i can’t really imagine not visiting srk at least occasionally. i love fighting games too much
There was one thread on SRK that I still, to this day. Call “The Best Forum Thread Ever” and that thread was titled. “I just fart-walked through Target, ask me anything!” posted by Tuff Daddy. in 2005.(I know this cause I saved it in a word document, lol)
That Thread was pure gold.
Been posting here for over 10 years now, hard to believe. FNET was my first forum, but this place ended up becoming my home away from home. It’s a unique community with many cool and informed people to say the least. A lot has changed over the years but it’s still my favorite website to visit. Old SRK was dope, and I miss it sometimes, but I honestly think we’d all look pretty lame still flaming the hell out of each other every day, especially the OG members… a few of which have become some of the best friends I’ve ever made. SRK has stood the test of time, too. With the exception of HerV and MegaTokyo, all of the other sites I used to frequent back then are gone.
Here’s to another 10, peeps.
LOL
I remember that. It was great.
Thread titled “Girlfriend is preg, what do I do?”, was good for quite a few laughs.
Funny was reading this like it was just posted today…yeah that dumb!
I wish i could find my old mvc2 combo video… aw the little things in life.
Edit: Question answered :tup:
Here’s how I know I’m getting old:
-I didn’t recognize this thread.
-Even when I realized ti was an old thread, I didn’t remember it.
-Even when I finally did remember it, I figured it was only like 2 months ago that it was posted.
I made an account on this site because you couldn’t lurk in the matchmaking forums without being logged in back in 2004
I made mine in '00 :[
They should bring back some of the really old layouts as a nice throwback. I’ll never forget that Dictator one.
I joined SRK when I was 14 in 2003, but I lurked for a year before joining, so I knew better than putting my real age.
I can’t change that on my profile now I’m really 22, but my profile says I’m 26
I would have been murdered in the forums back in the day if I would have been showing off I was a teenager 
I love SRK
I miss the days when mods wouldn’t fuck with you as long as you kept it funny while trash talking.
Hell… they would even join in sometimes
I saw a Street Fighter II cabinet for the first time when I was 5 years old. The World Warriors on the flickering screen were larger and more colorful than anything I’d ever seen before. They perpetuated the most raw and teeth clenching acts of violence I’d ever seen up to that point. I was too afraid to put in a quarter and play. It was at the Tropicana super market in San Jose, and the year was 1992.
I’m not going to write about my lifelong love affair with fighting games. I’m writing about SRK. But I wanted to at least establish my cred first. Of course, I was too young to get into the bustling scene. As we all know, Cali was ground zero for the community as it exists today, and I was there. I heard the rumors of older kids playing this game for money, but I was too preoccupied trying to figure out how to throw a fireball. When I got the courage to finally play Street Fighter, I rented it from the Chinese video store down the block on Center Road. They wouldn’t get their game back until a month later.
SF would come back into my life in short bursts later on. The movie came out and I thought it was hillarious, if not all like one of my favorite games of all time. I bought issues of Gamefan just to see screenshots of X-Men: Children of the Atom and flipped through those pages so much that I’d wiped the ink off the pages. Later, I rented the Street Fighter II animated movie, and had fallen for the brighter, even more colorful art style the series would take in Street Fighter Alpha. As a kid I’d go to birthday parties at the movie theater, bowling alley and Chuck E Cheese. Eventually, I’d play the VS games and the Alpha games… but as ashamed as I am now to admit it, and as ashamed as I was back then, I never really knew how to throw a fireball yet.
To be honest, I’m still not very good at fighting games. I can generally do a few b&b combos in any game I play, but I’m far from tourney viable. But in 2001, I bought a Dreamcast. The first game I got for it was Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. I learned how to throw a fireball, but now I wanted to learn more. I found out about a fighting game community from an issue of Tips & Tricks magazine, and wanting to improve my Makoto game, I decided to register at Shoryuken.com.
Whenever I registered at a new message board, I would select a username based on the games that the respective company put out. To explain that point, this was back when, on the Internet, every obscure video game had a fansite and active community forum, when every character had a “shrine” and a webring, and when frames were everywhere. When I registered at Final Fantasy Online, I was Knight Rayjack, after a character from Square’s obscure shooter King’s Knight. When I registered at a Sonic the Hedgehog fansite, I was Rambo… after one of my favorite Sega games, a Rambo shooter on the Sega Master System. This isn’t the most concise method of choosing a nickname but this was some of the dumb esoteric shit I believed in that I (mostly) grew out of. But SRK? This was primarily a Street Fighter site. I wanted to register a Capcom-related nickname. One of my absolute favorite Capcom games was Duck Tales on the NES, and I was this close to registering as “Uncle Scrooge…” until I found out about a very obscure arcade game called “Capcom Bowling.” And I was like, “huh. I think I’ll go with that.” And I’ve been Bowling Pin ever since.
I lurked a lot. I absorbed quite a bit, but SRK was still far too obtuse for me to learn fighting games. What the hell was Frame Data? Alpha Counters? OTGs? What’s an AHVB? Kara Cancels? I left the fighting game discussion to the professionals and just hung out where I was most comfortable: General Discussion. One thing impressed me very quickly. Ethnically and culturally, SRK seemed like a fairly mixed community. I’d never seen so many openly black people on the Internet before this site. Hell, I’d never seen so many openly Hispanic and Asian people either. I read a lot of stories that people shared about their lives… so many people who had upbringings so vastly different to mine. Yet they were the same as I was. We were all fighting game fans. We all believed it was disrespectful and naive to not apply broken and abusable strategies in our games and even our lives. Eventually, I’d get the hang of theory fighting threads, at least enough to read and not feel entirely lost.
SRK back then was as openly combative and hostile as the very games we enjoyed playing. We didn’t much care for public relations back then, nor were we as accommodating to new blood as we are now. There were no such thing as “trolls” - just dumbasses. Internet memes were a phenomenon in their infancy, but even back then, we had AHVB and c.fierce. We played games with sprites from 1994. There was no such thing as rage quitting: we would’ve killed for the opportunity to play even lag-filled matches online, and would’ve savored our ass beatings. Most of us were still running on 56k. You wanted to see a match video? Then you circulated the tapes, or bought the EVO DVDs.
I don’t want to sound like that guy. I don’t want to be that guy. For Christ’s sake, I’m only 24 years old… but I’m still from an older time. Before the unwarranted self entitlement that I see today, both here and everywhere else. Maybe we were just a bunch of stupid, arrogant assholes ourselves back then also. But I know that I’ve grown up, because I can look back and see how far we’ve come, and how little we remember.
2005 was my earliest registered account, but much respect to the real SRK OGs from the earliest of early days. Most ya’ll are some funny mother fuckers.
I remember SRK as early as 2000, with the APEX rankings on the front page and CvS1 tutorial vids. Simply lurked for a few years and just read, didn’t feel any need to register until around 2003 or so…
You know…
This current PG E[FONT=times new roman]ra SRK… not feeling it…[/FONT]
EDIT: Found this for some laughs
I don’t mind since I’m a noob to SRK.
Posting in another worn-out nostalgia thread. 
Seriously, though, nowadays the short bus is for the kids who aren’t retarded.
Starts the engine for the short bus
“Ok guys, come on in!”
You are now highly suspect.