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#42. Street Fighter 2 (Arcade, 1991)

We're just gonna run through a list of stuff here since it's pretty well known what this is. This is also going to cover the Super/Turbo/etc variants of the game.



The very first video game magazine I owned had a picture of Ryu on the cover. I thought the game was so cool from the start.

The 7-11 near my house had a Street Fighter 2 cabinet. Those things were everywhere in the early '90s. It was nuts.

When Mortal Kombat came out, a lot of my friends started playing that more. I didn't like having a block button. I felt Street Fighter 2 was still more fun to play. I also felt at a fairly young age that Mortal Kombat was using all the violence to make up for not being as good a fighter, even though I didn't actually know what made a good fighter then? (I think I was pretty right with this assumption)

When Super Street Fighter came out, I thought T Hawk and Dee Jay were the coolest Street Fighter characters. I still do.

Hi-Score Girl really used Street Fighter 2 well in its story, but also to showcase the game and how it is played in technically correct ways. It was very interesting to see the game in such detail in a show.

Street Fighter 2 is great as a quick game these days because rounds move so fast. Combos are short or not there, so you really just need to land a few hits and the round's over. Characters are so different, they didn't all have their full variety of moves here to zone, anti-air, cover ground, reversal, etc, so matchups are all so different.

I was once told that I am the best Dee Jay in Michigan. At an anime con/fighting game tourney, they had a Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo cabinet, so a friend and I were playing on it for fun, and I happened to be using Dee Jay. Some guy came up and was like, Can I fight the winner of this match? which happened to be me. He sits down and is like, It's so good to see someone else who uses Dee Jay. I use him too! Wait a second, you're using my color! That's the color I always use! (note: I have no idea which color I was on, and I still don't to this day). So this guy challenged me to a match over the right to use this specific color of Dee Jay. And I beat him. Then he hit me with the one more match. And I beat him again. And then more one mores, and I think I beat him about 10 times in a row, stopping only when someone else called next to fight the winner. He stood up, promised me he would never use that color again, and told the next person in line to watch out, because I was the best Dee Jay in the state of Michigan.

I've never actually entered a tournament for Street Fighter 2 despite how much I've played it, but I have entered ones for 3, 4, and 5. Maybe one day I'll also give this a shot competitively.

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