Final Fight's Poison: The Final Word On Gender

There still seems to be a bit of gender confusion surrounding what's exactly tucked away in the denim short shorts of Capcom's mysterious female fighter Poison, fan art notwithstanding. She first appeared in the 1989 arcade game Final Fight but was removed from the Super Nintendo conversion, as someone seemingly disapproved of the piledriving of women in tank tops. Rumors swirled that Capcom attempted to justify her inclusion in the game by revealing that she was actually a he, citing the kosher nature of man on man violence. But we never got a clear answer. More »

Final Fight's Poison Brings Daisy Dukes To Collector Shelves

Capcom's memorable tramps Roxy and Poison from Final Fight may be the victim of some urban legend gender confusion but there's little question about what's in the denim short shorts of this immovable figure from Reflect of Poison herself. The 11" PVC recreation of Hugo's sidekick from Street Fighter III will leave little to the imagination when it ships this November. At 7,140 yen, it should definitely be considered a holiday stocking stuffer for any loved one who's really really into nearly naked video game gangster babes. I'm getting two for the McWhertor Cave! More »

HG101's History of Final Fight Clones

Hardcore Gaming 101 recently published an eye-opening retrospective of Capcom's prolific beat-em-up arcade and console output, all very much derivatives of their 1989 classic Final Fight. While Capcom may not have created the genre—that distinction is uniquely Technos'—they refined it, some say perfected it, over the course of a dozen plus formulaic releases. More »

VC Update: Stealing People Edition

Here I've been trying hard every week to try and link the new Virtual Console titles into some sort of cohesive theme, and then this week Nintendo goes and brings their own theme with them. Considering how much later than normal the release hit today, they might just want to leave that to us in the future. Anyway, this week's theme is kidnapping, a surefire gaming storyline if ever there was one, until you start imagining what the victims are going through. Then it just gets...disturbing. More »

Final Fight, More Street Fighter For Wii VC

Two new Super Nintendo releases have popped up on the ESRB's rating site, Capcom's Final Fight and Street Fighter II Turbo. The latter is the successor to the Christmas day released SNES version of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and features additional playable characters and new moves. More »

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