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The ultimate history of fighting games Fighting games have always been around. The first one on this list landed in arcades in 1976!
The Street Fighter games are arguably the best-known fighting titles ever released (only Mortal Kombat comes close), and the series has sold a staggering 37 million copies. Fighting games, though, have been around since the very beginning of the medium. The first one we hit on this list landed in arcades in 1976 – a full 40 years ago! Lace up your gloves, charge up your ki, and let’s write the book on the history of fighting games. I tried to play, either on original machines or through emulation, every single game that could be considered a “fighting game” in the history of video games. I’m going to try and talk…
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Does the C64 Mini’s games library do the Commodore 64 justice? The real reason it trumped the Speccy and Amstrad was breadth and quality of software.
It is not the Commodore 64’s longevity, an incredible 13-year run from the first unit sold to the last one produced, that should have finally settled the oddly enduring playground arguments of the ’80s on which was the superior 8-bit machine. Nor is it the model’s popularity, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling home computer of all time (though the exact numbers vary wildly depending on who’s counting). These are mere side discussions, ignoring the real reason why this age-old debate should have been put to rest a long time ago: namely, the breathtaking range of the Commie’s software library. Enormously expansive (spanning across several thousand…
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Legendary Commodore 64 Daffy Duck game finally found, playable for first time It’s a 228KB download, which was huge for the time.
The Commodore 64 was one of the first home computers that really took off, eventually selling more than 10 million units. Game development was quite vibrant on the C64 for a number of years, but things started to taper off in the early 90s when the computer was a decade old. It was at this point that Hi-tec Software was working on a Daffy Duck game that had C64 fans truly excited. However, the company folded before the game could be released. This started a multi-decade search for the game — a search that has just resulted in the recovery of this long-lost title. Our story begins in 1992 when…
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