Let us take you with us to the turbulent autumn period of 1991 in this new and improved seasonal Video Wizards podcast format. While the Soviet Union’s dissolution is in effect mode and things are kicking off in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, we yet again look at the world of arcade games and theContinue reading “VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 30: Autumn 1991”
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VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 29: Summer 1997
Follow us to the transitional, warm summer glow of 1997 for episode 29 of the Video Wizards podcast. It’s a tumultuous and fisticuffs filled time in the arcades as we look at a range of fighting games that would go on to have a keen audience at home as well, such as The King ofContinue reading “VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 29: Summer 1997”
VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 15: April 1992
In this episode of the Video Wizards Podcast we’re traveling back to April 1992 to an arcade landscape that differs wildly from the one we left in the last episode. In the wake of 1991’s Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, we find the scene reinvigorated, with big budget games and showy machines occupying theContinue reading “VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 15: April 1992”
VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 4: May 1994
In the fourth episode of the Video Wizards Podcast we find ourselves in May 1994, where Capcom made a powerful statement in that they were still not done with making “belt scrolling” beat ’em ups, with both Alien vs. Predator and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom making their mark. In this time period, theirContinue reading “VIDEO WIZARDS PODCAST – Episode 4: May 1994”