Capcom reverse-engineered a Hong Kong bootleg to build Street Fighter II Turbo, lost money in the US on a return-guarantee loophole, then took a secret Panasonic deal that sent Super SF2 X exclusively to the failing 3DO.
Rainbow Parasol Collection arrives 8 October with Rainbow Islands CS, Parasol Stars and Spica Adventure. Rainbow Islands CS is six home conversions, one of them a Genesis build cancelled in 1994; Parasol Stars never had an arcade version; and Spica began as a 2003 mobile phone app. Only the Mega Drive Rainbow Islands EXTRA carries a product code, and measured Suruga-ya hit counts are below.
Street Fighter II barely cleared 100 yen a day in early tests. A hacked arcade cabinet, an unbeatable player, and a sound-room fire shaped the biggest fighting game boom of the 1990s.
Capcom's Ghosts 'n Goblins reached the Famicom on June 13, 1986, ported by Micronics and widely considered harder than the arcade original. What the cartridge is, and the product code (CAP-MK) that finds it.
Before Street Fighter II, there was a doodle at a dull meeting, a bug that made fireballs nearly impossible to throw, and a warehouse of unsold cabinets. How the 1987 arcade original was made.
The original 1987 Street Fighter arcade game had pressure-sensitive punch pads that hurt players' hands. Its replacement six-button layout, and Ryu's name, still shape the series today.
CAVE's bullet-hell classic got a new Steam release on August 27. Here are the four original Japanese releases the DoDonPachi series is built on, with product codes.
Five regional releases, one myth about censorship that keeps getting repeated — and the product codes for the versions that never left Japan.
Type a Western title. Get the Japanese name, the cartridge code printed on the spine, and links to the shops that have it.
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