by Old School Gamer | Aug 25, 2021 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, iiRcade, Magazine Preview
My family moved to US in August 1984 and one and half year later was when I experienced Showbiz Pizza Place for the first time. It had a collection of arcade machines that filled up the entire room that seemed to be as big as a mall. There was Galaga, a game that...
by Ben Magnet | Aug 24, 2021 | 1990s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Opinions
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES as we’ll refer to it here, is quite possibly one of the most important systems ever made. Now it didn’t bring the American video game market back from the brink like its predecessor did but it’s impact...
by Mike Mertes | Aug 24, 2021 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Reviews
Space Invaders Invincible Collection In the year 1978, Japan’s citizens fell prey to the never-ending onslaught of Space Invaders. Of course, these were not actual alien invaders from space that struck the island country, but rather digital creatures from a...
by Mike Mertes | Aug 23, 2021 | 1990s, 2000s, Columns, Magazine Preview
The creation of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers by Jane Jensen sparked a fire in the point-and-click adventure game genre. That fire shined a light on a less traversed path in the genre that was previously thought to be one that could never sell games: Horror. ...
by Todd Friedman | Aug 14, 2021 | 1990s, 2020s, iiRcade, Reviews
The fighting game you get free with your iiRcade cabinet is Dragon Fighter. The original arcade machine came out in 1994 and published by UNiCO Electronics. This game reminds me of the Street Fighter game in terms of graphics and game play. Travel around the globe and...
by Mike Mertes | Aug 9, 2021 | 1990s, iiRcade, Reviews
Breakers Revenge has hit iiRcade! Sure, the iiRcade has plenty of fighting games on it, but Breakers Revenge is a massively underappreciated fighting game that rivals even the best fighting games from Capcom or SNK. Breakers Revenge is an enhanced version of the...