Street Fighter Alpha’s versus King of Fighters. We’ve all been through them and made our judgements, but never like this before. Last time out I detailed an exercise in roping my wife Anna and her best friend Margaret into judging the style of ten combatants from each franchise. This theyRead More →
We pitch King of Fighters and Street Fighter Alpha 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 Alpha,Read More →
In a recent back and forth with Gaming Retro King, King Christian, we settled upon a disappointment towards what passes for art direction these days. Spider-man 2 was the title under fire; a drab technical showcase of a city with character models that you could only describe as what…? WhereRead More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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