Air Combat is the first game in what came to be known as the Ace Combat series. It’s a bit rougher than its successors, and certainly more arcadey – given that it was an arcade game first!
Video Game Ad of the Day: Air Combat
– May 7, 2013
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Video Game Ad of the Day: Soulcalibur II
– April 14, 2013
Soulcalibur II was the most successful fighting game of the sixth generation era, by in large due to the amazing upgrade its predecessor received when it was released on the Dreamcast. It was the first game in the series to see “guest fighters” – Link for the GameCube version, Heihachi Mishima for the PlayStation 2 version and Spawn for the Xbox version. Funnily enough, the GameCube version was the best selling one.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: Tekken 2
– March 2, 2013
Throwing your father off a cliff is a right of passage in the Mishima family.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: 90 Minutes: European Prime Goal
– September 9, 2012
Once upon a time, anyone could make a football game, and people would lap it up because they didn’t really give a rats ass about licenses and real players. 90 Minutes: European Prime Goal is one such example of a time when football games flooded the market.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: I-Ninja
– July 10, 2012
I-Ninja is one of those B grade action-platformers that they just don’t make anymore. It was developed by Argonaut, who were arguably the kings of this sort of middling quality 3D platformer.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: Dig Dug
– June 1, 2012
Dig Dug is one of the most influential arcade games from the early 1980s. Players control Dig Dug, who must drill his way through the ground and eliminate any enemies occupying the area by sticking them with his hose and filling them with air until they explode.
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Pac-Man fan film tries to make sense of Pac-Man in real world
– April 12, 2012
The team at Steelhouse Productions has been working on this short film about Pac-Man for a year. They call it “the greatest 80s movie that never happened”.
Basically the 10-minute or so film tries to make sense of how something like Pac-Man could exist in the real world. According to the film’s website, they wanted to know “What the heck is a Pac-Man? What are the ghosts? What and/or where is this blinking blue maze? And how exactly can a hungry yellow ball exit on the left side of the screen, and re-appear again on the right?”
It’s neat, if a bit silly.
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New artbook details the creation Street Fighter X Tekken’s Mega Man
– April 12, 2012
Whether you think it was a neat tribute or a cruel joke, the “classic” interpretation of Mega Man featured in Street Fighter X Tekken happened.
A new book, Street Fighter X Tekken Artworks features a detailed breakdown of many of the different concepts that were devised during the creation of the game. The book is currently only available in Japanese, but there’s a remote chance that it might see an English release through Udon like many of Capcom’s other artbooks.
However, if you can’t wait until them, the Mega Man Network has posted a few scans from the book.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: Pac-Man (Game Boy)
– April 10, 2012
People are not kidding when they say that Pac-Man is on every system under the sun. The Game Boy version isn’t the best – the scrolling screen makes proceedings a little more annoying than they should be, but it could be a lot worse.
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Video Game Ad of the Day: Ehgreiz
– March 2, 2012
God bless the ring!
Ehgreiz is a 3D fighting game developed by Dream Factory and brought to arcades by Namco and Squaresoft. The game gained fame for featuring Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockheart as playable characters – Squaresoft published the PlayStation port, where even more FFVII characters were added into the mix.
