Originally launched in Japan as “Doki Doki Vampire”

Riding excessive on the recognition of Street Fighter II, Capcom continued to churn out combating sport after combating sport within the Nineteen Nineties. Some of these titles caught hearth and outshone Capcom’s eventual (troubled) launch of Street Fighter III. Others drifted into obscurity, solely often surfacing within the type of background cameos or in Tumblr threads of remarkable 2D animated GIFs.

And then there’s DarkStalkers, a sequence of supernatural fighters with a roster filled with monsters and people who would hunt the monsters (however not, uh, Monster Hunters). DarkStalkers and its confusingly-named sequels wowed 2D combating sport followers again within the Nineteen Nineties, however the final authentic sport got here out 25 years in the past, with the sequence solely “alive” at this time within the type of compilations and retro re-releases-such because the Capcom Fighting Collection, which options all 5 DarkStalkers arcade video games—together with two that by no means noticed a global launch.

Host Diamond Feit remembers xyr first monster mash, as does particular visitor Ant from GamingHell.co.uk (try their Twitch channel as effectively). Together, these two fondly run down the varied lineup of creatures within the DarkStalkers roster, replicate on the trouble Capcom’s artists put into making each sprite shine, and usually lament the truth that, regardless of statements on the contrary, DarkStalkers Are Likely Dead.

Description: Recorded beneath the sunshine of a full moon and surrounded by hordes of otherworldly creatures, Diamond Feit and Ant from GamingHell.co.uk courageous the night time to have fun the DarkStalkers sequence.

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Artwork for this episode by Greg Melo and modifying thanks go to Greg Leahy.