Sentences with phrase «of arcade players»

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior fought against Mortal Kombat for the hearts (and quarters) of arcade players in the early 90s.

The release states that the number of Arcade players has grown 145 percent since this time last year and that players have logged more than 115 million hours (useless statistics ftw?)

Not exact matches

Together, they are at the frontier of player - computer interchange — a fanciful, lavish, highly graphic, user - involving, no - alien - zapping edge promises to carve ever larger slices from the multibillion - dollar home computer and arcade markets.

Battlezone — the original 1980 arcade classic from Atari, not Activision's 1998 strategy game — is considered by some to be the first virtual reality arcade game, thanks to its use of pseudo-3D graphics in a first - person perspective, as well as viewing «goggles» that the player put their face into.

The players used to glide over the surface of the pitch, unbothered by such trifling concerns as the rules of physics; nowadays they slog, hard, as though the move from an arcade experience to one with pretensions toward simulation had sunk the footballers up to the knees in custard.

A system debuted today by a team of Google researchers is not clever enough to perform surgery or drive a car safely, but it did master several dozen classic arcade games, in many cases surpassing the best human players without ever observing how they play.

Very loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name, «Rampage» manages to screw up the source material's signature idea: The 1986 arcade cabinet was so popular because it flipped «King Kong» on its head and allowed players to control a trio of gigantic monsters as they fended off military forces and reduced Earth's cities to rubble.

This game features a single player arcade - style shooter where you try to topple the high score and a death counter so that you can keep track of the ways you die if you enjoy pain and defeat.

Based off of the 1986 arcade game of the same name, where the player would take control of a gigantic animal to wreak havoc on a nameless city and its inhabitants, this adaptation understandably takes some creative liberties.

For those who never dropped a quarter to play a video game, the arcade classic Rampage offered players the chance to destroy one city after another as one of three giant monster archetypes: a crypto - King Kong gorilla, a pseudo-Godzilla lizard, and a «we need a third giant animal» wolf.

[WiiWare] Critter Round - Up is an original arcade - style puzzle game that tasks the player with building fences in order to separate different herds of critters.

The game features multiple single - and two - player modes, including a relaxed and thoughtful puzzle mode, an arcade mode and a variety of two - player modes such as Battle and Enduro.

With 25 classic games and 9 live arcade this game could be a good choice for players that wants to revive the golden age of the videogames: the glorious» 80!

Disc Jam is a multiplayer arcade sports title that pits 2 - 4 players against each other in a unique combination of air hockey and tennis.

It should have been a no - brainer: The movie is based on a late -»80s arcade game spawned by the creature - feature films of the»50s and»60s, in which one to three players controlled giant monsters as they stomped the bejeezus out of one cityscape after another while the tiny cartoon populace reacted accordingly.

Player types: 3 on 3 NHL Arcade splits 40 of the top NHL players, representing every team in the league, into three distinct player Player types: 3 on 3 NHL Arcade splits 40 of the top NHL players, representing every team in the league, into three distinct player player types.

Not content to run a downloadable games service where players have to wait weeks for repairs in order to play titles already out on Xbox Live Arcade, Sony Computer Entertainment America commits $ 20 million over three years towards the development of more excellent PlayStation Network exclusive games.

Perhaps some of you joined the Co-Optimus team on their recent 4 player jaunt through the game on Insane Arcade mode (this mode is also excellent and feels like a different gaming experience.)

Ultratron â $ «Experience the fun game play of this old - school arcade favorite, updated for the 21st century, with unique upgrades, player - responsive difficulty and a subtle tactics system.

Capcom's Rocketmen: Axis of Evil will hit both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday and feature 4 player online co-op!

In celebration of the franchise's first mobile release next week, Fire Emblem: Fates badges awaken in the Badge Arcade, giving players another chance to recruit all their...

Rampage is based on a 1986 arcade game where players control one of three giant monsters trying to rack up points by leveling cities while avoiding being shot at by tanks and helicopters.

Arcade houses the game's custom map editor, allowing you to build and play your own single - player, co-op, or competitive multiplayer maps, or play ones uploaded by the rest of the community.

With much of single player only in the Arcade and Training modes, the real fight is going to be finding people online.

Set in the world of Orson Scott Card's best selling novel, Empire, players embark a truly cinematic experience that pushes the boundaries of traditional arcade side scrollers.

Both titles have been updated with HD graphics, trophies, and complete PlayStation ® Move support to give players the full arcade The House of the Dead ™ experience in their living room.

It's too bad that the original Ninja Turtles arcade game many players will remember fondly isn't available; instead, the arcade machine uses the same game engine and mechanics as the main game, just with the fixed angle of the older arcade classics.

The console version of the game, which some players train on before competing on arcade units, is badly in need of an update.

It is a lot more simple than... what I hear a lot is people talking about are sub-genres, and whether things are sims or arcade - style games, and a whole lot of things that just doesn't prove out in the motivations of our players, nor in the numbers.

Picking up where the Paramount Pictures live action film leaves off, G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra is an accessible third person action - arcade shooter that allows players to recreate and relive the greatest moments from the film, cartoon series and action toy line.

If players approach «Supercross World» as an arcade racer that plays by the indoor and outdoor rules of motocross though, then it has plenty to offer...Dead - average, brain - dead motocross fun at its most basic level.

The campaign offers a good amount of replayability but I believe players would really flock to the quick - style arcade action that Bombslinger offers.

The single player modes consist of Story, Arcade, and Score Attack.

Play through Arcade Mode or venture into the Story Mode, where players just might come across some of their own Heavy Metal Heroes.

Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex is officially the most downloaded single - player title in Xbox Live Arcade history, with 200,000 copies purchased during its first week of release alone.

Multiplayer titles dominate Xbox Live Arcade, and single - player games generally don't perform nearly as well, but Chair seems to have knocked this one out of the park.

I experienced almost no wait while working through the single - player story lines and arcade mode of the game.

There are a handful of modes for players to fight their way through, but the highlights are definitely the online matches, Arcade mode and the Story mode.

Much of its fame is due to the massive eight and even sixteen player arcade setups featuring chairs, force feedback steering wheels, shifters, and foot pedals.

Act 1, he says, was a mix between a dungeon crawler where players attack enemies and loot their remains, and the classic arcade game Qix where players cut out sections of the floor.

The studio's arcade shooter DeathSmiles II didn't aim to tackle Bleszinski's specific holiday tears, but rather, aimed to tackle large amounts of projectiles raining down on players.

Instead of always jumping right into the game, DOA Ultimate has a sort of lobby feature that puts you in a room with up to eight players, and you have to wait for your turn similar to an Arcade setting.

We go hands on with the Summer of Arcade title on XBLA and dish the goods on the two player co-op strategy / action game.

The title, retro - but - not, offers Arcade mode, co-op versus battles, online matches and the special Way of the Hado mode, putting players in the first - person shoes of Ryu.

Capcom's Final Fight hit the SNES in 1991 with a large chunk of its arcade content removed, and worst of all, it lost its two - player co-op mode - a key feature that drove the genre's rising popularity.

Ace Combat Infinity is the first free - to - play title released in the franchise and is a hybrid arcade / flight sim that allows players to battle it out in the skies in a variety of game modes.

The original 1986 arcade game from Bally Midway saw players take control of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces.

With unique retro - futuristic sound and graphics, player responsive difficulty and a subtle system of tactics combined with classic gameplay, Ultratron is a fun and hypnotic arcade blast which has already thrilled players on Steam — indeed, with its 92 per cent positive user rating, it's regarded as one of the best examples of the genre.

Xbox Live's «Summer of Arcade» kicked off with some serious heat, courtesy of Twisted Pixel's «Splosion Man, an original side - scrolling platformer that lets the player do one thing: explode.

With support for two players, the experience is reminiscent of classic arcade shooting titles such as House of the Dead and Area 51.