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When Capcom Released Street Fighter II in 1991 , It Revolutionized the Video Game Industry Capcom’s fighting game became an instant success, and its formula turned into the recipe everyone wanted to replicate. It wouldn’t be entirely fair to say they invented the genre, but they were the ones who turned it into the mass phenomenon that dominated the 90s and the early 2000s. Virtually every company in the industry…
Back to the Future Part III is the video game adaptation of the film of the same name, known in Spain as Regreso al futuro and in Latin America as Volver al futuro . The successful film series owned by Universal Pictures was a mass phenomenon in the 80s and although its third installment was not as popular as its predecessors, it managed to garner outrageous numbers, not only at the box office but also in sales of…
American Gladiators was an American television program that aired from 1989 to 1996, in which a group of amateur athletes faced off in a tournament against the program's gladiators in a series of physical challenges to define who became the champion. The show was quite successful with the audience which allowed for video game adaptations to be released, the first developed by Incredible Technologies, Inc. for NES in…
Rise of the Robots is a fighting game developed by Instinct Design, an in-house studio of British developer Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd. Its release was originally planned for Amiga and DOS, although it later received ports to multiple systems. It had a heavy advertising campaign that cost its publisher Time Warner Interactive more than a million pounds sterling, which was unprecedented at the time. Its…
Cutthroat Island is a video game based on the film of the same name which is sadly famous for having been a failure at the box office, generating losses of more than 100 million dollars and causing the bankruptcy of its studio. To promote the film, it was decided to simultaneously launch an adaptation of it for Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Gameboy and Game Gear, all of them developed by the British studio Software…
Heavy Nova is an action game that combines platform elements with a one-on-one fighting game, originally released for Sega CD exclusively in Japan in December 1991. The following year it came to Genesis only in the North American market, and despite the notable difference in storage between the CD and the cartridge, there are almost no differences. The only noticeable change is the absence of vocals in the song at…
