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G4 Icons: History of Fighting Games

Posted — January 24, 2011 at 9:37 p.m. PST

There's a YouTube version up of G4's old TV show Icons, examining the history of fighting games. This starts at the very roots of the genre, before moving into Capcom titles along with others. It's a little over 20 minutes long, but it's entertaining if video game history is your cup of tea.

Pointed out by SpeedBrkr.

Comments

DOOskoi_oicho said on January 24, 2011 at 9:43 p.m.

my cup of tea

Utils said on January 24, 2011 at 9:43 p.m.

Homo-Genius: A History of Gay Inventors

Utils said on January 24, 2011 at 9:48 p.m.

By the way, Homo-Genius is up to vol. 94 (The recently posted Morrigan video)

I wonder if DandyDLC's been holding back something special for vol. 100.

jhayze said on January 24, 2011 at 10 p.m.

i could have done a better documentary about history of fighting games rather than that sh!t!

MALDA said on January 24, 2011 at 10:04 p.m.

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Struggs said on January 24, 2011 at 10:07 p.m.

@jhayze seriously why don't you? I bet everyone would like to see it. I bet it won't be better than this though.

Shazaam1205 said on January 24, 2011 at 10:10 p.m.

Lol Stranger's Wrath was a new game when this aired. I am amused.

stubbs said on January 24, 2011 at 10:11 p.m.

lol @ the evo footage

sh!t was so ghetto

RandomDP said on January 24, 2011 at 10:20 p.m.

I'm surprised they didn't get Sesler to narrate this vid, since hes such an expert at fighting games!

Mr_Clack said on January 24, 2011 at 10:27 p.m.

nb4 SRK steals this vid!

#10

kara said on January 24, 2011 at 10:55 p.m.

is sesler a reference to something he said?

#11

Firegod said on January 24, 2011 at 10:59 p.m.

ahh memories

#12

SHOGUN said on January 24, 2011 at 11:09 p.m.

Frank Dux was the Sh•t at Karate Champ!

#13

A_Slime_Appears said on January 24, 2011 at 11:40 p.m.

Ah Icons, a show from when G4 was good. That's right, G4 was good at one point! Documentaries, gaming competitions, Judgement Day (a better version of X-Play), then something happened and it all just went to hell :(

#14

ShadowKnight28 said on January 24, 2011 at 11:51 p.m.

Surprised that there was no mention of any of the crossover games between Capcom and Marvel. Maybe Marvel wouldn't allow their characters on the show? Overall, this was still pretty enjoyable, although I would've loved more than a passing mention of SF3.

#15

Sonicboom said on January 25, 2011 at 12:10 a.m.

I love how when their talking about street fight turbo introducing Cammy, Deejay, T.hawk and Cammy,they show Chun Li instead of Cammy. 14mins in.

#16

thefighter01 said on January 25, 2011 at 12:44 a.m.

man i love me some mk sf doa everything XD

#17

cvs said on January 25, 2011 at 1:21 a.m.

@5 idk if its the father of fighting games due to yie ar kung fu and karate champ but ok i guess,and it's only top dog in the usa btw.

#18

Trancentral said on January 25, 2011 at 1:21 a.m.

Nice doc! But what an annoying flashy editing..

#19

cvs said on January 25, 2011 at 1:22 a.m.

Must be a slow news time since something like this is posted,since it's old.

#20

AAKZ said on January 25, 2011 at 2:56 a.m.

Anyone else notice the massive mistake around 14min?

#21

Kijui said on January 25, 2011 at 3:38 a.m.

Oh man, Karate Champ is hard to play on an emulator with an xbox 360 controller, and I love Yie Ar Kung Fu. Dan got an honorable mention, but he lost to Ryu, or in the context of this documentary "Ru".

@#21
Yeah, Chun Li instead of Cammy....I was like "WTF?"

#22

lexity said on January 25, 2011 at 5:06 a.m.

I remember when g4 actually had good shows like this.

#23

Telvanni said on January 25, 2011 at 5:55 a.m.

@21

At least the guy said Cammy. ;)

#24

therealist1991 said on January 25, 2011 at 6:17 a.m.

Aw man this was like back in 2003/2004

G4 ain't even like this anymore it's like a
wannabe spike TV and Tru Tv.

#25

Melbester9 said on January 25, 2011 at 7:50 a.m.

Fighting games are great, glad i got into them, I love tekken, street fighter, Dead or alive is awesome too, and Marvel vs capcom. Some of these games made in the90s are still produced and i mean fighting games will get better with Marvel vs capcom 3 which will revolutionize Cross platformer fighters. Long Live fighting games, best genre ever. Then FPS.

#26

R4HU1 said on January 25, 2011 at 8:25 a.m.

GDLK

#27

genesiskhan said on January 25, 2011 at 8:54 a.m.

remember that show one of the only reasons back when g4 was good was a reason to comeback it wasnt the finite version of fighting history but good in a twenty minute time frame they gave insight and credit to the one that deserved praise for actually making changes and not sf this and sf that but how they gonna say sf3 didnt take in northern america

#28

Hakansoilbarrel said on January 25, 2011 at 9:29 a.m.

(I know there's alot of G4 hate but imma ignore it for now. Icons was great. X-Play, the G4.com material(They covering fighting game tourneys!), and convention coverage are still great. I can't speak for what's happened to the rest.)

#29

tylerox9 said on January 25, 2011 at 9:48 a.m.

G4 use to be THE bomb, before just bombing. The time when they had Cheat with Corey Rouse, Judgement Day and Electric Playground with Lucas and Tollerico, Blister, Icons, Cinametic, and, dare I say it, Portal (the MMORPG Soap Opera) were the best shows evar. Even Code Monkeys and X-Play during their first times were good. But now, it's lost all Oomph.

#30

MALDA said on January 25, 2011 at 10:06 a.m.

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craziryu said on January 25, 2011 at 12:59 p.m.

@malda when i went to visit my family in el salvador i remember going to the arcades n seein most of the players playin kof or mvc2. idk y latin americans love kof but it was pretty big out there.

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MALDA said on January 25, 2011 at 1:15 p.m.

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#33

blackwing501 said on January 25, 2011 at 3 p.m.

this Zit si poooooooor come on u need a Lor trilogy lenght to talk about the history of fighting games.... i hope game trailers make a fighting games retrospective soon

#34

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on January 25, 2011 at 4:06 p.m.

Ed Boon and John Tobias

there last names backward= noob Saibot...the greatest MK Ninja!!!!!!!

#35

Ex_Ein said on January 25, 2011 at 4:49 p.m.

I love that commerical at the end
The reason cheat died is there's no longer cheat codes in a lot of video games
Reason portal died no one watched it and it was mind numbingly dumb.

Reason cinematech died no one watched that either because all it was parts of cutscenes some for games only a few hardcore pc players had ever heard of or the game was so widely know and played people knew the cutscenes.

Now with that said judgment day might have died for various reasons, both host have other jobs and might have issues in their lives

The only 2 shows I can think of that g4 canceled just to cancel were Sweat,the sports games show and ARENA! the semi pro competive gaming show

To be honest the only shows I miss are arena and cinematech

#36

Jaybonaut said on January 25, 2011 at 11:05 p.m.

G4 used to be ok a long time ago, but it is no TechTV.

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