To quote:
“Scritons 5th Anniversary Limited Edition Street Fighter II Collectors Box.
Released during the global arcade & home console dominance of 'STREET FIGHTER II… …Contains 3 audio CD’s each in theyre own individual jewel case… …yada yada…”
THIS IS THE REALLY INTERESTING PART:
“This collectors box also includes 2 (NTSC) VHS tapes featuring VS matches between Japan’s best players, combos, interviews, tricks & secrets, tournament footage and much more, spanning the first three Street Fighter II instalments:
STREET FIGHTER II The World Warrior
STREET FIGHTER II Champion Edition
STREET FIGHTER II Hyper Fighting”
:wonder::encore:
Dare I dream that this could be as good as it sounds?
As a bonus there is also:
“a 16 page (12x12) full color booklet and full wall-size ‘SFII:Hyper Fighting’ color poster. All in a delightfully deluxe oversize 13x13 black vinyl box, with the Street Fighter II logo in fine gold reflective lettering.”
Now for the catch:
“Only 2000 Street Fighter II Collector’s Box’s were ever produced, each one printed with its own unique identification serial number for authenticity.
Never released outside of Japan.
Box comes with wrap-around obi strip.
Can sell for anywhere between $100 - $400”
OUCH!! Anyone got $400 handy?
Now I know for a fact that the OST section of this package has been ripped and is available. So its very possible that the same person could-would rip the video too. Maybe someone here, ‘knows someone’ has other ideas?
That combo video is funny. I’m pretty sure the Balrog double Dash Upper “combo” doesn’t actually combo in the video but they were too lazy to keep trying until it did.
I’m pretty sure that the combo video is edited from a much longer video. And yeah, not all of those are legit. I’m not sure about the Balrog one. But the fire at the end of Dhalsim’s combo definitely doesn’t really combo. Still, it’s impressive that they got a genuine 4-hit combo with him even without the fire!
I saw this Scitron set available on eBay for $80 BIN a couple of years back. If it was for ST instead, I definitely would’ve gotten it (but no, there is no equivalent Scitron ST set).
Not incredibly hard to find though; even now, somebody on eBay has it for sale, albeit at a high $220 price point (then again, the tapes are sealed so you’re ensured that they haven’t deteriorated from use).
beh, yeah I should have thought of that right away! Dang, its because they were called incorrectly called ‘Gamest’ and ‘Pony Canyon’ for so long, I’d fergotten myself that they were actualy Scitron tapes… Oh well, saved $400 I guess…
On a posotive note, there is still the Gamest HF tape to be ripped, anyone…
I actually bought the LD version of that box set a few months ago, as well as a similar one for Neo Geo, but I did it for the soundtracks. At the time, I thought it was as one-in-a-million thing, but then I saw two more copies for the Street Fighter one on Yahoo! Auctions Japan.
Thanks for confirming Eidrian, that those are the Scitron tapes you’ve already kindly uploaded. Where can I get those first three tapes listed?
In the thread ‘Old school VHS any interest’, a ‘Gamest’ Hyper Fighting tape was listed, I would dearly love to see this get ripped if anyone has it. Know anything about this Eidrian?
And BTW, i forbid these videos to appear on youtube. I simply despise youtube, and if i’m going to see them posted, i might as well have uploaded them myself. So please be respectful and don’t post them there. Thanks.
