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An Artist Fights His Creations–Literally
YouTuber and artist Jonny Lawrence put together this neat stop motion video featuring his hand battling what looks like Akuma from Street Fighter. It’s like Master Hand, but in Street Fighter. And less virtual, more epidermis. (via Laughing Squid) To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find her on Twitter at…
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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s
The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…
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A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 90s
By the end of the 90s, the 16-bit era ended and 3D took over. With the PlayStation and 3D graphics cards out there allowing for new possibilities, narrative and gameplay, the 90s produced some of the most attractive characters in video game history. Well-known mascots and protagonists made their transitions to 3D, other, yet to…
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The Most Random Looking Fighting Games
The success of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, not to mention all the SNK titles, spawned a crazy amount of abominations. Developers certainly took their inspiration in…interesting directions. Adding some really cool, unique Japanese arcade fighters, we already have a nice list of weird looking fighting games. Dark Edge Dark Edge was Sega’s first attempt…
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The Most Amazing Video Game Continue Screens
The continue countdown screen was introduced to arcades in the 80s. It was a simple and effective way of getting players to fork over more money. When you fail, the screen comes up for a limited time with a countdown to insert additional coins or press a button. Most of these games’ continue screens were…
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The Craziest Testosterone-Filled Japanese Video Game Characters
When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn’t the only thing they’re good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don’t even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them.…
By Gergo Vas
