Have you ever been so angry that you wanted to throw an arcade cabinet at someone?

It’s very rare you get a video game that reflects the source material as well as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure does. This game does a heroic job of keeping the style and feel of the original manga, and what’s more, it makes for a damn fine fighting game too. Prepare for the truly bizarre and beautiful world of Jojo…

The SNK Neo Geo MVS arcade board had already become a legendary platform for games, with a lifespan dating back to 1990! The platform had featured series such as Fatal Fury (1991), Samurai Shodown (1993), Metal Slug (1996) and The Last Blade (1997). Perhaps the most successful and most loved of all the Neo Geo series of games however, is The King of Fighters…

After the spectacular success of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) and its various revisions and follow ups (culminating in Super Street Fighter II: Turbo (1994)), the gaming world was eagerly awaiting a Street Fighter III. Somewhat surprisingly, this wouldn’t come to pass for several more years, instead Capcom decided to go back to the past with a prequel series!

When Sega’s AM2 division makes a fighting game, the world would do well to sit up and take notice. After creating the 3D fighting genre with the seminal Virtua Fighter in 1993, many competitors would arrive in this exciting new field of competitive gaming. AM2 themselves would put a new spin on their Virtua Fighter gameplay with 1995’s Fighting Vipers…