2D Will Never Die

Boogie Wings Longplay (46 min): YouTube.com // Longplays.org

The Johnny Castaway screen saver (1992)

Beyond being the first CPS3 game, Warzard/Red Earth was Capcom’s first game in which they used 3D rendering to assist with drawing sprites. This technique is more apparent for Hauzer and Gigi, but Tao/Mai-Ling’s sprites also used prerendered images as a base.

“Bath House” from Marvel vs Capcom 1

X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Genesis / Megadrive.

Marvel vs. Capcom, arcade.

“Daily Bugle” from Marvel Super Heroes

One of the best stages in fighting games.

“Apocalypse Now!” from Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (Capcom/1997)

Reptomicus, The She-Beast, The Invader from Dimension X, and The Brain from Beyond Infinity from the video game I Was An Atomic Mutant! (2003, PC)

For my part, I would've liked to see the cast be a guy in an obvious rubber lizard suit, a clunky 'Robot vs Aztec Mummy' type of alien machine (has to complete its mission before catching earth-flu), a wobbly brain puppet where you could see the wires (has to use its insano-ray to enslave the humans in each level in order to fight the military), and a completely normal looking 1950s actress daintily smashing everything (hunting for her terrified scientist boyfriend). Maybe a hint of a boom mic here and there. Also Roger Corman doing an introductory voiceover.

Check it out on steam, launching this Friday 27th