Street Fighter: a trip down memory lane

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Street Fighter: a trip down memory lane

Postby Sammy Boy » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:48 am

I found a video on YouTube that talks about the original 1987 Street Fighter game.

The narrative is in Japanese (I could make out the words Hadouken, Shoryuken and ninja, woooottt! :), but it's good to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=246dvsXhI2k
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Postby jon_jinn » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:18 pm

ah street fighter. classic game right there. it's even older than i am
(way older). my brother used to play street fighter for sega genesis. i remember, my favorite character was vega but i all i ever did was do his sliding kick. i was like five at the time so i couldn't really pull out any of the special moves. sorta regret selling that game (and the system).
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Postby dyzzispell » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:12 pm

Hehe, me and my friends were big into it. That and then Mortal Kombat. I was the only girl in my youth group of about 10 boys, and I sorta got the nickname "Chun Li". I was even good enough at the game to beat some of them...
And then one day I went to a different friend's house (no one from the youth group), and I played all of the guys there and beat them...
... and one of those guys - though I had no idea then - I ended up marrying. And I am happier than I ever thought I could be!!
However, I don't play games against him anymore, because I ALWAYS lose and I HATE that. XD He's just too good - it was a fluke that I beat him that day.
Of course, we HAD to pick up the Street Fighter Anniversary Edition for PS2. Ah, the memories. XD
And then there was Killer Instinct... ^_^
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Postby Sammy Boy » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:40 am

jonn_jinn - have you played any other incarnations of Street Fighter since then?

dyzzispell - I also enjoyed Mortal Kombat, but found having to press a button to block not as easy as simply pulling back on the joystick.

I used to know a girl in high school who was good at Street Fighter II as well. She played Ken and could do fireball and dragon punch everytime. When she used Guile she also knew how to exploit the "shadow throw" "feature".

I didn't play Street Fighter until SF Alpha 2 came out. I used to play Dan for fun but in a really serious challenge I'd change to Ryu instead. Slow but powerful. Cheap but effective combos. The two rules that Ryu lives by as an SF character. HAHAH.

When I played SF Ex, the person I enjoyed using was Allen Snider, but a shame he did not get ported to the future Ex versions, because I think he was actually "owned" by Arika and not Capcom. Kairi was also cool but I couldn't get enough of Allen's "Justice Fist!".
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Postby dyzzispell » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:17 am

Ultra Magnus wrote:I also enjoyed Mortal Kombat, but found having to press a button to block not as easy as simply pulling back on the joystick.


I have to agree with you there. Mortal Kombat was never my favorite.
I think I liked Killer Instinct more. I loved being able to pull off 43+ hit combos.... (and being a GIRL who could do that!)
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Postby righteous_slave » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:20 pm

One of my best friends in high school and I spent many hours and quarters (actually I spent most of the quarters, he usually stomped me) at the Taylor mart SFII machine. He got killed in a car wreck freshman year of college, so SF holds many dear memories for me, as well as being on of the greatest fighter games ever.
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Postby Roy Mustang » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:52 pm

The first Street Fighter game that I ever played was Street Fighter II and was hook ever since then.


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Postby jon_jinn » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:09 pm

Ultra Magnus wrote:jonn_jinn - have you played any other incarnations of Street Fighter since then?


yeah. i played the street fighter II special champion edition,
street fighter alpha 2 and 3, capcom vs. snk 2, capcom vs marvel 2: new age of heroes, others...
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"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
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