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That title sounds like a bad Electronic Gaming Monthly April issue cover blurb, I know. The difference is, here it is real. While EGM would have hired an artist to fake the screen shots, this port is quite real. A team of several developers are working on making a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) port of […]
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Street Fighter 2 Nintendo Entertainment System Unofficial Port in Progress
October 3rd, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior Dragon Punches Arcades: Today in History – February 6th, 1991
February 6th, 2015 Carl Williams Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior by Capcom, the game that arguably put the Super Nintendo on the map for many gamers (I lived through it and remember the scene vividly). When Capcom released Street Fighter II into the arcades though, it had a similar effect. Gamers were flocking to this new fighting game and […]
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 Flawlessly Ends Trilogy of Arcade Games – June 29th, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Street Fighter Alpha 3 was the final entry in an interesting trilogy. It is not like Capcom to simply release a fighting game and not milk it somehow. We saw this with Street Fighter II which has many updates. Each update was an additional full purchase, on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Maybe they realized […]
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Street Fighter Alpha Franchise Launched in Arcades – June 27th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
June 26th, 2016 Carl Williams What do you do when you are nearly at the end of being able to milk a franchise release? You re-invent that franchise with better graphics, a new storyline and leave the core elements alone. That is exactly what Capcom did with Street Fighter Alpha. Sadly, this gave Capcom yet another franchise, within a franchise, […]
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Street Fight World to Bring Street Fighter II and Alpha to Atari 2600
August 29th, 2015 Carl Williams Street Fighter II was the one game that sealed the success of the Super Nintendo in the early 90’s. Sega simply had nothing to compete with it other than pitiful attempts that are best not mentioned in the same breath. Capcom knew they had a gold mine on their hands based on the success of […]
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Mortal Kombat 2 Game Boy Advance Port by Fan Updated
October 9th, 2021 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat is a franchise that has reached maximum exposure, so to speak. Millions know the name, enjoy the various properties the franchise has to offer, and some of those fans go farther. One such fan that knows no limits has decided to take on a major challenge. Hugo Smits is creating a Nintendo Game […]
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Star Blader Revision 2021 Entry Demo Released
July 18th, 2021 Carl Williams Star Blader is a new one-on-one fighting game for the Atari Lynx hand held. Retroguru are working hard to finish the fighting game, a genre that is not saturated at all on the Atari portable. Honestly, I cannot think of another one-on-one fighting game on the Atari Lynx. Was there even one released? I know […]
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Plants vs Zombies Makes Landing on Android – December 14th, 2011 – Today in Video Game History
December 13th, 2020 Carl Williams Plants vs Zombies is, at its heart, a tower defense game. This was a genre that was extraordinarily popular for a period on mobile devices. Most entries in this genre share common traits. They are single screen affairs. You are limited in where you can place defenses. The enemy comes in waves and must be […]
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Dead or Alive Bounces into Arcades – November 26th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
November 25th, 2020 Carl Williams Dead or Alive is one of those Tecmo arcade titles that went farther than the competition. At its heart, this is a one-on-one fighting game using a 3D engine. On the surface, you probably knew about Tecmo’s fighter first based on the attributes of the female fighters. There is a good fighting game here as […]
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Killer Instinct Combo Breaks Arcade Competition – October 28th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
October 28th, 2020 Carl Williams Killer Instinct is one of those rare times we can play three degrees of separation in gaming. Sure, it is not exactly true to that theory but we can link Nintendo and Microsoft rather easily. Developed by Rare for arcades, Killer Instinct set out to do fighting games differently. In 1994 Capcom was still riding […]
