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King of Fighters

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Style on the Streets: Street Fighter Alpha vs. King of Fighters

2025-05-10
By: John Bowe
On: May 10, 2025
In: Retro gaming features

We consider Street Fighter Alpha vs. King of Fighters in a new competition: fashion! Match-ups and smack-downs. We love them and the tensions between them. Liverpool vs Man. United, The Stones vs The Beatles, Rocky Balboa vs a training montage. Pretty intense stuff, but nothing on the Street Fighter AlphaRead More →

Lara Croft, the most recognizable Video game girl

Top 5 retro gaming aesthetics: A personal peepers retrospective

2023-11-08
By: John Bowe
On: November 8, 2023
In: Retro gaming best and worst lists, Retro gaming features

Some games look better than others — it’s a fact. Retro gaming is often tarred with the 8-bit aesthetic, but really, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, regardless of how many pixels you use. CyberPunk 2077 has its art direction sorted, so much so, that watching itRead More →

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Top 5 2-D fighting games – a personal recollection

2023-05-27
By: John Bowe
On: May 27, 2023
In: Retro games news, Retro gaming best and worst lists, Retro gaming features

Looking for the best retro fighting games? We’ve rounded up the best of the 2-D fighting games for your pleasure. Of all the opinions in gaming, if you were to take them and stew them until only stock, it would be the juices of fighting games that remained. Then ifRead 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 →

Kingdom Come: The King of Fighters ’98 Tournament

2022-11-12
By: John Bowe
On: November 12, 2022
In: Retro games news

Neo Geo. Two strong words, like double scotch. Made by SNK, they were available to purchase but were exotic to find; known but enigmatic. Neo Geo had romance like an old Alpha Romeo. Or old scotch. Timeless. Now you wouldn’t want to own a Neo Geo per se, but youRead More →

Discovering Super Games World, Middlesbrough

2022-02-12
By: Christian Cawley
On: February 12, 2022
In: Miscellaneous retro stuff, Retro gaming features

Retro gaming stores seem to be on the increase. Yesterday I stumbled across  Super Games World on Newport Road in Middlesbrough. Inside a standard single shop unit was an absolute cavalcade of retro gaming consoles, cartridges, discs, and more. NES, SNES, N64, Sega systems, even old PC games and rareRead More →

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