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Yeah this thread really deserves a 5 rating and most importantly… a stickie(can a mod please sticky this thread)?
Yea, those were the good old timez where everybody gather and a tradition started cause of SF2 been so popular. My 1st ever SF character was Ryu and will always be Ryu threw thick and thin. I feel like i can still go down to a local store and find a SF2 arcade rite next to the doors, pop in quarter and play some SF, but now its a thing in the past. Wonderful stories here about the old schools SF2 that even brought tears to my eyez. Ryu,Ken, and Chun-Li will always be the 3 heroes of fighting gamez and will always live on to do so. SF2 is a once in a life time experience that will never happen again, but atleast we felt that experience while it lasted. 
i miss these days:(
man I was 11 was SF2 came out and was I the only one when the game finished and after I used Ryu. After when u come out u start shouting hadoken and shoryuken but the hurraicane kick was hard 4 me 2 pronounce, so I used 2 say hacha hacha burger, like Ryu just came from Mcdonalds like that, yes please I would like a hacha hacha burger
Sorry,but I really felt this should be bumped.
I remember when Championship Edition first came out Alex Valle and I were at a liquor store and he beat so many people and people were so mad that they unpluged the machine and made him leave. That had to be the funniest shit ever…
:lol: Indeed.
Here is a post from jcasetnl on the ShinAkuma forums. Definitely worth the read and worthy of the subject at hand.
hmm…
i remember when i first saw sf2. i was like 8 or so? 7 or 8…anyways, it was awesome. i don’t quite remember the feeling i had for it, but me and this dude named ken(who was damn good at the game) played all night on his super nintendo. my first game for super nintendo was sf2. oh man, guile was who everyone played as back in the day where i’m from. we were fascinated by his hair, his air throw, flash kick, and sonic boom.
oh man, guile > 3 all of us at the time.
i used to play this in the arcade all the time. that or simpsons arcade game and xmen arcade game. this is ol’ skool…brings back nice memories, heh. anyways, i remember when sf had commercials on tv(ssf for snes) and they had one for championship edition i believe. my friends and i tried to draw the cover for that game. all we did was collect video game magazines and shit. gamepro, gamefan, game players, egm, egm2 when that came out a lil later, etc. this is back when egm was like mad pages long. like thick as hell.
its not just streetfighter for me, its video games at that time period. i had to post in here out of respect too, even if i wasn’t in cali, and around the real pro’s. i remember seeing choi and valle winning every tournament in all the magazines. heh.
sf has to be on my top list of games that changed my life. that and mario 1, 3, and world
mortal kombat 2
killer instinct
virtua fighter 2 and fighter’s megamix
chrono trigger and mario rpg
parasite eve and brave fencer musashi
final fantasy 7
river city ransom
simpson’s arcade game and xmen arcade game
donkey kong country1 and 2
sfer series including marvel vs capcom 1 and 2 and 3s and alpha 3
honorable mentions :bubble bobble, mario 2, tetris, kirby’s dreamland, teenage mutant ninja turtles 2 and 3, contra series, sonic 1, 2, and 3.
i wish games were like they used to be. hard as hell and fun at the same time, so you’d keep coming back for more.
this and like that
Hey don’t forget about PIT FIGHTER!
Man…people were flocking to that game like shit on flys. How wrong they were. People gave up on that shit when they realized what you could do in SF.
Hey EGGO, question for you. What is your connection to GameFan? That mag was the bible to my friends and I. I ask because I want to know what happened to Nick Rox? his support of street fighter in the 90’s was wonderful. when was the last time you picked up a game magazine with a 2D fighting game on the cover?
Bump.
Any chance we could get the end of the story?
tomo still lives in SOCAL. after chapionship edition he got into PC games. now he plays in a basketball league with a co-worker of mine, and the only games he plays now is counter-strike and warcaraft3. he was a GREAT SF2 player, BUT only with guile. i would work his ass if he was anyone else…BUT when he chose guile, it was over for everyone that challenged him.
I recently found out about roms and emulators, im so happy that i can play street fighter everyday now for FREE. damn i spent so many quarters. i remember stealing a guys bike because he would keep short, short throwing me. Damn that used to piss me off so bad.
anyways i heard that u can play mame roms online? are there many sf2 players online?
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In New Zealand
there’s never been that many Street Fighter Contests. (Except for a lame high score ones).
There was kind of an unoffical tornament down at the arcade in the centre of Town every Saturday night.
Wizards “Free Play” night. $5 for 5 hours of free play on all the machines in the arcade Super Turbo was the latest SF.
Me and my best friend would spar during the week on our Megadrives. And then go into the city on the weekend.
The unwritten rules were: You lose the fight step away from the machine. Then the next player challenges the winner. But that did’nt stop beginners from challenging again and again. Hogging the machine. While the “Real” Players had to wait. “I’m allowed to play whatever machine I want!” was there only defence. But even losers can only take so many perfects. “You did’nt even let me get a hit! That’s not fair!” “Thats right… It isn’t.”
Me and my friend ruled the Hyper Fighting machine. But it was so popular at the time we always had quite a few
There were some Excellent Japanese players. And the games were always very friendly. We all shared techniques with each other. Super Turbo was the hot machine since it did’nt see the light of day on home consles for years. In New Zealand, people would laugh at you for choosing Dhalism. Such was many a players folly.
And when we found out about choosing Akuma! Man things got very interesting.
The joy of when I first found out and unlocked him.
Wizards is now shut.
Ahhhhh… I miss thoughs days.
I have a slight memory of Street Fighter I, but I had zero interest in it - our version had freaking punch pad controls. Space Harrier was my game.
Street Fighter II at the local bowling alley. Now that’s where the action was in the 80’s. Who bothered with Ikari Warriors or Marble Madness when you had SFII? I was in the Atari 2600 generation, so SFII was just amazing graphically. I tried Ryu (like everyone) at first, but i just couldn’t get a hold of the “all-you-can” (my friend still calls the Shoryuken that lol) so like a wuss I switched to the “easier” chun-li.
Chun-Li got housed BAD for a long time - everyone and their mother seemed to have an attack to stop her. I couldn’t even figure out E.Honda’s stupid torpedo - and definitely not the much faster “Blanka Ball.” When i managed to stumble past Vega (damn that fence-clinging divebomb!) and sagat to get to Bison, that damn psycho-crusher was SO annoying! The only thing that kept me in the game was a guaranteed air throw as time began - Bison always jumped for you.
I finally figured out how to stop body projectiles (i love you, flying knee!) and practiced my triangle of death and hesitation moves (they still work on kaillera opponents lol!) and most important - timing and distance. Remember, SFII = no kikouken. There were alot of ways that SFII was cheap, but i’ll always look fondly on Chun Li v.1 - simple and badass. The best player (and my greatest adversary) was Dolphin Man, a dude in a Miami Dolphins jacket that played Guile like this…sonic boom forever until you got close enough to get flash kicked. I loved the rounds where i feinted inside, and had him miss on a flash kick - or even better pretended to feint, and froze him as i walked right up to him and threw him.
college in the 90’s brought Champion Edition (what is up with these funky strong kick forward flips and forward kick backflips?) and my indoctrination to the Tap-Throw. my poor sheltered upbringing didn’t prepare me for the national (and international) strategies campus life brought- that was 4 years of dog-eat-dog, and the competition there was fast and furious (and so was the smack talk). the sad thing was going back home and seeing dolphin man - i destroyed him regularly, and seeing him change to ken after losing with his best player guile in a futile attempt at a change of tactics was even sadder.
finally it was graduation time. hyper fighting was an interesting development - chun li can throw fireballs! well, sorta. and those bootleg boards where chun li could spinning bird kick (i called them “helicopter kicks”) on top of the screen and all the way across at lightning speeds…a fun diversion but i still preferred SFII:CE. by this time i have to admit i was getting a little bit of the SFII burnout - and all the etiquette like a pity round and no tap-throw went out the window by the time Super SFII came out. I never did get used to Chun Li having that kicking uppercut thing - i considered it just another Shotokan wannabe move.
Believe it or not, I only played 1 or 2 games total of SF Alpha and SFIII - i missed out on that whole generation. By that time the arcades weren’t what they used to be and i felt lame going to a place where families brought their toddlers to play mini-skeeball and daytona USA. SFII was about novelty and originality, and arcades were too - it was a fresh experience. SFII:CE was about the competition and hardcore strategy - college was a good stomping ground for that. nowadays i’ll take my kid cousins to the arcade to play the latest 2-dollar tourist trap.
I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving when i’ll drag out my import dreamcast games inbetween watching the kids play their uber-slick xbox and ps2 games. i think the future is definitely online, and if there is a future for SFII, it will have to find a way to recapture that old magic in this new format.
Only with Guile? Um…Guile wasn’t his tourney character on HF. If you’re talking SF2:WW, who cares. It was a pos(of course then we had nothing to compare it to, heheh). Tomo was good with other characters. By the last paragraph I assume Tomo didn’t toss you around anyway. Casual play, bleh.
And after CE he got into PC games? Sounds like you’re saying he dropped SF. He played in tourneys up until SSF2 and even an ST tourney or 2.
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Old School
Was this up in Auckland? I’m in Hamilton. Never any tournaments here, either. Hell, we don’t even have any COMPETITION here. There’s about 2 dudes that play MvC2 that are worthwhile. Everyone else plays tekken tag or coughs Soul Calibur 2… in campaign mode. No 2p there.
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naw im not saying he completely dropped sf2, but he just didnt play it as much as he played WW and CE. i dunno, i didnt think he was that great with other characters, but thats just my opinion.
me, i lived in Orange County Ca. in my area there were a few MAIN arcades…Clubhouse pizza, YOGI’s, golfland on beach, and beach and warner arcade. my friends and i pretty much destroyed everyone there.
Golfland was “ok” at that time and beach and warner was better but not by much. Which Yogi’s? Anaheim? Don’t remember clubhouse pizza.
At that time I would have to say that Camelot had the best comp since Schaefer would bring down LA guys like Tomo or Watson or other World’s Finest players. Tomo, Jeff and myself went down to Golfland on Beach once and it was pathetic. I didn’t go there again until A2 days when Valle brought the comp level there higher than ever.
Tomo would pick Bison on CE vs Sim. I wasn’t around during WW but seeing Tomo on CE and HF I’d have to say that HF was his highlight time(discounting WW since only one could pick Guile). His Ryu was incredible. Ryu was his main character in HF. He never needed a back up character. On CE he needed Bison to compete vs. Sim.
He always had the Vega weakness, imo. Still, even today, I think Daigo is the only player that’s reminded me of Tomo’s level. While not untouchable, surely dominant.
You should nag that foo to give SF tourneys one more go. A decade off is more than enough to get over the boredom of winning:P Although, there is a lot more stupid shit nowadays that I’m sure he’d find distasteful, lol.
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Great thread. I played SF2:CE when I was like 3 and I’ve loved SF ever since. It’s funny how im kind of an old school SF player (even though I only got out of scrubdom last year) and I’m only 15.
as for yogi’s there was the one in anaheim and the one in garden grove. we went to both. the funny thing is that i still go to camelot sometimes, but of course there are no sf2 players there. there is a lot of svc players though. i have never tried SVC yet, i guess im more into the old school.
i know this sounds weird but this is how it was…i could beat tomo, tomo would kill my friend ching, but ching would kill me. i guess we had our own styles, and it depends on how a person adapts to ones style. i just never had a hard time against tomo when he was ryu.