The arcade at the mall near me had a MvC1 machine and a MvC2 machine. I knew that the games had Megaman in them, so I started playing and I loved it! I was introduced to Ryu through that game as well, which sparked my interest in the Street Fighter games. I got into SFA2 a little, switching to Ken once I found that I liked his style more than Ryu’s. I later met a friend in HS who had CvS2 for the GC, so I got into that, as well as 3rd Strike for the PS2. I’ve been a fan ever since!
SNES had some amazing games.
I remember when Brooklyn had a SF2 cab on almost every block and some blocks would have even several arcade spots. It didn’t matter if it was a pizza place, laundromat, random space in a random store, whatever. Can’t believe how much times have changed. The fact everyone played made it even better. Now you have so many games that player base is too spread out.
my friends and i used to beat up each other up a lot so as soon as we found out we could do it without actually injuring ourselves we were immediately sold
Started when I played Tekken at a friends house on the PSX. I mained King back then. I found out about Street Fighter and Marvel when someone lent me Street Fighter Alpha 3 and my cousin bought me Marvel 1 for the PSX for my birthday. Cammy was main in Alpha and I went Wolvie/America in MvC. Good stuff. I miss the traditional 1 partner in MvC and pretty stoked that it came back in SF x Tekken.
buddy had SNES SF2 WW when it was new. I was 9 or something, then started going to arcade soon after, and got SF2SCE on Genesis the XMAS it came out.
Funny, I almost dont even give a fuck about FG’s anymore; thank you SFIV, MVC3, the sheep, how nerdy the scene has become, Capcom’s gouging (SF3OE+colorpacks WTF).
My first serious fighter was DoA4. I played it and got pretty good over time when I was probably from ages 10-13 or so.Then one of my friends I played that with got me into SF4 been hooked ever since.
My dad owned and operated a whole bunch of various arcade machines around the Bronx when I was a kid.
I had a rainbow edition cabinet in my basement and my cousins were ALWAYS over, so we played allt he time
I’m not sure which was the first, but both were played in the same year: Super Smash Bros and Soul Calibur (arcade). After playing the arcade version I did get the Dreamcast port.
