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Fighting Vipers

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Pendulum: A look at Sega Model 2 conversions

2024-02-06
By: John Bowe
On: February 6, 2024
In: Retro gaming features

Sega Model 2 arcade games were well regarded, but how did they survive conversion to home consoles? For every action, an equal and opposite reaction. It might be true, perhaps, and it would certainly be true of Sega’s prickly attempts to port their arcade machines over to the Saturn. Oh,Read More →

Top Five 3D Fighting Games: A Personal Recollection

2023-06-07
By: John Bowe
On: June 7, 2023
In: Retro gaming best and worst lists, Retro gaming features

3D fighting games like Virtua Fighter are fondly remembered – but which one of these polygon pugilistic playtimes packed a potent punch? Throughout the early 90s gaming was walking through a literal shift of dimension. Both in the arcades and at home. I wasn’t particularly interested at the time, atRead More →

The Character Fashion Yearbook: A Challenge

2023-04-07
By: John Bowe
On: April 7, 2023
In: Retro games news

Can you tell a game’s date from its character fashion? Fashion and the fashionable. They are passing things if you ever knew them at all. I can’t say that I did, but I have got eyes and they do see. And what they see is that there exists a spiritRead More →

Snakebite… Remembering Fighting Vipers

2023-01-02
By: John Bowe
On: January 2, 2023
In: Retro arcades, Retro Consoles, Retro gear

Christmas, that all too brief season of light and cheer. The very Emmanuel; snakes be gone, unless you were me playing Fighting Vipers that 1996 Christmas season, which I very was and which should also serve as a convenient crowbar to allow me to pour praise of light and cheerRead More →

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