Today being May the 4th (aka Star Wars Day), I thought I’d mark the occasion by looking back at one of the first Star Wars video games which brought simulated science fiction movie action down off the silver screen and into arcades and homes.
Posts Tagged ‘arcade port’
Turbo Grafx-16 Thank You for Trying – Today in Retro Gaming – August 19th, 1989
August 18th, 2016
Carl Williams When NEC announced the Turbo Grafx-16 the press was abuzz with anticipation. Up till this point in recent years it was clearly Nintendo holding the power of gaming in their hands. Sega was just a meddling second placer fighting it out with Atari and their 7800 console (it was not much of a fight at […]
Wacky Wednesday – Cruis’n World Ad
February 11th, 2015
Michael Crisman So here’s the situation: you’re a marketer with Midway’s advertising department. The job you’ve been tasked with is simple. Midway’s got a new racing game coming out on the Nintendo 64. It’s a port of an extremely popular arcade racing game, and you’ve been given some very simple bullet points to hit in the two-page […]
Today in Retro Gaming: Two Crude Dudes
May 11th, 2014
Michael Crisman Data East got into this rut of playing “catch up” with their rivals, especially Technos. Double Dragon comes out in the arcades, Data East makes Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja. Double Dragon comes out on the NES, Bad Dudes comes out on the NES. Double Dragon gets a sequel where New York is ravaged by […]
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