I still have a SF2 scar on the inside of my left-hand ring finger from the blister-on-blister-on-blister; learning how to punch-dragonpunch on an octogated stubby red joystick. The arcade is gone now, knocked down and a massive shopping center on top of where it used to be. Good times. True what you said about ‘shoulder-kicks’ here too, your opponant would not be ‘very happy’, and god help you if you ‘tick-threw’ them… plugs would be pulled, money/credits still inside.
Getting people in ‘handcuffs’, ‘freezes’ or doing ‘magic throws’ with Guile was a very risky business too. I remember pissing one guy I played off so much that he went and got the arcade manager to come down out of his office and showed him the ‘machine I had broke’… I didn’t magic throw gief back out of the handcuffs, time ran out and the machine froze with credits inside, doh!
Why is this not stickied? Although I agree with a lot of it, it isn’t really the tone we’re going here for one. Plus a lot if is either wrong or simply misleading.
Why this was bumped after being dead for six months I don’t know.
This article was freaking awesome. I’m an old school arcade player, so I know exactly what you mean. However in the arcade I grew up in, I didn’t have the luxury of the move displays…some jackass would always take it from the console of every new machine coming in (thinking it might have been a worker). So we, all the players, would have to learn the moves as we play.
Sorry Pherai, but I disagree with you here. Growing up in an arcade, the players DO NOT share their information. If you are in the select group (crew of players) then the information will be shared. I was fortunate to be in this “select group” after going to the arcade for years (right before MvC2 came out). I never had anyone help me play SFII, MK, K.I, KOF, etc. I had to learn by watching others play and by playing the game.
Awesome read…very interesting. A lot of new players are spoiled as the OP suggests, but I, on the other hand , am thankful that I have so many resources to utilize for the improvement game. I guess I can’t see anything wrong with fellow noobs asking for help in the ways that we do…in our microwave society, we are always looking for the Cliff’s Notes to our life’s struggles. But I agree with the OP…play the fudgin game…you will “feel” your skills develop over time.
If I was going to argue with the original point, I would have done it when it was posted six months ago, not when it was necroposted for no good reason.