National Game Registry 1992: Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT
original platform
arcade
developer/publisher
Midway
key personnel
Ed Boon (design)
John Tobias (design)
Dan Forden (music)

The yang to Street Fighter II‘s yin.  Mortal Kombat rode the brand new fighting phenomenon to great heights by doing everything in opposition.  The relatively tame violence of Street Fighter II is replaced by ridiculous gore and blood.  Losing fighters can be murdered.  The beautiful hand-drawn sprites are replaced by digitized photographs.  The variety of Street Fighter II is also absent, as each fighter is basically identical save for special moves.  A great success due to its bold and ridiculous qualities.

Mortal Kombat was inducted on September 18th, 2009.

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National Game Registry 1991: Street Fighter II

STREET FIGHTER II: THE WORLD WARRIOR
original platform
arcade
developer/publisher
Capcom
key personnel
Akira Nishitani (design)
Akira Yasuda (design)
Yoko Shimomura (music)
Isao Abe (music)

After four years of beat-em-up dominance, Street Fighter II established the one-on-one fighting game as the most popular genre in arcades.  SFII featured a varied and appealing cast of characters and silky smooth controls.  SFII also introduced (for better or worse) the trend of fighting games receiving multiple tweaks, updates and re-releases.

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior was inducted on September 9th, 2009.

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Beati Paoli: Songs, Shows, and the Studio

I know it’s been a while since we’ve posted any NEWS about The Noising Machine. Sorry. But at least there have been plenty of good posts to take the place of this boring old label nonsense. Don’t believe me?! Check these out:

70 Aspects of Batman

National Game Registry

Early Jim Henson Work

Canon Sonique: An Mixtape

Now back to the news…

Here is a message from Beati Paoli about what they’re up to:

We just uploaded another song from the split 7″ and mini-album, “Quid Pro Quo”, to the myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/beatipaoli.

The track, “Detonated City (Skeletal Steel Mix)”, is a remix we did of an Aeon Grey song. You can find the original version on “Quid Pro Quo” as well!

You can also download some of the songs from this and past releases, as well as stream pretty much everything we’ve released at:

http://www.beatipaoli.net/audio.html

AND… we have an unfinished mix of a brand new song, “Zenith/Nadir”, up at:

http://www.beatipaoli.net/sneakpeaks.html

Finally, in other news… we are playing a show on Saturday (Oct.3rd) with Broken Spindles, Pharmacy Spirits, Blutiger Fluss. It’s gonna be a good one, I think!!!

After this show, we’re gonna go hibernate like the mighty grizzly. However, unlike that unproductive waste of space, WE are going to be recording like CRAZY and will have a new album or two by the time the ground thaws.

Don’t worry, though, we’ll be keeping everyone up to date with what’s going on during this time.

Luv,
Scott

Here’s the flier for the show on Saturday, see you all there!

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