Memorable Black Characters in Video Games

In 1992 Capcom released the sequel to 1987's Street Fighter, Street Fighter II The World Warriors was an instant smash hit, and reinvigorated the arcade scene. Street Fighter II let player choose from 8 unique warriors and travel the world fighting against other contenders in the second World Warrior Tournament. Street Fighter two had 4 final bosses the first is Balrog, aka as M. Bison in Japan. The name was swapped with another boss as to avoid the obvious law suit. Many believe Balrog is same character as Mike from the original Street Fighter. In February 2009 Balrog will return to the streets in Street Fighter IV!

For That Not So Special Someone

For most, there is no crueler day of the calendar year than that of Valentine's Day. While a tiny fraction of the population can look forward to a holiday of wine and roses, poetry and song, the vast majority of us can anticipate a day of nausea and grimacing, trauma and grief. A day in which minutes seem like hours, and hours like days, as we reflect sorrowfully on yesteryear's romantic indignities, today's loneliness, and the unknowable but certain heartbreak that will be visited upon us repeatedly in the years to come.When cruelty and holidays collide, the weak-willed find solace in self-pity and comfort foods. Thanks to Despair Inc. they've combined BOTH into a radical new offering.

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Memorable Black Characters in Video Games

Time to move on to another popular franchise, Street Fighter. In 1987 Capcom launched what would become one of the most influential fighting games in video game history, the original Street Fighter let the player choose from one of two characters, Ryu or Ken and you traveled the world to challenge other fighters "like you all over the world". You'd fight two characters from Japan, China, England, Thailand and the good ol USA where you fight Mike at Mount Rushmore South Dakota. Mike fights like a boxer and is rumored to be the same character as Balrog (M. Bison in Japan) from Street Fighter II.

Memorable Black Characters in Video Games

Keeping with the Metal Gear Solid saga, Drebin is the latest African American cast member who assists Snake in his mission. Drebin is a mysterious individual who never seems to be fully aligned with any faction in the series, his services are rather shady but do come in extremely helpful thru MGS4, as he unlocks ID tagged weapons and equipment useable for Snake.

If they ever do make a Metal Gear Solid movie Wesley Snipes is a no brainer to play Simon Pheonix...oops I mean Drebin!

Dragonball Evolution Trailer

As bad as Street Fighter the Legend of Chun Li looks, this looks sooo much worse! If you pay real money to see this punch yourself in the groin for me.
Ladies and Gentlemen I think this movie could give Dragon Wars a run for the worst movie of all time award!

Dragonball Evolution Trailer (Leaked)

Meet the T600

Revenge is something that those who have been beaten seek...

The T600 isn't looking for revenge, it's looking to terminate anything that get's in it's way! We've all met Cyberdyne systems model 101 T800...the Ahnold model, he was a big fella that was bad to the bone. In the original Terminator Kyle Reese told Sarah all about the T600 and how they were easy to spot with their rubber skin...he failed to mention that they also made the T800 model look like cybernetic hobbits!!!

No wonder these suckers were easy to spot, take a look at the size of these monsters! Check out the chart below...the Ahnold unit T-800 is the one all the way on the right...and we all know that's a big dude, the T600 is frigging crazy BIG, if that sucka gets his hands on you...it's game over!

Memorable Black Characters in Video Games

Fortune aka Helena Dolph Jackson, is the leading member of Dead Cell and a member of the "Sons of Liberty" from Metal Gear Solid 2. Fortune is also known as Queen by her lover Vamp, another member of Dead Cell who is bysexual and also had relations with her father...At the end of MGS2 Fortune saves Solid Snake, Raiden and Solidus by deflecting a bunch of ICBM's launched by Metal Gear Ray, Snake proclaims she really is lady luck.

Memorable Black Characters in Video Games

Our second character may not have taken on a tank single handedly but he did have a hand in creating the man who did. Donald Anderson, the DARPA chief of Metal Gear Solid aka Sigint from Metal Gear Solid 3 assists Snake defeat Col. Volgin and the Shagohad. Later he'd get involved with the Les' Infant teribles project which created Solid Snake, a clone of the man he assisted during the cold war. Donald Anderson Is killed by Decoy Octopus on Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear Solid.

Memorable Black Characters in Video Game

Free Swim is celebrating Black History month with a prominent black video game character each day in February, who better to kick things off than President Barack Hussien Obama! We know the Obama family got a Nintendo Wii this Christmas but did you know the prez was also in Pandemic's Mercenaries2 thanks to a DLC patch. I only know 2 video game characters in history that've taken on a tank single handedly and won, Solid Snake and Barack "the rock" Obama!



Nice work Commander and Chief!

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Trailer

Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox team up with the Autobots to stop the dastardly deeds of Starscream and the Decpticreeps!!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Super Bowl Spot