Curated playlist
Capcom games
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 opens its story with two powerful organizations trying to ease political tension through martial arts. The Garcia Financial Clique and the Masters Foundation stage a tournament called Millennium Fight…
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for the Nintendo Entertainment System arrived in 1992, a full twelve years after the film it was based on first played in cinemas. By then, the NES was aging hardware, and yet a small team of developers…
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution arrived in arcades in 2004 carrying a premise that sounded almost too good to be true. Characters from Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Darkstalkers, and the obscure CPS…
- Star Wars (1991 video game)Star Wars the video game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in November 1991, more than fourteen years after the 1977 film that inspired it. That gap matters. By the time Luke Skywalker finally made it onto a home console in a…
- Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers arrived on the Nintendo Switch on the 26th of May 2017, resurrecting a fight three decades old. It is an updated version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo from 1994, itself an update of Street…
- Hyper Street Fighter IICapcom released Hyper Street Fighter II in 2003 to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Street Fighter series. The game arrived on PlayStation 2 as a modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo from 1994. Developers chose this specific…
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixSuper Gem Fighter Mini Mix arrived in arcades in 1997 with a simple, disarming premise: what if Capcom's most beloved fighters were shrunk down to chibi proportions and sent on ridiculous personal errands? Ryu is looking for worthy…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades in the summer of 2001, asking a question that fighting game fans had argued about for years: whose fighters were better, Capcom's or SNK's? The game put 48 characters from…
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (video game)Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law arrived on store shelves on the 8th of January 2008, priced at around thirty dollars. That budget price point was deliberate. One reviewer pointed out that it meant there was no need to shout "I object!"…
- Namco × CapcomNamco x Capcom arrived in Japanese game shops on the 26th of May 2005, carrying inside it nearly one hundred characters drawn from two of the largest video game publishers in the world. The idea was ambitious enough that, at the time,…
- Project X ZoneProject X Zone, pronounced "Project Cross Zone," is a tactical role-playing game that asked a simple but audacious question: what would happen if sixty characters from three rival Japanese video game companies were dropped into the same…
- Dragon's DogmaDragon's Dogma arrived in 2012 carrying a question its director had been holding since the year 2000: could a Japanese studio build a Western-style open-world RPG that let players climb on the bodies of enormous monsters and tear them…