TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE ARCADE GAME – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky,...
Mortal Kombat – by Patrick Hickey Jr.
Those two epic words helped launch the work of Ed Boon, John Tobias, and the rest of the team behind Mortal Kombat in pop culture lore forever. It’s also made it a video game series that essentially always comes back refreshed and inviting, after over 30 years of...
Dune II – by Mat Bradley- Tschirgi
By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the...
Sonic the Hedgehog – by Matthew Owen
In the 1990’s Nintendo had a small part thanks to Super Mario Bros. Sega, who had seen decent success with their own home consoles, decided to challenge Nintendo, hoping to grab their slice of the profit pie. To do so, they created Sonic the Hedgehog, an...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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