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Dungeons & Dragons first hit the market in 1974 via TSR, in 1983, an animated series was released. This was around the time the Basic Set Version 3 was released for those keeping track. That is almost pointless as the animated television series was not based on any rule set. At least that I can […]
Posts Tagged ‘fighting’
Dungeons & Dragons Animated Series Brawler Released
October 10th, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, Windows 
Tags: animated series, brawler, cartoon, d&d, dungeons & dragons, fighting, openbor 
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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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Paprium Finally Sees Release on Sega Genesis
December 30th, 2020 Carl Williams Paprium is a brand new brawler title for the Sega Genesis. Some of you reading this may know it by its former name, Project Y. Most that knew about this game probably gave up on seeing it years ago. Considering this fighting game was in development for four years it is easy to see why. […]
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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 […]
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Mortal Kombat Sees Super Nintendo Sega Genesis and More Ports – September 13th, 1993 – Today in Video Game History
September 12th, 2020 Carl Williams Mortal Kombat is iconic. It started life as an arcade game attempting to do the impossible. Take on Capcom’s Street Fighter II machine which had been ruling arcades. The key to the success of Mortal Kombat was the imagery and match endings. Ed Boon and John Tobias knew they had to stand out and stand […]
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Posted in Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Super Nintendo Tags: acclaim, censorship, Digitized Graphics, fighting, mortal kombat, one on one fighting, Play It Loud, port No Comments »
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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Battletoads 2020 Review
August 21st, 2020 Carl Williams Battletoads is one of the latest classic franchises to see a resurgence on modern hardware. This long since the last official release should make anyone concerned. It generally does not end well for the newer release. Call it viewing things through rose colored glasses or what have you, something is usually missing from the newer […]
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Retro Gaming Steam Highlights June 2020
June 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Here are some fun pieces of retro gaming on sale with Steam right now. For those that do not know, this time of year is the annual Summer Sale. Tons of games go on sale for two weeks or so. For fans of older titles though, this can make it hard to find them. I […]
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Capcom Releases Final Fight Guy on Super Nintendo – June 11th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
June 10th, 2020 Carl Williams Final Fight Guy was Capcom’s attempt to appease fans. When Final Fight was originally released on the Super Nintendo, it was lacking. Fans were not happy about the character Guy being missing. Sure, gamers still got Cody and Haggar but a vocal few wanted Guy. To resolve the problem Capcom created a special edition of […]
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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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Posted in Arcade, Console, Neo Geo Tags: double dragon, fighting, Noise Factory, one on one, piko interactive, Rage of the Dragons No Comments »
