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Sega was not a company that was scared to take chances with their franchises. At least this is true during the Sega Saturn era – maybe this is what ultimately led to their downfall? Take the popular Virtua Fighter franchise, this was a reason to own a Sega Saturn in the mid 90’s since Sega […]
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Virtua Fighter Kids Kidifies Sega Classic 3D Fighter – July 31st, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
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Virtua Fighter 2 Earns Ring Out Victory on Sega Saturn – December 30th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 29th, 2015 Carl Williams Sega continued their arcade in the home initiative with Virtua Fighter 2. Other arcade titles they brought into the living room included the first Virtua Fighter and Sega Rally Championship. Virtua Cop and many other titles that came later continued defining Sega’s dominance in this area. While Sony was busy focusing on original titles and […]
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Virtua Fighter Punches Sega Saturn – May 11th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
May 11th, 2014 Carl Williams Fighting games were, and arguably still are, all the craze in the 90’s. This spurred many companies into dipping their toes into this genre that arcade locations loved to death. Popular titles using “Street” and “Fighter” in the name or at least “Mortal Kombat” in some form proliferated the scene. Sega entered this genre years […]
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Bandit Gaming: Street Fighter II Champion Edition, Hyper Fighting, for Virtual Boy Spotted in Wild
January 29th, 2015 Carl Williams That is a convoluted title, for sure, but it is true. A port of Street Fighter II Champion Edition, called Hyper Fighting, for the Nintendo Virtual Boy has been found in the wild. We are talking complete here folks- box, manual and cartridge, for the Virtual Boy. Video and pics after the jump.
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Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition Released on iOS
July 12th, 2017 Neil Reive Capcom have just released Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition for iOS platforms such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The latest edition of the long running classic one-on-one fighter promises more options and updates to previously released editions. Fans of the franchise–which kicked off big time with the release of Street Fighter II in the […]
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Virtual Fishing on Nintendo Virtual Boy is the last Japanese Exclusive to be translated to English
November 5th, 2015 Carl Williams The Nintendo Virtual Boy was one of Nintendo’s few failures in gaming- it was completely mishandled by the marketing team for one thing, among others. For retrogaming fans that means there is a smaller amount of titles to collect and, ultimately, enjoy. This lack of software makes it easy for completest collector’s to purchase every […]
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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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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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Battle Arena Toshinden PlayStation Launch Title – September 9th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
September 8th, 2020 Carl Williams Battle Arena Toshinden had stiff competition at launch. Not exactly on the PlayStation console, which had just launched as well, but on the Sega Saturn. Sega made it clear that Virtua Fighter was coming home on their Saturn console. This put a rather big line in the sand for anyone to cross if they were […]
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Sega 32X Running on Nintendo NES Classic Mini Console
February 17th, 2017 Carl Williams Okay, the Nintendo Classic Mini is getting more and more interesting. Hackers recently figured out how to add more games which was cool. Then we saw hackers showing off how to get even more games on the thing (shattering previously thought limitations of memory). Now we have a video of the Nintendo NES Classic Mini […]
