arcade

I believe the first cabinet I ever played was Super Street Fighter II. Next to it were The King of Fighters '94 and Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams. I attended many arcades, huge vibrant ones with 50-inch Megalo cabinets, 8 player manx tt superbike etc, but this small place was my...

I recently bought a cheap handheld with 400 games on it. These are 80s classics from the Famicom and NES consoles. I didn’t know I’d enjoy it so much. I think this happens because of various reasons. You got the simplicity of arcade style games. Each game is without the ability to save, so if...

Intro The late 90s and early 2000s experienced a drastic growth in technology. Anything and everything felt possible. I feel like even though technology continues to evolve, something about it just feels so stagnant. It's no longer about the marketing gimmick or the tangible novelty that the...

Intro Right off the bat, how many of us really cared which version of an arcade game we played unless we were involved in a console war? Exactly, not too many. If you encountered people who played regularly at arcades or were one of them, you probably knew about the differences. Whether we...

This is basically finished but I feel like it needs refinement and I am too fatigued to see where. I planned to include all the consoles I want to make a list for but it would take too long and I'd risk reaching the article text limit. I wish we had a counter to see how much space we've used. In...

Fighting games are a really cool hobby. I find them very much akin to real life martial arts: a one on one competition, no holds barred, where only your skill and your knowledge of yourself and, perhaps, of your opponent, are the only things that matter. Of course, fighting games are less...