by Jason Russell | May 9, 2020 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Home Consoles, Lists, Magazine
After Street Fighter II came Mortal Kombat. After Mortal Kombat came a tsunami. As the Street Fighter II phenomena grew in arcades and then again when ports of the popular games came to home consoles, nearly every company in the industry suddenly found themselves in a...
by Jason Russell | Apr 29, 2020 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine, The Story Of...
Capcom & SNK: Best Frienemies It is almost impossible to overstate Street Fighter II’s influence over the gaming world, arcades in particular, in the early 1990s. In just about every arcade the world over, gamers flocked around the cabinet – some to try...
by Jason Russell | Apr 19, 2020 | 1990s, Arcade, Magazine, Opinions
Days of Future’s Past My nephew is 11 years old. He has just about every modern console known to man, a gaming PC, a powerhouse iPad and iPhone and the other day, in casual video gaming conversation, he happens to mention Street Fighter II. I paused...
by Shaun Jex | Aug 18, 2018 | 1990s
In retrospect, the concept behind Disney’s TaleSpin cartoon was hilariously bizarre. It took several of the principal characters from the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book, and placed them in a world that was a mix between Indiana Jones and Casablanca, with just a...
by Shaun Jex | Aug 15, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the metal key in the sardine can of justice. He is…Darkwing Duck! Another classic of the Disney Afternoon, Darkwing Duck premiered on the Disney channel in 1991, before going into weekday syndication and becoming a...
