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Mortal Kombat II

Arcaee machines including Mortal Kombat II

Ready player one for a new retro arcade in Bradford

2025-04-02
By: Christian Cawley
On: April 2, 2025
In: Retro games news

Retro gamers in West Yorkshire have something to be excited about following the acceptance of a planning application for a retro arcade in Bradford. Featuring modern and vintage games, Flashback Arcade will be based in what was the loading bay building of local newspaper the Telegraph & Argus, close toRead 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 →

How Mortal Kombat II’s Backgrounds Set the Stage

2023-03-14
By: John Bowe
On: March 14, 2023
In: Retro arcades, Retro gaming features

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 →

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