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comfortfoodcontent · 2 months

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Rogue profile page from the X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER - ARCADE GAME CAPTURE BOOK GAMEST

#X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER - ARCADE GAME CAPTURE BOOK GAMEST #x-men vs street fighter #rogue #rogue x-men #bengus #capcom #fighting games #gamest #gamest mook #mook #video games #x-men #street fighter #mutants #\capcom art #capcom art

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arcadebroke · 2 years

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#Segapolis #SEGA #cover art #magazine cover #video games #video game magazine #art #design #typography #gamest #Segapolis - Gamest Mook 45 #gaming #90s #1990s #90s gaming #Comfort Food Video Games

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itsfantasticac · 3 months

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Various cosplay, submitted to Gamest magazine in 1997.

Gamest Mook Vol. 59 - Cosplay Shichae!! (Jan. 13, '97), pg. 30

#psychic force #virtua fighter #street fighter #samurai shodown #the king of fighters #king of fighters #kof #decathlete #fatal fury

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segacity · 9 days

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Bayman Sketches 'Dead Or Alive' SEGA Saturn Source: Segapolis - Gamest Mook #45 scan by @ComfortFoodVG https://archive.org/details/segapolis-gamest-mook-45

#Dead Or Alive #SEGA #Saturn

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acidcoffee · 11 months

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Cover for Gamest Mook Vol 39

In the 90s SNK character illustration work was very distinct from Capcom's. While Capcom's work was very stylized with emphasis in bold colors and strong linework. SNK work was trying for more painterly illustrations with more realistic proportions and style.

At least until SNK made Falcoon a main designer, and capcom hired Shinkiro, then the styles became more fluid.

In that way SNK KoF characters registered like pop celebrities to me.

#king of fighters #SNK #gamest #kyo kusanagi #neo geo

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soulfists · 1 year

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Vampire/Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors artwork in Capcom Illustrations - Gamest Mook Vol. 17

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mana-sputachu · 1 year

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I read somewhere that the lore explanation for Iori tying his knees together was a matter of a bet he lost sometime back. Seems a bit silly for a fighter, but it's a solid enough throw-away explanation when you consider the environment they were drawing upon, as during the height of the Vivienne Westwood influence on English punk, post-punk, art rock, new wave, and goth, this was genuinely a fashion statement that depressed, rebellious kids would do with their school uniform suspenders (if they weren't just worn loosely hanging off their hips) or random pieces of rope they found

So when you go back and look at old 1980's pictures of The Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke or Echo and the Bunnymen, you'd usually see at least one member with ultra-frizzy, out-of-control hair that sprung out all over the place (think Edward Scissorhands or Eric Draven)

So in that sense, the SNK designers exaggerating that entire aesthetic into an outright pomp seems almost like a natural extension of moody British goth rock

Never heard of the lost bet thing! Do you have any source for that? I'm very curious now.

I even checked in the Bitmap book but all they said is that they wanted Iori to look cool (good job ya all), and actually in the interviews, the interviewer called Iori and Kyo's style as "boyband inspired" and LOL. But Kyo does have the 90's Nick Carter "curtain" hairstyle...

Anyway, there is this bit from Gamest Mook with Iori's concept arts that confirms Vivienne Westwood was the main source of inspiration for his look and even the pants are from her (I was sure of that even before finding this, since VW is prominent in Ai Yazawa's works and a lot of her characters wear the belted pants) and also confirms your thoughts:

Source.

The bet thing is kinda funny tho, you would never think of Iori (especially Iori from '95/96) being the kind of person who would accept a bet... but I can see him doing that, before Goenitz awoke his blood (it has never been stated when, though I headcanon it happened before '95, also imho explaining the later retconning of his personality story-wise-since he's way chiller now, my hc is that during those years Goenit's trickery put Iori into this psycho state that resulted into his maniac self in '95 and even beating the shit out of Billy and Eiji without any apparent reason).

In my headcanons he started his band in high school and he's very close to his bandmates, so I can easily imagine one of them proposing a bet where Iori has to wear those pants if he lose. He ends up losing, but also likes the pants and rocks them, so ends up incorporates them into his iconic look.

I like it, lol.

#king of fighters #kof xv #iori yagami #text posts #replies #anonymous

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joshcolon · 7 months

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lunaticobscurity · 6 years

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psychic force character popularity ranking

i don’t know if there was ever any official poll or anything ranking the psychic force characters, but i do have a copy of gamest mook vol. 38, which, along with being packed full of gameplay and lore details (in japanese, obvously), also has a decently-sized fanart section. so i decided the best way of finding out the relative popularity of all the game’s characters would be to see how much fanart each of them got. for fanart of multiple characters, i jst added one to the count of every character shown. this is important, as these were the only appearances gates made, having no solo fanart of his own.

emilio - 29

wendy - 21

sonia - 20

burn & brad - 14 each

wong - 12

keith - 11

genma - 9

gates - 4

#psychic force #taito #gamest #gamest mook

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notokra · 2 years

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“ Here's a translated concept art from Gamest Mook 39. It says that Iori's classic outfit was inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's fashion brand "Worlds End". I tried to look up items that matched his style and found these.”

https://archive.org/details/snkillustrations

#gamest mook 39 #sorry i won't learn to archive tweets another way i have to reupload...#iori yagami

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les-bee-ians · 5 years

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