Seriously. I was reading the GotFrag competitive fighting guide article and came across this in the MVC2 part:
“one of the most drama starting video games amongst the Competitive Fighting Gamer Community, with stories such as someone being shot over the game, $1000 money matches, people making side-bets of which of their favorite players is going to win, and so on. People take their fighting games very seriously.”
I’m pretty sure no one has been shot, but has anyone been in or seen a fight break out over a game? Maybe a shouting match? Arcade or console play, it doesn’t matter.
I used to play in Downtown Brooklyn, and people would always talk shit about what they would do to you if you kept throwing, comboing, or whatever the fuck else you were doing to win.
I used to rape Brooklyn on a daily basis, and caught a lot of shit-talk over it, nobody ever actually did anything though.
I doubt anyone’s gotten shot over Marvel. I’ve heard stories about fights, but I’ve never actually seen one that was truly over the game itself.
I almost got into a fight when this guy was being a dick to a bunch of kids playing MvC2. Screaming in their face, pushing them aside and cursing at them when he won. (This guy was I think 19 doing this to like 8 year olds. Yea, a pussy) I saw his game and knew I could school him. So I played him. He lost. He started throwing a fit. Then he played me again…same fit. Finally he said he wanted money on it. I was like…I don’t play for money but how about this. If I beat you, you can’t play this game the rest of the time your here and only let the kids play. If you win, I’ll let you punch me (he threatened this every time I won). BUT if I win by perfect, you leave and don’t come back for a month.
The owner of the place knew of the bet and was ready to take of picture of the guy just in case I perfected him.
Well…he sucked…hard. Back in the day I was really good (not now I stink) and I perfected him. He through a huge fit. Pushed me. I started to laugh at him. The kids started to laugh at him…shit everyone was laughing at him. He took a swing at me and I dodge easily. A bunch of people then grabbed him, beat him up a little and threw him outside. The owner said that guy has been a dick for a while now. I used to go to the arcade a lot back then and the owner knew me. So he rigged the machine to play for free for a hour so all the little kids the jerk was fucking with can play all they wanted.
I heard later he tried to come in a week later and the owner said he was banned for life, not only for being a dick, trying to hit a good customer but also because his ass had no game.
That was like 8 years ago…when MvC2 just hit the California Arcades. That was comedy.
when i was pretty young i used to get threatened all the time for throwing and shit in hyper fighting. but nothing ever happened
then i distinctly remember a time playing this one big dood in some gas station in street fighter alpha,(i was probably around 14-15) and he punched me in the stomache as he walked away when i beat him…that was pretty damn pathetic…
I once seen a guy get pushed after a MVC2 match and smashed his face into the seat of a crazy taxi machine
I’d imagine fights can break out sometimes, particularly when it comes to trash talking scrubs who cannot handle losing.
Yes I am speaking from experience here. I’ve handed many a scrub their asses in MvC2, only to hear them talk shit about me because they are pissed that i whoop them every time we play.
It is annoying, I lose my fair share of matches too, but never whine like a bitch about it to the winner.
Immature Scrubs who can’t handle losing and won’t shut up about it, need to be temp banned from arcades.
Yeah thats the kinda stuff I am talking about. Bitter Scrubs who should not be playing to begin with, if they cannot handle a loss.
thats awesome about svc lol
when i used to work at great games in 91’ a kid shot another dude over a token playing high impact football. i hid between worl heroes and street fighter. does that count?
Im not really sure… I mean, when playing a game called “HIGH IMPACT Football”, you need to know there is some risk involved… but that’s seriously messed up. Smart man hiding behind the Street Fighter machine though. Add your name to the list of “Street Fighter saved my life”.
I meet adversity at a lot of places I go. I’ve lost a few ‘friendly’ rivals for suddenly becoming less-than-friendly. The only time I can think of where I felt really threatened was back in High School. They had XMvSF at the local hangout, and the kids that played thought they were sooooo bad ass at that shit. I’d beast them with Sabretooth (which is funny, cos I suck - I just look for ways to land air throw into Weapon X all day), and one day, three or four of them were actually ready to scrap me. For some reason, this only happened like once, and they were all super cool with me after that. I don’t know what the fuck happened that particular day.
Now I’m no expert in the 3S, but I know enough to kick some ass. One day my friend, his cousin, and I were playing 3S on PS2 and every time I played the cousin he would throw a serious fit. He likes to blindly rush down and I just wait for him to slip up. This pissed him off so bad, he stopped playing and ranted about how much I “cheat”.
If I stood around w/o attacking (waiting for an opening), I was scared of him. If I used the game’s mechanics like UOH (when he blocked low) and rushed him, I was cheating. You just couldn’t win in his eyes lmao. My friend and I just busted out laughing at him. He eventually threw me off my game though because instead of just listening to his whining, I got into an argument with him. That shit costed me a few matches against him because I lost my focus for awhile after.
if you played in the 1991-1995 arcade era. if you were good, you got into it with sore losers. i got in fights with older people all the time cuz they couldnt handle being thrown. and that happened everywhere you went. its not very common anymore at all. its down right rare these days. since to play against players in 99% of the US, you have to know the players to get comp since most people dont have arcades anymore and its at peoples homes. as dangerous as it could be at times in arcades. i kinda miss that flair, pissing people off by kicking their ass, to the point where they wanna harm you in real life. it just let you know you were doing something right in the game lolol
Yes people have gotten shot over games and yes people have died over games… literally. You guys just don’t know… and yes its fucking lame but it has happen.
In February of 2002 I got threatened by this chubby, short, Oriental dude at SVGL for doing the roll + throw on him constantly in CVS2.
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Back in 1990 I played Double Dragon at a Mountain Mike’s Pizza (Morgan Hill) and some dude that was like 8 years older than me was player 2 and he kept on fucken punching my guy. I mean come on!!! Maybe 2 or 3 times I can slide it but every 5 seconds I get hit is some BS. So then I got pissed and just did the knee to the face on his character and threw him across the screen. Then he’s like, “Oh hohoho…” blah blah blah… His friend’s like laughing. I lost first and just watched while I stood under one of the door frames. When he lost he walked by and shoved my head against one of the sides of the door frame…
Another incident was when I was playing Double Dragon at a Roundtable Pizza (Morgan Hill) in 1989. With one quarter I managed to get to Mission 4 and before the 2 Abobos came out some jackass kid pulled my joystick down so that I would lose both of my lives by falling in the pit.
In 1992, when I was at the arcade @ Eastridge (San Jose) playing CE with Vega some idiot got mad because I did the Izuna Drop all the time. Then his girlfriend or whoever challenged me and her Vega destroyed mine. I left after that match…
Also, in 1992 at a bowling alley in Morgan Hill I played Mortal Kombat when some scrub kids kept on getting pissed about my Sub-Zero freezing them all the time…
Off Topic: One of the funniest WW/CE moments was at that bowling alley too. This guy was pretty good with Dhalsim and pretty much owned everyone there and said something like…“I’m gonna shove my Indian dick in your ass” to his opponent. I just l:rofl:lled. This was also one of the incidents where the infamous coin trick was used
