Seventeen years later, Capcom proves that it knows not to mess with a winning formula. My life evaporated in twenty-five cent increments. A few years later, Capcom turned up the speed and added a few new characters, giving us Super Street Fighter II Turbo. I dropped a quarter into the machine…and still haven’t really come up for air. ![]() I was actually hearing “Tiger!” and the occasional “Tiger Uppercut!” Sure, I’d played Galaga and Pac-Man before, but this was something new. (When you’re young, your focus tends to block out a lot of other things.) Nope, it was something called Street Fighter II, and it was set to a demo of Ryu fighting Sagat. ![]() I assumed that someone was yelling about the Wolverine villain Cyber. As I wandered the racks, all of 12 or 13 years old, I kept hearing someone yell “Cyber! Cyber!” There were a couple of arcade cabinets in the back of the store that I hadn’t gotten around to yet. So there I was, standing in a comic book shop in Dayton, looking for back issues of the Uncanny X-Men.
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