From Thursday, November 26th until Sunday, November 29th Rising Stuff will be having its Black Friday Sale. Look for updates in this post here as we add more bundles, throw up a few deals, and generally have a jolly ol’ time! Here are the currently available deals:

Random B-Grade Famicom Games (100 available) 99 cents each

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Master System, 3D Glasses, and 16 games $171.50 1 Avaiable

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - MSX2 with 14 games! $119 1 Available

Merry Christmas everyone and hope you find something you like!

And they now have a NEW website, aetherbyte.com! Along with a new website they have a free 10 min demo of Insanity! Just download, unzip, burn, and enjoy!

Insanity is a remake by Aetherbyte Studios of the classic arcade game Berzerk by Stern Electronics released in 1980. This game was also released on the Atari 2600, 5200 and the Vectrex. “You are trapped in a robot infested labyrinth on a distant planet. Your only hope of escape is to traverse room after room in search of the way out! The only problem is… the robots are out to destroy you. Better make sure your phazor is fully charged.”

Be sure to check out Aetherbyte Studios Website, aetherbyte.com, for future and upcoming projects.

Aetherbyte and Images are a registered trademarks of Andrew ‘Arkhan’ Darovich (2009)

The tallying is done and the winners have been chosen by you! There were a lot of really great entries and Sensei and I liked the effort you put into them so much that we’re going to give every single person that participated the third place prize of $5! Thanks so much to all of you. Here are the winners of the  Rising Stuff Cookoff Contest 2009!

1st Place - A Diorama by MrRoboto19XX
One boxed copy of Burgertime
$15 of store credit

2nd Place - Riiiiiiising Burger by Padoca
One loose copy of Burgertime
$10 store credit

3rd Place
We had three third prize winners (everyone who participated in the contest will receive the $5 store credit).

Two Burgers in a Colloquial Barbeque Setting by Foxx

Product Endorsement via Burgers by firesage

A Man’s Burger by mobiusclimber

That’s it for now! Be sure to use your coupons in the store area the next to time you want to pick something up.

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Rising Stuff has gotten overstocked on Famicom Disk System games and now you can take advantage. For a limited time we have lowered the prices on tons of games. They will be available only while supplies last so make sure to hurry to get the best deals. Here’s a full list of titles on sale!

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That’s right folks. You have until the 1st of October to choose the greatest burger of all time. As a reminder, here is the prize information:

1st Prize One Boxed copy of Burger Time, $15 store credit
2nd Prize One loose copy of Burger Time, $10 store credit
3rd Prize $5 store credit

We have some really great entries for this contest. Good luck to all those who submitted their meaty joys for all of us to see!

Vote Here

Hey guy’s, I re-worked the introduction to my show!

Great additions to my collection chaps- hope you enjoy the video!

Shi Kin Joh is a gem in my collection….

It’s been a loooong while since we had any form of a contest here on Rising Stuff, so now it’s time to get back to business! In an effort to get all of our lazy gamer bums out of the basement and into the sun for a few short hours and in celebration of the new PlayStation 3 Slim, we are now going to sponsor the RISING STUFF COOKOFF CONTEST 2009.

Here’s how it’s going to work.

Whoever can make the best looking burgers as voted by our forum members will will win a bunch of sweet stuff.

1st Prize One Boxed copy of Burger Time, $15 store credit
2nd Prize One loose copy of burger time, $10 store credit
3rd Prize $5 store credit

So be sure to post your best burger here before September 21st, 2009 to get your chance at the burgeriest adventure around!

Rules [IMPORTANT]
1. You must also include something in the picture to prove that it’s your burger. No burger forgery! This should be something like a piece of paper that says “Rising Stuff is Awesome.” or “No Fatties Please” or something.
2. Burgers must be made with love.
3. Voting will take place between September 21st until the end of them month and a winner we be announced around October 1st.
4. Multiple entries are allowed.

Okay! Post your burgers away!

There’s usually any number of reasons why a game remained strictly Japan-only and never got a wider release. Sometimes it’s a matter of timing, with the game debuting in Japan on a platform that is already near-dead as the system’s manufacturer gears up to release a next-gen console (or go out of business). The publisher has to weigh the cost of localizing a title against a rapidly-diminishing audience who has already or will become enthralled with the next big system. This is why North America never saw a release of Mother on the NES (Mother 2 was released as Earthbound on the SNES, for the two people reading this who’ve never heard of the Mother series). Other times, the game in question just isn’t very good (though this hasn’t stopped publishers often enough). Another reason might be that the game is too “Japanese” or contains puns and jokes that would be impossible to translate. This is likely why the first Sakura Wars game wasn’t released here: there’s a pun near the beginning of the game that relies on the way that Japanese is read for its effect. The protagonist could have either joined a military operation or a theatre troupe. Other possible reasons for any sane publisher to steer clear of bringing out a game in the US: It contains a caricature of black people (a la Square’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer) or it features a comical cartoonish Klansman as the first boss. (To be fair, Dracula-Kun did eventually get released as Kid Dracula for the Game Boy, hopefully with modified graphics.) But one of the biggest reasons why even very popular games in Japan never make it off the island is that the game is in a genre that game publishers think won’t appeal to North Americans. For instance, Sakura Wars is, in large part, a dating-sim. We have yet to see a single Sakura Wars title in the U.S. even though the series is wildly popular in Japan. (We’ll apparently be getting one, finally, later this year… Apparently it’s a translation of the only one set in America.)

What’s that? You want to know when I’m going to stop rambling and get to the review? I will, I will… in a minute. First, though, did I ever tell you how, when I was your age, Coca Cola came in glass bottles and cost a nickel? And it was made with real cocaine? Man, you kids have it rough. Now, where was I… Oh yeah, the review.

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Today we’ve got the price guide for Dreamcast games. It’s up over in our forums. Pop by and take a look if you’re into buying import Dreamcast games.

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