There’s a terrific anime streaming on Netflix called High Score Girl. It’s a slice of life story about a budding relationship between two young kids but filtered through the ‘90’-s arcade scene, in particular the booming popularity of fighting games like Capcom’s Street Fighter II. Due to how authentic the show is of the era…
2020 is a big year for one of the most popular fighting games ever released. It was on this day in the year 2000 that Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes released in arcades. The sixth entry in Capcom’s portfolio of Marvel Comics themed fighting games and the fourth in the “Vs. Series”, Marvel…
Arcade 1UP, a division of Tastemakers LLC that produces affordable, arcade cabinets with pre-loaded games sized for the home, has seemingly done the impossible with two of their upcoming releases. Announced just today at E3, a cabinet housing Capcom’s The Punisher, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes joins another that will have Konami’s…
From Nintendo to Sony and Sega, game companies are seeing the value in releasing their classic video game content in nostalgia shells. New to the arena is a new challenger, Capcom, but their definition of a dedicated device is a little bit more ambitious. Capcom Home Arcade is a dedicated plug-and-play, two-player arcade stick shaped…
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No, you did not read that headline incorrectly. Raw Thrills, one of the last companies making arcade games (they made a pretty terrific light gun game based on The Walking Dead that’s at my local arcade), are making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles four-player arcade game inspired by the Konami games of yesterday. It will be based on the…
When I was growing up and starting my seemingly life long love of video games, I started with the NES, which didn’t have the best track record when it came to licensed games, at least starting out. When I became aware of the X-Men through comics, the animated series, Marvel trading cards and the Toy…
Back in the short window of time when Sega’s swansong console the Dreamcast was seen as a viable contender, the bread and butter of the software line-up was arcade ports, especially in Capcom’s catalog of games: Street Fighter III, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Power Stone, Spawn: In the Demon’s Hand, Cannon Spike, and the unforgettable Marvel Vs. Capcom, both 1…
If you’ll recall from my review of this game on the SNES, I’m probably one of the few people in the world who took it easy on this game, despite knowing full well its myriad problems. Finishing this game, a feat I once thought impossible, is something that I will always look back fondly upon…
Prior to the release of Spider-Man: Edge of Time on the Nintendo DS, development duties for Spider-Man games on the DS had fallen on Griptonite Games who created some pretty great “metroidvania” style games featuring the web-slinger with Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions. That particular studio was purchased by Glu Mobile in 2011 to work…
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