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It was the phenomenon that Nintendo desperately wanted on the Super Nintendo. During the build up to the hottest part of the 16-Bit war with Sega, Nintendo was pulling out all of the stops. There are rumors that Capcom was given favoritism to ensure Street Fighter II was on the SNES first, possibly exclusively. While […]
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5 Street Fighter II Ports You Don’t Know About
December 11th, 2015 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Amstrad, Comp, Console, MSX2, News, Nintendo, Sega 
Tags: amstrad, capcom, CPC, entertainment system, fighting, msx, msx2, nes, nintendo, one on one, retro, retrogaming, sega master system, street fighter, street fighter II, Tec Toy, youtube 
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Real3DOPlayer Brings Full Speed 3DO Emulation to Android
October 1st, 2015 Carl Williams Ah, the 3DO, a console that will forever be remembered as either a system ahead of its time or just an oddity released between the SNES and Playstation. No matter what you think of the 3DO, it was still an interesting system that went places that many gaming companies simply refused (though Sega and Atari […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 3do, android, at&t, emulator, Multimedia Multiplayer, panasonic, Real3DOPlayer, retro, retrogaming, return fire, Sanyo, Star Control II, street fighter II 1 Comment » 9 Times Developers Screwed the Console Manufacturers
September 4th, 2015 Carl Williams It has not always been all happy and go lucky days in video games. No, back in the day we had some real controversial things going on, mostly behind the scenes but quite a few made it to the fanbase (such as the Tengen situation). There are poop monsters shooting a questionable brown projectile at […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Sega, Sony Tags: Accolade, activision, adventure, atari, Ballistic, camerica, capcom, carl williams, d, double dragon, ea, electronic arts, enemy zero, entertainment system, game genie, Game Genies, kenji eno, nes, nintendo, playstation, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, saturn, sega, sony, street fighter II, warp, Warren Robinette No Comments » 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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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2600, Age, atari, Atari Age, capcom, Chun-Li, forums, Ken, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogaming, Ryu, Street Fight World, street fighter II, youtube 2 Comments »
Unleash Your Inner Mutant in X-Men Children of the Atom for Sega Saturn – April 6th, 1996 – Today in History
April 6th, 2015 Carl Williams The X-Men have had a very good history in gaming, at least starting in the 16-Bit era. Let’s ignore the Nintendo Entertainment System games for the sake of this article. When Capcom got the license they immediately took it in a new direction, adding the X-Men characters into their popular Street Fighter II engine was […]
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Posted in News, Saturn, Sega Tags: acclaim, arcade, capcom, children of the atom, fighting, street fighter II, x-men 2 Comments »
Fatalities Expanded in Mortal Kombat II – Today in History – September 9th, 1994
September 8th, 2014 Carl Williams It is pretty much accepted fact that Nintendo’s censorship policy literally gave the Sega Genesis a slight upper hand when the original Mortal Kombat was released on home consoles. Acclaim was between a rock and a hard place as far as the Super Nintendo version of the bloody brawler was concerned. History shows they went […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Portables, Sega, Sony, Xbox Tags: 1994, acclaim, animality, arcdade, Baraka, brawler, carl williams, censored, censorship, fatality, fighting, friendship, game boy, genesis, Jax, Midway, Mileena, mortal kombat, nintendo, retro gaming magazine, rgm, sega, September 9th, street fighter II, super nintendo 1 Comment »
Super Smash Bros Crusade Devs Open Character Poll (Unofficial Game)
July 26th, 2014 Carl Williams For anyone that does not know, Super Smash Bros Crusade is an independent, fan made, game based on the Super Smash Brothers line of games from Nintendo. For fans, this means more characters that Nintendo may not have in their official game (Phoenix Wright being one I see) and levels that probably won’t be in […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo Tags: Bomberman, brawler, capcom, carl williams, Chun-Li, crash bandicoot, Evil Ryu, fan game, fanmake, fighting, link, luigi, Mach Rider, mario, mega man, nintendo, pc, rayman, retro gaming magazine, rgm, Ristar, Ryu, sega, Solid Snake, street fighter II, Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros Crusade, triverse, unofficial, windows No Comments »
New Game: Super Tank Wars Coming to PC, Steam, Desura and Linux
July 23rd, 2014 Carl Williams Remember playing Combat on the Atari 2600? How about Street Fighter II? Now imagine mixing both into one game? That is basically what Super Tank Wars is, Combat mixed with the characters and the over the topness of Street Fighter II.
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Bomberman, Combat, desura, Germany, greenlight, Hot n Spicy Hot Games, linux, pc, steam, SteamOS, street fighter II, Super Tank Wars, windows No Comments »
