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How Mortal Kombat II’s Backgrounds Set the Stage

2023-03-14
By: John Bowe
On: March 14, 2023
In: Features, Retro Arcades
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Mortal Kombat II looks amazing even now, but it isn’t all about the fighting… The nature of video game backgrounds and staging, the use of colour or a flamboyant piece of parallax scrolling, these considerations were all over the minds of the pixel presentation brigades of back-then. I think aboutRead More →

The World’s Most Popular Retro Video Games, Ranked

2021-05-30
By: Christian Cawley
On: May 30, 2021
In: Retro Games News
With: 0 Comments

What is the best retro video game? It’s difficult to tell, at least not without asking a lot of people. Big games tend to have a long-lasting impact. For example, the Animal Crossing franchise celebrated 20 years in April 2021, while Pokémon celebrated 25 years in February. To get aRead More →

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