Welcome back to the Digital Dojo, Multiplayergames’ dissection of martial arts accuracy in video games. Today’s lesson reviews 1992’s Best of the Best Championship Karate, which has no relationship to the movie Best of the Best (1989), although the game does follow a similar story line about a fighter trying to battle to a fighting championship. Our fighter [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 31, 2010
From the opening screen, in which Interplay’s logo is introduced to George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone,” Rock ‘n Roll Racing exudes style. Set in space where intergalactic aliens take initially familiar-looking vehicles onto rugged tracks, Rock ‘n Roll Racing’s marketing hook is the music. While not the first game to utilize the Peter Gunn theme [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 4, 2010
Final Fight 3 brings the franchise back from its globe-trotting sequel, settling into a desolate Metro City now taken over by the Skull Cross Gang. Despite the change in gang, series favorite Andore returns, apparently the final surviving member of the Mad Gear, and unable to escape his lifestyle. Despite obvious attempts to deepen the fighting [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
French game developer Golgoth studios founder Anthony De Sa Ferreira recently made an announcement that after releasing a HD remake of Toki, the studio would focus on reviving Data East’s arcade and console title Joe & Mac. Due to the early nature of the design, no screens exist of the remake beyond the above concept [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 7, 2009
Developer Golgoth is working on finishing their upcoming remake of ape-spitting simulation (!) Toki, but they already have their sights set on their next target, caveman ninja simulator (!!) Joe & Mac. The Data East property began life as an action platformer in the arcades, before becoming a Super Nintendo port in 1991 at the launch [...]
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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