Now when it comes to 90 arcade fighting games that are fondly remembered most people would normally name the most usual suspects Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, and the Marvel vs Capcom series. Not many people would name Primal Rage as one of the good fighting games of that era due to it's controversial negative edge control scheme (holding certain buttons, and then doing the motions for special attacks instead of just doing the motions and pressing them like Street Fighter).
However, part of its bad reception comes down to it's quite frankly awful home ports and the little known fact that the OG arcade version has yet to be emulated properly due to it's copy protection that has yet to be cracked until recently (more on that later). In any case one Fighting Game enthusiast decided to give it another look, and found there was actually a much deeper game than he originally thought. He even managed to snag a interview with one of the creators of the game to explain their reasoning of it's controversial control scheme. It turns out; there's actually a pretty good fighter, deep down, there that was overlooked due to Killer Instinct coming out literally the next year after.
Primal Rage RetroBash Port Combo Exhibition
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On another note, there appears to be a user who works for the company Studio Bash games the owners of the officially licensed iircade emulator promoting a near-perfect arcade port recently on twitter with most of it's biggest issues fixed. It appears however, that they have not acquired the license/rights to sell it yet. Hopefully, we will continue to get more information on it with an official release later down the line.
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