Category: Arcade

Ghosts ‘n Goblins

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Ghosts ‘n Goblins (Japanese: 魔界村, Hepburn: Makaimura, lit. Demon World Village) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom. The first entry in the series was Ghosts ‘n Goblins, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs.

The main series focuses on the knight Arthur‘s quest to save princess Prin-Prin from the demon king Astaroth. The primary spin-offs include the Gargoyle’s Quest and Maximo game series.

The series as a whole has sold over 4.2 million units and stands as the 13th best-selling Capcom game franchise. It has gained a reputation among players for its high level of difficulty

The most recent game in the series, Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection, was released on February 25, 2021.

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Asterix

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Asterix is a horizontal-scrolling beat’em up arcade game released in 1992 by Konami. It is based on the French comic series Asterix and Obelix. The player fights as either Asterix the Gaul or his best friend, Obelix, as they take on the ‘might’ of the oppressive Roman Empire. Asterix includes a variety of humorous fighting moves, which are demonstrated in the game’s attract mode. The artwork and feel of Asterix remains true to its French source material, and the game’s many humorous touches (such as the way defeated Legionnaires crawl away) will be instantly familiar to fans of the comic-book and cartoon series. Bonus levels – such as the chariot race that awaits at the end of the first level – introduce different gameplay elements to provide a break from the fighting. Despite this game being developed by a Japanese company, all text in the game is either in English or French.

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The King of Fighters ’98 – The Slugfest

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The King of Fighters ’98: The Slugfest, known in Japan as The King of Fighters ’98: Dream Match Never Ends, is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1998. It is the fifth game in The King of Fighters series. It was advertised by SNK as a “special edition” of the series, as it featured most of the characters who appeared in the previous games (from KOF ’94 to ’97).

KOF ’98 was ported to the Neo-Geo CD in 1998 and for the PlayStation in Japan in 1999. A Dreamcast version titled The King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 was released in 1999, which featured much of the background remade in 3D. The game was also remade for the PlayStation 2 as The King of Fighters ’98: Ultimate Match, which expanded the number of playable characters.

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Mario Bros.

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Mario Bros. is a platform game published and developed for arcades by Nintendo in 1983. It was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Italian-American plumber Mario and his brother Luigi exterminate creatures emerging from the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. The original versions of Mario Bros.—the arcade version and the Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System (FC/NES) version—were received positively by critics.

Mario Bros. has been included as a mini-game in all of the Super Mario Advance series and numerous other games. Mario Bros. has been re-released for the Wii‘s, Nintendo 3DS‘s, and Wii U‘s Virtual Console services in Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia. It has also been re-released through Nintendo Switch Online.

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Final Fight

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Final Fight (Japanese: ファイナルファイト, Hepburn: Fainaru Faito) is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up video game produced by Capcom. Originally released as an arcade game in 1989, it was the seventh title released for the CP System hardware. Set in the non-fictional United States of the fictional Metro City, the player controls one of three street fighters: former pro wrestler and city mayor Mike Haggar, his daughter’s boyfriend Cody, as well as his daughter’s best friend and Cody’s worthy rival Guy, as they set out to clash with the Mad Gear Gang and rescue Haggar’s young daughter Jessica from their ransom.

The game began development as a sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987, but the genre was switched from a fighting game to a beat ’em up and the title was changed following the success of Double Dragon. Final Fight was ported to various home consoles such as the Super NES and was followed by a few sequels. Its development team later worked on the original Street Fighter II and some of the characters from Final Fight later appeared as playable fighters in other entries of the franchise such as the Street Fighter Alpha sub-series. On September 13, 2018, Capcom announced Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle with Final Fight being one of seven titles and released digitally for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows on September 18, 2018.

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Ghosts’n Goblins

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Ghosts ‘n Goblins (Japanese: 魔界村, Hepburn: Makaimura, lit. Demon World Village) is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Capcom and released in arcades in 1985. It has since been ported to numerous home platforms. It is the first game in the Ghosts ‘n Goblins franchise. It was directed by Tokuro Fujiwara.

Ghosts ‘n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclopes, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin-Prin, who has been kidnapped by Astaroth, king of Demon World. Along the way, the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor that can help in this task.

The player can only be hit twice before losing a life. Losing a life will result in having to restart the level, or starting at the halfway point if the player has managed to get that far. Furthermore, each life can only last a certain length of time. After defeating the final boss, the player must then replay the entire game on a higher difficulty level to reach the genuine final battle.

 

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Hyper Street Fighter 2: The Anniversary Edition

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Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (Japanese: ハイパーストリートファイターII -The Anniversary Edition-) is a fighting game by Capcom that was originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2003 in Japan and in 2004 in North America and Asia. Released to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Hyper Street Fighter II is a modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo in which players can control any versions of the main characters from the five Street Fighter II games previously released for the arcades. Although originally released as a home console game, an arcade port was released shortly afterward in limited quantities, turning it into the sixth and final arcade iteration. This game is also the last to use the CP System II.

The PlayStation 2 version was released by itself in Japan and Europe. In North America, it was released in a two-in-one disc titled Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, which also features Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The Anniversary Collection version was later ported to the Xbox in all regions.

 

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Tumblepop

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Tumblepop (タンブル・ポップ) is an arcade game by Data East released in 1991 and was later ported to the Nintendo Game Boy.

The game involves one or two ghostbusters who can suck monsters, ghosts, aliens, and various other oddball characters into vacuum-cleaner-like devices and spit them back as bouncing/rolling balls. Expelled enemies function as projectiles that can damage and kill other opponents on the screen when colliding with them. The game’s looks are reminiscent of Pang. Throughout the game, the player/s can collect letters of the alphabet found in randomly appearing bubbles in order to gradually spell the word “TUMBLEPOP”, the progress of which is permanently displayed at the bottom of the screen. When completed, players are transported to a bonus level which gives them the opportunity to obtain higher scores and extra life, although this level is strictly timed. The word goes back to default after completion.

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Double Dragon II – The Revenge

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Double Dragon (双截龍 (ダブルドラゴン), Daburu Doragon – Sō Setsu Ryū) is a beat ’em up video game series initially developed by Technōs Japan and released as an arcade game in 1987. The series features twin martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, as they fight against various adversaries and rivals. Due to the popularity of the game series, a 1993 animated series and 1994 live-action film adaptation were produced; these were widely-panned by critics and audiences.

The franchise is now the property of Arc System Works, the company that ported the original Double Dragon to the Sega Master System console in 1988.

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