Street Fighter II came out 25 years ago today

[grumpy_new_yorker]

Shit man, I remember the first time I seen a Street Fighter 2 cab back in the day. First character I picked was Blanka because he was so crazy looking.

 

[vagrant-718]

I remember using the charge characters first cause the fireball and shoryken motions were too hard for me to do

Remember I got better at it, thought I was nice until I went against my sister's friend. He humbled me real quick

 

[playmaker88]

Ryu and Guile were my dudes.. I remember going to the Comic Shop and i had my beginners luck lol.. and

having Super Nintendo and this joint being $75. Before those crazy Street Fighters i had the game genie.. where you could fight in the air and do all sorts of shit that added another element ot the game which was cool

This is the first and last era that i fucked with fighting games.

Tekken

World Heroes

Virtua fighter

Mortal Kombat I and II

and a few others i might have forgot

Shout out to Final Fight even thought it was a scroller not a traditional fighting game

 

[CeLLaR-DooR]

I remember when I went to my niggas house he had the booklet lol I was SHIT THATS HOW THE COMPUTER DO THAT?

My dad found ours on a bus or sutten, just the cartridge. I was about 6. Ah man imagine some summer nights we'd have like 8 different niggas stayin' over just to play

 

[Fosheezy]

I still remember the first time i layed eyes on SF2. on an arcarde cabinet inside a grocery store. I only got to see it for a few seconds cuz my moms was rushing out the store. I was so amped that's all i could think about the rest of the whole day. i went home and started drawing flip books of some of the moves. Can't believe it was 25 years ago.

 

[Figo]

used to whoop ppls ass with dhalsim. that coolie is gully. in this and ssf.

 

[Bcotton5]

Sf5 in 10 days im dripping with anticipation

 

[Melanin_Enriched]

Smh probably wont get it till summer

 

[Melanin_Enriched]

Nigga is embellishing on his own autobiography

 

[Figo]

I first got SF2 in 1992 btw for Christmas and played the fuck out of it. I played it like it was a day job LOLOLOLOL. My moms thought I was crazy but I knew that was the game that was it. I became the best player in my neighbourhood and the first kid to beat it. Before frame rates, timing, damage and everything was even found out I masted that game to the point where my family members thought I invented the game. For such a young kid that type of range was unheard of, I'm a prodigy. I wish niggas on here would care enough to do an SF2 tournament just for old times sake. Curious to see how the rest of yall play. I know Cham, Bcotton, Geno, Lonious Monk be fuckin with them fighters but I don't never see the rest of yall on there. I aint judging but that's what I see. If yall ever do one hit me up.

ill participate if it is possible.

 

[[Trillmatic]]

Shit I remember I always use to pick blanka cuz I didn't wanna fight the com version of him cuz he was hard as fuck to beat. This is back when u couldn't pick 2 of the same character. Honda was my other favorite nigga.

 

[Bcotton5]

Greatest video game soundtrack of all time too

 

[genocidecutter]

Greatest video game soundtrack of all time too

Guile's theme>>>>>

 

[KNiGHTS]

I first got SF2 in 1992 btw for Christmas and played the fuck out of it. I played it like it was a day job LOLOLOLOL. My moms thought I was crazy but I knew that was the game that was it. I became the best player in my neighbourhood and the first kid to beat it. Before frame rates, timing, damage and everything was even found out I masted that game to the point where my family members thought I invented the game. For such a young kid that type of range was unheard of, I'm a prodigy. I wish niggas on here would care enough to do an SF2 tournament just for old times sake. Curious to see how the rest of yall play. I know Cham, Bcotton, Geno, Lonious Monk be fuckin with them fighters but I don't never see the rest of yall on there. I aint judging but that's what I see. If yall ever do one hit me up.

I do your love of the game one better:

I taught myself Ryu left handed. On a default controller. One handed. I got scared I wouldn't be able to play if I lost my right hand, so I started figuring out how to do shit with the left. When I got SF2: Turbo, I played the shit 18 hours straight. Cost $82 USD from Walmart on SNES. I mastered Ryu, Sagat, and Ken before going to Vega and Guile.

Started learning to wreck with my feet but never got past second star difficulty. Got pissed and broke my only two controllers, so a nigga was just looking at it for months sitting there. My game ain't comp level anymore, but I can still fuck up any CPU with a Shoto fighter.

 

[Bcotton5]

Greatest video game soundtrack of all time too

kanye sampled it on like 3 different songs on his new album