Oh shi…! That was the “boss code” right? I bought a Game Genie JUST for that code! I later used it to make the “sweat” in SNES MK red.
I was like 13 when SF2 came out. I took piano lessons and after lessons, my mum, sister and I would go to this mall that had an arcade. We’ve have a snack and then I’d run off to the arcade to play SF2 while they looked at clothes. But I’d to to piano lessons with a pocket just about overflowing with quarters, many of which I stole from this change box my dad had in the kitchen.
There was also this little soda shop in my hometown (which was tiny) and I used to walk there in the dead of winter so i could play SF2 and Final Fight when I was in 7th grade.
If you remember the issue of EGM that broke the news about SNES SF2 and SF2CE, you might be OG!
I remember when I was beating on fools for games… then the pager beeped.
So I passed it to the homey between rounds and stepped outside.
Back then we all carried beepers. We knew where the nearest payphones were. Call the girl, rap for awhile, make plans, then head back into the arcade. Tap the homey on the shoulder.
My mistake it was Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (thanks) damn that game was , I also remember playing Street Fighter 2 Turbo on a Arcade machine at a bowling alley against my 3 other brothers, a couple friends, and some cousins when I was at a Family Reunion
played from like 6:00 PM to 2:00 AM (I had like $22 in quarters, and was raping people with Ken all night)
My cousin used to call Ken (with the gold gi) Super Ken and he always picked him with that color and kicked my ass (we did all the goofy , say “allryuken” and tried to mimic Sagat’s winning pose, we all thought Cammy was hot) damn good times
I was 11 or 12 when SFII came out, missing the teenage years by one year. But I remember the first time I saw a Chun-Li combo. It was at Cool Crest Golf Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This guy did a j.HK, s.FP, d.HK. I was like “wow”.
Back in the days people didn’t know how to use fireballs. And people rarely knew how to do other specials. The joystick movements were too foreign to us. I executed my first fireball ever in 1992 when I moved to Atlanta, Ga and some fools actually told me how to do it. It was at an old laundry mat is Stone Mountain, GA. Across the Street from Gamewarp arcade.
Dhalsim was my first main because of his range games. I didn’t need to know any specials to use him. In 1994, this older guy at the arcade taught me Zangief. I remember this old trick on how to hold the joystick to do 360s. If you started with back, and moved the joystick up and hit punch, it would do a SPD. My problem before that was hitting punch before I hit up because I was afraid of jumping.
In the Christmas of 1993, I received Street Fighter Special Champion Edition, a Genesis, along with $50. I immediately went an purchased a 6 button Gensis controller, and my Street Fighting game stepped up. I thought I had such an advantage being able to train at home. I would go to gamewarp every Saturday and test out my skills against live competition, only to lose. I also was severly disappointed when I retured to Kansas City to enter my first Street Fighter tournmanet, and lost horribly.
If you got your ass jumped in the movie threater arcade in Oakland, California for doing an Sonic Boom > Back Drop by 6 crips wearing Starter Raiders parkas proclaiming “We Soldja’s!!!” - You might be OG!
I am half OG. I was 10 when sf2 came out, but I would play it at 7-11 and be the little kid that would beat older players. My friends would be scared cause they would get pissed off. Dhalsims slide is SO CHEAP!!
If you signed on through PRODIGY at 2400bps to check Alt.games.sf2. You might be OG.
If you ever joined #sf4 and there was never more then 12 people in the room, you might be OG
If you know who the Horsmen and or/ the guild is… you might be OG.
If Scan ever nuked you off your 56k connection to efnet you might be OG.
If you remember the Chicken being at CTF you might be OG.
If you ever thought “theres no way O.Sagat is good in ST” you might be OG.
If you ever flew cross country to a SF gathering and the first thing you did was bust into the host house(trag’s) and take a huge dump even before introducing yourself you might be OG
If you knew Mr. Wizard when his Teeth were straight you are without a doubt OG.
i was 10 when WW came out and could only play when the bigger kids left. there were no lines so the bigger you were the longer you played. whenever the big kids left, me and my brother would tell our friends, “the big kids left, so lets go play”.
so if you had to duck thugs just to play Dat Game back in the day, you might be OG
1993 i was 9 years old and kept on doing c.rh to some black kid. his dad was there and kept on getting furious telling me i was cheap then asked the store manager if he could do something about it. those were the days.
wouldnt be surprised if son and dad are now dead for stupid reasons lol.
LMAO I had all the original GamePro issues that used to show each characters moves along with a little pic of each one. They were torn out and used so much that in later times I would find them and they’d like pages from the Constitution…all faded, partially torned, etc etc.
When you’re nearest arcade (or any place that had games) was more than 20 miles away the SNES SF2 was the only option. In your highschool year book when you had your senior page and you would put stuff like “Varsity Basketball 1-4” meaning you played ball freshman through senior yr, I had one entry for SF2 late night team 1-4. That one SNES cart rarely ever left the system slot lol.
Those 3 are very fucked up, especially the stealing from your mom part. I’m pretty sure that this is supposed to be cool and all, but considering the last thread I just read was about joysticks being stolen at Evo I can’t help but think that the catchphrase “if you stole joysticks from fellow gamers at Evo you might be OG” will have its glory in somebody’s post 10 years from now.
And seriously. Don’t steal from your mom. That’s wrong in so many levels…
The HELL is a 7-11 Guile? We didn’t have that in Villahermosa, Tabasco – all we had was Koryu-ish bootlegs called SF2 ALPHA MAGIC where you’d Shoryuken and 3895629 fireballs flew out.
I remember the very corner store I first played SF2 at had that chip put into it’s upgraded dual screen (yes, one screen stacked on another…) Champion Edition Cabinet…I was there when the guy put it in…it was the biggest mindfuck my young mind had ever bore witness to…
I remember one of the roller rinks I used to go to (Houston posters take note) STILL had fucking rainbow edition in it…(I left Houston in 2004…) I think it was Dairy Ashford Roller Rink…
I remember back in the day as well…Starlite (now known as The Z or The Zenith) Roller Rink was the first place I knew of to get Hyper Fighting…all of us guys would alternate between actually skating, and beating each others asses on the standup, while STILL on skates…
