I got super street fighter 2 for the genesis when I was about 8 or 9. I really wanted mortal kombat but I got that instead. well, I played and played and played… It was strange because I dont remember enjoying it so much as just playing it a lot. Then, years later, I stumbled upon a street fighter alpha machine. The first time I saw the screen go dark and all the power build up in ryu’s hands, I was sold. Then Marvel super heroes came out and I was hooked. Good times…
I was always a fan of SF, but SFAlpha 3 got me really into fighting games, long story behind it.
World Heros.
I didn’t know what I was doing but the other kids playing it made it look fun so I wanted to try it.
I was always into fighters since SF2. But I never really knew much about them, so I guess I was kind of a casual player.
The time I really got hooked into fighters was in 2004 when I saw top level MVC2 players, I thought to myself I remember playing this game when it came out lets see how well I can do. So I got hit with Magnetos infinite and then I became obsessed with the game, from there I revisited some of the other games that I had played before and started learning those as well.
SF2 was my first. Although i always loved fighting games, i never really owned an SNES, so the only time i had to play SF2 was in the arcade. Mind you, I was always a scrubby player way back in the day up until High School where i discovered this site and SFA3. From then on, i was hooked on MK3, X-men vs SF, Marvel vs SF, Killer Instinct and CvS2. I lost alot of matches against some really good players, but i’ve learned alot since then.
Now thanks to the power of arcade emulation (WinKawaks & MAME32) and my beloved PS2 fighting game library, i am always constantly buying/collecting all the fighting games i can find. I truly respect the genre much more than other gaming genres due to the amount of skill, dedication and competition involved altogether. It’ll be great if (2d) fighters were alive and kicking again like it was 1998…but oh wells.
Kung Fu Movies, movies with arcades, bowling alley’s and random radio shack with fighting street for the turbo duo
Stargate
I did play Street fighter and Tekken when they came out but never at a competitive level.
I went into the arcade to play DDR >.< and (around the time when MVC2 came out) and saw team Seattle play then I actually started to try and understand the game and get good.
It was always a family event when my cousin came over with his Sega Saturn, and we would play Street Fighter II: Turbo for hours. It really puts technique knowledge into perspective when we would wonder how our random button presses would make characters like Chun-li and Vega “fly”.
we were such nooobs…
I already told my gaming life story, basically started with SFA3 on MAME with a pal, one Shinku Hadoken later I was set. Incidentally it brought me back into regular gaming…that and Resident Evil 4.
when SF2 came out for snes… i was too poor… every quarter went to local sf2 machine… and when i was home… i’d play karate champ cuz thats the closest thing to sf2 havin only an nes as a system hahahah those were them good o days… anyways…
fighting games are nearing its end… sadly…
Uh, I wasn’t really serious with fighting games until XI was brought to my arcade, which is kinda when my life started sucking AKA fighting games ruin lives.
But the first ever fighting game I played? SFA2 at some nickel arcade all the way back in like 96 or something like that. I was 6 and I had gotten all the way to Akuma, but I couldn’t beat him. That bastard made me spend a dollar on him. >:(
Saw MvC2 in the Arcade one day with a crowd of people…
Haven’t stop playing since.
world heroes… was my thing…
getting perfected by incomprehendable glitches kept me away from st for a very long time…
"Oh look! that game with that karate dude that throws fireballs"
inserts coin
Teenager looms above me and inserts coin
Fight!
his blanka teleports and reappears right next to me and shocks me, I die in one hit…
"uh…"
Round 2
Fight!
Teleports again, but this time I block, he keeps shocking non stop and I start losing health at a huge pace, I let go to do a move. KO
I walk away
…
what the fuck ST were you playing? 
I Dont Know!!!
When I was younger (this happened when I was 9), I used to go to the Seattle Funplex like every weekend. My Grandma would give me 20 bucks and I was set. So anyway one time I was at some random arcade with my friends and they were ALL playing SF II HF. And I was thinkin “wtf’s up with this shit? nobody’s trying to play X-Men?” So I roll over pick Chun Li, and do lightning kicks cause I was mashin, and got hooked. So fast forward a little while later, I come up to the Seattle Funplex, play HF, and some random hooded teenager rolls up and picks Ryu. Nigga creased me hard with the fb/dp trap. I got angry black style and left the arcade, my Mom, noticing I was upset, decided that for an early xmas present she’d buy me championship edition on Sega, and bought me a strategy guide with it. I guess it was the one that Tomo was in. So anyway I read that book and taught myself SF. I practiced Guile because I wanna say Tomo was hyping up Guile in that book as the best character. But anyway I practiced everyday with the intent to beat that kid’s ass, I would go back every weekend, but he was never there again. Meeting of fate or what?
I kinda stopped after a while, but would play random vs series games not so seriously until Marvel 2 came out which was coincidently around the sametime I learned of SRK. My first top tier team was Strider/Doom/Commando until I played at Silver Coin and got raped. Hahah. After that I started entering tourneys and it snowballed from there.
played street fighter II on snes when i was 3 or 4 and then mostly started playing in the arcades a little when i was 8 or so. but it really picked up when i was 11 and mvc2 came out., couldn’t even see the screen without standing on a stool.
edit: hey deezo, you talking about silver coin at southcenter? i’m from washington but i haven’t been there in like 5 years so i’m out of the loop. that was THE spot for marvel back in the day. i mostly played at everett and when i’d go to southcenter i would get whooped.
I became a true Fighting game fan when i first played Samurai Showdown & Fatal Fury in a Chinese Restaurant in philly.
No story for me i was born with a joystick in my hand :arazz: