(DISCLAIMER: This is an archived article from my time at the gaming/pop-culture website “Escape Zero”. For reasons I won’t fully disclose, most of my articles were removed and the rest were butchered. I would like to note that this was not some sort of personal attack, I was not the only one affected. Nor was it the fault of Escape Zero’s owners. There is no bad blood, I’m simply uploading my work in a place where I know it’s safe. As such, this article is old, and it’s date and timestamp here are not representative. All articles with this disclaimer were written in the latter third of 2019.)

  I hate to do this, I really do. But I did not like Streets of Rage 3. I knew I didn’t the first time, or the second time I played it.…
Read the rest “Streets of Rage 3 – The Bigger They Are…”

(DISCLAIMER: This is an archived article from my time at the gaming/pop-culture website “Escape Zero”. For reasons I won’t fully disclose, most of my articles were removed and the rest were butchered. I would like to note that this was not some sort of personal attack, I was not the only one affected. Nor was it the fault of Escape Zero’s owners. There is no bad blood, I’m simply uploading my work in a place where I know it’s safe. As such, this article is old, and it’s date and timestamp here are not representative. All articles with this disclaimer were written in the latter third of 2019.)

  This is it folks, the peak. It doesn’t get better than this. After playing Streets of Rage for the first time on my shitty little emulator, I thought to myself: “Damn.…
Read the rest “Streets of Rage 2 – A Near Perfect Classic”

(DISCLAIMER: This is an archived article from my time at the gaming/pop-culture website “Escape Zero”. For reasons I won’t fully disclose, most of my articles were removed and the rest were butchered. I would like to note that this was not some sort of personal attack, I was not the only one affected. Nor was it the fault of Escape Zero’s owners. There is no bad blood, I’m simply uploading my work in a place where I know it’s safe. As such, this article is old, and it’s date and timestamp here are not representative. All articles with this disclaimer were written in the latter third of 2019.)

  So, I’d like to say something before we get started. I didn’t play Streets of Rage growing up, none of them. I didn’t play a single entry in the series until we were well into the current generation of consoles (Xbox One and PS4 if this is somehow being read years later).…
Read the rest “Streets of Rage – Still a Great Game”