i started with sf2 for the snes.
then got introduced to mortal kombat and never looked back on street fighter until marvel super heroes and x-men vs street fighter.
over the years, msh and x-men vs street fighter lead to competitive mvc2, which lead to cvs2 and back to street fighter.
I remember there was a similar thread.
Anyway, in 1992 I read a video game magazine about upcoming SNES games and two caught my attention:
Turtles in Time and SF2.
I played the game on arcades later that year and also the SF2T version of PC and New Challengers on Genesis in the mid-90s
Also the EX games through emulation. By the time Alpha 2 arrived I had lost interest since I became more an SNK fan. Even SFIII didnt catch my attention for long in early 2000. Only with SF4:AE, though reluctantly, did I decide to start with the franchise again.
I did turn back…to SF2, III and Alpha!
But I prefered Samurai Shodown 1 and World Heroes 2 in the arcades.
Lightz
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When it comes to SF, I’m a post-09er fuccboi. I got into the series really late though my first SF game was Alpha 3, which at the time I wasn’t a fan of. Now I’m a huge fan of SF. I mostly played MvC2, Tekken and MK before though
Ya reminded me that i used to play fatal fury joe higashi and pitfighter when the sf2 machines lines were to long
- I was a kid at Walmart waiting while my mom was shopping. There were a few arcades by the exit, and I waited there. One of the machines was Street fighter 2 Championship Edition. I was in absolute awe. I mean I can’t even put into words how mesmerizing this game was. You have to remember it was 1992. The characters were so big, they were so detailed, so vibrant. I was used to NES graphics. My god…6 buttons!!? Insane! Most arcades seemed to have 2 or 3 buttons with the stick. Holy fuck, and the music…my god, the music.
There was a teenager playing Ryu. It was a competitive one on one game. I put in 2 quarters, and picked Blanka…who looked like this insane beast man! (I was deeply interested in animals then, still am). I didn’t know what I was doing…his character was throwing fucking fireballs, and dragon punches…flying hurricane kicks…there were just so many moves. Every button did a different thing, many did a separate thing when close. I didn’t know any specials and was mashing. My eyes went wide in amazement when I let out an aura of electricity and electrocuted my opponent…I could see his skeleton!!! Fuck…! Then I was on my oppenent biting his face…blood spewing…!!! I actually took a round, due to mashing randomness, and lost the match. However an eternal love was born.
Went to a friends house, her older brothers had SF2 on the snes, I was terrible at it but the music stuck in my head. I would just look forward to just listening to the soundtrack more than I would playing it. I was hooked from then on.
I remember mashing Roundhouse hard back when I was like 5 and playing Alpha. Eventually, 8 years later, I just decided to get good (even though I’m still far from good lmao)
I played a lot of MK with my brother when I was a kid and got beat down every time. This was mostly due to the fact that my brother played more then I did and was actually afforded practice opportunity’s beyond watching someone better then you rip your character a new asshole. Street fighter was the first game that I picked up independent of my brother. At this time I was playing the dreamcast third strike port. Being able to play by myself and for as long as I want ended up with me finally understanding the very bare bones basics of fighting games rather then just blocking and rolling my fingers on buttons hoping my brother would mess up. It was also the first fighting game I discovered friends through, there was a third strike cabinet at a bowling alley that a group of 4 to 10 people were at regularly playing along with the nearby MVC cabinet and this driving game of which the name escapes me. It was the first game that clicked, the first time I was able to understand mechanics and feel like my level of input was on par with the games output.
Capcom vs SNK 1.
I played different fighting games on a passive basis up until I’ve seen this game back in 4th grade. The did have quite a few flaws to it but this is the game that properly introduced me to nearly everything.
Then I gradually migrated towards other fighting games like KOF96, ST, SFA2… then many others. Oh, what good times they were…
In the early 90’s but back then every one was playing SF in arcades and on SNES. But I didn’t try to learn it for real until SF4. When SF4 was coming out on consoles there was a lot of buzz, but I hadn’t played in several years. I was pretty heavy into melee tournaments at the time and one of my melee friends bought SF4. I was hooked instantly and dropped melee for a long time. Ironically these days I very much dislike SF4 and very, very rarely play it. Once I tried to play older SFs and other FG series more seriously, I just didn’t care for SF4 any more. At all.
In the 90s my exposure to Street Fighter II was pretty minimal. I occasionally played it in arcades, and at friends houses on Snes or Gen. But… I kind of hated it. The AI was always brutal, and the damage too high to learn anything. It would be until my local arcade got a Marvel v Capcom machine that I’d find a fighting game I actually enjoyed playing.
In the early 2000s I started looking into MAME emulation for various arcade games, initially for MvC and the rest of the Capcom Vs titles. But eventually I got to Street Fighter III 3rd Strike. I played a lot of it ONLINE via GGPO and generally came to love the game. Signifigantly more then II.
When IV was announced I was somewhat excited, but I actually didn’t get to play it until late 2013 when I got a PC that could play it. I like IV a lot, not as much as 3rd Strike, but it also is a lot more fun to play then II.
And that’s how I got into Street Fighter. I guess by growing up in the 90s, and becoming a fan of CP2 Capcom fighters.
It was 2011 or 2012 and I was bored of the normal shooter. One day I remember one day telling a bunch of friends I wanna start playing fighter beside naruto soon after an old friend let me play sf3 and soon after losing 73 times I bounce back onto sf4 and I got better over time…then ultra came out I started sucking but worth it
One day my brother brought home a copy of Super SFIV and we just started playing. I was awful but had fun plus i lost my shit when i saw a shun goku satsu for the first time
I was into hardcore underground horror movies and this chick who reviewed them made a video of her cosplaying as chun li at a anime con. so i went to a con here in town and met up with this girl who was also cosplaying as chun li. i had never played sf before and we played world warrior on a snes in the gaming room. didnt know how to block, didnt know how to throw, didnt know any special moves so i got my ass kicked. she thought i was going easy on her so we exchanged numbers at least, she lived in houston though so nothing came of it. 
what really got me into fighting games though was the g4 icons episode on snk and so i really got into kof.
It started with Final Fight for arcade that got me stuck on Capcom. I loved beatem ups. I saw sf2 at my local pizza place and saw you could beat up other people. Instantly hooked. I was only about 5-6 and just mashed shit, but hey, look at me now.
I popped a quarter into a MvC1 machine at an arcade because the game had Megaman in it. That got me into the franchise and I started playing SF with a good friend of mine, namely Alpha 2/3 and 3rd Strike, along with some of the other Vs games.
I remember playing SF2 Champion Edition at the mall arcade as a kid. The intro just looked so cool to me, with the guy getting punched out and then the fast pan up the building. Just iconic. I remember not long after my friend got the SNES version and I played it as his house constantly, but it always bothered me that they got rid of that intro.
I was very little in the early 90s. Just only between the ages 2-5. I had an older cousin who had sf2 for his genesis and I would always play it when I visited. Then one day I got the sf2 animated movie on vhs. Watched the shit out of it growing up. By the time I was a little older I was reading a lot of tips and tricks magazine which had a section in the back that covered fighting game events. It was the first time I had ever heard of tournaments for sf.
