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[Parallax Scroll]

As a kid I used to watch people play street fighter 1 at the pizza place

OG spectator

 

[Busaiku]

As a kid I used to watch people play street fighter 1 at the pizza place

I don't believe you.
Nobody alive played Street Fighter.

 

[Infinite]

Nothing irks me more than when people say "the US version of Tatsunoko vs Capcom".
Ultimate All Stars came out in Japan like the same day.

Not a big dead dude lol. There was a Japanese version of the game that never made it over here that came out about a year before. I only said "North American version" because the game came out here in 09 which would make him still an 09er. You knew what I was talking about regardless.

 

[joe2187]

My first was Darkstalkers 3 and it came with PS1 I bought at a pawnshop and Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero.

You can tell which game I played more.

 

[Beats]

I think my first fighter was either mortal kombat 2 or Clayfighters.

 

[smurfx]

I don't believe you.
Nobody alive played Street Fighter.

i've never seen a street fighter cab. as a kid i always wondered if there was a street fighter 1.

 

[Lostconfused]

Actually a lot of new players do that too but it tends to be not as bad. A lot of them listen to the older player nonsense and just assume it to be true.

Let's just go with my self as an anecdotal example. I don't feel like I need to learn specific OSes, I guess I see them as an advanced technique. I haven't even started using FD breaking in Xrd or FDing every jump out attempt.

Not to mention that not everyone approaches these games from the same perspective and with the same goal.

Edit: That OG nonsense is understandable though. It's the same "honest game" that Kbrad was talking about just a few days ago. OSes just don't fit with their perception of what a good game is or what they want it to be.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I don't believe you.
Nobody alive played Street Fighter.

Nobody understood shit about the game. People thought you could run out of fireballs.

 

[joe2187]

I think my first fighter was either mortal kombat 2 or Clayfighters.

Wait, this as well. Of course it was over at a friends house. They had an SNES, I only had an NES and a Genesis.

 

[Azure J]

Damn, I'm an 08'er even though I've been playing fighting games since SF2 at 7-11.

At least you have a starting date. According to that thought pattern, I don't exist! :lol

Edit: Oh wait, I'm a 99er with Smash 64.

 

[Astarte]

I think before, I didn't really pay attention, I just wanted some links to mame roms

Spoiler

and that saidago doujin with Karin

I see you over there with the spoiler :V

I think my first fighting game was Tekken 3 or Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo if that counts.

 

[SixMachine]

You're an OG if you cashed in your 401k to beat a party game in a donation drive.

Which means no Tekken player is eligible because they are still working their jobs.

 

[Infinite]

I started playing fighting games seriously with Soul Calibur and Smash. So 99 I think. But I been playing the genre since before that.

 

[Anne]

Let's just go with my self as an anecdotal example. I don't feel like I need to learn specific OSes, I guess I see them as an advanced technique. I haven't even started using FD breaking in Xrd or FDing every jump out attempt.

Not to mention that not everyone approaches these games from the same perspective and with the same goal.

I'm specifically talking people who want to win lol people come to tournaments, say they wanna win, lose to the same advanced techniques over and over again, then complain about the techniques they could just learn to use and pray to old player "fundamentals" instead.

If you're not that invested I don't care that's fine, but I'm tired of people telling me about godlike reads and footsies being better than actually knowing how the game works. It's a pretty American mindset I feel.

Yeah it's that "it doesn't fit" mindset. It's pretty silly and weird to me.

 

[Beckx]

As a kid I used to watch people play street fighter 1 at the pizza place

OG spectator

I watched Karate Champ games at the bowling alley. Whoever knew the jump kick always won.

 

[Professor Beef]

Many OGs take pride in not actually knowing shit

"playing by feel"

"instinct"

FOH

I'd like to see you tell that to Bruce Lee. Fuck crunching numbers and frame data. If it works, then it works.

At least you have a starting date. According to that thought pattern, I don't exist! :lol

Edit: Oh wait, I'm a 99er with Smash 64.

Yeah, I nearly forgot about Smash too. Also a 99er.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I watched Karate Champ games at the bowling alley. Whoever knew the jump kick always won.

I don't think my town ever got a Karate Champ machine but I used to watch Yie Ar Kung Fu as well.

A quarter was a lot of money at the time so I didn't play the games much but I would watch them a lot.

 

[petran79]

There's nothing like being a kid and playing KI in a snes emulator for PC and only button mashing with Cinder. -> -> HP or playing Tekken 3, picking Eddy and only press XO till you win. You can't get more OG than that!

My most proud gaming achievement was finishing Battle Beast in 1996. I wonder how I tolerated such crap

 

[Parallax Scroll]

There's nothing like being a kid and playing KI in a snes emulator for PC

OK now I feel old.

 

[Beckx]

I don't think my town ever got a Karate Champ machine but I used to watch Yie Ar Kung Fu as well.

A quarter was a lot of money at the time so I didn't play the games much but I would watch them a lot.

Same, my folks never gave me quarters to play.

 

[Beta Stage]

My first fighting game was SFII CE. I was 3 and I had no idea what I was doing. But if you want to talk about a true OG, then my dad is the OGest. His first fighting game was Karate Champ. Get on his level GAF.

 

[oneida]

i remember renting KOF99 on Dreamcast and hating the controls. But, you know, DC pad.

 

[Holy Order Sol]

I'd like to see you tell that to Bruce Lee.

I'd just call my EviLore assist

 

[call_kotaku]

My first fighting game was SF2 Champion Edition. I found it on one of the bootleg SNES rom discs that came with my family's Chinese VCD player which had a built-in super illegal emulator functionality. I found it by launching every game on the disc which were all listed in Chinese in the menus, I think the Chinese name for SF2 involved panthers or something.

 

[BadWolf]

Pretty sure my first fighting game was SF2, was around 5 or 6 years old and tried it at an arcade.

Remember a Guile player kicking my butt (he was much older).

 

[jerry1594]

First fighting game was Tekken 3 in like 2002. Or KoF 95 in like 1998 or something. Still a neverer though.

 

[ArclightBorealis]

First fighting game, huh? I guess technically it would be Melee even though I didn't think of it as such at the time.

Though the first one where I actually started taking the concept of fighting games more seriously was VF5 vanilla.

 

[oneida]

neverer means you never play against people or what?

 

[alstein]

My first was SamSho 1. I remember picking Galford because I thought the dog would be OP.

 

[sf2fanatic]

I don't believe you.
Nobody alive played Street Fighter.

I lost some hearing from the giant speakers of that game while I was a kid. Also my hand was numb for a couple of hours from mashing on it with my fist.

Spoiler

but continued to insert coins.. LOL!!

 

[Sayad]

Sol's really good and Daigo is a smart player. (interested in what his team will end up being, maybe we can sneak an American in it..... lol....

Spoiler

)

Maybe they can sneak in Kaz and Dogura!

 

[jerry1594]

neverer means you never play against people or what?

Never played competitively

 

[Parallax Scroll]

First fighting game I actually played was SF2 world warrior on snes. First one that I played regularly in the arcade was X-Men COTA, then Soul Edge and X-Men vs Street Fighter. First time competing was I guess 2002 when I ran the brackets for an Alpha 3 tournament on console. I went 0-2.

Edit: I did used to put up win streaks on MvC1 back in 99, but no one in my town was any good.

 

[enzo_gt]

Show Your Age Weekly

 

[Coffeeling]

Edit: That OG nonsense is understandable though. It's the same "honest game" that Kbrad was talking about just a few days ago. OSes just don't fit with their perception of what a good game is or what they want it to be.

I can definitely sign this.

I'm specifically talking people who want to win lol people come to tournaments, say they wanna win, lose to the same advanced techniques over and over again, then complain about the techniques they could just learn to use and pray to old player "fundamentals" instead.

If you're not that invested I don't care that's fine, but I'm tired of people telling me about godlike reads and footsies being better than actually knowing how the game works. It's a pretty American mindset I feel.

Yeah it's that "it doesn't fit" mindset. It's pretty silly and weird to me.

I like knowing how the game works. It's just that if given the choice between a game with lots of OS potential and a game with little OS potential, I'd like the latter.

 

[Thing on a Spring]

There was a Street Fighter arcade machine in a local dive arcade in town with the big pressure pads for varying strengths of attack. I watched my older brother play it but never tried it myself as I couldn't reach it to play. Being tiny as I was.

My first one on one fighting game was Way of the Exploding Fist on C64. Still have a special place in my heart for that game.

 

[SloaneRisette]

Smash 64 was my first and my mom didn't like how violent it was for me at my age (I was like 6 or 7) lol

 

[Tripon]

It's impressive on how Wizard doesn't give a fuck about moving Marvel as the semi final game.

 

[CurlyW]

For me, it was Virtua Fighter 1 at the Putt-Putt Golf in Rockville, Maryland. (RIP, damn luxury condos)

Sloane? Someone is a Ferris Bueller fan

Or a tennis fan.

 

[atomic moth]

My local arcade put up separate tvs above the SF2 machines so even little kids like me could see the action. It was too competitive for me to play at the time and I couldn't really reach the sticks anyway. They eventually migrated the tvs to on top of the Mortal Kombat machines before they retired them.

Now that I think about it I'm not sure what my mom was thinking dropping a little kid off at arcades for hours at a time.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

My local arcade put up separate tvs above the SF2 machines so even little kids like me could see the action. It was too competitive for me to play at the time and I couldn't really reach the sticks anyway. They eventually migrated the tvs to on top of the Mortal Kombat machines before they retired them.

Now that I think about it I'm not sure what my mom was thinking dropping a little kid off at arcades for hours at a time.

I remember at least one arcade doing this for SF2. I thought it was cool as fuck at the time.

 

[atomic moth]

I remember at least one arcade doing this for SF2. I thought it was cool as fuck at the time.

I think the advent of those huge 33" showcase pedestal cabinets were also a milestone in the poor kid arcade watching timeline.

 

[Sayad]

I can't wait to be an OG

Marvel players have to wait for the next vs game. ;p

 

[DryEyeRelief]

My first fighting game was Marvel vs Capcom 1.

It's impressive on how Wizard doesn't give a fuck about moving Marvel as the semi final game.

Wiz dropped his pants, bent over and made capcom games a 360 standard for Marvel's sake, despite previous years of disparity with SF4. Despite Chris G acting like a total diva and calling him a word you can't say here, as part of the complaint. And unlike any other game, Wizard makes it his mission to prove that Marvel isn't dead on twitter.

Marvel isn't in the grave but you're a loon if you don't think that guy is performing CPR

 

[Onemic]

The year you started competing. If you don't compete you're a never'er. You therefore get no votes and no voice.

Guess I'm a 15er ;_;

 

[Kalamari]

Fuck, I'm old. I want to say SF2 on Snes was my first fighting game, but now I realize that I had Karate Champ on Commodore 64.

 

[BlackJace]

I want to say Melee was my first, but... sheesh that would make me a youngin' then.

 

[Onemic]

I'm specifically talking people who want to win lol people come to tournaments, say they wanna win, lose to the same advanced techniques over and over again, then complain about the techniques they could just learn to use and pray to old player "fundamentals" instead.

If you're not that invested I don't care that's fine, but I'm tired of people telling me about godlike reads and footsies being better than actually knowing how the game works. It's a pretty American mindset I feel.

Yeah it's that "it doesn't fit" mindset. It's pretty silly and weird to me.

I'll learn OS's, but I think more often than not they bog a game down and just make it worse / less fun overall. Maybe by learning them some competitors think that they're subconsciously ok'ing their implementation. honor code and all that, though that shit should get thrown out the window when you wanna win.

 

[nycfurby]

Damn you fuckers are old. My Karate Champ and Yie Air Kung Fu memories though ;_;

 

[Anne]

I don't even mean OS entirely, it's just the common example. People passed up roll cancelling at some point. I remember people passing up TAC infinites until they were required lol.