I first got into mugen in the early 2000 when my big brother download an mvc compilation. While it was probably really bad it really blew my mind and me and my big brother would dowload character any times we could. Since we had limited internet we would download the old winmugen and like 7 or 8 differents characters. It was mostly marvel and capcom characters since they were super easy to get. I mostly remember Ken and Gang, captain commando, venom, evil ryu, sakura etc. I actually found out about street fighter and fighting games via mugen I legit barely knew anything about the genre. After that when my older brother lost interest and when we got our own computer, me and my little brothers got the msh screenpack and we would download litteraly anything from capcom to snk to simpsons characters to chibi naruto and digimon characters. It was pretty crazy but definitely super fun especially doing team arcade mode with the both of them. We also started downloading compilation like KOF vs MK or a big Street Fighter compilation with mostly pots characters. I remember download a ton of warusaki cvs2 characters via esnip. At the time  I also became a big fan of GNCMario SF alpha character like bison, vega and balrog and at the time since it was one of the few mugen website not banned at my high school they were the easiest character to get. After that I got my own laptop and with that I finally could ran mugen 1.0 and thats the same time I really got into mugen forum like CVG United and the guild. I mostly played with infinite early creation and a lot of the mvc eoh character. Then I got really into the pots/cvs gamestyle and I would pretty much only download characters following this gameplay. I got bored of it and after watching a bunch of Melvana mugen video I really wanted to try differents stuff. I really got into KOF thanks to mugen with Vans, Koopakoot and Jin characters and I also became a big fan of guilty gear thanks to mugen. After that I was all about the Z2 characters I still remember the vanilla vegeta that came out a bunch of years ago. Then in like 2015 I kind of got bored of only playing and wanted to do more so since Im way to lazy to code and I wasnt really good at spriting characters I went into something that I felt like wasnt really talked about, lifebars. I came up with a bunch of lifebars concept base on games like Jojo ASB or snes games like castlevania. I also start doing a lot of spriting for the lifebars and with the times its something I think I really got better at. Then in 2016 I really got into SFV and at the same times into the capcom pro tour. Sadly my interest for mugen also pretty much died down. Nowadays I still do a bit of lifebars spriting from time to time and I still download and mess out with certain characters but I sadly dont find much fun in playing anymore especially with the rise of fighting games that keep coming out. In the end while my interest for it as move on it will always have a special place. Thanks to mugen I found out my biggest passion ever : Fighting games and thanks to that I found out something that I would have never gotten into : Competitive fighting games. Im pretty much super invested into the capcom pro tour nowadays and Im legit one of the most well knowed stream monster now which is pretty funny to me. I also do a lot of fact and history stuff for the capcom pro tour. That was a long ass post probably the longest Ive ever written and its crazy how its only the stuff I can remember. Honestly its still fasinating how Ive progress I went from an idiot who begged people to join my project that never really existed like Cvs the artist, to a pixel artist who made decent lifebars to someone who is pretty much all in the fighting games community.

Back in 2007, when I was 8 years old, I was a big fan of Billy & Mandy, that I was watching videos of that Billy & Mandy game for PS2 and GameCube (y'know, the one about battles), and then on the related vids I saw this which was my very first MUGEN vid I watched:



I was wondering what game was that as I wasn't paying much attention to the title, then, again on the related vids, I watched this (its a reupload so its not the original from 2007):



I was SO surprised and jolly, that I was calling my bro yelling, ''Hey! Come here look at this! It has Vegeta, and Homer, and it has Super Mario and SpongeBob!!'', because since I was a kid I loved crossovers, even I used to play MvC2 on PS2 a lot. After that, I went addictive to watching MUGEN videos, everyday, I even thought it was the best thing I've seen. Too much nostalgic memories, with fighting game characters, cartoon characters, video game characters, even many that I didn't know about so I met most fighting games because of MUGEN... Years later, I wanted to become a MUGEN author, I started out in 2013, tho my stuff was bad, but I slowly improved over the years, but still don't consider my newer stuff to be great, looking back at them, except for EqG Applejack who I consider my better creation, but that still doesn't stop me from enjoying MUGEN nowadays