#nichibutsu

[arcadebroke]

[tamara-kama]

Looking at the size of this vintage cabinet it's almost hard to believe it is equipped with a 19" monitor. That's the standard size I've been equipping mine with lately!

OTOH when I first used to own computers in the 90's I was always saddled with 14" monitors for them and a 19" monitor would have been considered huge and it would have also been expensive..

Cabinets like the Mortal Kombat series had 25" monitors and those made the sprites seem absolutely jumbo!

I used to play the SNES versions of Mortal Kombat on a 25" TV but the way they had to scale down the sprites for the limitations of the console coupled with how they made the playfield smaller ruined the effect and disappointed me

[bancho-zx]

[themisterfalcon]

[way2uchuu]

Super Nichibutsu Mahjong (Super Famicom, 1992)

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Expert

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Although the 90s saw plenty of Japanese developed first-person shooters, only a few of them reached the PlayStation. Among these was Expert, a Wolfenstein 3D-like shooter where you play as a member of EXPERT, a SWAT team that must ascend and clear out a government building occupied by terrorists.

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[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[birdlandarcade]