This month, Bubble Bobble faces a rather "sinister" opponent in Clash of the Classics. Yeah, we went there! Bubble Bobble is going up against Sinistar and it's up to you to decide who keeps their spot on the floor! Taking after some established platforming tropes, Taito released Bubble Bobble in 1986 with a mechanic new to the genre. Playing as…
Beware! Sinistar lives! Fast-paced, gripping and utterly ahead of its time, the 1982 Williams outer-space shooter Sinistar is an early example of what would become known as a "twitch" game. You pilot a lone fighter ship, initially blasting away at drifting planetoids to mine Sinisite Crystals to create Sinibombs while contending with agile Warrior ships. Meanwhile, Worker ships work to construct…
October has arrived and it's time for fans of truly classic hardcore games to help us make a tough choice here at Ground Kontrol! This month during “Clash of the Classics”, the relentlessly difficult 1982 Williams action game Robotron: 2084 takes on the 1980 Centuri outer space slide & shoot classic Phoenix! Many have tried to master Robotron: 2084, but few succeed in beating…
Rising again from the ashes for the first time in 10 years, look at what we've had incubating for all of you space shooter fans... Phoenix is an outer space "slide & shoot" similar to Taito's Space Invaders and Namco's Galaxian, but takes the concept further with the introduction of progressive stages of play instead of simply repeating a single…
Our monthly Killer Queen Arcade League Night has evolved! We're hosting casual "mixer" tournaments that are a great opportunity for new players to learn the game and seasoned veterans to mix it up with new teams. Mixed up teams of five will compete in matches in a Round Robin style. Winner of a coin flip will choose their pick of…