The Retro Ranch - Hosted Articles

A slowly expaning collection of newspaper or magazine retrogaming articles that have caught my eye... The Making of Street Fighter II The game is probably responsible for more destruction and shoddy conversions of classic arcade cabinets than any other. Here, Edge magazine interviews Capcom's Noritaka Funamizu, the lead producer on Street Fighter II. (Edge Magazine, Issue #108, March 2002) Homes Wanted For Old Games Machines As arcades shut up shop their coin-op favourites are turning into collectors' items, reports Ian Harris (The Telegraph - Thu Feb 24th 2000) House of Games Games consoles are all very well, but they don't dominate the room like a coin-op. You can't play them standing up like an arcade and you can't give 'em a kick when you get it horribly wrong. For some people there just ain't no substitute for a real coin-op in the house, and their numbers are growing... Story by Simon Kirrane (Arcade - December 1998) "As a teenager I must have put hundreds of quid into it..." Andrew Baker's love of Double Dragon started an international business (Arcade - December 1998) "It turned out it had been stood in a farmer's field for about six months..." For Chris Jackson, five abandoned cocktail cabinets started his obsession with repairing and selling coin-ops. (Arcade - December 1998) The information and contents of this site are copyright Robert Hazelby E-mail: robert@spamnomorejabba.demon.co.uk (remove `spamnomore` from above address to email me)