If you bought an SNES just to play SF2 you might be OG.
If after playing SNES SF2 you knew something was different about it you might be OG.
If you have all the GamePRO strategy guides for SF2 through SSF2 you might be OG.
If you remember every detail about your first Double KO in SF2 you might be OG.
If you ever had a friend act like he’s playing as player 2 just so you can fight Akuma in ST you might be OG.
I was 8 or 9 when SF2 came out, damn I’m old.
If you learned all your techniques from watching the big kids play… you might be OG.
Almost all this applies to me.
Does Circle K count?
I felt like I had wasted my week’s allowance after doing it, but I did.
you were part of history…be proud
fuck that yo, I was the kid with the sonic 1 cap watching my brother run that shit
you know you OG if you defeated the top player there and gained respect
(and yes, he did have a crew that didnt talk but laughed whenever the top guy said something)
if you remember the arcade owner’s name when sf2 ww came out (Mr. Jackson ftw!)
you know you OG if you psycho crush all day
if your the only kid that could perform a tiger knee
if you competed in a tournament during school hours
I think I was around 11 or 12 when SF2 came out in arcades. Probably about 95% of this is all me. I got served for YEARS in arcades, even when I got WW for SNES. 
If you remember when arcades had an entire WALL dedicated to SF2 cabinets, AND ALL OF THEM HAD LINES OF PEEPS WAITING IN LINE TO PLAY…
Hello, I’m OG. European OG.
I don’t think anybody can fathom what that means. You are European OG when you actually played SFII on the SNES when it came out.
That’s it… I know, kinda low standard but there never really were popular or big arcades in Europe and neither random machines with a FG on it. Except for Italy, that might have been different.
If you finished reading this entire thread in one sitting cause of the nostalgia, you might be OG…
If you got busted by school police at the arcade for ditching school to go play, you might be OG…
If you clearly remember the guy that NEVER had any money and was always asking for rounds, you might be OG…
If you would save your lunch money to go play at the arcade and ditch last period of high school instead of FUCKING EATING, you might be OG…
If you remeber when you could DP Claw consistently after he dove from the wall for you on his stage in WW that meant you were good, you might be OG
If you remember pulling Claw OFF the wall with Guiles “super grab”, you might be OG.
If you think back on all these times as some of the best times of your life and will never forget them plus WISH SO BAD YOU COULD GO BACK, you are most definetly an OG
I remember when Bison’s slide was unblockable and Zangief’s only special was 3P/3K.
:wonder: When SFII first came out I was in the 6th grade. I used to skip classes and walk to the Food Lion (grocery store) with my friends about a block away from our school and play SF. Back then we use to think Ryu and Ken said “All You Can”, “Paul Newman” “All Nougat” when he dragon punched, “I don’t take bullsh!t” for the hurricane kick and various other things like Guile screaming “Ru Paul… Ru Paul… Ru Paul” when he lost. Man, I was so pissed when I heard that to do Guile’s sonic boom you had to do back, foward + punch and I spent like 20 minutes trying to do it but never could (my brother never told me to charge back for 2 seconds). Eventually they got rid of the SFII at Food Lion and replaced it with Championship Edition but that didn’t last long because people used to cuss loud when my friend Cory would use Bison and do his sweep all round. We eventually moved on to Fun Fun Fun on the weekends and payed $10 for 100 tokens and use to beat up on all the GIs that came to play. When it finally came out for SNES I had all the versions and used to charge people in my neighborhood 25 to play or $5 a week to play or $20 a month to play. :xeye: Geez, that was so long ago. Good times… dood.
You might be OG if you use to look at peoples hands when they did combos and they would get mad at you for looking. :wonder: I was about 11-12 when SF2 come out also and I pretty much lived at 7-11.
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i was like 9-10 years when i played sf, really good days, i remember that i skiped school several times only for play the game
If you discovered an arcade and it actually had an ST machine and no comp for miles, you’re European OG.
If you didn’t even care you were playing it on Atari, you just HAD to play Street Fighter, you’re European OG.
(Yes, a friend of mine had WW on Atari. Guile’s Sonic Boom was small and blue, even though it looked normal in the start-up animation and we only managed to do the SPD once -two on one keyboard- but I think he actually spun around his horizontal axis, rather than his vertical one.)
:d: Oh yeah, I wasn’t a teen when it came out. I was 8!
You didn’t have to be a teen at the time of most of this but yes, I can relate.
I was 7 when SFII came out so I’m an OLB, Old Little Brother. Annoying as shit, but you know I loved the game!
All you OG’s owe us for serving as moving targets on console version. It’s better than training against the computer, right?
Me and my friends used to take two SNES controllers and swap the buttons around so we had 1 controller with all convex buttons and one with all concave. The convex controller was for SF, and the concave controller just didn’t even get used except by little kids or sisters.
You might be OG if you played SF II in the Laundromat!!!
^These.
I was 14 years old (high school freshman) when SF2 was released. I didn’t even know about it until I went into 7-Eleven one day after school. There wasn’t even a crowd there; maybe three other people were playing. When they all left, I started playing, and I was hooked after that. Guile was the first and only character I picked, and I pronounced his name as 'GEEL" (not the popular “GULLY”). 5-hit jab dizzy was the best. 
I saved lunch money to play after school. School ended around 3PM, and I’d be in 7-Eleven for at least two hours some days. The sun set between 5 and 6PM, and that’s when I knew I had to stop playing and start walking home.
I can’t say if GamePro was actually good for SF2 in those days. But back then, I was into EGM… got yearly subscriptions and everything. They used to have new SF2 info almost every month. I knew if they did just by looking at the cover, which would have some new screenshot or artwork on it. I think the very first time EGM covered SF2, there was an enlarged screenshot of Ken on the cover. I collected all those issues and even put them in plastic. They’re probably destroyed now, but man, I loved that magazine.
Yes, I saw the Street Fighter movie in theaters. I wanna say I saw it opening night, or a day or two after. It was more of a family trip, though.
alt.games.sf2… yep, I was there during my college years, and I got most of my info from there. I posted as Abrahm Wolf (and Abrahm later), and yeah, I was a little too excited at times. I knew about SRK back then, but I didn’t register because I didn’t want to submit “personal information” to a website.
Good thread.
dang, where to begin…i lived in Isla Vista right next to UCSB so i was always playing street fighter. there was a machine in the local arcade, 2 pizza parlors had one each, the sandwich shop, and of course the student center on campus.
oh yea, the laundromat had one as well, hahaha. maan…that game was EVERYWHERE!!.
oh, and i too saw Street Fighter in the theatres…ballin!
that button mashin’ bullshit…