269th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Playstation 3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Backbone Entertainment Publisher: Capcom Yeah, you’re right, we’ve played a version of Street Fighter II before – Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting. Apparently the difference here is not directly the game, but the extent of the HD remake. You […]
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#874 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Posted: 11th September 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2008, backbone entertainment, capcom, fighting, playstation 3, xbox 360
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265th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Some games are games where I really have no proper justification why we played them. They’re on the list, they’re a genre we need, but they’re not a big name and we’re hard-pressed to see why it’s so special. […]
253rd played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega In the realm of fighting games, there are two main early entries: Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The former arose in the late eighties, with the latter coming in in the early nineties. Both started off as traditional 2D […]
#600 Def Jam: Fight for NY
Posted: 14th May 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, aki corporation, ea canada, electronic arts, fighting, gamecube, playstation 2, xbox
239th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: PS2/Gamecube/Xbox Year of Release: 2004 Developer: AKI Corporation, EA Canada Publisher: Electronic Arts It’s official, the drought of fighting games is now over. 50 games since we last covered one (Splatterhouse) and finally we doing our next one as part of X-Fest. The main reason for this is […]
189th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1988 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Rounding off our stint of games from 1986-1990 is a rather different title which is a cross between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Zombies Ate Our Neighbours. Unlike any of the fighting games we have encountered during this blog […]
#400 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Posted: 28th September 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1999, arcade, capcom, dreamcast, fighting, street fighter
182nd played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade, Dreamcast Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom And so Dreamfest comes to an end after a whistle-stop tour through some of the major genres in gaming. For this final game there were a number of games in the running which we will, of course, have […]
#869 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Posted: 21st May 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2008, Arc System Works, fighting, Various
149th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Various Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Arc System Works (JP), Aksys Games (US), pQube (EU) I love fighting games. This is a fact about myself that we have covered multiple times in the past whilst we talked about games like Tekken and Soul Calibur […]
#258 Tekken
Posted: 6th January 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1994, arcade, fighting, namco, playstation
113th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade, Playstation Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Ah Tekken, you were the franchise that started my love for the humble beat ’em up game. Technically Tekken 2 is the game that got me into them… but since this is where the whole thing began I […]
#772 No More Heroes
Posted: 3rd July 2011 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2007, action, fighting, Grasshopper Manufacture, wii
66th game played so far Genre: Action/Fighting Platform: Wii Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture Publisher: Marvelous Entertainment (JP), Rising Star Games (EU), Ubisoft (NA) When it comes to RPGs there is defining difference between those produced in the East and those from the West (as can be seen in our posts about Final […]
#490 Super Smash Bros. Melee
Posted: 17th June 2011 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2001, fighting, gamecube, HAL Laboratory, nintendo
62nd game played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2001 Developer: HAL Laboratory Publisher: Nintendo So here’s a game Peter absolutely adores, so I quickly thought I’d snag the intro before he’d unleash his torrent on words on you saying how great the game is. He’s already started about how it’s why […]