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Colossus is an ANIMAL. Arcade playthrough. source

This Mortal Kombat arcade version was captured with my Nvidia shield. first time playing in 25 years so let me tell you it was exciting going four rounds with Goro. I can’t remember a single fatality time to look up some game cheats. source

Is there a better beat him up in the arcade so you were kids? this was captured on my Nvidia shield and believe it or not my 10 year old play through this one. who says kids aren’t into Retro games? The Simpsons!! Konami. Woah. source

Super Metroid released in 1994 was an amazing game for its time. This bad boy was captured on a SNES mini and played by our very own Thomas H. source

First world. Super Mario world, captured with a SNES mini. Played by Thomas H. source

Definitely an underrated beat em’ up. This game was captured on a Super NES mini and played by our very own Thomas H. source

Watch Donatello take down the evil Shredder in this ultimate arcade beat em’up. captured with my nivida shield. source

The ultimate quarter gobbling beat em’ up. Captured on my Nvidia shield. source

Michael Jacksons Moon Walker. The best arcade game, EVER. Captured with a Nvidia Shield. Yeeeheeeee. source

A side-scrolling fighting game starring Rick and Allen, two private detectives on a case to retrieve a “Rich Man’s” kidnapped daughter, set in October, 1939. Captured with my shield. source

Ever hear of the arcade game Bal Cube? I stumbled into it accidentally playing with emulators back in the early 2000s. I never actually saw this arcade machine out in the wild. Have you? It’s one of my favorites after Arkanoid. source

Captured with my Nvidia shield. San Drad, California, has been overrun by the Aliens, and the cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa have been abandoned by their superiors and are cornered by a swarm of the Alien drones. Before they can be killed, a pair of the Predators appear and destroy the Aliens. The Predators offer an alliance with the two humans in order to stop the Alien …

#shorts Johnny Cages easter egg game #MortalKombat source

A unique beat em’ up released in the Arcades in 1999. Gaia Crusaders’ story involves the world being destroyed by demons in the year 20XX. Chosen warriors, the Gaia Crusaders, are sent in by an ancient spirit to destroy the demons and rebuild the world. There is a lot of post apocalyptic imagery including ruined skyscrapers, vast desert wastelands and a ruined Statue of Liberty possibly inspired by Escape From …

My son and I played through this one. It was different that’s for sure. Dyna Gear: An Action Adventure On The Era Of Dinosaur is a 2D arcade platform game. The player can choose from two characters – Roger and Wolf. Gameplay is fast and simple – just run left and shoot enemies. Heroes can use various weapons, like swords, flails or arrows. The world in Dyna Gear: An Action …

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, released in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shinseiki, is a 1993 arcade game by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat ’em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales.  Played by us casually on April 25th 2021. source

Spider-Man: The Video Game is a 1991 arcade video game developed by Sega based on the Marvel Comics comic book character Spider-Man. Played Casually by my son and I. source

Night Slashers was produced by Data East in 1993. Night Slashers is a 1993 side scrolling beat’em up arcade game in a world full of zombies, vampires, and other monsters. Player can choose a hero from 3 characters: Jake White – an American monster hunter with cybernetic arms; Christopher Pal, a European vampire hunter and martial artist, and Zhao Hong Hua – a female martial artist from Asia, proficient in …

As much as I loved the first two, this game and it’s mechanics were terrible. THEY’RE BACK WITH MORE DOUBLE DRAGON MAGIC! Get the game that kids have been waiting for. It’s the newest adventure in non-stop action as Billy, jimmy and now Sonny travel to distant lands packed with excitement. There’s more tricks, surprises, and action than ever before. Played with my son and I. source

Played by my son and I. A beat-em-up role-playing game that allows up to four players to choose one of the following adventurers: players are adventurers: a human fighter, a human Cleric, a female Elf warrior-mage and a Dwarven warrior. They travel from place to place performing heroic deeds and making the world safe from the forces of darkness, all the while fighting monsters, gathering treasure and advancing in power. …

A beat’ em-up role-playing game, sequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, that allows up to four players to choose one of the following characters: an elf-mage/warrior, human-fighter, dwarf-fighter, human-cleric, human thief or a human mage. Shadow over Mystara has many game mechanics not commonly found in arcade games, such as finding and equipping new gear and earning new spells as the player gains experience Throughout the game, players …

Played by my son and I. METAL SLUG, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where it all began, returns on the Steam gaming platform! Play the original arcade version of METAL SLUG with its charismatic protagonist soldiers Marco & Tarma, maneuver the almighty METAL SLUG tank, and fight your way through the 6 missions of the game to thwart Gen. Morden’s …

General Morden, the antagonist from the first game is back once more with his army, bent on taking over the world. It is up to the Peregrine Falcon squad, who are now joined by two new characters: Eri Kasamoto and Fiolina Germi of the Sparrows Intelligence Unit, to save the day. As the levels unfold, it turns out that Morden has allied with Martians to help facilitate his plans. In …

Played by my son and I. The rebellion orchestrated by General Morden to bring about a new global regime is now ancient history, and order and peace has begun to return to the world. Morden, brought back into power, was attempting another coup d’état, but government forces got wind of the plot beforehand and pre-empted the impending assault. Instrumental in squashing Morden’s rebel forces, Marco and Tarma of the Peregrine …

One year after the events of Metal Slug 3, the world is trembling under the new threat of a mysterious but deadly cyber virus that threatens to attack and destroy any nation’s military computer system. With Tarma and Eri unable to help due to their own assignments in the matter, Marco and Fio are called in to investigate the situation and are joined by two newcomers, Nadia and Trevor. In …