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#1  February 06, 2014, 10:31:29 am
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Im curious who knows what as far as fighting games and how long they have been playing them. When did you start playing them and why do you like fighting games?


Ive been into fighting games since Karate champ on nes, got into beat em ups during the days of double dragon. I got more sucked into VS fighters when street smarts, fighting street and street fighter 2 came out. I have a lot of them and ive played damn there them all. arcade and console. so many i still remember or forgot about. Yes i go back to the days of Xband online also^^. Ive been a fan for years. Spent part of my teenage years and early 20s in chinatown fair arcade in NY

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So whats your story and background with fighting games?
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#2  February 06, 2014, 10:40:37 am
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That says it all or?
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#3  February 06, 2014, 10:43:18 am
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Your history is your history dude^^
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#4  February 06, 2014, 10:57:49 am
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Grew with Street Fighter till I saw TEKKEN. Then suddenly turned into a HARDCORE fan of that saga so...I have T1, T2, T3, TTAG, T4, T5, T6, TTAG2 and...Nina: Death by Degrees.
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#5  February 06, 2014, 02:20:21 pm
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Regrettably, my only fighting game experience includes Skullgirls and MUGEN.

Unless you count Soul Calibur  and Smash Bros...
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#6  February 06, 2014, 03:15:26 pm
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My first fighting game was mvc2 for the dreamcast and in arcade machines

I also played a ton of Virtua Fighter with my uncles.
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#7  February 06, 2014, 04:04:26 pm
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I was an avid Arcade player. Street Fighter 2, the original Mortal Kombat, and Art of Fighting.

Then arcades gained strength with the crossover games like KOF 94, XMEN COTA, MSH, XMEN VS SF, and all the other KOFs until 99, when arcades officially died around here.
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#8  February 06, 2014, 04:32:49 pm
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Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Killer Instinct, Samurai Showdown, Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport, and a few others too. My brothers used to play those and they showed me how to play. I also got into arcade fighters too before the eventual dryup. I am basically a 90's kid, but I still play the classics whether on PC or the natural consoles.

Edit: If it wasn't for my brothers, I probably wouldn't be here talking about it.
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#9  February 06, 2014, 04:36:22 pm
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#10  February 06, 2014, 04:40:14 pm
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SF2 with my (then much younger) uncles.
My parents bought me MK1 (for the Genesis), my parents were pretty cool with letting me play whatever I wanted.
Also had Tekken 2 as one of my first PS1 games.
As one of the few people who had a Sega Saturn, I had Virtua Fighter 2 as well.

My uncles also had Killer Instinct for the SNES. I actually used to be scared of that game when the first had it (I was 6). That was my irrational childhood fear. Now (ironically), I own that very same SNES and the very same cartridge.

There was a video rental place where I used to live (surprisingly it still exists) that would have an arcade cab or two. It normally featured the Marvel games (before MvC1). That inspired me (to ask my parents) to get MvC1 (the newest one at the time).

I knew about the likes of KoF and other NeoGeo games, but that was only through gaming magazines (which I relentlessly collected). I could never find NeoGeo cabinets where I lived. :(

I did get KoF'99 (for the PSX) through my uncle's friend. It took me until when I started going to school in Harlem to find a NeoGeo cab (it had KoF 2000, Metal Slug 3, and two other games I can't remember). Where I live now, I run into them pretty frequently.

Then seeing the Dreamcast was the first time I saw SF3 and DoA2 (surprisingly I never saw SoulCalibur), but never got to own a Dreamcast. I was amazed at how great both games looked. And it made me look back at how far fighters have come (and I was only 9). :laugh4:

I developed a very open mind to fighters since I've played (and seen) so many different ones before reaching my teens.

I could add several more details but that would be a bit much.
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#11  February 06, 2014, 04:42:06 pm
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I used to be scared of MK and KI too, now they are like some of my favorite games.
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#12  February 06, 2014, 09:00:54 pm
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My early childhood barely had any fighting game influence. I was more influenced by platformers at the time. Then for some time I was more into arcade racers. I had played a few fighting games from time to time, but never truely invested in them. I think the turning point was when one day I was bored enough to look for fighting flash games. Perhaps it was due to actually having a movelist for once, but I began to enjoy it more than I expected. With this in mind, I got myself MAME and began to try out the real stuff. It was the usual culprits, Marvel vs, Street Fighter and KOF as these were the only ones I really knew about. I wanted to try Guilty Gear but alas, at the time it wasn't available. A few years later, I began to take note of Mugen. I saw a few videos, but while the premise was interesting it didn't seem to fully get me to try it myself. It wasn't until I saw it for myself being played in a con that I convinced myself to try it out for myself. Why do I mention Mugen? Because it gave me a taste of fighters outside of Capcom and SNK(accuracy issues aside). After playing some characters, it got me interested in trying their source games. Mugen introduced me to games like Melty Blood, Eternal Fighter Zero, Akatsuki Blitzkampf and others. In short, a flash game started my interest and mugen proceeded to amplify it.
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#13  February 06, 2014, 09:05:08 pm
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Tekken 2 when I was 4, later when I was 7 Tekken 3, I got wrecked by everyone and got made fun of. Then I practiced the fuck out of it and would make my friends and family rage because they couldn't beat me. Good times. Tried a bit of SF and wasn't too into it (mainly because inputs in SFA3 were a cunt and that was the only one I had for a while), then I got Tekken Tag when I was in middle school and that's about it, I didn't have any online consoles during high school so I didn't have anyone to play as all my friends were into CoD and whatnot so I pretty much just had to fight the AI and that got boring. And now that I do have an online console I don't much care for fighters like I used to.
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#14  February 06, 2014, 09:11:57 pm
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first fighting game i played was tekken 3 and kof 98 from an arcade.
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#15  February 06, 2014, 09:17:43 pm
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First fighting game that I played was Killer Instinct on the Snes.

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#16  February 06, 2014, 09:20:01 pm
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My story is kind of... well...

I knew about fighting games when I was 8. My first game? SF2 Turbo (my first char was Blanka e_e), then, my dad bought MK2 (for some reason even though I was way TOO young for that game. I was 9 years old. ^_^; And my first char to pick was... Johnny Cage) And then, UMK3 (first char I picked was Ermac, I believe), those were the fighting games I used to play with my sis. I also owned KI for SNES (my favorite char being Riptor. >.>; ). Then, we moved into Marvel vs Series.

A friend in high school introduced me to KOF, my first one was KOF 2000, guess who was my very first char. Yup, Whip, Along Seth (always as a striker)For the rest of almost the 2000's decade I was mostly enclosed to KOF, but, the fact the thousands of millions of hacks of KOF2002 were overshadowing the import of other fighting games... made me gradually lose my interest in fighting games (was just still playing FG's, cause of KOF XI, my mains being Whip, Malin and Betty).

It was until late 2006 I discovered Mugen, but, due to having a weak ass computer back then, I couldn't play it. It was until May 28 of 2008 I initially started on Mugen.

Mugen let me know about the game that practically revived my love for fighting games (Melty Blood. My favorite char is already known for you. Sion. owo). And thus, the rest is history. I took the effort to try to get a PS3 and get some fighting games, which I have.

The fact Melty Blood and Mugen were a factor to revive my interest in FG's, was so strong, I have a big respect for MB itself. What would have happened if I would have lost my interest into FG's... I would have turned into what I hate most. MMORPG/MOBA gamer. Funny enough, I don't like 3D FG's.
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#17  February 06, 2014, 09:23:25 pm
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I first played Karate Champ and Yie Ar Kung Fu at arcades in... 1985... (darn it, it was a long time ago... :|)
Then played them a lot again at the NES and MSX.

And finally got to Street Fighter 2 around 1992 on the SNES and then arcade.
After that and playing Fatal Fury 2 and AOF at the arcade, I became a SNK girl and pretty much stopped carrying about Capcom fighting games other than the Street Fighter 2 updates and Saturday Night Slammasters (because Haggar).
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#18  February 06, 2014, 09:32:44 pm
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First fighting game I played was SF2 on SNES. From there I went on to play various Mortal Kombats(stopping at Deadly Alliance), Art of Fighting 2 I beleive on SNES, Eternal Champions a few times. Things really started to pick up though when Tekken and Virtual Fighter 2 dropped. Along with the SF EX series. I have great memories of playing with dozens of my friends for fun, or for money. We still get together from time to time to play. Mostly just playing TTT2, with a bit of UMvC3 and MK9 thrown in there just because. I don't play anything as much as I used to, though it's nice to play again every once in awhile. Especially something you haven't played in years just for the fun factor of it.
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#19  February 06, 2014, 09:48:15 pm
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-Killer Instinct on Arcade
-MK Armaggedon
-KOF 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, XIII
-SF Alpha 3, Third Strike
-MvC1, MvC2
-XvsSF, MSH, MSHvsSF,
-Last Blade, Last Blade 2
-Garou: MotW
-RotD
-Rival Schools
-DS: The Dark Warriors
-Fatal Fury 3
-JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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#20  February 06, 2014, 10:32:18 pm
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I started with Street Fighter II back in the day. I remember a corner store near where I used to live that had an SFII arcade machine and I'd play. Wasn't any good, but I'd play.

Over the years, other fighters would be added to the mix. Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Soul Calibur, Tekken, etc. In fact, most of my game collections were, at one or another, had fighting games in it. To me, the thrill of competition drove me to try these games. There is also a gratifying feeling of beating the CPU when it did everything in it's power to cheat me out of a victory (looking at you, War Gods)

Today, most of my PS3 collection are fighting games. MUGEN itself has opened doors for me. Until I got into MUGEN, I had no damn clue as to what Melty Blood was. I still don't know that much, but thanks to MUGEN, I have a shred of knowledge.

This is my passion to learn about the genre as much as I can and then give that knowledge to people who are learning or those who want to learn. To me, that is the best thing about the genre.
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#21  February 06, 2014, 10:46:59 pm
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-Tekken 1,2,3,5,6,tag,tag2
-MK 1,2,3,4,GBA Deadly Alliance,Shaolin Monk-eys,Deception,Armageddon,2011
-Street Fighter 1,2,3,alpha2,alpha3,4 AE,EX,EX 2 +
-JoJo's Venture
-Samurai Shodown Anthology , 2
-Guilty Gear the Missing Link,GG AC,GG XX#R
-Fatal Fury 2,Fatal Fury Wild Ambition
-Dragon Ball GT Final Bout,Super Dragon Ball Z
-Zangefool,Kakuge Yarou and some other fighter maker games
-MvC2,UMvC3
-Soul Edge,Calibur 1,3,4
-Melty Blood Actress Again
-Naruto Ultimate Ninja 1 and 5
-King of Fighters 2000
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#22  February 06, 2014, 11:00:15 pm
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I've been playing street fighter since i was like 5. Then went on to smash (if that counts), mortal kombat, soul calibur, and the vs series. Then later on went into the snk games,  and the tekken and virtua fighter series.
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#23  February 06, 2014, 11:06:03 pm
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If it counts
-DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Infinite World, Raging Blast
-Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja 5
-Bleach Dark Souls

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#24  February 06, 2014, 11:08:17 pm
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If it counts
-DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Infinite World, Raging Blast
-Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja 5
-Bleach Dark Souls

all kinds of fighting games count. its just a bit more interesting how far you go back and how much youve played. well, to me it is....
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#25  February 06, 2014, 11:20:35 pm
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-Tekken series (all games but started with 3 and later went backward)
-Soul series (did not play V, played SC1 much later on, started with Soul Blade though)
-Mortal Kombat (starting with Deadly Alliance, though I played a very small amount of 1 and 2)
-Versus series (starting from MSHvSF, did not play SFxT)
-Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations & 3
-Injustice
-DBZ Budokai 1-3 (do not really remember it)
-Power Stone 1-2
-Destrega
-Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is on my shelf but barely played.
-Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is installed on my console but barely played.
-Super Smash Bros (N64 only)
-Guilty Gear series (Original, X, and XX#Reload. Mainly familiar with X.)

Likely a lot of other things in the PS1/DC/early PS2 era that I played a little bit. I know I at one point had access to KOF Maximum Impact, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Third Strike, Star Gladiator, one or more Bloody Roar games, Project Justice, and DoA Ultimate, Ultimate 2, and 3, and probably more, as I had a modded PS1 and Dreamcast didn't require modding to play pirated games. I've listed the ones I did more in than turn on and fuck around in practice for an hour or two. Never been much of an SF fan, the majority of my exposure is through the Versus games. Never played an actual SNK game except very briefly KOF:MI. Mugen's familiarized me with all that.
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#26  February 06, 2014, 11:24:02 pm
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wow i had star gladiator way back but i traded it.....i never got that back when i wanted it again. that was a pretty ok game there. that reminds me of those two Psychic force games for some reason now haha
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#27  February 06, 2014, 11:26:18 pm
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I didn't play it much, it was just in my big old stack of copied games. I just remember it 'cause it's where Hayato came from. xD

My main games were Tekken 3/MSHvSF/MvC1/Soul Blade in that era.

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#28  February 06, 2014, 11:30:44 pm
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Anyone else remember a few years ago when some user said that he was a huge fighting game player and that "Hell, Smash Bros. was the first fighting game I ever played!" and everyone gave him shit for it? In fact, I remember a few people putting that quote as their sig. Good times.

Anywho, my first exposure to fighting games was a Street Fighter 2 arcade game outside of a convenience store in Mexico. After that I continued to be a fan of almost every 2d Capcom fighter as well as Fatal Fury and World Heroes when I was really young. I used to frequently visit the arcade near my old place which was a pretty popular Chicagoland arcade, especially for the MK fans for many reasons.

I didn't really get into KOF until I started playing Mugen (2003). Mainly because I wasn't too familiar with the series, but thankfully all of the KOF Mugen creations familiarized me. (Thanks Brazilians!)
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#29  February 06, 2014, 11:45:33 pm
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-Tekken 2,3,4,6
-MK 1,2,3 (& Trilogy),4,GBA Deadly Alliance,Shaolin Monk-eys(lol),Deception,Armageddon,2011
-Street Fighter (2) , 3 (Third Strike only though, I had it on a disk that also had SF2-Turbo, came on PS2), 4
-MvC2,UMvC3

Those ^ (well, i edited out all the ones I had never played.)

- Clayfighters
- Killer Instinct 1,2
- Smash Bros. Original, Melee, and Brawl
- The original 3 DBZ Budokai's before they made it basically a beat-em-up
- Primal Rage
- Would Def Jam Fight for NY count? I played the hell outta that back in '04/'05 when it came out.
- And basically every wwe game that's ever come out. but wrestling games wouldn't count hah.

That's really about it

Never played any SNK games other than briefly C.V.S (like once for about 20 minutes)
Mugen basically got me into any fighters I like, would like, now.


I was more into games like Phantasy Star Episodes 1&2 back when i was younger, I didn't deeply get into fighters till i was like 13.

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#30  February 06, 2014, 11:46:46 pm
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#31  February 07, 2014, 12:19:07 am
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-Tekken 2,3,4,6
-MK 1,2,3 (& Trilogy),4,GBA Deadly Alliance,Shaolin Monk-eys(lol),Deception,Armageddon,2011
-Street Fighter (2) , 3 (Third Strike only though, I had it on a disk that also had SF2-Turbo, came on PS2), 4
-MvC2,UMvC3

Those ^ (well, i edited out all the ones I had never played.)
I played Trilogy too and it was my 2nd MK game(first one being 4)
Also adding to my old list :
Clayfighters(The Sega one...or were they all on Sega!?The one without Earthworm Jim)
Killer Instinct 2 (Never got the hang of that combo system :C )
CvS(I didnt like it though)
i also played all DBZ Budokais including DBZ RB2(And i still think Raging Blast 2 is the most fun one,while SUper DBZ is the best one)
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#32  February 07, 2014, 12:39:48 am
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my first fighter was whatever the first fighting game ever in history is


*zips pants back up*
i cant count the reasons i should stay

one by one they all just fade away...


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#33  February 07, 2014, 12:40:45 am
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I started with SF2.
I enjoyed the genre so played every fighting game I could find. That's it.
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#34  February 07, 2014, 01:13:17 am
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My first fighting games that I really got into was SF2...then
-fatal fury
-Mortal Kombat
-Killer Instinct
-Mortal Kombat (series up to MK4... I hate MK4. came back at Deadly Alliance)
-all the other SF2 upgrades
-KOF series
-Real Bout series
-Tekken Series
-SFA series
-SF3
-Garou Mark of the Wolves
-Marvel Games (X-men COTA, MSH, Vs up to UMvC3... I really thought MvC2 was fun to play but hated many things about, Marvel3 took the hate to a new level.)
-Rival Schools & Project justice
-CvS series
-Soul Calibur Series up to 3
-Guilty Gear Series
-Melty Blood (the first 2, was playing MBAACC but didn't stick with it)
-BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extended
-for some reason I bought SxT when it first came out... this made me have more hate for Capcom, and I gave my 360 and all my games to my nephew.

I know there are games I didn't mention that I was into at one point in time but, I don't want to spend to much time thinking about it.
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#35  February 07, 2014, 02:18:02 am
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It all started when I was a wee little lad that noticed there was a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine in the pizza place I was taken to and from that point on I became a fighting game fanatic and still am one to this day.
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#36  February 07, 2014, 02:28:47 am
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The first fighting game I remember playing was MK2 on the Geneses, when I was about 5 years old. First one I actually owned though was Super SF2: The New Challengers; also on the geneses. Since then I've played more fighting games than I can count, with my current (somewhat anemic) collection consisting of:
SF4:AE
Soul Calibur 4
TTT2
SF3:TSO
MK Arcade Kollection

I don't play them much these days though.
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#37  February 07, 2014, 04:12:13 am
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I guess the first fighting game i actually played was mk2 with my cousins when i was younger. It wasnt until i started living in my country for a couple years of school that i started loving fighting games. At the time the arcade scene was really lively and the best games were out. When i wasnt playing at the arcades i was at my uncles internet cafe where i played emulators like mame and neogeorex that had all the kofs and vs games that were out.(also played half life 1 religiously). When i got back to the states there were no arcades or any place i could go to, to play people. I played emulators until i found out about sfo, then i found out about mugen and here i am.  Didnt know i had a fighting games scene in my area until 3 years ago and ive been in it going to tournaments and such since then. I actually have a sponsor now lol but its not like im making chris g or justin wong money
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Thats actually pretty damn cool you have a sponsor for you for those competitions out there. keep puttin in that work man
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#39  February 07, 2014, 11:35:15 am
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I got my first taste of fighting games when I was seven, with (surprise surprise) Street Fighter II. I only played platformers back then, so I was pretty shocked that you had to push "up" to jump and you couldn't kill things by jumping on them. It turned me off for a while. When I was 10 I tried it again and had fun although I couldn't get the knack of special moves (it took me forever to learn Blanka's rolling attack). My cousin would always map my controls so that the Strong buttons were closer to my fingers than the light ones which fucked up my perception of how to properly play fighting games for a while.

The first fighter I played outside of Street Fighter was Dragon Ball: Final Bout, which is a terrible game, but because me and my cousins were into DBZ at the time, we would play it religiously. And after that, I started exploring more fighters.

Discovering MUGEN through a DBZ compilation opened me up to a whole new world of fighters, and without it, I never would've been introduced to KOF, Rage of the Dragons, or the entire Jojo's Bizarre Adventure franchise. It also taught me that I really sucked at playing fighting games so I started trying to mend my ways.

Nowadays, I play whatever fighters catch my fancy, not the most popular ones nor super obscure ones, and I generally avoid the super-anime ones unless the aesthetics are really good (ie: Big Bang Beat). And while it's nice finding an obscure fighting game that people overlook (ie: Osu Karatebu), most of the time you're not missing anything in my experience.
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#40  February 07, 2014, 04:05:09 pm
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I started playing SF2 in Snes -Hyper fighting is my favorite game-, even if there were plenty of arcades around my area. I was young (9 years old) and I was kinda afraid of going into that kind of place.

But 1996 came and I started going to an arcade near my school. Played a lot of Street Fighter Alpha; then Marvel Super Heroes was released and my life was ruined because that when I started taking competition "seriously" (I started enjoying challenges).

Time passed, we got to 2009 and SFIV was released; knew a lot of new people playing the game, we formed a small community that grew around 50 members, we organized tournaments, leagues, events, etc. Lot of games were relased, people got really serious about playing and the community grew stronger.

A bit offtopic, but as far as I know Peruvian people is really good (amongst México/B.A.L.A. and Koreans) in KOF. It's a pitty good players don't have resources to make it to EVO :(

A guy I know couldn't make it toLas Vegas last year because they denied his Visa, and he was going because he won a ticket in a tournament in Chile.
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#41  February 12, 2014, 10:07:56 pm
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- Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition on the Genesis. Very first fighter I played, got me into them as a whole. Wish I could've played it the arcade version..
- Later went on to Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES. Sadly the place I lived in had like, no arcades. But one time I went on vacation and...
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter on an arcade machine in a restaurant.
- Marvel Vs. Capcom at another arcade I visited on a trip.
- Flash forward to arcade accurate emulation and overall knowledge, pretty much all the KOF games
- Street Fighter 4 I guess?

Not a diverse history because I can't remember squat when it comes to this sort of thing, at least, not liberally.

But are there truly grown men in this world?!
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#42  February 12, 2014, 10:24:25 pm
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Just out of curiosity, were you using the 3 o 6 button pad to play CE on Genesis?

I remember the real fights were for who will be using the 6 button pad at a friend's house :D
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#43  February 12, 2014, 11:13:50 pm
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Well these are all the games I've played, in the approximate order of the date I played them, with the earliest being first.

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Yeah, I've never played any of the classic fighting games like Street Fighter or CvS or something.
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#44  February 14, 2014, 03:32:08 am
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God, I feel like everyone who is 20+ here started really early. My fighting game history is pretty lame; my high school had a MvC1 cabinet and I started playing it in Sophomore year because I was really bored. I was okay at it, and over the summer I looked up guides and shit online when I was not doing outsidey things and came back and absolutely destroyed everyone at the game (including some neckbeard junior who was actually pretty decent but smelled really bad and oh god i dont wanna stand next to him...).

I then looked up other games that had "supers" and found King OF Fighters 2000 and played that on an emulator and slowly became a hermit until I graduated. And about 7 years ago I found a game called STREET FIGHTER 3 THIRD STRIKE and played the shit out of that and it was way different than anything I ever played before then. Then, I got really obsessed with the game and looked up videos of it and then I got a PS3 and SF4 because I was really hype about that game and I played the shit out of that, and I was really obsessed with Bison because his Ultra 1 looked dope, but I ultimately played El Fuerte because being part Mexican is suffering.

Since then, I've given most fighting games people tell me about a chance, such as Melty Blood, Arcana Heart and Mortal Kombat. I don't own a PS3 anymore, because of some unfortunate happenings or I'd play fighting games a lot more. I don't have much motivation to even play fighting games on a PC because I don't really feel compelled too, I'm not entirely sure what the hype about PC fighting games is, to be honest,(other than better netcode) because I could never sit in my chair and play for hours like I could on my couch with my PS3.
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#45  February 14, 2014, 03:35:31 am
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Jeeze. All this talk of cabinets reminds me of an old Peter Piper Pizza that recently just closed down here where I live. All of the cabinets were nicely arranged. All the racing games in one spot, the shooters in another, ect.. The fighting game section, although.. Is what I remember the most. All of the cabinets neatly lined up next to each other, being hogged by the winners, having spectators watching, and challengers approaching... The games I can remember clearly were Rival Schools, MvC2, Ehrgeiz, MK4, Tekken (Can't remember if it were 2 or 3) and some others I can't remember at the moment. Another arcade nearby had MvC1 and Soul Calibur.

They all slowly disappeared.. The only older cabinets I see around in my area are Time Crisis & 3rd Strike at a classic video game store. While this is a "fighting game" thread.. I have to mention the older House of the Dead cabinets (2 being my favorite) and NFL Blitz 2000.

Good times.
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I can remember clearly were Rival Schools, MvC2, Ehrgeiz,

lol DAYUMN you said EHRGEIZ. sheeeesh! lol i still got that old import PS1 game in the relic stash

haha this was my favorite tune from that damn game hands down...



memories^^
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#49  February 14, 2014, 04:34:14 pm
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...STREET FIGHTER 3 THIRD STRIKE...

...then I got a PS3 and SF4 because I was really hype about that game and I played the shit out of that, and I was really obsessed with Bison because his Ultra 1 looked dope, but I ultimately played El Fuerte because being part Mexican is suffering...

Seems like 3rd Strike makes people go nuts about the game everywhere. I sufered the same decease :P

AND, I remember your ELF, we played a few times against my Dictator. You were annoying as hell :/ (it's ELF after all)
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#50  February 25, 2014, 03:49:55 pm
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The 1st game I played was Breakers, Fatal Fury2 and AOF from Megadrive.
then it was galaxy fight, Gowcaizer, MK,MK2, pirated mugen version of KOF as KOF VS SF and SF 2001 etc in DOS.
followed up SF Alpha trilogy etc and last i played was ....Darn I forgot the good parts...
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well my first fighting game experince was MVC 1 at some resturant whose name I dont recall, and then SF 2 dont remember which, back then I was crazy about MVC too the point when my pops used too ask me where do you want to eat I would pick the resturant whose I dont recall even though I hated the food there.
My first team was Capcom and Wolvie and then later SF3 Third Strike cabinet came out I easily forgot about MVC and played the game so much the owner of the resturant whose name I dont recall once told me to have mercy on the game lol. Since then and now I'm obbessed (spelling?) about anything SF3 to the art, music everything.
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