What is your fighting game history background?

[Legendary DeMoNk@I]

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

systems:

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SNES, sega saturn, Wii,PS1,PS2,PS3,XBOXG1, 360 elite (2 systems. 1 modded), Dreamcast (jap and US),gamecube,N64, & some scattered hand helds

"some" of collections over the years:

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Entire street fighter series (Dreamcast, snes,PS1,PS2,360 ps3)
GG1
GGX
GG Accent core
Fist of the north star (import ps2)
Blazeblue
Rumble fish (import PS2)
JOJO's Bizarre adventure (import DC)
Tekken 3 (PS1)
Tekken 6
Entire DOA series
VF5
(oh) SF EX 1 & 2 import (PS1)
Rival schools Import (PS1)
Almost all the MKs
Bloody Roar 1 & 2 (import PS1)
Soul calibur, SC2,SC4,SCV
DC VS MK
Tatsunoko VS Capcom (Import)
Street fighter X tekken (360 & PS3)
MVC2 (XBOX G1)
MVC3 (360)
UMVC3(360)
CVS 1 & 2
Arcana hearts 2 import (PS2)
KOF98
KOF99
KOF2000
KOF2003
KOF BC
KOF XII (360)
KOF XIII (360 & PS3)
Wild ambition
MOTW (Dreamcast)
some DBZ games
scattered snes US & import games. fav i still have is TMNT TF (yes i still have the old snes packed away)
A couple naruto games. First and second imports (PS2)
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scattered beat em ups too like the kens rage series, Urban Reign & more

I have a couple modded systems too so i wont even count whats in there. countless emulators

So whats your story and background with fighting games?

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

Rise of the Robots

That says it all or?

[Legendary DeMoNk@I]

Your history is your history dude^^

[FeLo_Llop]

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.

[DNZRX768]

Regrettably, my only fighting game experience includes Skullgirls and MUGEN.

Unless you count Soul Calibur  and Smash Bros...

[Umezono]

My first fighting game was mvc2 for the dreamcast and in arcade machines

I also played a ton of Virtua Fighter with my uncles.

[walt]

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.

[R565]

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.

[Markpachi]

Tekken Tekken Tekken Tekken Tekken Tekken


and a little bit of Street Fighter, CvS, and SvC Chaos.

[Niitris]

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).

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.

[R565]

I used to be scared of MK and KI too, now they are like some of my favorite games.

[Darkflare]

Imma copy and paste from somewhere else

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.

[Berry]

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.

[MAO11]

first fighting game i played was tekken 3 and kof 98 from an arcade.

[Víctorys]

First fighting game that I played was Killer Instinct on the Snes.

[Handmaiden of the Seascape]

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.

[Bea]

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).

[DivineWolf]

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.

[QuickFist]

-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

[Seadragon77]

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.