The 2D fighter: as a genre, perfect. Almost nothing pushes the edges of the concept: everything’s definitely a fighter or definitely not.
Mortal Kombat was supposed to be a Jean-Claude Van Damme game. No JC in the end, so they went for guys in pointy hats and balaclavas pulling each other’s spines out. And lo, born was a multimedia franchise up there with Care Bears and My Little Pony.
Virtual On Oratorio Tangram: so much more than just four pins in a dictionary.
Out of the office, pop your umbrella. Hide your eyes and shuffle with the crowds: synthetic-mix suits are both the camouflage and the background.
Sonic turned up in 1991. Flash, spicing up the playground, giving gangs of tough kids chance to gather round a gritty, grown-up renegade (a blue hedgehog in red trainers).
Everyone thinks their childhood games were gold. But only 90s kids were right.
Dare you read this ghostly Friday tale? And can you solve the riddle of the tile?
Funabori is home to this perfect embodiment of the Sega World concept, flawlessly preserved from the 90s.
Ever wanted to play a piece of videogame history?
Smoke stirs in the Hirose Entertainment Yard, barely lit by blue strips…
Buying into the the culture of Akihabara gaming.
