I still remember fighters.net and that fake MvC3 image. Either I lurked here or had an account in 2000/2001 but I dont remember. I do remember I made this account specifically to buy a custom stick off of someone.
I also remember the stickied topic: “If you dont play fighting games/Street Fighter, GTFO”
J2K.
Now give me my karma and get off my lawn.
While not as reviled as 09ers, the 04 generation caught a lot of shit. I remember the SRK I came into was a LOT more hostile and shit could go real bad for you real fast if you said stupid shit. That environment was a lot more exciting and I miss it.
I was 16 years old when I joined. Time flies, man. It’s really weird having a local fighting game scene made up of mostly 09ers, but still being one of the younger dudes. I talk about the “good old days” and they just roll their eyes at me.
I didn’t get a chance to talk to Viscant while I was at Evo working the Broken Tier booth; he wasn’t at the Broken Tier booth too much. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him about the legendary fleshlight review. I failed you all. 
If you’re wondering if it’s real or not, yeah it is. But don’t take my word for it:
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Sent from my Galactus.
I know it’s real. I just wanted to see what his reaction would be when I brought it up.
sweet i’m willing to donate 5$ to the cause
WHO ELSE IS WITH ME?
I’ve been here since 2000 and I don’t remember a 3rd of the stuff people have mention in this thread.
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don’t remind me!
lalalalalala i’m not hearing you!
think happy thoughts. think happy thoughts.
Back when MvC2 released in Japan I joined SRK. But my old account didn’t transfer to the new forum system 
Still, I’d say am a old school player but I am not an OG. I played like a fucking scrub until reload, didn’t push for tournaments or competitive nature until after I watched Evo 2k3 DVDs
if you’re proud of being an OG, it means you have feel like nothing else going for you…
“Man I’m not quite a top player, and I don’t run any events, but FUCK YEAH I’ve been hanging around forever!”
Fuck this overplayed piece of trash song.
Really? I’ve heard it in exactly two places: this trailer, and in a random sushi place where people only recognized it from the Evo trailer.
So…this is what “OG” means nowadays? Guess the originators need a new term. When I think of “OG,” I can think of maybe 20ppl… and you had to win tournaments back in the day to be a “G.” How do folks become OG if they’re never a G? Although I do look at cats like Sabin and think “brotha is OG 4 sho.” The originators or first OG’s were all from Cali… because Cali dominated the country.
I am not OG at all.
When I think OG I think of Watson, Valle, Cole, ect… players from ST and Alpha arcade era.
I found SRK around 2005 but didn’t join until 2009. Old SRK seemed like a much scarier place and I just lurked and read stuff for years because I didn’t feel like I knew enough to say shit about shit. (mostly I still don’t)
I remember the first thing I ever read on SRK, it was on the front page, which looked FAR different then it does now. The post was about people thinking they were good because they got top 8 at a tournament. The post went on to say that top 8 didn’t matter because if went to enough tournaments you would probably get top 8 eventually. Then he gave an excerpt from an irc chat he had with a player named calipower (I had no idea who this was at the time but I still thought what he said was awesome) I remember it almost exactly:
calipower: back in the day
calipower:if you weren’t top 3
calipower: who the fuck are you
That shit has stayed with me over the years.
Goes further than that, in general people don’t think ‘OG’ when talking about people that were prominent back then, and still are.
For Valle say, the first thing that comes to mind isn’t ‘he’s an OG’, it’s ‘he wins tournaments and might as well run the Socal scene’.
Here’s a story.
My school had a Japanese-American exchange program. Every year around the same time, you’d see a few host family kids walking around with a trail of Japanese kids behind them who would go with them to their classes.
Probably around 2000, when I was first starting to level up my game, I would always have a book or a stapled printout of game stuff with me. On this particular day, I happened to have my worn-out copy of the SFA2 Superbook, which I’d already read cover-to-cover countless times in the years I’d had it. I figured that even if the game wasn’t current, anything about competitive play was worth reading and re-reading. There’s always something more to learn; some new insight to gain. The Superbook was the first game guide I ever owned that was worth a shit.
The Japanese kids in my class were about as you’d imagine they’d be: quiet, shy, awkward. It’s bad enough being a teenage guy in an unfamiliar social situation. It’s even worse when you’re in a foreign country and you don’t have a good command of the language. They were just sitting there, trying to be as unobtrusive as possible.
Then I took out the Superbook and showed it to them, and it was like hitting an “on” switch. They came to life. They were leafing through the book, and every time something caught their attention (pretty much every page they landed on), they’d chat excitedly about it. My friends and I would ask them stuff like who their favorite character was, or what moves they liked, and we’d look them up in the book. It was a cool experience.
That moment was made possible by the guys who wrote the book: Watson, Choi, Schaeffer, Beasley, Valle, Wolfe, Sirlin, etc. Those guys did so much more for these games and the people who play them than just placing high in tournaments or posting on a website for a really long time.
Whatever “OG” means, those guys are it.
There’s nothing wrong with taking pride in being a senior member of a community, kids.
I’m Internet OG. I was kicking it at Gamesages with Hotobu when you guys were planting roots here. I got into it with Hotobu a few times back in the day, and he never acknowledges my name-dropping. But he was a cool guy then, and now.
Sure there is, because its all about caste, which is contrary to what the whole community is about.
Senior members of the community with nothing else going on are like lampreys, feeding off of the more productive members.