Written by David L. Craddock, Long Live Mortal Kombat goes behind the scenes to reveal untold stories from the making of Mortal Kombat 1 through 4 and explores how the franchise impacted popular culture, and is due for publication this fall. In this excerpt from the...
The best time to start accumulating games for a non-current system is when the successor is fully in bloom, but the system in consideration isn’t fully in “retro” mode yet. It helps when the game media isn’t backwards compatible on the newer system and a lot of the...
The Amiga Story As hard as it is to imagine now, when the Amiga line of computers came on the scene in 1985, the Commodore 64 was only three years old. And, contrary to common misconception, the two Commodore personal computer platforms coexisted all the way until...
Upon startup, the Nintendo Switch port of Quest For Infamy is a hard game to look at. Initially released in 2014 on the PC platform, Quest For Infamy’s title screen might give players the wrong idea from the presentation standpoint when their eyes see the...
Well, it was a running joke with the Street Fighter 2 series that Capcom didn’t know how to count to 3. Originally launched on the Capcom Play System in 1991, Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior invigorated a dying arcade scene with fierce head-to-head...
It couldn’t be a better time to be a pro wrestling fan. Instead of having only one primary product to choose from in the form of WWE, fans can now choose to watch alternative programmings like All Elite Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and...