G4's Icons / Game Makers 320 - Fighting Games

On tonight's episode of Game Makers (ICONS), we explore the history of Fighting Games!
NOTE - Prior to the fifth season of "Icons," the series was re-tooled and the original episodes were rebranded as "Game Makers" for all future airings. This is one of those episodes.
Original Air Date: 01.05.05
Copyright G4 Media...at one point.

[@MemphiStig]

I had a friend in high school (1980-ish), we were in the band together. He was a big fan of Elric by Michael Moorcock, and he told me all about it. Especially the early bit about the two swords and the two cousins facing off, each with one of the blades. That year, the band went to a competition in Atlanta, and one night we went to the mall. He & I ended up in the arcade, where we saw Warriors, two guys with glowing blades fighting to the death. Awesome! It was a fun game.

[@charlesplante]

Elric is based, he team up with Conan the Barbarian for a 2 part special comic. It was awesome.

[@charlesplante]

Gotta love big glowing runic swords!

[@wtfsamusidk7574]

Love Spooie

[@charlesplante]

Love Morgan

[@iNINJAgamer]

I remember watching this way back then. 😅

[@infctdppt]

Damn I want some mighty putty now

[@charlesplante]

Gotta keep the coke strapped to the underbelly of the biplane as it touches down in the port somehow.

[@charlesplante]

Everytime I go to my local ROUND1 there is always someome playing MVC2. I always spend some time on SF5 because it's the only fighting game there that you can get good PVP in. I loved learning BlazBlue but I can't play on the arcade machine because it has no arcade mode and nobody plays old BlazBlue in arcades for pvp.

[@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this]

Was the last episode of this show about the Xbox 360? I don't ever remember seeing anything else past that

[@newspooiechannel]

The last episode of the series TOTAL (after the revision) was about comic book legend Frank Miller. The last episode from season 4 (video games) was about King Kong, as a tie-in to the film from that year. The two episodes before that were the Xbox 360 and then the Nintendo Entertainment System.

[@jedistud125]

Newspooiechannel with another Win! Thank you for this content

[@Thaumic89]

12:04,13:47 they hate each other so much

[@jamesmoss3424]

Fighting games are super great. 😀👍🎮

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

God Guilty Gear used to be so fucking cool. G4 was my catalyst to getting into the whole series, they sung praises and God were they right.

[@willkriss1497]

Hella! 🎉

[@yociornelas1565]

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