RETROSPECTIVE: A Fight of the Heavyweights
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...
RETROSPECTIVE: A Tale of Street Fighters
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...
Flying the Not-So-Friendly Skies: TaleSpin for the NES
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...
Let’s Get Dangerous: Darkwing Duck on the NES
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...Latest Magazine
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