Retro Gamer celebrates Capcom’s greatest fighting games

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The community weighs in on Capcom’s impressive track record

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Issue 269 of Retro Gamer sees the magazine celebrating the many great achievements by Capcom within the one-on-one fighting genre. From Street Fighter II: The World Warrior to the excellent X-Men Vs Streetfighter, no key game is missed out as awards are given out for the Best Home Port, Perfect Presentation, Unlikeliest Crossover and many others. Members of the fighting community also weigh in to explain what makes Capcom’s fighting games so popular.

Other highlights of issue 269 include a look at the many great games of Psygnosis, with the studio’s ex art manager Jeff Bramfitt. Shadow Of The Beast, Lemmings and WipEout are just a few of the games Jeff comments as he looks back on his time at the studio.

Pinball fans will be interested to hear that issue 269 also looks at the success of Zen Studios’s digital pinball tables and the strides being made by the Visual Pinball team to preserve as many old tables as possible. There are also excellent Ultimate Guides on Sensible Software's Cannon Fodder and Yu Suzuki’s Hang-On.

There’s plenty more featured in issue 269 from Magnetron and Titus The Fox to Out Run, Batsugun and Silent Hill 3, so grab a copy today (website link) and don’t forget to subscribe.

Retro Gamer Team
Retro Gamer Team
Retro Gamer Staff

Retro Gamer is the world's biggest - and longest-running - magazine dedicated to classic games, from ZX Spectrum, to NES and PlayStation. Relaunched in 2005, Retro Gamer has become respected within the industry as the authoritative word on classic gaming, thanks to its passionate and knowledgeable writers, with in-depth interviews of numerous acclaimed veterans, including Shigeru Miyamoto, Yu Suzuki, Peter Molyneux and Trip Hawkins.