What’s best to spend the Sunday morning or afternoon spotting video games greats and icons in pixel form that is conjured up by Edge magazine. For instance, I’m witnessing a fight between Ken and Guile now.

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I’ve just finished browsing through Arthur’s Hall of Viking Manliness’ 10 Manliest Video Games of All Time, and I have to say, yes, the list is indeed full of manly video games.
How did the guys up at Arthur’s Hall come up with the idea of giving the world such a list of video games? Shatner (yes, after William Shatner), Arthur’s Viking Assistant, gives us the details:
I had a discussion with Arthur the other day regarding the question, “Are video games manly?” While wasting your life away on a couch playing video games isn’t quite as manly as killing small animals …read more

Nothing screams Retro Gaming Fanatic more than apparel, t-shirts to be exact. Well, except for tattoos, which I consider as extreme fanaticism. Anyway, going back to the topic, I’ve found great t-shirts that feature—what else!—retro video gaming icons such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Ryu of Street Fighter fame.
Here are two of my favorite retro gaming t-shirts:

The maker of these retro video gaming t-shirts, 101tshirts.co.uk, also produce retro television, movie and music shirts. Not a fan of t-shirts? No problem. The company specializes in printing our favorite retro video gaming icons on different products …read more

Talk about inspiring. I’ve just finished my daily rounds of Internet video publishing websites and found this classic video on YouTube featuring the different boss fights of yesteryear. Contra! Mega Man! Castlevania! Legend of Zelda! Punch Out! Sigh. Let me just shut up and dish out the video:

Whew! Makes me wanna bring out the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Nintendo Family Computer again and play all the classics shown in the video … at least, until I reach the stage where the bosses are hiding. *wink, wink*

I’m currently watching a video on the history of video games by YouTube user applemctom, and my wife, Joyce, keeps asking me why I know majority of the games featured in the video. I guess my video games addiction is finally showing, eh? To test my mettle, I tried to list down in order all the games shown in the two-minute footage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all. Before I show my list (rather, before you take a look at it), watch the video and try listing down in order all the games that you see. Let’s compare notes later.

Well, …read more

If you’re a Re:Retro regular, you probably noticed that I cut the previous post, 10 arcade games I used to play #1, to five entries. Well, fear not, here’s the continuation. My apologies. I had to whittle down the list to five due to space limitations (actually, I didn’t want to bore you too much). Go check out the first half of my list before you go through this one.
Galaxian
Talk about really old games. Galaxian, a 1979 fixed shooter arcade game developed by Namco and released by Midway Manufacturing, is probably the first arcade video game I played. Back then, …read more

Like I said in an earlier post about Street Fighter, I love animated gifs, the poor man’s Flash animation. This time ’round, however, Ken Masters and the rest of the Street Fighter gang are out and the nasties of Killer Instinct are in. Check out two of my favorite Killer Instinct animated gifs of Cinder and Saberwulf:

If you can’t get enough animated gifs of Killer Instinct characters, there’s more here.

Sigh. This is something we never had in this little tropical archipelago when every member of my generation was still young.
Oh, sure, we had tons of toy commercials, especially during those weekend cartoon marathons common in the 1980s to early 1990s. But, no, we didn’t have video game commercials—at least, I don’t remember watching them on television. Good thing we had that 7-Up Pac-Man commercial … you know, the one with the theme song derived from Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis’ Eyes.
So it’s only natural for me to surf the web for those old video game commercials … everything that I’ve …read more

Picking up from where we left off, I was talking about Ken Masters’ Touch of Death combo on Street Fighter II. After a few tries (I’m trying to master it, but my fingers are kind of stiff, having been overused in MMORPGs), I’m thoroughly convinced that you can do a Touch of Death combo with all characters on the list of Street Fighter II.
This video proves me right:

I love the combo finish of Ken and Fei Long best.

I found this really nick trick for Ken Masters on Street Fighter II for the arcade, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Genesis. It’s called the Touch of Death Combo, and I’ve been trying it out (trying being the operative term). The move actually entails two combos: the first disables an opponent, the second knocks them out. After a few tries on the ol’ SNES, I can say that it’s really effective (at least during those times that I executed the combo correctly).
Here’s how you do it:
First, jump towards your opponent and hit him with a fierce kick attack. As …read more