorite early arcade titles. Basically you are a spy who grapples to the top of a building to collect secret documents while surviving enemy agents. You use a series of elevators to descend the building until you can reach the bottom and escape.
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| Elevator Action for the NES |
Document rooms are behind marked doors - and enemies can come out of them and try to shoot you. They become more evasive the further you get in. I recall however that I really liked the variety in game play - you could shoot an agent, jump-kick him, crush him with an elevator, shoot out overhead lights that could not only crush them but also make the hallway dark which gives you bonus points as well.
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| I spent way too much time standing in front of one of these. |
It was largely the same on the NES when it released as well. This title was one of my first two NES games, and one my dad no doubt had a part in selecting. See, when I was younger, he would take me to the arcade and he would play pinball and I would play cabinets. No doubt he recognized this as a title I played quite a bit back then. How does it hold up today? Not remarkably well, as you would guess, but playing it did have me grinning from ear to ear all the same.
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| This just made me grin |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoR3gaAsHFY
I found this video on Youtube of the arcade game
Gaming thoughts... Holiday Games - Part 2
So, I posed the question a bit ago asking if any game-related content was acquired (or received) for the holidays. We used to have really, really small Christmas Days several years ago. I was going to school, making minimum wage with some kids - not a recipe for lots of presents. Since then? We try to spoil a bit more around the holidays - especially since our younger 2 have birthdays right around the holiday. We did really well for the munchkins on that front I think (yay for my promotion earlier this year and a nice Christmas bonus from work, plus my wife doing well with her online business), so here it is:
My oldest is not much of a gamer, but she loves the Kingdom Hearts series, so I picked up the Game Boy Advance game for her DS Lite, since she has never gotten to play that particular game. She has also gotten interested in the storylines of Bioshock and Zelda titles due to her girlfriend who is a big gamer and loves both series of games. As such, I picked up Bioshock 1 for the PS3 and Zelda: Twilight Princess for her. She's also quite fond of the Sims games, so I snagged her Sims 3 for her DS.
My youngest still loves Pokemon above all, so I have some cards coming to her on that front. She is also a huge fan of Little Big Planet. I got her part 2 - though as a birthday present (her birthday is 2 days after Christmas). I also nabbed her Lego Batman (she loves the Lego games). On top of that? Well, with the fact her birthday is right next to Christmas, she is getting spoiled a bit, with a green DSi, a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, Pokemon Black and Epic Mickey.
My son's the biggest gamer of the group - by far. For his birthday, which is in a couple of weeks, I'm going to set him up with a Steam account, and probably get him a couple of games for it. Knowing him, they'll be FPS like Left for Dead 2 or killing floor. He knows this is coming. I picked him up a title on Black Friday he wanted too, but since he is the only member of my house to actually ever read my blog? Can't post that just yet here (even though he very rarely reads it, I don't want to chance it). I'll reveal that one in a couple of weeks. Odd are by then, he'll have picked up one or two more games with his birthday and Christmas cash (my guess? he'll pick up Modern Warfare 3 on the PS3).
For Christmas itself though, he got Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham City, Chrono Trigger for the DS, Golden Sun for the DS and Bioshock 2 for the PS3.
Any fun games or toys to report from readers? :)
My oldest is not much of a gamer, but she loves the Kingdom Hearts series, so I picked up the Game Boy Advance game for her DS Lite, since she has never gotten to play that particular game. She has also gotten interested in the storylines of Bioshock and Zelda titles due to her girlfriend who is a big gamer and loves both series of games. As such, I picked up Bioshock 1 for the PS3 and Zelda: Twilight Princess for her. She's also quite fond of the Sims games, so I snagged her Sims 3 for her DS.
My youngest still loves Pokemon above all, so I have some cards coming to her on that front. She is also a huge fan of Little Big Planet. I got her part 2 - though as a birthday present (her birthday is 2 days after Christmas). I also nabbed her Lego Batman (she loves the Lego games). On top of that? Well, with the fact her birthday is right next to Christmas, she is getting spoiled a bit, with a green DSi, a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, Pokemon Black and Epic Mickey.
My son's the biggest gamer of the group - by far. For his birthday, which is in a couple of weeks, I'm going to set him up with a Steam account, and probably get him a couple of games for it. Knowing him, they'll be FPS like Left for Dead 2 or killing floor. He knows this is coming. I picked him up a title on Black Friday he wanted too, but since he is the only member of my house to actually ever read my blog? Can't post that just yet here (even though he very rarely reads it, I don't want to chance it). I'll reveal that one in a couple of weeks. Odd are by then, he'll have picked up one or two more games with his birthday and Christmas cash (my guess? he'll pick up Modern Warfare 3 on the PS3).
For Christmas itself though, he got Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham City, Chrono Trigger for the DS, Golden Sun for the DS and Bioshock 2 for the PS3.
Any fun games or toys to report from readers? :)
So... what did *I* get for Christmas?
Well, a few things. The biggie? My shiny new 3DS. My friend code:
0559-7203-9384
My games so far?
Mario Kart, Mario 3D land and Zelda.
My wife?
Awesome for this surprise gift. :) Much more posted about this soon. Merry Christmas!
0559-7203-9384
My games so far?
Mario Kart, Mario 3D land and Zelda.
My wife?
Awesome for this surprise gift. :) Much more posted about this soon. Merry Christmas!
