Arcade beat ’em ups of the past – Knuckle Joe
He’s no Kenjiro, but he still kicks ass.
He’s no Kenjiro, but he still kicks ass.
Cloak & Dagger in 1984 starred Henry Thomas as eleven year-old Davey Osborne and Dabney Coleman as “Agent X”, his imaginary secret agent friend (who also looks like his in-movie […]
“You must think in Russian. Think in Russian!” So explains a Soviet physicist to Air Force Major, Mitchell Gant, played by Clint Eastwood in the 1982 thriller, Firefox. Based on […]
The early 90s were big years for beat ’em ups. Both 1991 and 1993 would prove to be a peak year for both Capcom and Konami which released three apiece […]
The 80s were filled with more than Cold War paranoia. Thanks to Hollywood, they were turned into a playground for over-the-top, American action heroes fighting terrorists and the forces of […]
No discussion of the arcade scene in the early 80s in conjunction with the Cold War could ever be complete without even mentioning Atari’s iconic Missile Command. In a piece […]
Considered by many to be one of the godfathers of hacker movies, WarGames, dramatically introduced a generation of moviegoers to the power of the computer. Instead of an action hero, […]
When President Ronald Reagan announced his SDI initiative in 1983, it set off a fanciful firestorm in Hollywood and elsewhere as it quickly earned the nickname “Star Wars” for its […]
Not to be confused with Cinemaware’s S.D.I. which initially came out in 1986 (and whose lawyers might sue for ‘marketplace confusion’ today), 1987’s SDI was an action-packed arcade game released […]
It was 1989, a year of big changes in Europe with the fall of the Berlin Wall and what seemed to be a rolling end to Communism in Eastern Europe. […]