Yea I’ve seen people get into fights over games in NY. ducvaders post is truth. It mostly happened in the OG era so you don’t hear about it, but it has happened several times.
I was playing in the 1991-95 arcade era, and as a little kid, I’ve been maced before by someone, had a gun pulled to my face because I rushed someone down in mk3, and i’ve been jumped myself by a bunch of high school kids back in the day (but it was broken up almost immediately, since it was by a school). however i got off better than some other people back in the day.
ive seen people get beat the fuck down over ww/mk2, get stabbed, get thrown through windows of the arcade literally (Kaneda will know what I’m talking about here with the Playland/Broadway Arcade days.) It was really prominent back in the days since there were wayyyy more scrubs that couldnt handle losing.
its not the case anymore, people beef when it comes to games but its more irl related stuff, not so much the game anymore.
in the sf2 days I would get pretty mad, but since everyone was bigger than me, the worst i ever did was turn off my classmates machine when he was tick throwing me to death lol. but he was my friend so id give him back his quarter, but i was pretty heated lol.
I got a knife pulled on me by this asian dude after a 67 winstreak in Marvel and his girlfriend started giggling at him. Luckily, the manager saw and alerted the security guard who was there and he got perma-banned from the mall.
I’ve gotten in a couple minor fights, most ended quick with someone breaking it up, and a few times having to run from a mob. It’s funny when I was usually only playing for a dollar a round, some people just can’t take losing, especially in front of their friends/peers.
Ain’t THAT the fuckin’ truth. Niggas always wanted to start some shit cuz you beasted on them in “Skreet Faituh”. Fighting games in the projects are serious business…but not like Madden.
I’ve seen an almost fight break out over me winning a 3S match. The guy was really really big (tall, overweight and had muscle to back it up), he actually moved the machine around in frustration and kept violently moving the close to broken stick, eventually someone I know stood up to him and told him to calm down. They stared down before the people working at the arcade told the guy to get out of arcade.
I just basically stood there watching mostly because the guy was looking to take his frustration out on something, not particularly the guy who beat him. He was something like 30 and threw a huge tantrum. Not paticular on mentioning the people involved but they can speak up if they like, hell the guy who threw the shitfit might read this too.
Neither of us are particularly great at 3S either.
I remeber one time i was playin tekken 3 with my best friend,and this other kid kept talkin shit to him while he was playin so after the round finished my best friend jus did some “real life” Bryan Fury shit on him
Tekken 3 was some serious shit at my old local town, some dude got his head rocked by a bat and had to have brain surgery. There where so many incidents over that game.
wow! mofos be geekin over games, but i agree with that 91 to 95 era of fighting games, and people getting pissed at you for actually knowing how to play. i used to play at random corner stores when sf2ce came out, and brothas would not like getting their ass kicked by a little 11 year old at all. shit was retarded, but i never encountered any of those crazy stories. mainly because i was a scrub back then. just played to play, but understood the game enough. fuck that shit now though. get mad and wanna fight, you get dummy slapped:p: . plus, most of the comp nowadays are all friends anyways. well at least in my area. so no b.s from noobs.
My friend back in the day had a big mouth, and we used to go to this shithole arcade in Burbank, CA where a bunch of mexican and korean gangs used to hang out. Basically my friend was jawing with some random mexican guy while playing X men vs SF and at the end of the match the guy popped my friend in the mouth. My friend then proceeds to go behind me, cause he’s a chicken shit and I know how to fight…however I don’t care how good of a fighter you are, you can’t compete against 50 mexicans (he was part of a gang) with fucking knives. I don’t give a shit how much kempo I know, I still can’t throw fireballs and summon my Level 4 super saiyin powers yet.
They didn’t jump us, because the owner came out started screaming some korean shit and kicked US out. I’m guessing he did that cause the mexicans had more money then us and probably he didn’t want his place burned down. I don’t know. That’s the last time we went to that arcade and just stuck at the mall’s arcade. Later I found that mexican in my PE class and when he was getting changed I smashed his head into a locker. He never knew who the fuck did it.
Good times. Odd thing is that the high school we went to was relatively safe compared to LA unified.
I never understood trash talking during a game either…its just sad…really really sad. It’s like saying, look at me, I’m 25 years old and playing video games, yeah I’m horribly out of shape, still a virgin, live at home with my parents, make 6.25 per hour as a hamburger procurement agent, but man I can play MVC2! Oh shit, I lost to a 10 year old japanese kid, he was cheating, my stick was broken…
Its like when I see those 40 year old overweight fucks at my gym jarring at each other over a pick up game. They get loud and obnoxious…oh heaven forbid you lose, you might not go in the first round of the NBA draft.
I used to rule the Bronx with a mighty fist. Almost got into a fight with EVERYONE. They were just hating because they couldn’t play the game at high level or even understand what it was they were doing and why I shut their shit down.
I got threatened by a Broadway City employee one time for capitalizing on the crap priority of CvS2 rolls by throwing them. They even told me to take that ‘Chinatown crap’ and GTFO. None of them could beat me. I lawled in their faces.
I’ve even had people tell me that I sucked because I didn’t appear in the tourney section of Tips and Tricks magazine. So, I promptly lawled and told them ‘fuck off’ and still beat them. Scrubs man. They’ll think of anything to say.
I remember playing CE at a bowling alley, and I was just doing d.RH with Bison. I must have been 10 years old at the time, and I thought it was a funny way to play. Well, I beat this older guy who thought he was the shit with Bison. He got super pissed and started talking mad shit to me and ended up beating me eventually. He’s just lucky I didn’t pick Chun Li :badboy:
But yeah, I can’t talk shit to people my own age. Talking shit to a little kid…how can you feel good about yourself after that?
I remember this 20+ year old guy wanting to throw down over Marvel(I was 17 at the time) after I smiled after beating him with my scrubby Cable/Blackheart crap. Luckily my buddy(Who knows Taekwondo) was there and managed to get the guy to get himself thrown out lolz…yeah I don’t play Marvel anymoar
Yeah, my friends and I have gotten threatened over MvC2 back when the Everett arcade was there and we were mallrats. In particular, there was this dumbass who thought he was really good, he’d play like… Cable/don’t remember/akuma, and all day he’d just jump back and send out akuma’s assist, if it hit, he’d do a normal jump HVB… I was cool with him 'til he started being a dick to everybody, so then I’d pick funny teams and get the people behind us to laugh by landing SonSon’s POW super in a combo and shit like that… Ah, I don’t miss that arcade.
I’ve only ever been to one arcade, and it was awesome. Everybody was an absolute dude. People were just happy to play. There was this one guy who was offering to pay for people to play him.
