Though a short experience, Portal left a huge impression on the gaming industry, with several elements of the story deftly crossing into gaming pop culture, from the Companion Cube to the lo-fi cult song ” Still Alive . Street Fighter II not only popularized one-on-one fighting games, it served as the bedrock for almost every fighting game since, from Mortal Kombat to Virtua Fighter to Tekken. Before Street Fighter II ‘s earth-shaking debut in 1991, the fighting game genre largely consisted of the mindless beat ‘em up action of Double Dragon or the Zen-like simplicity of Kung-Fu. Horror wasn’t the genre of choice for many gamers until Capcom gave rise to the original Resident Evil, which proudly displayed its B-horror movie roots while quietly trailblazing a hugely popular game genre now called “survival horror. That is, until the series re-invented itself with the masterful Resident Evil 4 , a game that set the stage for the modern third-person shooter genre and games such as Gears of War . read more
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