by Ryan Burger | Sep 12, 2026 | 2000s, 2010s
Let’s start this out by telling you that Glen Planamento is one of the nicest people I have ever met in the ten years that I’ve been actively involved in the retro gaming community. I have had the pleasure of being his friend for a couple of years now and have been...
by Brett Weiss | Sep 10, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is one of the greatest games of its genre, and as a longtime fan of superheroes and fighters, I love it. Some of my earliest comic- reading memories were at two of my cousins’ houses—one stocked with funny animal and cartoon...
by Brian Lesyk | Sep 8, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
Most of us would generally agree that the 1990s represented the golden age of fighting games. The quality and quantity of fighting game titles that emerged during that decade was unprecedented, to say the very least. Of course, there were some notable duds, but in a...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 6, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
The road of Mortal Kombat, from arcade juggernaut to iconic home console title, is a long one. The brainchild of John Tobias and Ed Boon was developed before Capcom’s Street Fighter II hit the arcade scene, so Tobias and Boon were working with a tabula rasa. Although...
by Brian Lesyk | Sep 2, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Other Magazines Preview
When it comes to the fighting genre of video games, no other platform’s total library is more dense in said category than that of the Neo Geo AES home console. Of the 118 officially-licensed games released for the AES, a whopping 51 fall under the category of fighting...