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How Street Fighter II Perfected a Genre It Invented
Summary Street Fighter I invented the one-on-one fighting game genre. Street Fighter I gameplay was clunky & slow compared to its sequel. Street Fighter II perfected the fighting game genre in under 4 years. I was lucky to grow up with free access to the two Street Fighter II cabinets my dad owned in his small arcade, which means I…
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When Was The Fax Machine Invented? Most Guesses Are Way Off
Long before the era of smartphones, there was a time when communication devices were limited to telegram messages. But an emergent technology was on the way that would allow people to send images and documents over telephone lines for the first time in history. While it wasn’t named as such at the time, this was the first iteration of the…
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