Browsing: 1988

Even as the Nintendo Entertainment System was picking up momentum for home consoles after the video game crash of 1983, arcades were still popular in 1988. Now competing with a resurgent home console market and the growing proliferation of personal computers, arcade titles had to pull out all the stops. Established franchises were revamped significantly…

Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime landmark Akira returned to movie screens across the United States and Canada on September 4 in a one-night 4K and IMAX event, and it’s still the anime community’s biggest talking point five days later. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment organized the run, and it played in both the original Japanese with…