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The Atari 2600 is a classic console. There is no argument there. Where there is argument is the games. I am not going to try and tell you that the games chosen here are graphically impressive. They are not. That is just how these games look, there is only so much you can do within […]
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Double Dragon Sequel Becomes Rage of the Dragons on Neo Geo – June 6th, 2002 – Today in Video Game History
June 5th, 2020 
Carl Williams Rage of the Dragons is the result of a failed attempt to make a sequel to Double Dragon. No, not the original late 1980’s game. This was a planned sequel to the 1995 Neo Geo one-on-one fighting game. Noise Factory were unable to secure the rights, so they changed a few details. Can you spot […]
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Mortal Kombat Invades Streets of Rage 2 Part 1
May 30th, 2020 Carl Williams While Streets of Rage 4 is still riding high on fan support, other fans have been keeping an earlier entry alive. Part of that effort is adding new characters to Streets of Rage 2, released on Sega Genesis in the early 1990’s. One of the more interesting hacks I have discovered adds Mortal Kombat characters […]
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Pocket Fighter EX V0.3.0 Demo Released
October 9th, 2019 Carl Williams Who remembers the Neo Geo Pocket or Pocket Color? I do, never owned one though. I simply was not into portable gaming at the time. I know most reading this are at least familiar with Capcom’s and SNK’s fighting game franchises. Like SNK vs Capcom and Capcom vs SNK, Pocket Fighter EX mashes up the […]
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Streets of Rage 2 and Five More Hacks You Don’t Know About
January 4th, 2019 Carl Williams Streets of Rage 2 by Sega is viewed as one of the best brawlers ever to be released. If the support from fans is any indication, this could be pretty accurate. Anyone that has been a fan of RGM for a while has probably seen one of my other Streets of Rage 2 articles. Well, […]
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Streets of Rage – Left in 16-bit
September 3rd, 2018 Carl Williams Recently it was announced that Streets of Rage 4 is coming. Lizardcube are the developers behind this 20+ year separating entry in the popular 16-bit brawler franchise that helped push Sega forward against Nintendo. Sega of the 16-bit era was like no Sega since – not even the 32-bit era that followed closely the demise […]
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Fan Porting Street Fighter II Champion Edition to Commodore 64
June 10th, 2018 Carl Williams If you were a gamer in the early 90’s that only played on computers, then you missed out on the best versions of Street Fighter II. Plain and simple. It is no secret that the computer ports of Capcom’s arcade 1 on 1 fighter were lackluster at best. Most were published by US Gold or […]
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Mortal Kombat Murders Competition on Sega CD – May 26th, 1994 – Today in History
May 26th, 2018 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat was the one title that did something no other title in history could. It forced Nintendo to change their staunch censoring policy. Prior to Mortal Kombat appearing on the Super Nintendo it was almost unheard of to see blood and guts in a game on a Nintendo platform. Nintendo even censored the Game […]
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Crime Fighters Arcade Review, Cheap Arcade Game You Cannot Stop Playing
October 24th, 2017 Carl Williams Konami used to make some great games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade and home versions other than the original NES game). Contra, Castlevania, Gradius, and X-Men (arcade) to name a few. One title that fans seem to have forgotten Konami released is a little arcade game called Crime Fighters. This brawler was available in two […]
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Six Streets of Rage Hacks That Rock the Sega Classic
October 22nd, 2017 Carl Williams Streets of Rage 2 is one of the most beloved Sega games out there. Seriously, it is almost above reproach on the level of Super Mario World, Tetris, Robowarrior, and Pac-Man. With such admiration comes fans that are more than willing to bring their own ideas to the classic through hacks (PC gamers know these […]
