It certainly proves that slamming an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo on top of speech was never a good idea in the first place.
The youtube clip is just a short promo for the actual video, the whole is 45 minutes long. Too big for tooob. Maybe someone cut it into 10 minute segments already?
I love this threadā¦ I spent all day at work reading this, and the links posted within. After reading I have realized I seriously want a true stand-up arcade machine in my house someday. Thanks for all the stories.
I have the full 45 minute tomo video, Iām trying to upload it on megaupload, but it keeps failing _
Iāma look for another site where I can upload it, itās too big for rapidshare
I grew up playing on a Rainbow Edition machine because they had stolen the CE machine that the owner bought brand new just 3 weeks previous. That same stolen machine recently popped up on Craigslist looking just as shiny and new as the day it got stolen. Iām tempted to go check out even though Iām broke.
How do you know its the same machine?
riiiight so you can recognise a 17 year old machine which they have been hording to sell.
There was a special chunk missing in the top right corner that looks like Blanka took a bite out of it, one of a kind!!!
this video fuckin owns and i will never delete it also thereās so many hilarious moments that i need to cut out of it and make a montage of hahaha
Honda was never very popular. That made it even tougher if you ever ran into a good one since you never got much practice against him.
In the WW days, the most popular characters at first were Ryu/Ken. Then, probably three or four months after it was released people figured out how to play Guile. At the same time, people figured out that dhalsim was pretty much unstoppable. So eventually, those were the four most popular.
My experience is slightly less hardcore, more very softcore but here it is.
Back in '94 when I was finishing my second year of university I had a lot of spare time after my exam before the end of the term so I went int o the local second hand store to see if there was anything interesting I could pick up.
On a shelf at the back of the store I noticed a purple box, it was a SNES - Street Fighter II Turbo pack, for some reason it caught my eye. was it the bright colours, the box design Iām not sure, but something made me stop and I knew I just knew that was what I wanted. Weirdly I hadnāt gone in looking to get a console, I wasnāt a big gamer at that point I owned an Amiga and played a bit of Sensible Soccer but that was about it.
So I took my bundle back to my rented house and set up the SNES. My house mate was there and one of my good friends had just pop in to say hello on his way past. We then proceeded to play SF for 8 hours straight, no breaks just winner stays on, trying out new charcaters and totaly hooked on this game.
None of us where gamers, but we still where hooked. Then one of us accidentally pulled off a fireball, we all look at each other in slightly stunned silence and the manual was then opened for the first time (after about 2 hours).
It was then dissected looking for more way in which the game could surprise us.
Eventually we decided that we could do with a pint down the local before last orders and left the SNES power pack to cool down.
To this day Iām still not a good SF player, I didnāt learn in the arcade and only recently have started to learn to use a stick but there is a special place for SF in my gaming history not only with getting me into fighters but starting off my interest in gaming full stop.
What I remember from Old School SF:
āDP is easy to do! Just walk forward and fireball!ā
Getting into heated arguments when you win because of āpatterningā (tick/empty throws)
Scrub rules: Canāt hit a dizzy opponent if he says āMercy!ā :lol:
Guileās flashkick was called āblade kickā, and the arc came from the switchblade he had hidden in his boot
Travelling for hours to find new competition
Travelling for hours because of a rumour that SF3 was out (Red Wave bootleg)
Different spots had different top tiers because most of the local cafeterias only had 3 button cabs, and each machine had a different button combination (Usually 2 punches + 1 kick. Gief was low tier)
Cursing the dumb joystick first time I played ST because for some reason my DPās werenāt working anymore
ābeep-beep duuuunggg kee!ā (spinning bird kick)
Wasting credits trying to reach Sheng Long
Glitching the burning drums on bonus stage to fall through the screen
Aaah the old school was fun :woot:
Hey Old schoolers out there who been playing SF2 forever.
Whatās a faster game arcade Hyper Fighting or arcade Level 3 Super Turbo?
Right now Iām in an HDR remix binge and man this game awesomely addicting!!! Itās so freaking fast!!! Itās funny how my mind is processing the moves at such a quick pace. Itās like Iām on speed. I wonder why I never played a fast game like Marvel.
Its funny reading some of these posts around times when a new SF game comes out and the OG players will say like how it will get them stoked on SF again. I have a feeling that this is going to happen till the end of time, or until Capcom decides to stop putting out SF games altogether, whichever comes first. What would you guys do if Capcom didnāt make a new SF game anymore? Is there any particular game in the series that you would then decide to play above all others or would you just stop playing?
The only game that i can imagine would consume me like SF does, would be a 3D (very important), kinect enabled (perfect) 1st person fight night boxing gameā¦ maybe.
true.
the only real problem with Fatal Fury, was that you could never find a cabinet around, anywhere, at any time.
i eventually got Fatal Fury for the Sega Genesis. loved it. i donāt remember the game having strict timing for moves though. i remember using the code for unlocking Geese Howard as a playable character. he had his attack reversal, which countered every other characterās move, regardless if it was a normal move, or a super.
homboy was ābrokenā as hell.
i remember when i first saw MK1.
for peeps who werenāt around at that time, Mortal Kombat was the SF4 of its day.
it had so-so gameplay, but stunning 3D graphics that was a novelty for its FG genre.
thats the only thing MK had going for it, aside from the fatalities.
i donāt really have a SF2 great story, since it wasnāt so shocking/new for me, since i had already played SF1.
i remember the first time i played SF1. it was at a laundymat right across from where i lived. it was also at a bodega 1 block away.
i marveled at its graphics, its sound effects, and its gameplay.
i didnāt know exactly how to pull off Ryuās 3 supers, since there really wasnāt anyone who really knew. but i spammed half circle/quarter circle movements plus punch, and sometimes haduken/shoryuken came out, but it was iffy.
i never beat that game.
the farthest i got to was Birdie.
Birdie was different in those days. he was white, had neon colored mohawk hair, super tall, and had a vicious jumping headbutt(i think it was his super) that destroyed your full life meter in 4 seconds flat.
i wish i knew the correct stick inputs for Ryuās 3 supers, maybe i would have been able to reach Sagat and put that shoryuken scar on his chest.
i was in the 7th or 8th grade in my first encounter with SF1.
when SF2 came out. i was in 1st year of HS, i think, and i remember playing in laundrymats, arcades, bodegas, budda spots, video rental stores, etcā¦
i remember being given 3 bucks every day to buy caferteria lunch with, buying/eating a 75 cent burger or sandwich, and saving the rest of those daily 3 dollar rations to go play SF2 right after school, every single day, every week, for a year.
i went hungry and thirsty for SF2.
if the supers were easy/reliable to pull off in SF1,ā¦
and people could actually play each other,
and you could choose any character from the game instead of only ryu or kenā¦
we would all be talking ābout the "remember da good olā days of SF1" instead of SF2.
edit:
i forgot to mention Samurai Shodown1 was out in SF2 days, along with World Heroes Gorgeous, but those cabinets were hard to locate, but those games were super fun to play. especially SS.
i remember the thrill of cutting down bamboo trees with my sword while battling in the bamboo forest. shit was epic.
Where are all the old schoolers?
Man I posted back in 2003 and 2004 for this thread
Nice bump!
Thanks for reminding of this great thread. I remember reading it like around 10 years ago. Gonna have to give it another read for old times sake.
This was a great thread I read the whole thing in one sitting. I wish I was born earlier so that I could have gotten into the scene earlier. I played Street Fighter 2 growing up but it wasnāt until later I got serious about it. I feel like I missed out on a lot because of that.