Ruminations of a Six Button Samurai JJJ
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Video games don’t get the same respect as movies and music do as formative influences upon us... but maybe they should? One retrogamer who came of age during the fighting game craze spawned by SFII takes a look at the scraps in his life, on and off the screen from boyhood forward.
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SFII 30th: BATTLE 99 OR BUST!
Let’s talk about the early days of the video game that shook the world, spawned a generational phenomenon that enshrined an entire genre and left a permanent mark on the pop-culture landscape. Street Fighter II!
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The Requirements of Arcade Wolves
Now aged 15, our restless golden-era gamer youth finds himself obsessed with the arcade works of Capcom, the wonder of his Sega Genesis, and faces a critical choice about whether or not to leave home. It’s getting real, and this is all right before Street Fighter II lands like a fallen comet into his life!
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The Elusive Happy-NES of a Salty Arcade Rat
The Elusive Happy-NES of a Salty Arcade Rat: Once again firmly ensconced in his ancestral desert home of Tucson, JJJ finds himself torn between the games on his NES (and some of the awful arcade ports that threaten his faith in the platform), and roaming free in the then-plentiful arcades that beckon to his pre-teen soul. Either way, his allowance is doomed.
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Enter the Samurai
The story begins here... a young Samurai begins his lifelong passion for gaming, and arcades.