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» When Streetfighter Was King |
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- by Martin
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Did you know that Street Fighter Alpha 2 was once ported to the Super Nintendo? I didn't actually, not until a couple years ago anyway. I was busy playing PC games when it arrived in 1996, and the SNES was generally considered long dead anyway.
Looking at it now though, I feel like it serves as an unsung bookend to one of the more interesting eras in video games history. It had been fighting games that had helped to define the 16-bit era, after all. It seems only natural that the genre's true halcycon days would end on the console where it all began.
It was only five years before Street Fighter Alpha 2 that Street Fighter II roared onto the scene and altered the arcade landscape forever. A year after that, Nintendo managed to score one of the biggest coups in gaming history and secure the exclusive rights to the home console version. It was... [Read More]
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» The History Of Sonic The Hedgehog |
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- by Martin
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From: www.injournalism.co.uk
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most recognised video game characters in the entire world. He’s been in countless games since he first blasted into our lives on June 23rd 1991, and will most likely continue to be zooming across our television screens for many years to come. It’s a historic franchise full of more twists and turns than a loop the loop in the Emerald Hill Zone.
The original concept of Sonic came from the need for SEGA, Sonic’s creators, to get a new mascot. Its rivals, Nintendo, had their official mascot, the hugely successful Super Mario, and Sega was stuck with Alex the Kidd, who was pretty unremarkable compared to his successful rival. SEGA went to work, making a variety of different character designs including a rabbit with extendable ears, a Theodore Roosevelt lookalike (which would become the basis for the villanious... [Read More]
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» The History Of Zelda |
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- by Martin
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From: www.eurogamer.net
Writing a Legend of Zelda retrospective might not seem like a particularly arduous undertaking; there's so much history attached to the Zelda series, and so much to be said about it, that the words should surely just fly onto the page.
The challenge is in finding anything to say about them that hasn't been said before. This feature started out as a simple history, but unfortunately it soon emerged that such pieces are even more uninteresting to write than they are to read.
Anybody can wander onto Wikipedia and find out when a particular game was released, how it was received and what its key features were - I would hope that this article, which should whet your appetite for Eurogamer's imminent review of Twilight Princess, delivers a more subjective and (with any luck) more entertaining viewpoint than that, even if you disagree with every word of it.
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