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Working Designs Shuts Down – December 12th, 2005 – Today in Video Game History

Working Designs was not a perfect game developer or publisher. They were far from it. Their role playing game releases were riddled with current event innuendo and jokes that date them today. The few action games they released were marketed in less than stellar ways. They made a lot of mistakes in their 19 years […]

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Unleash Your Inner Mutant in X-Men Children of the Atom for Sega Saturn – April 6th, 1996 – Today in History

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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Virtua Fighter Punches Sega Saturn – May 11th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History

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 […]

Today in History: November 14th, 1996- Lara Croft Begins Spelunking in Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider is one of those games that came along during a magical time of gaming, the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit. A time when developers were trying to show off new styles of games that the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. At first the games were pretty blocky polygonal messes on the new, for […]

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