I remember when I was like 7yrs old. My older cousins use to take me to the fish and chips shop in Ngaruawahia. We would always go to get some chips and while we waited I use to watch them play Street Fighter. I think it was SF2. I always wanted to have a turn but the game was to expensive for them to waste a turn on me.
It wasn't till my mate Jamie had Super Street Fighter on Mega Drive that made me go "FUCK YEAH". Ahh the many nights staying up playing that instead of doing homework. Awesome :)
So you know how I ended up getting interested. Now your guys turn!
the first fighting game i ever played..and what console i had when i was a kid, i was 8 or 9 years old, my father brought a console for me over Singapore, the first console was Nintendo... wasnt really good fighting games.. except Super Mario Bros 1,2 and 3. then they made a copy version of street fighter 2 =) But Its called Master Fighter 2 LOL
exactly like same game play... always come home after school.. and forget the whole about home work haha, so i end up bad grades haha. The year after i finally got Super Nintendo.. Even better with graphics heh heh~~ finally got rid of the old crappy fat pixels, So here comes Super Street Fighter 2 =) playing so hard...and practicing hardcore..
That year when i was in intermediate school, after school before head home, i always stop by at the dairy..woah!! First time playing on Arcade machine, and so many Maoris, Samoa, and Tongans were hardcore in Street Fighter 2, So the first time i'd ever challenge someone was a Maori... and Gezz too much Guile Cheaps... =( annoying.. theres no bison character....=( "I wish it was Super Street fighter 2 in this dairy"...Couple days later... my wish finally came true!! lets kick some ass hehe, but i stil got pwned LOL.....
yeah well.. i got shit of heaps to spit about my fighting game life LOL~
Shit man you guys got history haha..
Been playing high level Halo for a few years started to get sick of it towards the end of last year, in 07 tho I saw the famous J-Wong vs Diago full parry evo 2k5 vid on youtube and then thought it looked like a cool game (and there community) so looked into 3rd strike and then hooked into the community websites etc (SRK etc) then followed SF4 development from when it was annouced and then have been playing that since the release, still am held back to get better since sticks are hard as hell to find but ive got a TE on pre order from the next Mighty Ape shipment.
And thats me, only played with a few people on live from the site but ill be playing ALOT more once I grab a stick.
See you guys at XLAN!! ;D
i've always been into all games since mario and duck hunt and i was always the man at sports and athletics and being the competive person i am i started to compete in gaming too, always wanted the best score in shit.
When it comes to fighting games i was always a fighting movie junkie, so anyway i started playing tekken 1 in the arcade section of our video shop in glen eden, i didnt like street fighter because it just used the same three moves over and over( fireball,uppercut,hurricane kick).Then i got ps1 with tekken and always had the tekken series for my fighting game spot in my collection. Yeah i thought street fighter sucked compared to tekken back then but i like it now because everyone plays it, what can i say, i'm a sheep following the other sheep.
I used to live out west in Henderson. Keeling road.
Back in the day in Auckland there were arcades all over the place. You could get on your bike and ride it somewhere. You could almost guarantee that any block of shops had at least an arcade or a video shop with a ton of arcade games in it. I used to love spacies. I played all sorts of shit. Two crude dudes, Bad dudes, galaga, double dragon, pang, 1942, Ikari Warriors, Ghouls and ghosts, NARC to name a few.
My mum hated me playing video games and would never buy me (or let dad buy me) consoles so I always saved all my money up and bought my own shit. I had a NES and a Mega drive, that I bought by saving up all my chore money. I would bug the shit out of relatives all the time for odd jobs on the weekend to get paid and save for my shit.
Since I practically lived in the arcades in my spare time (God bless guitar strings and 20 cent coins with nylon glued to them) I remember when street fighter one came out. Back when player 1 was ryu and player 2 was ken. It took me ages to learn how to do a dragon punch, but i thought i was god when I could do it. I even remember when I was younger my dad and I used to go every saturday after I played league to the amusement castle in Lincoln Road. It was a pretty big spacey parlour near where the KFC is now. It was awesome. They always had all the latest games and my dad and I would take 5 bucks each and spend a few hours there. (5 bucks at 20 or 40 cents a game was s hit ton in an arcade back then)
It was on one of these days that I first saw street fighter 2. I always enjoyed street fighter one, but street fighter 2 was mind blowing. I feel old saying this, but some of you younger guys probably dont realise how amazing it was to behold. The graphics were unlike anything else to have ever been made at that point. And the controls were so smooth, it just begged you to play it. And to have 8 people to choose from was crazy. I remember my first ever game of street fighter 2. I waited in the huge line and put my 40 cents in the machine, the guy playing me had just pwned everyone else, and I was no exception. I chose Zangief (for those of you that dont know me, I always pick the big smashing guy) and proceeded to get my ass whooped. But it was the greatest whooping I had ever received up until that point. The combos!!! The idea that if tthe first hit landed the rest were guaranteed!!!
That was where it all started pretty much. I used Zangief mostly and learned to tick throw. Basically used that and cheesed the fuck outta people.
As the years would pass I would continue to dabble, but didn't get competitive till highschool. I went to boarding school, and at my boarding school we had a small arcade on site that used to be serviced by the guys that run the arcade across from the manukau picture theatre. we used to muck around on street fighter and whatnot... until Xmen vs Street Fighter came along. Thats right... Xmen AND Street Fighter... in the same game... fighting each other. It was enough to make any teenage male explode with joy. It got really really heated, and we would often end up fighting over it if someone learned a cheap glitch or what not. Eventually my brother and I put our money together to import a copy of the game from the US and have our PSX chipped. We used to go home on the weekends and sit there and practice combos all day. This was around about the time of the internet starting to get big too, so we used that to learn strats and combos. We pretty much wholloped anyone that bothered to play us after that in a sttorm of cheese. I even one a tournament in Queen street years and years ago in the BK timeout, 1996 or 1997 I think.
I finished high school and went to uni. This is where I met a bunch of guys that used to play up at auckland unis arcade. The street fighter 2 hyper fighting machine up there was a huge hotspot for competitive gaming. It would have people playing on it from the moment it opened, till the moment it closed, and most of that time were people challenging each other. I met a samoan guy there called Fono. He basically took me under his wing and taught me how to play Hyper Fighting and Super Turbo competitively. He was awesome... easily the best Hyper fighting player I have ever seen. I used to go there all the time.
a couple months later I found that there was a small arcade across from IMAX that had a hard out alpha 2 scene going. I started challenging there hard out as well. I actually ended up wrecking that scene cause I got too good for all the other guys. I learned customs with chun li and rolento and no one wanted to play that anymore. I used to go there and just play buy myself while I waited for class to start ater that. I started playing alot of alpha 2 and 3. Entered a few tourneys for alpha 3 and won from time to time. Met hydro, igotpaid, and crazymobius at a tourney in papatoetoe. Hydro and I used to have epic alpha 3 battles.
Then came yiffans. I had always mosied in to yiffans, but never really played hardout. At this point I didnt have a PS2 or a DC so I didnt have access to the games that were in there. I didnt like the idea of paying a dollar a game so I used to go and watch. Eventually I picked up an NTSC version of tekken 3 for my PSX and learned a couple of characters on that using faqs and info from websites and started playing that alot. It only took me a couple of weeks to be "decent" at TTT. By no means was I a powerhouse at it, and I coiuldnt toe to toe with any big namers, but I could go decent with most of the other intermediate guys and have some fun.
Meet a guy down there that would become a very close friend of mine, Ioane. Him and I for the next 5 or so years would spend alot of time playing street fighter together. Mostly with him kicking my ass. Taught me how to play CVS2 which I got pretty decent at.
Around about this time, internet gaming is hitting its peek. Arcades everywhere are dying. Yiffans becomes pretty much the only hotspot for competitive fighting games in the country. No new fighting games are being developed except for tekken games. At this point the community started to dwindle a bit. I remember about this time coming across NZism but never signed up.
Took a big break for a while. Dabbled in some other games, but unfortunately due to the scene being like it was, it was incredibly hard to get into a new game without getting massive rapings. MVC2, third strike, and the KOF games are really hard to get into when the guys that play them have very advanced techniques and perfect you into oblivion at a rate of a dollar a minute.
Got into tekken 5 until DR came out. Played Jack5 and Ganryu from release. I used to play alot in town at that point.
Years later I found GGPO. And it all started again. ALl my alpha 2 and 3 experience found something to be put to use and I was enjoying fighting games again. It was great being able to play some of the top players on the WC of the USA and Japan.
Not long after HD remix came out, and I signed up to the site and would regularly play flux, gino, and alan online. The rest is kinda history.
Man cant believe I just fucking wrote all that. LOL.
i also remembered "The Warehouse" At pakuranga... back in the old days.. they were the king gamer console... display sega Mega Drive. LOL~~ i was so damm happy... when i was a kid..my mother took me there to visit relatives over at pakuranga, had some wendys for lunch heh heh, so i went in Warehouse and they put a demo out of Street Fighter 2 turbo! so i was hogging the demo,
more than hour lol, so i kick off playing 5 games LOL
LOL shit lenny.. ur so similar to me, modify the PSX and practice combo with ya brother, but instead i practice with "ryan" in mvc2
thats how we got so good... and fucked up simon badly! LOL during the high school year~ wagg high school and play marvel!
MARVEL BABBYYY!!
Wow, nice post Lenny :) Mine's pretty similar but without any tourneys or competition whatsoever, so actually way more sad :/
I'll go into more detail sometime...
Righto , im almost 29 just so it gives an indication of how bad my memory is haha
My story is no where as exciting but I started out on a commodore 64 playing
The last ninja 1 & 2 , ghouls n ghosts , conan , pacman , rick dangerous etc at my mate driftoxs house .
Played a bit of 1942 at the weymouth fish n chip shop in manurewa also when mum would give me 20c ;D
Anyway , One day we went to rainbows end and i got my $5 from the olds and changed it into those funky slotted tokens they had back in the day there .
I piled most of it in assorted ratty old arcades and then i saw sf2 .
Man what a awesome thing.....
I was attracted by all the sound the elephants made on dhalsims stage as it was up so loud .
Saw all these awesome sprites and fireballs and sonic booms going everywhere and dudes beating the snot owta each other .
Hell yeah I wanted a part of that seeing as I fuckn loved ninjas at this age and anything martial arts related .
I picked ryu and got may ass handed to me .
Didnt know what a fireball motion even was ......
Then when i went with dad one day to get the fish n chips .
They had got rid of bad dudes vs dragon ninja and replaced with world warrior .
I went up after intermediate school (1991-1992) and used to play till I got stocked for my 40 cents from a bunch of islanders lol :)
So I ventured down to the other weymouth dairy by the wharf .
They had champion edition !!!!!1
You could use the bosses?!!!!!!
Awesome cos they were the bosses I thort i would be undefeatable till some guy invisible throwed my ass with guile and then did golden stance to freeze and hence win the match . Cheap ass bastard..........
Anyway he was there abit and showed me the 20c with a hole drilled with fishing wire in it like lenny mentioned .
drop it in , pull it out ,free game :)
So i did that till we got caught by the owners amd banned .
the other shop had now got hyper fighting and I plucked up enough courage to go back in and actually won a few games using invisible throw .
Nearly got another hiding but some guy told me i was good for a honky so that was better than a smack in the mouth :)
Then we got a Amiga 500 and hyper fighting was released !
It came on 4 discs and you had to change the fucken disc after each fight lol .
It was terrible but I had sf at home!!!!!!!
none of my mates believed me and then they all started coming round till billy got a super nintendo with super sf2 .... bastard....
At high school we used to go up to papakura , they had a arcade just up from the warehouse and they had 3rd strike.
fuck the animation was unbelivable but the only guy I knew in there was ryu
(and chun?) and the charaters looked like crap compared to the hyper fghting characters so I never really played it .
Fast forward another few years or so , Id drop a bit of cash in at yiffans if I was ever in town , we were normally at mark1 comics which became groundzero in the arcade there right by yiffans so I started going in a bit more .
Ended up buying a hyper fighting arcade on my 20th bday for $800 .
That was mean as .
We'd have beers and play pool at home and generally fuck around .
Then i got engaged and we didnt have enough money for the bar tab so the cabinet was sold :'(
Id still muck around with sf on ps1 etc but nothing serious .
Then I heard about them making a new sf game with all the original characters and thort this sounded cool as fuck 8)
Also read about HD remix so got a hori stick from playasia and started playing again
Read a post on gpforums from flux and followed the link on his sig to the forums here .
Didnt join up for ages , I normally just browse but just before the game hit I joined up , met lenny and the other boys and yeah , right back into SF once again !!!
The more things change the more they stay the same aye ;)
SOnic Fuckn BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM !!!!!!!!
Fuck hold up. This is from Lenny:
QuoteI chose Zangief (for those of you that dont know me, I always pick the big smashing guy)
And yet you seem to prefer Gen/El Fuerte in SF4?
I CALL FAKE STORY.
Anyway, i grew up in papatoetoe/otara. I remember going hungry at school because i would be saving my lunch money for the Street Fighter 2 machine at the fish and chip shop. I dont remember how i discovered it actually. I think one day i was going around to a mates place after school and we stopped there on the way. Had to stand on the old red/blue milk crates just to reach the buttons.
After we moved from South Auckland to Remuera, (Moved back to south auckland years later, but thats beside the point) I remember whoring out Mortal Kombat 2 on my neighbours mega drive (master system 2 maybe? i cant remember) Many a weekend would be spent on that machine. Although Sonic the Hedgehog 2 also made many an appearance.
Played a bit of KoF during my teens (Back in south auckland again. Its a sad time when arguably the whitest boy in the country cant resist the call of the ghetto. >_>) Beating down some scrubs out in Hunters Plaza, and getting owned by all the asians in town.
Didnt really start "playing properly" until first year of uni, when i took up MVC2. Id seen dave(ADism)/sol play it a fair bit, back when joe(joekage) was a yifans regular. I think it was about the time richard(samurai black) started playing it aswell. Managed to get pretty good at that, until KoFXI hit yifans.
This is where my marvel game turned to ass for a while, since i would just whore KOFXI and that fucking Gundam game. I was good at kofXI, and then they moved the machine to the shithouse cabinet, and so i went back to marvel. Realising my marvel game had turned to a steaming bowl of corn-laden liquid diarrhoea, I picked a new angle and started playing basically from scratch. Which is when i began my trademark Anak/Storm/Sonson team that i thieved from Anakaris_curse on gamefaqs, or The_Mummy on SRK. Since that point i found i have more fun using the most impossibly difficult characters. Not necessarily the weakest, but the ones that have unconventional elements in their gameplay that make them strong, but the learning curve makes them difficult to be good with. Part of the reason i use El Fuerte in SF4.
When SF4 first came out, i was abismal. I got so tired of losing to people i shouldve been able to run rings around, i decided it wasnt for me and went back to marvel. I also played Blazblue for like 4 weeks. In which i became the only person at yifans to use Arakune(For the reasons i just mentioned), and i was arguably one of the best at that game until the lack of competition got boring as shit, and so i took up SF4 again. As it became more popular i dropped abel (who i was maining for some reason originally) and picked up El Fuerte. (who i initially dropped because he was just too fucking weird to use at the time. And this was also before RSF was discovered, so he hadnt really been explored) I still suck pretty bad, mostly i think due to lack of practice.
But here i am, only really playing MVC2 and SF4 extensively. I dabble a bit in KOF, but dont really play it much at all anymore.
yeah i cant remember how old i was when i started playing games i know that SF2 had just come out and i use to play 1 but sucked hardcore at that and was scrubby at sf2 but use to spend all my money on it cos it was just soo awesome.
but i never really started playing competitively till i met lenny in 2002 i developed my style whilst playin him on console and emulators. lol we like spent soo much time playin like all the sf's.
hehe good times good times
The South Island story :P
I was always into martial art games, Kung Fu Master, Double Dragon, IK+ even
But Lenny is right when Street Fighter 2 came out it was like wtf! It looked liked an animated cartoon back then! The artwork of the series had a huge impact on me back then and still has a heavy influence in my career as an artist.
I was really into the character designs, I loved the backgrounds, sprites, music and sound effects. the back of my exercise books were filled with sketches of Ryu and the crew.
We had two arcades close to school so we would bunk at lunchtime (sometimes during class) and go to FJs (closer, cheaper, beaten up machines, where all the bad kids hung out) or Marty's 40c per game but good machines also first to get Champion Edition!
I bought Special Champion Edition on Megadrive and bought a Gamepro Hyper Fighting guide. It was awesome! Spent my time at home training for the arcades. MK2 came along but the arcade machine was expensive (60c per game)and it's ai unfair so I didn't bother. Played it at home though. Go Megadrive!
We used to have $5 free play Saturday nights at Wizards with pretty good comp too. Had a you loose you leave policy. It was awesome sharing info and strats. Akuma code FTW! Hyper fighting and Super Turbo were my games, my Ryu was pretty solid loved Hurricane kicking through FBs!
Xmen's animation and graphics blew my mind. Like lenny when the crossovers came it too awesome! Would borrow a PS and rent them and play them straight for a week or so, or in the arcades. Got a used saturn and alpha 2 and would play that during the dole days.
I loved New Generation when it came out, thought parries rocked was inspired again by the design. Dabbled in 3s, alpha series and vs series when new versions came out.
Capcom Vs SNK pulled me back and then CVS2 had a healthy scene here too for a bit, Lots of good comp and a wide variety of teams. But Tekken got everyone at the arcade eventually with it's pretty graphics.
Played Xbox 3s and CVS2 till HD remix and SF4 were announced. We got SF4 for like 3 weeks or so (one of those weeks I was overseas) The arcade was pumping again for the time we had it. Would have had an awesome scene again if we had kept it. Really hope the next version gets a worldwide arcade release. With 2p on one cab for Christ's sake!
viva la revolution!
Bizarre fact
No shit!
I had a dream I was at the local arcade playing as a blue venom in a new Street Fighter vs game. 5 months or so later Marvel Vs Capcom 1!!!
I dreamt I was playing as ken what looked like a bootleg fighting game vs. kim from fatal fury. Weird thing is it had 4 buttons! Capcom vs SNK is released a year later!
What a waste of fucking premonitions.
hey i won a $1000 ps2 package in this tournament in New Lynn when i was 14 at central park gaming store in the mall. It went on for two weeks to qualify for top 20, i was only 14 and i was in the grade 14 and up lol with over 300 people competing.It was GranTurismo3 S Class selection best time in 3 laps on Midfield Raceway. I got the best time1:06 i'll never forget it because i practiced the stage over and over at home and could only get 1:07,and the commentator was freaking me out taking the last few corners yelling on the fuckin mic right behind me, the pressure was intetense as.
And then in the top 20 it was TEKKEN4 my favourite game at the time , i knew i was gonna win because the rest of the guys were only good at GT3. Then after eliminations in the final 2 i won all 5:5 round matches.Man it was the best ever i felt like a superstar.
Does anyone out west remember that comp.Just thought i'lld share lol.
Let's see...
There were so many arcades back in the day, even my local fish & chip shop had a little cabin out the back with machines in it. My parents wouldn't let me go there, so it was always sort of mysterious and held an obvious appeal. This was probably '87 or so.
We went over to Europe in the early 90's, and SF was at fever pitch. Every video store, fish & chip shop had a SF cab in it, and always there were people playing. As mentioned by others, the game was just amazing, the graphics were enormous and so detailed, the game was so smooth, everything was just incredible. I never really got to play ever, but whenever I saw a machine with Final Fight or SF on it I'd just stand there transfixed, staring at the machine looping through demo mode over and over.
While we were in Europe the WW cart had just come out for SNES, so there were lots of machines in department stores demoing it (along with games like F-Zero and Super Mario World). There were always kids playing on the demo units, and I just watched. I think I had one game and basically couldn't do anything.
When we got back to NZ, after school some days we'd go to the fish and chip shop nearby which had a WW machine, and one of the kids I knew could do all the Guile glitches, and could be the game easily. I learned what you needed to do to do the magic throw, but I could barely do sonic booms, so it wasn't quite as easy as the instructions.
My parents wouldn't buy a console for me (not even a game boy), but each holidays I'd hire out a SNES or Megadrive with some street fighter or mortal kombat game and play them all day, either vs cpu or with friends that I invited over. One time I hired out a big 2-player arcade stick for the console and we played on that, it was awesome. I was so hopelessly entranced by all this stuff that in the back of a hardback exercise book I'd drawn 6 buttons and a stick and pretended to do the motions and stuff with it. I made a little notebook and filled it with commands and stuff for all different characters (this was back when all the moves and things were 'hidden' and not common knowledge), in my mind making a 'super' fighting game with all my favourite chars from SF, MK, SamSho and others.
To this day, every time I go into the hamilton K-mart I remember when it had a Megadrive demo unit with the then-brand-new Mortal Kombat 2, and one guy was doing the ground freeze move which I had never seen before, and the guy described how to do it as 'hurricane kick with lk' and I was confused until I realised he was talking SF notation :) I also remember when the Farmers in town had a huge big alcove filled with demo unit consoles, mega drives, master systems, game gears, etc etc...
I also got the furthest in Sonic 2 I ever had on a demo unit in the Toy Warehouse out in Te Rapa :)
This was about the end of intermediate school by now.
Then through high school I got a PC, so all my gaming shifted to that and I neglected consoles/fighting games for a few years while I was playing Command & Conquer/Carmageddon/Quake etc. Then I found a version of SF Alpha 1 on the PC, and had to buy a Sidewinder gamepad to play it with. This was the first time I ever played a game with Supers in it. When I played older street fighters without supers I'd practice doing the super motion by doing 2 qcf to perform dragon punches.
A couple of years later my friend's brother moved out of his apartment, and apparently his landlord had some arcade cabinets unused in his garage or something. So they did a midnight run with a station wagon and stole a machine. I was astounded to hear about this, but also so intrigued to find out what game it was. Apparently it had 6 buttons, so that was a good start.
Turning it on, it was World Warrior, the one that started everything off. Every weekend I'd be over there playing it constantly. To the point where some of the people in the apartment got really annoyed with the machine because it was kind of anti-social for the people that didn't play :) I mastered Guile's glitches, and some of my friends were pretty damned good players too, so this was really my first taste of proper competition.
About this time Callus (the very first CPS1 emulator) came out, and WW was one of the earliest games emulated, so I honed some of my techniques through that. It was truly amazing to have the arcade rom running on my PC!
Eventually our WW machine became really flakey, would reboot quite regularly and the colours got all warped and the screen was funky. The machine was put to rest, and I got the sticks and buttons to make a home stick. They were the MCA sticks that you usually find everywhere in NZ (the 'fish & chip shop sticks'), and these korean leaf-style buttons. I always liked taking apart tape players and things when I was young, so I had a crack at making a stick out of my MS Sidewinder pad that had served me so well up until then. I slightly buggered it up, but it still worked pretty much, so I had my first arcade stick for PC! I could now REALLY crank the sf! CE and HF had become emulatable by now, and we'd play all these games lots. BTW I still have this stick! Still goes strong!
I think around now Bleem! and VGS came out, allowing me to emulate the PSX version of SFA3 - so I was able to play World Tour mode along with my friends that had actual playstations!
Then the 2nd generation of CPS emulators came around, and with the CPS2 xors, the Alpha games and X-men series became emulated, and we played all those too. This was getting to the end of Uni now.
After Uni all my friends moved down to Wellington, so I didn't really have any fighting game competition. I met Gino at an anime screening at a lecture/movie theatre that I took a dreamcast+sticks along to, so we could play SF3:3s on the big screen afterwards. He was pretty impressed that someone made their own stick, and we became friends and started playing SF/MvC2/Tekken Tag together. I was really into SF3:3s at this stage, back when everyone in the US hated the game.
I met Stu at the Hamilton arcade one day playing MvC2 during a super session. We became friends too and after uni (whence I became a bum and dole-bludged for a year), he'd be over every week and we'd play MvC2 for like 8 hrs at a time until our hands couldn't take it anymore (here starts my hand problems!). The US people all started to pick up SF3:3s, but I was getting bored with it. Seeing how the game played at top-player level really put me off it.
Stu moved over to australia, and since then I've only had Gino to play against. We cranked many different games together, Super Turbo, UMK3, KoFXII, GGXX#R, GGXXAC, MvC2, Tekken5... and every time we went up to Auckland (really not frequently at all due to work schedules), we'd hop into Yifan's, but almost always there'd be noone there.
Around this time I really wanted to get to know all the rest of the NZ players of various fighting games. OzHadou was my inspiration - concentrate more on matchmaking and NZ-specific stuff, and try to get some events going, rather than strats stuff. SRK and TZ already exists for that kind of thing. So the idea of NZism came about. I made a site and a forum, and since Tekken was the biggest game in NZ and pretty much the only new thing out for years, I threw a tourney for it in Hamilton, with the idea of getting the Tekken players to join so they could all find each other better. They didn't bite, and basically the site was pretty much dormant for a couple of years.
Only with the release of SF4 have things really started to come together, and I've met some really cool guys now because of it! And of course increased my competition base by a factor of like 30! :D
I think over the years I've played almost every fighting game around to various levels of competency, obviously some I prefer to others, but lack of competition really kills things, so I'm really glad to know you guys now! Thanks! :)
Story:
Played various fighting games throughout the years, tekken, sf2, mk.
Started to actually try and play Tekken Tag against some the Hamilton people. Then I met Alan, schooled me at pretty much every capcom fighting game.
Played a lot of MVC2, GG, UMK3, HD-Remix and SF4. Then I won the Waikato Tournament.
INDESTRUCTIBLE (lol)
What a storyteller. :P
lol Gino beat his master, now he goes to defeat the elite 4! Next episode! Gino vs The Lennysaurus Rex! (scene of Gino on 10% Lenny on 90 doing taunt)
Quote from: Smoofikith on May 29, 2009, 05:59:57 PM
lol Gino beat his master, now he goes to defeat the elite 4! Next episode! Gino vs The Lennysaurus Rex! (scene of Gino on 10% Lenny on 90 doing taunt)
Yeah, I can see that happening.
Great read guys! It's so interesting to read how everybody got into it :D
I played Mortal Kombat on my master system and enjoyed it.
I've learnt from my mistakes.
Looks like every1 gone 4 RVB Grind session ...... ::) ::) ::)
Oh well let me tell u my Story...hmmm..where should i begin with... :-\
Im not coming from a rich family. My mom every strict of me playing video games . It will ruin my study.So primary school never got any chances going to place like Yifan back in M'sia. The 1st game i play was Battle Tank . I think is not mega drive or oldest nintendo console way back b4 Famicom.I remembered i went tuition at my cousin house .They were showing off
After a while once i reach high school . I finally release ....hanging out with friend always escape from classes. Took a bus to shopping centre. In those day man . Street fighter was so popular.Then came out with the version that u can us guile to 2 do special techique they call it "SHADOW HAND" and as well as Dhalsim "RESET MACHINE".
One of my most favourite character is Zangief spining yoga flame . The more you spin the more u go on top of the screen ( blind screen ) . All u need to aim is the shadow when it touch u. U r game Over( atomic blast). Like the Naruto series. Is sooooo broken man. Ryu can do the shoryuken and come out with triple or more hadoken at thye same time. Too much glitch in this game.
Then came along with Art of Fighting . :o OMG..so many people play back in days 20cents per game u have to wait . Every1 dying to do the fatality combo. Not end yet . Those day we not aloud to go Arcade Spacies .We have to be alert if we see any police to check ID . We will end up in jail . Betcha never heard this thing b4. probably u have to reach 16 years old then u can enter those place. I remember one of my friend got caught and que in line waiting 4 checking ID . But he was lucky he escape.
Many games i like to play ....Raiden , KOF , Fatal Fury , art of fighting , world of heroes , nude game , Terminator , Daytona , Metal Slug and etc etc....
Once of my friend share along Arcade emulator like crazy playing on keyboards . Snes rom is the 1st emulator i sue then came a long Neorage....and then MAME....
After SF.... i get more interested playing Xmen ,Marvel Supa Heroes Gems of wars
, XvSF, MVC and MVC2 .Basically u imagine u r one of the Heroes that can use special abitlity . More infinite more exiciting game.
I start playing hard core when i came NZ . I earn my own money buy my own console . My 1st place playing Spacies is at STAGES . But too bad close down . I wasted soo much money playin MVC2....couples of year later i realise a palce call YIfan...... ::) ::) ::)
Quote from: gunsmoke on May 30, 2009, 05:51:52 PM
Those day we not aloud to go Arcade Spacies .We have to be alert if we see any police to check ID . We will end up in jail . Betcha never heard this thing b4. probably u have to reach 16 years old then u can enter those place. I remember one of my friend got caught and que in line waiting 4 checking ID . But he was lucky he escape.
Holy crap, yeah I've never heard of anything like that before! That's crazy!
As for the SF2CE hacks, I'm really surprised SO MANY places had those machines, they were practically unplayable! I remember picking ryu and doing a super fast fireball, then jumping and doing a million slow fireballs which just made a constant, homing line of fireballs all the way across the screen, which at worst would chip the opponent to death.
EVERYONE knows what you're talking about when you mention these 'rainbow edition' hacked games... why did so many places buy them? Not like you could play them 2p decently...
Also I like how many different names there are for the guile glitches... 'shadow hand' huh? We always called it 'magic throw'. but I've heard all kinds of combinations...
Its pretty funny how a lot of us actually came from pretty poor backgrounds financially. I wonder if that has something to do with why all this is so popular with everyone.
My parents both worked, so we had money, but they were both pretty tight with it. I think they decided video games were at best a distraction and a waste of time, so didn't want me to get a console or whatever. They couldn't deny me a PC though!
My first console was a PS2 (scrub), the first fighting game I took seriously was TTT. After that the first 2D fighter I took seriously was GGXX. Since those games pretty much taught the core basics of fighting game philosophy for games like Soul Calibur, Melty Blood, BlazBlue, I played those shortly after (but those games are pretty much 2nd grade in comparison).
As for Street Fighter... I suck at it, since it feels pretty much restrainted in terms of movement... The only guy that can run is El Taco (I suck at using him)... And they didn't bother putting DeeJay in the new one... :)
And Super Smash Bros. is NOT a fighting game.
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 11:54:53 AM
My parents both worked, so we had money, but they were both pretty tight with it. I think they decided video games were at best a distraction and a waste of time, so didn't want me to get a console or whatever. They couldn't deny me a PC though!
Yes i get what you mean. And when you think about it, we're the first generation to actually appreciate (competitive) gaming as it should be appreciated. I imagine people thought rugby was a waste of time at one point, and look at that shit now.
Quote from: ILL_BILL on May 31, 2009, 04:10:36 PM
I imagine people thought rugby was a waste of time at one point, and look at that shit now.
:'(
Your right about that Bill. Sad for chiefs, they were out played last night but damn. Only a few years ago all the South African teams were going to pull out of Union for good. Now look at those mofos.
Damn you Bulls :'(
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 10:47:33 AM
As for the SF2CE hacks, I'm really surprised SO MANY places had those machines, they were practically unplayable! I remember picking ryu and doing a super fast fireball, then jumping and doing a million slow fireballs which just made a constant, homing line of fireballs all the way across the screen, which at worst would chip the opponent to death.
EVERYONE knows what you're talking about when you mention these 'rainbow edition' hacked games... why did so many places buy them? Not like you could play them 2p decently...
Also I like how many different names there are for the guile glitches... 'shadow hand' huh? We always called it 'magic throw'. but I've heard all kinds of combinations...
Dude! Rainbow edition is the most fun I've ever had playing SF2! Especially in 2P!
:o :o :o oh my days, big history.
Well im not nearly old enough to say what most of you have, my first experience was at the age of 7, our neighbor had an old PC in his basement and had SF2 on dos, I never understood what the f*ck was going on until years later.
I smashed about with almost all the big PS1 games, tekken being the only fighting game I was into, Bryan Pwns. At the time I was more interested in my fave game of all time MGS1, I still have it on PS1 and PC :P
Any way it really was'nt until last year that a bloke named elliot at my graphic design course on queen street got talking about street fighter. He had asked if I had played third strike and I was unaware that it even existed, i thought Alpha3 was the newest. so I got up and walked to 20m yifans to see it, and was hooked ever since, downloaded 3s for mame and learnt the game inside out, then got into fighting games altogether, ussualy on a PC with keyboard or useless joypad(XBOX cntrl i modded for PC) , arcade experience is still minimal, and sadly it looks like I have joined the scene at a low point, no one really cares about arcades anymore, its all about physics or graphics or online play etc. But soon I have enough dough to buy me a cross platform stick, then a console and games.
Quote from: Kanae on May 31, 2009, 05:10:50 PM
:o :o :o oh my days, big history.
Well im not nearly old enough to say what most of you have, my first experience was at the age of 7, our neighbor had an old PC in his basement and had SF2 on dos, I never understood what the f*ck was going on until years later.
I smashed about with almost all the big PS1 games, tekken being the only fighting game I was into, Bryan Pwns. At the time I was more interested in my fave game of all time MGS1, I still have it on PS1 and PC :P
Any way it really was'nt until last year that a bloke named elliot at my graphic design course on queen street got talking about street fighter. He had asked if I had played third strike and I was unaware that it even existed, i thought Alpha3 was the newest. so I got up and walked to 20m yifans to see it, and was hooked ever since, downloaded 3s for mame and learnt the game inside out, then got into fighting games altogether, ussualy on a PC with keyboard or useless joypad(XBOX cntrl i modded for PC) , arcade experience is still minimal, and sadly it looks like I have joined the scene at a low point, no one really cares about arcades anymore, its all about physics or graphics or online play etc. But soon I have enough dough to buy me a cross platform stick, then a console and games.
Brother. Your getting into Street fighter at a very good time. The revival is upon us my friend!!!
VIVA LA STREET FIGHTER!!!
LOL VIVA LA MK!!!!! :o :o :o
no no no! im kidding, dont kill me :p :'(
Quote from: Orochi Leona on May 31, 2009, 04:55:25 PM
Dude! Rainbow edition is the most fun I've ever had playing SF2! Especially in 2P!
Fuck yeah! I wish I could buy that board. It's amazing how much fun broken games are!!
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 10:47:33 AM
Quote from: gunsmoke on May 30, 2009, 05:51:52 PM
Those day we not aloud to go Arcade Spacies .We have to be alert if we see any police to check ID . We will end up in jail . Betcha never heard this thing b4. probably u have to reach 16 years old then u can enter those place. I remember one of my friend got caught and que in line waiting 4 checking ID . But he was lucky he escape.
Holy crap, yeah I've never heard of anything like that before! That's crazy!
As for the SF2CE hacks, I'm really surprised SO MANY places had those machines, they were practically unplayable! I remember picking ryu and doing a super fast fireball, then jumping and doing a million slow fireballs which just made a constant, homing line of fireballs all the way across the screen, which at worst would chip the opponent to death.
EVERYONE knows what you're talking about when you mention these 'rainbow edition' hacked games... why did so many places buy them? Not like you could play them 2p decently...
Also I like how many different names there are for the guile glitches... 'shadow hand' huh? We always called it 'magic throw'. but I've heard all kinds of combinations...
yea very strict in M'sia i guess they want the kids to study hard. No jokes is real :-\ . Probably not a free conutry .
As for the SF2CE Hacks that was interesting . I don't even know wot they call. Lol propbaby too broken so much fun to play...Imagine U were using Zangief . when the game start . B4 ryu throwing million hadoken , Zangief doing the jump spinning flame . As soon he leave da screen is all over man. Not even single hadoken with hit him till he do the super atomic blast. ;D ;D ;D too bad
Yupe " Shadow Hand "( in Asia ) = " Magic Throw" ( in NZ or European) ::)
Quote from: ILL_BILL on May 31, 2009, 11:39:23 AM
Its pretty funny how a lot of us actually came from pretty poor backgrounds financially. I wonder if that has something to do with why all this is so popular with everyone.
Yea tru....is not popular man..is just true haha.
I remember when i was young sometimes i end up going to my friend house play "Street Of Race " (sega mega drive) like everyday . Any1 play this game b4 soooooo good....Those were the days. I miss that game tho...
Any1 interested? U can run DGEN emulator to play with it . ::)
Streets of Rage 2 is the shit. I have it on an emulator on my DS. Still not that great at it, but it's definitely the best side scrolling beat em up...
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 11:54:53 AM
My parents both worked, so we had money, but they were both pretty tight with it. I think they decided video games were at best a distraction and a waste of time, so didn't want me to get a console or whatever. They couldn't deny me a PC though!
My 1st console i bought was Dreamcast . I think it was year 2002 or 2004 . Man i was sooooooooo happy man able to play MVC2 on joypad. I think i was the earliest 20's to own very 1st console :-[ ( sooo far BehinD). That was the time i earn my own $$$ . Then came along Ps2 , Psp , DS lite.................
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 11:41:55 PM
Streets of Rage 2 is the shit. I have it on an emulator on my DS. Still not that great at it, but it's definitely the best side scrolling beat em up...
Thats right Street of Rage 2 . That was the best version of among 3 series. I donno y man.I like it Soooo much old school lol . Especialy the last stage . Me and my friend was struggle to kill da special Ninja takewondo shit b4 the BOSS with Machine GUN . "The Dude is mine" We end up hiting each other ;D
(http://www.supersega.com/files_public/affiliates/Juan%20Sanchez%20Montolio/images/Street%20of%20Rage%202%20titulo.JPG)
yeah i never heard it bein called ''shadow hand'' of magic throw, everyone i knew called it '' invisible throw'' and ''super bullshit throw''
Quote from: weazzyefff on June 01, 2009, 12:28:51 AM
yeah i never heard it bein called ''shadow hand'' of magic throw, everyone i knew called it '' invisible throw'' and ''super bullshit throw''
yeah invisible throw out south .
also guile did a blade kick , flash kick was new lingo to me from sf4 .
Quote from: B1ackstar Ninja on June 01, 2009, 02:18:59 AM
Quote from: weazzyefff on June 01, 2009, 12:28:51 AM
yeah i never heard it bein called ''shadow hand'' of magic throw, everyone i knew called it '' invisible throw'' and ''super bullshit throw''
yeah invisible throw out south .
also guile did a blade kick , flash kick was new lingo to me from sf4 .
lol im from west, and yeah blade kick aswell aye, i'm sure it was called blade kick though.
Flash kick was all I ever heard. He never actually SAID it though, fuck sf4!
Also:
One of my favourite speed runs ever
Lol.... :D The pipe stick is the best weapon . Once u get better in that game..My mate and i ..play the hardest mode...most of the time. Slap or Kick x3 at the opponent and finish with the Throw......ALL heroes got different ability. I like Blaze foward spinning blade( wot aver she call )And her throw is back drop so cool.Man i feel like playing with Team up now. ::)
I wonder why they dont make those game like this these days :'(...
fuck yeah max was a beast and i prefer SoR2 than SOR3 to me it looked and gameplay felt better.(but it was prolly cos max wasn't in it)
Lol yea streets of rage, i used 2 playfinal fight, badass.
Quote from: fluxcore on May 31, 2009, 11:41:55 PM
Streets of Rage 2 is the shit. I have it on an emulator on my DS. Still not that great at it, but it's definitely the best side scrolling beat em up...
Final Fight.
Final Fight has better graphics, and I really love it, but tbh SoR2 has a better combat/combo system...
Quote from: fluxcore on June 01, 2009, 07:34:19 PM
Final Fight has better graphics, and I really love it, but tbh SoR2 has a better combat/combo system...
Totally Agree i like Final Fight too... SOFR2 stORY and fighting scene and soundtrack more interesting then FF .Thats y i recond SOR2 is better . ;D
oh the music, hell yeah SoR2 is fucking fantastic!
Quote from: fluxcore on June 01, 2009, 08:26:16 PM
oh the music, hell yeah SoR2 is fucking fantastic!
Check it out http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/genesis/index-sz.html under Street of Rage 2 . OMG... Stage 8-1 and Ending Midi soundtrack the best lol :D
I dunno I just reckon Final Fight is not just a game, it's akin to a work or art. While SOR2 is no doubt fun, Final Fight has this whole Zen thing going on that taps deep into my subconscious. It's like 1989 boiled in a pot. More than just a game but a time machine and a document of when it was made.
I know what you mean, as I said in my history post, I used to just stand and watch a Final Fight machine demo for probably hours just because it was so amazing. But the fighting system IS a bit limited compared to SoR2.
I think it's the difference between people that played at the arcade and those that had consoles at home. I never had a NES/SNES or a Master Sytem/Megadrive so I never played games like SoR but I played a LOT of Final Fight. I played even more Double Dragon and Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja than either SoR or Final Fight though ;)
Lol, anyone want to play Battletoads? :P
Does anyone NOT want to play battletoads? :P
Started playing Double Dragon at Burger Master in Hunters Corner. Played some Street Fighter one there but never got past Birdie.
First heard there was Street Fighter II at Willy's Dairy from Gregule. He said there was some Pig Man in it. Must have been Blanka I guess. I thought he was talking about Cadash.
Sure enough next time I went to Willy's Dairy there it was. First demo I saw was Blanka vs Guile. Characters were big! I played Blanka mainly. Used drop kick a lot.
From there learned the cast. Dug the move list stickers and Jamal even rented a cabinet for his birthday. He beat up Carl for saying the only way he won on Guile was using kick,kick,kick backbreaker.
Played some of those pirate World Warrior glitched games before first playing Champion Edition at United Video in Hunters Corner. First mirror match I saw was Guile vs Guile. First character I played was Sagat.
Dabbled in Mortal Kombat 2 at Video Ezy and that movie theatre that's closed down now by KFC and Denny's. That's where we first played Hyper Fighting. Didn't get into that one so much.
Played some King of the Monsters and Fatal Fury at Super Strike in Manukau. That's where James said he saw Sheng Long being played. Musta been hallucinating on that one.
Heard an ad on Mai FM about the 'New Challengers' Had Fei Long sound effects. Played it first at Bob Wichmans. James beat some dude who just came back from Church all pumped with rage and he took James to the alleyway and punched him. Warrick and I stayed inside just playing. I wonder why we didn't go help him.
Saw a bootlegged Chinese version of the Street Fighter 2 animated film that Danny gave me. I thought it was Dragon Ball z. Surprised but delighted that they showed Chun li in the buff.
Later Alpha came out. By then EGM and Gamepro were covering the previews. Thought Sodom was a strange choice. Looking forward to the redrawn art and Final Fight characters.
Everything hazy after that. Too much too soon. Street Fighter iii felt pillowy. Alex was cool. Tried to figure out what medium Kinu Nishimura used for the art. Found out years later it was Photoshop. -_-
Paxton asked if we played CVS1 in Aussie because we were good at it WTF?
CVS2 battles with Green Hairs gang. Got owned on 3s but through persistance mastered Hugo. Picked up Alex and Ken while waiting for Street Fighter IV.
First saw the intro for Street Fighter IV on Ben's cell phone.
Bought it on PS3 three days early from some dude on trade me. Later traded it for a Euro version to pick alt costumes.
Yeah. Good times.
Quote from: CrazyMobius on June 03, 2009, 01:45:39 PM
That's where James said he saw Sheng Long being played. Musta been hallucinating on that one.
...
James beat some dude who just came back from Church all pumped with rage and he took James to the alleyway and punched him. Warrick and I stayed inside just playing. I wonder why we didn't go help him.
...
EPIC!!! :D
I'm never gonna live those down. Sheng long, yeah right, I was a dweeb. And the alley wasn't so bad, got punched a few times but the guy ran away when I went all fetal on him.
Not much has changed lol!
LOL^^ k
Yar final fight has ties to alot of 3rd strike and alpha 3 chars, go look on wiki :P
Quote from: hydrokinesis on June 03, 2009, 02:00:58 PM
Quote from: CrazyMobius on June 03, 2009, 01:45:39 PM
That's where James said he saw Sheng Long being played. Musta been hallucinating on that one.
...
James beat some dude who just came back from Church all pumped with rage and he took James to the alleyway and punched him. Warrick and I stayed inside just playing. I wonder why we didn't go help him.
...
EPIC!!! :D
I'm never gonna live those down. Sheng long, yeah right, I was a dweeb. And the alley wasn't so bad, got punched a few times but the guy ran away when I went all fetal on him.
Not much has changed lol!
Just lucky double seismos weren't invented then =P
Quote from: Kanae on June 03, 2009, 02:39:23 PM
LOL^^ k
Yar final fight has ties to alot of 3rd strike and alpha 3 chars, go look on wiki :P
hey wasnt the main guy off final fight the inspiration for ryu, or it was some game like it, and he wore orange and did hurricane kicks and shit.
Quote from: weazzyefff on June 04, 2009, 05:58:18 AM
Quote from: Kanae on June 03, 2009, 02:39:23 PM
LOL^^ k
Yar final fight has ties to alot of 3rd strike and alpha 3 chars, go look on wiki :P
hey wasnt the main guy off final fight the inspiration for ryu, or it was some game like it, and he wore orange and did hurricane kicks and shit.
Ryu and Ken came out in street fighter one which came out before final fight.
Guy and Cody from the first final fight game have both been in the street fighter alpha series.
Final Fight was actually supposed to be the sequel to sf1, it was originally called 'Street Fighter 89'.
Ok, I first started playing Street Fighter when Hyper Fighting came out on mega drive (I think I must have been about 6 ?) -- went around to a friends place and had never heard of it before, started playing and it was crazy awesome -- the only games I'd ever played before then were Alex Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog
Came home later on that day to pick some stuff up so I could go back and stay the night -- my brother overheard us talking about it and was like "Pick ken and do down, forward and punch" -- had no idea what he meant by that, but went back, tried it... and HOLY WHAT THE FUCK -- THAT NIGGA JUST THREW A FIREBALL. I immediately got on the phone and asked him for more... I learnt hurricane kicks, couldn't get the dragon punches, and sonic booms. At this point I was sold
A little while later, my brother bought Super Street Fighter for Mega Drive -- we played that shit for hours and hours on end. I ended up getting decent with Ryu, but we only ever played each other.
Never much got into the Alpha series as we only really played on Mega Drive -- We hired a Saturn a couple times with I think Street Fighter EX... can't really remember now, but that was pretty gay lol
Then comes X-men vs. Street Fighter... God this game was dope. We went all the way into Auckland (from Kura ahahah) to play this because the machines at Outer Limits were always too packed.
That's about all really... used to play the crossover series on Mame, but never really took it that seriously. Heard about Street Fighter 4 and just took it from there
posion and hugo are also hinte in final fight and later seen in 3s. 3s Alex also has ties to Haggar from FF.
true, i wonder what game it was then, where ryu was created, i probably just heard it from one of my friends talking shit. oh well to lazy to look it up lol.
Picked up SF4 when it came out and got a tournament stick about a month and half ago. Time for a break from Quake and UT which has been the main games I've been playing for the last 10 years.
C'mon C'mon can't 4 d end of da MOnth.......where is daPC version.... :P :P :P
i was the meanest scrub. first learned how to play t3 on the psx. then came alot of emulation through high school, still being a gigantic scrub.
everything clicked, when i finally realised the dp and qcf motions from tekken could be applied to other games.
when i started course, after 7th form, was when i started marvel. and that was only because there were peeps from course who were scrubbing it up too. but then they stayed shit, and i got heaps better. only just started 3S the start of last year.
Quote from: samurai black on June 05, 2009, 12:00:53 PM
only just started 3S the start of last year.
better late than never :P
Checked out your deviantart man, awesome stuff.
Quote from: Kanae on June 05, 2009, 03:05:55 PM
Checked out your deviantart man, awesome stuff.
ssssh man :-[
haha wht? Its orsome
Quote from: samurai black on June 05, 2009, 04:57:54 PM
Quote from: Kanae on June 05, 2009, 03:05:55 PM
Checked out your deviantart man, awesome stuff.
ssssh man :-[
Says the guy with the link in his fucking sig >_>
It all began on a Sunday afternoon, after church, Upper Hutt in Wellington. There was an old pool hall on Fergusson Drive named Open 8 just up the road. It was an upstairs open floor warehouse style set up which had a few pool tables and arcade machines scattered around the place. The one that caught my attention was Karate Champ. That game was pure gold. 2 joysticks no buttons where it was one on one karate style play progressing through the ranks after each successive victory. I was addicted and let's just say all of a sudden I had a new enthusiam for Church on Sundays : )
Not long after that Hyper Olympics came along and I became a master of speed with an old coke or fanta bottle top. Some people preferred to use a 20c coin but that caused too much damage to the buttons lol. Dabbled a bit with Wrestlemania, Ghosts and Goblins, 1942, Slap Fight, Yie Ar Kung Fu.
I remember seeing SF1 for the first time in Naenae - they had a little spacies parlour across the road from the Naenae Pools. It seemed to be the best way to play this game was by swapping your hands over so that your left hand would control the buttons and your right hand would take care of the joystick. This way it was easier to execute continous dragon punches which was all you needed to do to clock the game. That game looked pretty cool but they didnt have it in Upper Hutt so didnt really get into it.
When SF2 was released it could be found at King Size a spaceez and burger joint across from the Upper Hutt train station. (Big ups to their Snarlers! Snarlers were the biggest battered hot dog on a stick and smothered in that special thick tomato sauce you get in the big bottles - mmmmm the best!!!) Anyway back to SF2 this was the game to play and it quickly attracted a following from the local spacie community. Most common players picked were Ryu, Ken and Guile. I'll never forget seeing the first golden stance, invisible throw (handcuffs) and invincible stance. I remember we used to freeze the game on MBisons stage and then tell the lady at the counter that the game froze so she would give our money back lol that worked well for a while until she caught on and then there was a no refunds sign put on the game. Upper Hutt SF players were very courteous actually - seconds were always given and if a throw was executed it was common for the person who threw to allow the other person a free throw in return. Yeah we were a friendly bunch.
When Hyper came out that took it all to another level, Mortal Kombat and Fatalities blew it up to another level and then Killer Instinct. Yeah most of these games were played during my college years. Have to say with SF4 now its rekindling the SF flame just gotta make sure that my time is fairly balanced with my Family, Work and Play lol. It's pretty scary when your kids can name all the SF4 characters and that they have their own little pretend Chun Li vs Rose battles. I even heard a Tiger Destruction thrown in the other day - not sure if thats a good thing?
Quote from: CoffinDrop1 on June 06, 2009, 12:35:21 PM
I even heard a Tiger Destruction thrown in the other day - not sure if thats a good thing?
In bad taste i know but I couldnt help myself ........
(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3844/lion.jpg) (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lion.jpg)
TIGER HOMICIDE! :-X
Quote from: samurai black on June 05, 2009, 04:57:54 PM
Quote from: Kanae on June 05, 2009, 03:05:55 PM
Checked out your deviantart man, awesome stuff.
ssssh man :-[
Dude holy fucking shit that Chun-li drawing is awesome, so are the others.
I'm super impressed man.
how did i get in to fighting games? two words -> KILLER INSTINCT ;D
ULTRA! ULTRA! ULTRAAA!
COCOCOMBOOOO BREAKER! ;D
fucking sweet! :o
One of my first Fighting games as well. KIG. Still play it occasionally, it's awesome when I can do massive combos but then anyone decent would just CCCCombo Breaker.
But cooler is UUUUUUULTRA BREAKER.
Man I love that game. My first console fighter when I was around 5, after playing SF and Marvel Super Heroes or Xmen: Children of the Atom at Yifan's when I was like 4 lol.
you young'un :P
Omg he's da same age as me Alan, so stink =_=
i always believe killer instinct was better that the sequel, cinder and chief thunder - i miss those guys lol
Ah, and of course the speech sample when you win which always sounds to me like "brerrrerrr"
SUPREEEEME VICTORY!
Glacius was my main on that game - got it on my modded xbox but it runs real slow.
"FRIENDSHIP!" lol.
Quote from: CrazyMobius on June 03, 2009, 01:45:39 PM
CVS2 battles with Green Hairs gang. Got owned on 3s but through persistance mastered Hugo. Picked up Alex and Ken while waiting for Street Fighter IV.
First saw the intro for Street Fighter IV on Ben's cell phone.
Lol CVS2....i miss those days man..Green hair guy wot his name again? mike ? Team KIwi VS Team Japan ....lol Lenny , Nao , Kinppicolo , I got paid , U , Mike (Green hair) , Andrew , Matt , Corey , Barry .......... ::) ::) ::)
LOl i still have da best matchez semi final kept on my DC memory stick... ;D
Yeah Green Hair was Mike, I saw him last year. Not playing fighters any more.
Quote from: gunsmoke on June 09, 2009, 04:52:48 AM
Quote from: CrazyMobius on June 03, 2009, 01:45:39 PM
CVS2 battles with Green Hairs gang. Got owned on 3s but through persistance mastered Hugo. Picked up Alex and Ken while waiting for Street Fighter IV.
First saw the intro for Street Fighter IV on Ben's cell phone.
Lol CVS2....i miss those days man..Green hair guy wot his name again? mike ? Team KIwi VS Team Japan ....lol Lenny , Nao , Kinppicolo , I got paid , U , Mike (Green hair) , Andrew , Matt , Corey , Barry .......... ::) ::) ::)
LOl i still have da best matchez semi final kept on my DC memory stick... ;D
aw man u should try put it onto cpu or something ben, so we can watch
auckland arcade history always fascinates me
ben has the best storys
your like rafiki from lion king lol
lol it was team maori vs team japan apparently cos it was lenny and i vs daiki/nao/steve im sure it was just us 2 lol.
hehehe we had a few battles at your old place in parnell eh ben.
plus i think the match you saved was with nao and i battling and i think it was blanka vs M.bison and i think i lost
Quote from: ADism on June 09, 2009, 09:46:22 AM
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CVS2 battles with Green Hairs gang. Got owned on 3s but through persistance mastered Hugo. Picked up Alex and Ken while waiting for Street Fighter IV.
First saw the intro for Street Fighter IV on Ben's cell phone.
Lol CVS2....i miss those days man..Green hair guy wot his name again? mike ? Team KIwi VS Team Japan ....lol Lenny , Nao , Kinppicolo , I got paid , U , Mike (Green hair) , Andrew , Matt , Corey , Barry .......... ::) ::) ::)
LOl i still have da best matchez semi final kept on my DC memory stick... ;D
aw man u should try put it onto cpu or something ben, so we can watch
auckland arcade history always fascinates me
ben has the best storys
your like rafiki from lion king lol
Instead of Simba is "BIRRY WONG ::) ::) ::)"
Quote from: kingpiccolo on June 09, 2009, 11:08:34 AM
lol it was team maori vs team japan apparently cos it was lenny and i vs daiki/nao/steve im sure it was just us 2 lol.
hehehe we had a few battles at your old place in parnell eh ben.
plus i think the match you saved was with nao and i battling and i think it was blanka vs M.bison and i think i lost
The M.Bison is The Green hair guy i forgot his name (>__<)""". Can anyone show me how to put in Videos so i can upload on Youtube (*__*)is a crazy match.
Lol those days was funny man....Lenny and u even brought TV to my place....
I'm trying to ask Andy to put back in Yifan since they have CVS on of those blue machine...
Easiest way would be to take a vid of it with a camera. Unless you have a video capture card, then you can play the dreamcast through that and record it on PC...
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Quote from: ADism on June 09, 2009, 09:46:22 AM
Quote from: gunsmoke on June 09, 2009, 04:52:48 AM
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CVS2 battles with Green Hairs gang. Got owned on 3s but through persistance mastered Hugo. Picked up Alex and Ken while waiting for Street Fighter IV.
First saw the intro for Street Fighter IV on Ben's cell phone.
Lol CVS2....i miss those days man..Green hair guy wot his name again? mike ? Team KIwi VS Team Japan ....lol Lenny , Nao , Kinppicolo , I got paid , U , Mike (Green hair) , Andrew , Matt , Corey , Barry .......... ::) ::) ::)
LOl i still have da best matchez semi final kept on my DC memory stick... ;D
aw man u should try put it onto cpu or something ben, so we can watch
auckland arcade history always fascinates me
ben has the best storys
your like rafiki from lion king lol
Instead of Simba is "BIRRY WONG ::) ::) ::)"
LOl BIRdiEEE Wo0Ng Show me ur TVNZ POWA.....
Quote from: fluxcore on June 09, 2009, 11:18:40 AM
Easiest way would be to take a vid of it with a camera. Unless you have a video capture card, then you can play the dreamcast through that and record it on PC...
I try to capture the VIDZ with my Hand PHone i dont have camera or anything else(T____T)
Lenny and i use to get called cheap from steve a few times cos we could roll cancel lol fun times indeed.
Quote from: kingpiccolo on June 09, 2009, 11:22:48 AM
Lenny and i use to get called cheap from steve a few times cos we could roll cancel lol fun times indeed.
Haha i remembered that ....make steve so mad .....Man those days...man..Where is every1..... :'( :'( :'(
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Quote from: kingpiccolo on June 09, 2009, 11:22:48 AM
Lenny and i use to get called cheap from steve a few times cos we could roll cancel lol fun times indeed.
Haha i remembered that ....make steve so mad .....Man those days...man..Where is every1..... :'( :'( :'(
Playing WoW and SF4. Where are you Ben?
Quote from: gunsmoke on June 09, 2009, 11:16:33 AM
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lol it was team maori vs team japan apparently cos it was lenny and i vs daiki/nao/steve im sure it was just us 2 lol.
hehehe we had a few battles at your old place in parnell eh ben.
plus i think the match you saved was with nao and i battling and i think it was blanka vs M.bison and i think i lost
The M.Bison is The Green hair guy i forgot his name (>__<)""". Can anyone show me how to put in Videos so i can upload on Youtube (*__*)is a crazy match.
Lol those days was funny man....Lenny and u even brought TV to my place....
I'm trying to ask Andy to put back in Yifan since they have CVS on of those blue machine...
yeah man tell him to put back next to sf3
Seriously guys, fuck off with that wow shit. I'd rather have gay porn on my boards than wow talk.
That's not to say gay porn won't get deleted though.
Yea WOW is a time killing Gmae....
Quote from: fluxcore on June 09, 2009, 02:35:50 PM
Seriously guys, fuck off with that wow shit. I'd rather have gay porn on my boards than wow talk.
That's not to say gay porn won't get deleted though.
WOW, THROZEN GAY PORNZ.
WOW, GTFO!
My story started when i was about 10, my family was not so well off with money so i never got to go to the arcades and play I had a friend who was what i would call rich cos he had a mega drive and at one of his birthday parties he got mk2 which to me was the best game ever blood and fatalities wow
Then i remember visiting what i think was time out in lower hutt and it had MK3 on a projector i still didnt have much in the way of cash so any time i was in lower hutt i would go just to watch people play this game on the big screen
That place eventually closed and our family was given an amiga 500 with sf2:ww and mk2 i remember the ai on mk being stupidly hard or stupidly easy so i would play sf and as i think blackstar said it was 4 disks and ment swapping after each round and what was even worse was my copy was stuffed and ken didnt work properly he would use the characters moveset picked before him but i just played blanka and had no real understanding of the game except blanka ball + electricity = win
Skip forward a few years to 2002ish and my sister started to go out with this guy, He had a chipped ps1 and amongst his games was tekken 3 so he would bring that around and we would play that for hours sometimes my sister questioned if he was even there to see her or just play games with me this was the start of competitive fighting games for us both
We eventually got a ps2 and TTT and would practise that so we could go down to lower hutt timezone and play. this was after tekken 4 had come and gone as people went back to tag so we missed the hardcore players but was good to beat people with my eddy and julia team and in the process got to know the staff down there and they all played as well they even would hook us up with free games
It was about this time i really wanted to get better and found SRK and zaibatsu and picked up 3rd strike mvc2 and cvs2 i was average at best still am but really loved fighting games and the arcade scene which sadly in wellington is only the tekken scene but i would watch vids and practise combos for hours at home
I still remember the first time i visited yifans in auckland and was amazed at the size of the place i was even stupid enough to think im better than my mates so i could 'hang' with these dudes, boy was i was quickly proven wrong in every game, i was not on or close to the level of the auckland sf scene. it just shows how much of an advantage constant high level play is
i do miss the atmosphere of the arcade and always stop by yifans if im in auckland
How did I get into fighting games? Japanese version of Tekken to Japanese version of Guilty Gear. Was gifted the PS1 from the rents Japanese friends before release date in New Zealand.
Indian shop use to have a couple of SF machines but I never had the money, sister use to work for Rainbows End and would give me free tokens to play the machines there.