BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
In a sense, even games like Tekken, Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters, etc are Street Fighter II clones.Medalion said:
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Street Fighter II: The World Warrior Turns 20 This Month
- Thread starter Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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FromTheFuture
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Eh, I take that as a compliment. Everyone just knows how skilled we are and they can't fathom how apparently tight we are as a race. Gotta represent!Kadey said:
MightyHedgehog
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I ditched so much to play this during my senior year of high school and during those first few years of college. Awesome times and so much bullshit and misinformation about the game in those pre-modern internet days. Great, great game whose formula I've unfortunately burnt out on after so much play. I'm sad that SFII and VF/Tekken have become so ingrained as basically the only way fighting games work since, like so many other genres where everything starts to blur together. I seriously want fighting game design to start over again from just the base concept.
revolverjgw
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phage said:This never stops being funny to me:
Guile looked like such a dweeb in the first SF2
Also good but still not enough to trump the awesomeness of dat Rainbow Edition.God's Beard said:
Hyper Fighting was Capcom's response to Rainbow Edition, and Rainbow was so much better that in a lot of areas Hyper Fighting was left alone and people went back to Rainbow. Chun got a fireball in Rainbow and Capcom gave her one in Hyper Fighting, same with air Tatsus. Coincidence? Now Koryu is just Rainbow taken to an insane and unplayable degree. Whereas Rainbow was still playable despite the tweaks, Koryu is just nonsense on top of nonsense and is objectively inferior.
As for SF2:WW, those were fucking awesome days indeed. SF1 was a fun game for its time but due to having only 1 playable character it was always just a distraction type game, nothing anyone took serious.
But when SF2 came out, that shit was an injection of hype into the arcade scene unlike anything seen before or since then. Instantly you had players getting crazy competitive with each other and investing serious (and I mean SERIOUS) time and money into learning the ins and outs of every character. Fights breaking out because kids couldn't figure out how to deal with tick throws. Rows of SF2 machines with rows of quarters lined up on each one. Mad shit talking. Rumors of Guile shooting a gun, or Chun-Li throwing her bracelets or picking up and throwing the rock on her stage. Sheng Long. Guile's freeze, handcuffs, invisible throw, reset glitch, etc. Every day there was some new shit going on with that game, and people were learning new strats and developing their own styles all the time. I'll never forget that 4-5 year period when it wasn't a question of if you played SF2, it was how much you played.
GodfatherX
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this was the game that got me completely hooked into gaming. Had a NES and Mario and Zelda ect, but when Street Fighter 2 hit the SNES we would have 8 hour non stop sessions, overheated a cousins brand new SNES 2 days out of the box. I will always have a soft spot for this game.
A genre changer. Very rarely does a game come along that has such a significant impact on gaming and its genre. An amazing game, Ill never forget playing it for the first time. Was in a godfathers pizza here in KCMO. This was about a year after its arcade debut but I played and loved it. Great stuff.
The time I put into the snes version was criminal. CRIMINAL.
The time I put into the snes version was criminal. CRIMINAL.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku! said:
No it isn't you. The Genesis/Megadrive version was definitely the better version to own as it was closer to the arcade.
_dementia said:
Most definitely. Baring sound-fx the Megadrive/Genesis version was much closer to the arcade version by a long shot.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
I still remember the first time I played it, in August of 1991. I was at Skateland (LOL) and my friend Scott was like "you have to play this". The first character I ever picked was Dhalsim, per his recommendation. I kept smashing the fierce punch button and won. I remember the first time I beat it too (with Chun Li) at that same Skateland.
Street Fighter II is an amazing game. Quite honestly I don't think I'd be the same person I am today if the game had never been released...having met / made so many friends as a direct result of playing it (some of whom I am still friends with to this day).
Street Fighter II is an amazing game. Quite honestly I don't think I'd be the same person I am today if the game had never been released...having met / made so many friends as a direct result of playing it (some of whom I am still friends with to this day).
dreamcastmaster
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Nekofrog said:
Yeah but if you were a fan buying the 6 button controller was compulsory. Not only that but it's one of the best controllers ever.
sixteen-bit
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FunnyBunny
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This game taught me so much about arcade etiquette; place your quarter on the cabinet, get in line and wait your turn.
This game was huge. Big lines at arcades, tons of magazine covers and nonstop pre-internet rumors. Handcuffs, bracelets and the ever mysterious red fireball.
This game was huge. Big lines at arcades, tons of magazine covers and nonstop pre-internet rumors. Handcuffs, bracelets and the ever mysterious red fireball.
Megadragon15
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I remember people always getting upset if you threw them in the arcades. Always made people call a player "cheap" when they did it.
ProtoCents
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_tetsuo_ said:
The Take Out Bandit
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sixteen-bit
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lol scrubsMegadragon15 said:
Mr.Squirrel
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FunnyBunny said:
lol ahhhhh my childhood growing up in the arcades of new york. I remember the first time I saw an hadoken......I went home and actually tried to make one. It never worked ;___;
Megadragon15
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Back in 1991, when SF2WW first came out, everyone was a scrub._dementia said:
sixteen-bit
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The mentality that one should not use all the weapons in a characters arsenal is scrubbish. I'm not talking about the level of play or anything like that.Megadragon15 said:
Funny thing is, as much as I blame SFII and all its iterations for being one of the primary reasons why I loved fighting games as a casual observer, it wasn't until this year that I started playing it. Shit is fun as all hell, but fucking dragon punch motions will never feel as natural to me as hadoken motions. :lol
Professor Beef
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LOVE this game, and the series as a whole. Earliest memory I have of playing was when my family went to 7-11, and I saw the cab inside (remember when they used to do that?). I got whooped by CPU Honda using Chun-Li, and my dad cheered me up by saying "she's got big knockers" right in front of my mom. Good times.
When Turbo came out for SNES, I was threatened with bodily harm because I kept SRKing my cousin's jumping roundhouses. Ah, to be young again...
When Turbo came out for SNES, I was threatened with bodily harm because I kept SRKing my cousin's jumping roundhouses. Ah, to be young again...
forknknife
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This is the most important game for me. I remember the first time I saw it in a comercial center, I stood there for a good 2 hours and after that day I would keep going back to it. Then, when I saw that it was coming out for Super Nintendo and not Mega Drive (old Sega fan here) I felt soooooo horrible about it. But then came Champions Edition and bought the 6 button pad and the arcade stick. Best game ever.
Only regret for me is that I never mastered any other fighters outside of Ryu and Ken. I don't know, making hadokens, shoryukens and hurricane kicks was easy and fast, the rest of characters seemed too slow for me.
Only regret for me is that I never mastered any other fighters outside of Ryu and Ken. I don't know, making hadokens, shoryukens and hurricane kicks was easy and fast, the rest of characters seemed too slow for me.
SatelliteOfLove
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20 years of Yoga Noogie, motherbitches!
ZanGEEF!
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ZanGEEF!
Death Dealer
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Ferrio said:
+1
I was in love with this game before it got popular.
A pizza place about a mile from our house got it in early '91. The very first time I played I was hooked, in a trance. I think I played as Blanca. I'd stop by on my way home from school to spend my leftover lunch money.
During that summer, we'd hike down there every day to play, even if it was only with 3-4 quarters. We'd walk 2 miles round trip to play a videogame for 10-15 minutes.
The next summer when it was released on SNES, I was so excited when my friend showed me the opened shipping box with 6 sealed copies had arrived in the backroom of the grocery/general store we worked in. I couldn't wait for my shift to end. I took one home that night, before it was officially put out in the store's electronics dept glass display case. It was the most expensive game cartridge I'd seen up to that point, more than Zelda even which was like $60, IIRC $75 or $80 a crazy amount of money for a game in those days. Good times.
By the time it was out on home consoles, I actually got bored of it fairly quickly, within 6 months, and started getting into computer games again. I was amazed SF2 and all its iterations were still so popular for many years later. I remember visiting an arcade in like 96-97, the first time in many years, and there were still tons of SF machines.
Death Dealer
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Ferrio said:
I never even heard of SF until SF2.
er: misread your quote, didn't catch you said SF1. But that should have been obvious when I said '91. I remember because I was already in HS. And yeah I stand by my comment, because it didn't take off, EGM coverage etc, until several months after I'd already been playing it. No need to call names.
Sohter.Nura
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I remember waiting for a bus with my mom for a good 20 minutes, and I went inside a bar to see what people were playing at the arcade. I saw M. Bison against Zangief, 2 guys fighting each other, and this was actually the World Warrior but was hacked ( :lol, welcome to Brazil!). Zangief had a Yoga Flame on his foot when you did the rotation attack.
I just couldn't believe how good the game looked. I just couldn't believe how badass all the characters looked like. I needed to play it so badly, but I didn't have a quarter =(((
I eventually got a Super NES with Street Fighter II and man, I remember having the entire street in my house all night long playing the game. It was great times.
I just couldn't believe how good the game looked. I just couldn't believe how badass all the characters looked like. I needed to play it so badly, but I didn't have a quarter =(((
I eventually got a Super NES with Street Fighter II and man, I remember having the entire street in my house all night long playing the game. It was great times.
Always the highlight of Sunday swimming bath trips, picked Blanka first as he seemed cool, obsessed over the game until the c64 versionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0YVz9MaHGM (shit) came out. Championship edition blew my tiny mind, like others, SF2 will always have a warm place in my memory, only challenged driunken all night by 3rd strike sessions as a student...