{"id":22500,"date":"2022-08-15T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22500"},"modified":"2022-07-29T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T00:19:13","slug":"capcom-arcade-2nd-stadium-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/15\/capcom-arcade-2nd-stadium-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium: Part 1 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s Capcom week here at GamerDad.com!\u00a0 Capcom is one of my top favorite video game companies.\u00a0 In fact, I think they\u2019re my number three pick, right under Namco and Nintendo.\u00a0 Part of the reason why I enjoy Capcom so much is all their memorable arcade games, since I grew up during the 80s and 90s when arcades were at their prime.\u00a0 So I was really happy to be able to review Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium, another collection of Capcom\u2019s various arcade hits over the years (I wish I could\u2019ve reviewed the first one, but oh well).\u00a0 There are so many games on this collection that I had to split this review into TWO parts!\u00a0 Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium is available for most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s first take a look at the games!<\/p>\n

Darkstalkers Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Darkstalkers is like Street Fighter except all the characters are based on movie monsters and there\u2019s a creepy motif to the whole thing.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got a vampire, succubus, yeti, zombie, Frankenstein, etc.\u00a0 This collection has Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge, and Vampire Savior.\u00a0 You can play these games and other versions of Darkstalkers on the Capcom Fighting Collection I reviewed recently<\/strong><\/a> as well.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really a big fan of the series, but I have to say Capcom\u2019s sprite artwork and character designs were on point with this one.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe these games were originally made in the mid 90s!<\/p>\n

Street Fighter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone always talks about Street Fighter 2, but nobody ever talks about the first game!\u00a0 Well there\u2019s a reason for that.\u00a0 It\u2019s awful.\u00a0 You can only pick Ryu or Ken, the controls and movements are stiff, and it\u2019s super hard!\u00a0 I guess it should be on here for historic purposes, though.\u00a0 A long time ago as a kid, I remember seeing a fighting game where you hammered on these giant pressure sensitive buttons to punch and kick.\u00a0 Well it turns out that was a special version of Street Fighter that used those big punching buttons to determine how hard you hit.\u00a0 I thought that was kind of interesting.<\/p>\n

Hyper Street Fighter 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the title screen, this was made for Street Fighter\u2019s 15th anniversary.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember seeing it in arcades, though, but I could have and just don\u2019t remember it.\u00a0 By then, Street Fighter games were everywhere.\u00a0 It just combines everything that had been done before it, and you can play as my favorite character, too (Cammy).\u00a0 As an older fighting game, I felt this one was a bit slower, clunkier, and harder than the others, but it\u2019s still a good game.\u00a0 This one\u2019s also on the Capcom Fighting Collection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Street Fighter 2 seemed to dominate the early 90s, the Street Fighter Alpha series felt like it took over the mid to late 90s.\u00a0 It was kind of a prequel story-wise to Street Fighter 2, so some of the characters looked younger.\u00a0 It played faster and smoother, but still hard to me, though.\u00a0 The Alpha series did bring us such iconic characters as Sakura, Rainbow Mika, and Dan.<\/p>\n

Pnickies<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a typical \u2018match colored falling blocks in a well\u2019 kind of game, and it has an angels vs. devils theme.\u00a0 It\u2019s really not that great, but I\u2019m glad it\u2019s on here anyway because it plays almost EXACTLY like Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, like a proto version of that game, so it\u2019s interesting to see the progress.\u00a0 There\u2019s a single player mode, and a two player mode, but the two player mode is for another person only.\u00a0 There is no CPU second player that made Puzzle Fighter so much more fun.\u00a0 Also I don\u2019t think this game ever came out in the US, as this arcade game is only the Japanese version so navigating the menus was a tiny bit tricky at first.<\/p>\n

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aw, yeah, now this is what I\u2019m talking about!\u00a0 Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is one of my top three favorite puzzle games, right on up there with Puzzle Bobble and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 I\u2019m really good at it, too!\u00a0 This game is worth the price of the whole collection right there.\u00a0 It\u2019s a typical \u2018match colored blocks falling in a well\u2019 kind of game, but man is it good!\u00a0 This one\u2019s also on the Capcom Fighting Collection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix<\/strong><\/p>\n

This game takes the chibi cute characters from the previous puzzle game and turns it into a fighter.\u00a0 You can knock gems from Puzzle Fighter out of the other players and collect them like you do in Red Earth to power up your player\u2019s moves.\u00a0 Characters range from Street Fighter, Red Earth, Darkstalkers, and more.\u00a0 There are tons of Capcom references in the background, and even your moves make callbacks to other Capcom games.\u00a0 Felicia dresses as Mega Man to fire a shot, and Chun-li dresses as Jill Valentine to use a flamethrower!\u00a0 Even the ways you die are from other Capcom games.\u00a0 You can explode like Mega Man, turn into bones like Ghosts N Goblins, or fall into the water like SonSon.\u00a0 This one\u2019s also on the Capcom Fighting Collection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man I\u2019m so glad these are on here.\u00a0 I\u2019m a huge Mega Man fan.\u00a0 Did you know Mega Man had arcade games?\u00a0 I never saw them in arcades, but I know the first one must\u2019ve come to the US because I have a cabinet of it in my garage!\u00a0 True story!\u00a0 They\u2019re basically just a string of Robot Master boss battles, but the arcade allows for advanced graphics and animations and more moves.\u00a0 You can even use the weapons on other bosses like in the console games.\u00a0 In the first game you can play as either Mega Man, Proto Man, or Bass.\u00a0 The sequel is more of the same, except now you can play as Duo as well.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think the sequel was in the US, but why does it say Mega Man on the title screen and have an English translation then?<\/p>\n

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Son Son<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you download Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium, you must purchase and download the arcade games separately, but you do get Son Son for free to try it out.\u00a0 This was one of Capcom\u2019s first arcade games.\u00a0 It\u2019s a horizontally scrolling shooter where you move your character up and down platforms and shoot various enemies and pick up fruits for points.\u00a0 Player one is Son Son the monkey and player two is Ton Ton the pig. \u00a0The game is kind of based on the Journey to the West story.\u00a0 Son Son appears in other games like the aforementioned Gem Fighters and a female version of Son Son is in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.<\/p>\n

1943 Kai<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is just a harder version of 1943 with new planes and music.\u00a0 I like the original 1943 game better, though.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of my favorite shooters to this day, actually.\u00a0 Just like how Son Son is the free game you get with Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium, 1943 was the free game you got in the first collection. I wish I got to review that one!<\/p>\n

Three Wonders<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is actually three games in one!\u00a0 I guess Capcom didn\u2019t feel like each one would make a good single arcade cabinet on their own.\u00a0 The first game you can pick from is Midnight Wanderers, a 2-D platformer game with elements from Ghosts N Goblins.\u00a0 The game has a fantasy theme and you play as one of two goblins who can fire arrows.\u00a0 The 2-D artwork is nice to look at.\u00a0 The second game is Chariot, a typical horizontally scrolling shooter.\u00a0 It uses a lot of the same graphics from the first game, so it makes me wonder if they are related somehow.\u00a0 But the last game isn\u2019t related.\u00a0 It\u2019s Don\u2019t Pull, an action puzzle game where you play as a bunny or squirrel as you push blocks into enemies.\u00a0 I like this one the best because it plays a lot like Pengo, one of my favorite arcade games.\u00a0 If you buy Capcom Fighting Collection<\/strong><\/a> before a certain date, you can get Three Wonders for free on this collection.<\/p>\n

Saturday Night Slam Masters<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a wrestling game.\u00a0 So while you can whittle down your opponents HP, you won\u2019t defeat them until you can pin them down for three seconds.\u00a0 Lots of grapple and throw moves, too.\u00a0 Did you know that Haggar, the Mayor of Metro City from Final Fight is playable in this game?\u00a0 Slam Masters never really caught on the way Street Fighter did, though.\u00a0 There was a sequel, but I think it played more like a one on one fighter instead.<\/p>\n

Stay Tuned for Part 2!<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 There are so many games on this collection that I had to break up my review into two parts!\u00a0 So check back here in a couple of days for the rest of the games, my general impressions, and the Kid Factor!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Capcom week here at GamerDad.com!\u00a0 Capcom is one of my top favorite video game companies.\u00a0 In fact, I think they\u2019re my number three pick, right under Namco and Nintendo.\u00a0 Part of the reason why I enjoy Capcom so much is all their memorable arcade games, since I grew up during the 80s and 90s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22504,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions\/22504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}