Video Game Rain

Here in Las Vegas we've been getting the left over rain from California.  Rain here is about as rare as it is to find in video games.  Here are two very excellent examples.  The first is from Fatal Fury on Tung Fu Rue's stage.  Each battle in Fatal Fury has three scenes.  Usually they are day time, dusk, and night depending on which round you're currently fighting in.  On the "day" stage of Tung Fu Rue's the skies are cloudy with thunderbolts coming down on top of the buildings in the distance.  Start round two and here comes the shower!  The rain in itself isn't nearly as impressive as the splashing on the ground.  It's a pretty neat special effect.

Next up is Ghouls 'N' Ghosts.  The rain at the beginning of the second half of the first stage is pretty impressive.  First you experience wind with an occasional leaf flying through the air and trees shaking violently in the background.  Then you get a few random drops, and then you get the flicker of an intense shower pouring down on poor Arthur.  The random drops continue and it breaks up what would otherwise be boring rain.  Like Fatal Fury this rain works very well.