Nothing super-special about seeing the MVS here. It just reminded me that I’ve been seeing fewer and fewer of these. This is also one of the machines I’d like to have one day. I’m not 100% set on which cartridges to use, but the ones seen here are good picks.
Virtual On (Sega)
A pretty fun head-to-head arena fighter featuring mechs that behave more like people than giant robots (you still control them with twin flight-sticks, though). You can’t really tell from the angle of the photo, but the machines actually have a built-in partition to prevent screen-looking.
Fix-It Felix (Disney?)
I had no idea that they actually made a real machine based on the game from the movie! The cabinet does a great job of imitating the Donkey Kong artwork. The game itself isn’t anything too special, but I felt a pretty strong sense of novelty from the fact that someone actually made this machine.
Fun fact: although the concept for this game was obviously inspired by Donkey Kong, the characters, level design, and gameplay more closely resemble those of Beauty and the Beast, a Donkey Kong ripoff that was released for the Intellivision:
Ice Cold Beer (Taito)
Not a video game, sure, but this was unusual enough that I wanted to include it. Basically, you have to control a ball bearing that’s tucked between a metal rod and a vertical playing field. You can control the slant on either side of the metal rod, and your goal is to navigate the ball bearing into one of the designated goals. It’s ridiculously challenging, but the idea is really cool.
I played it a lot when i was young on the Neo-Geo, i still play it from times to times! I’ve been always in love with the characters design of that game! I remember it made an impact to me as a kid!
Being artsy fartsy, remixing SNK Promotional art at 2am. This Wallpaper is from Metal Slug featuring Fio Germi (one of the main protagonists). I cropped it, enhanced coloring and add motion blur to her jacket and left arm, distorted the background and added a spark effect. Cheers!
I was just remembering the very first cosplay I have ever done. It was Otakon 2010 and I cosplayed as Kyo Kusanagi (from King of Fighters 94). So after rummaging through old cosplay photos, I found one of me doing a Capcom Vs SNK style pose. Since the picture quality was subpar I remixed it in old school 1990s VHS style. Lol
Artwork time!! Kubikiri Basara from Samurai Spirits. What better way to break in a new pack of Copic Markers than with a pic of one of my favorite fighting game characters. So….who to draw next?
