HOW GOOD WERE FIGHTING GAME PLAYERS BACK IN THE DAY?!

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21 күн бұрын

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I take a look at a very OLD tournament footage and I wanted to see how good fighting game players performed in this 1993 SF2 Tournament in Japan. This is a VERY famous tournament, by the way!
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@jwonggg 19 күн бұрын

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@namco003 19 күн бұрын

We were really good. Pre EVO. PRE MONEY PUZZLE EXCHANGER

@DereckDotCom 16 күн бұрын

why walk backwards? because you could in SF2turbo with honda

@DereckDotCom 16 күн бұрын

also people knew how to play because of: paying with friends, playing in arcades, reading gaming magazines. there was also a phoneline in my country from Nintendo and you could ask them to reveal tricks and secrets

@TheMicahwitz 19 күн бұрын

The golden era of SF2! I was 11 years old in 1992, and every liquor store, laundromat, 7-11, burger joint, and small market had SF2. Shout out to all the OG World Warriors!!! Edit: Man, such great stories!!! Thank you to everyone that shared. From 1991-1994, SF2 was LIFE!

@celuiquipeut6527 19 күн бұрын

Born 81. Same age as you. We had SF2 champion edition machine at our "depanneur" thats our corner store in Canada/Quebec. We also had tournament at the arcade near my school. I remember puttin our pile of quarters in line to save our turn. Man thise were the days. Lol

@chiarosuburekeni9325 19 күн бұрын

I remember those days as well. I was 11/12 in 1992. Most of my fighting games were played at gas stations and laundromats. But we did have a cool arcade in Upland California where I grew up. It was called family fun center and there was a place called bullwinkles right next to it that kinda had an arcade too but it was mostly rides and Chuck E. Cheese type games

@keenanvanaalst9865 19 күн бұрын

80 here and it was so much better back then. grew up in southern cali in the valley. i used to walk for miles to play this game at shakeys or 7/11

@rickyrobles8108 19 күн бұрын

@@chiarosuburekeni9325I went to an arcade in Upland when SF4 came out called James Games. Played SF2 at the meat market liquor store back in 92.

@BouncingSoulR6 19 күн бұрын

Donut shops too, I lived in Hollywood at the time and it was impossible not to go a day without seeing an SF2 cab somewhere lol

@moyza_ 19 күн бұрын

This was the time when Tiger Knee command was ⬇️➡️↗️➕🦶

@Steevy84 19 күн бұрын

??? I performed them same as shoryuken, and It worked lmao

@celuiquipeut6527 19 күн бұрын

It was hard to do btw.

@asherdgravez8552 19 күн бұрын

My thumbs still hurt🤣😫

@celuiquipeut6527 19 күн бұрын

@@asherdgravez8552 Dude we had blisters. Those snes arrows were HARD! Lol

@fRikimaru1974 19 күн бұрын

Missing one more direction I think.

@nearsite 15 күн бұрын

I’m 48 and I was there at Sunnyvale Golfland in like 91,92 when Capcom USA was still HQed in Santa Clara and rolled out SF2 Championship Edition cabinet. We had all our tokens lined up on the cabinet and there were at least 20 of us. It blew us away that we could play the bosses and have mirror matches. I ended up being the coordinator keeping track of who was next up. That ended up getting me a job at Golfland tha5 year. Real fond memories of the ‘early times’ from an old guy.

@1Mic1Life 13 күн бұрын

I grew up down the street from there actually near vallco you have a few years on me but I went up there to play as a kid. Went on to play mvc2 CVS 2 we always looked up to you guys 😂😂 good times up there just a bunch of ticket games now yeah I remembered capcom being in santa clara damnn bro taking me back

@Phar2low 12 күн бұрын

Golfland Milpitas was my HQ during that time period.

@DecemberGift 9 күн бұрын

i just played some golf there the other day! i wanted to go to laserquest w my boy, but it actually closed....

@sf2explus184 6 күн бұрын

i was 10 old enough to get the hype and was it amazing living that time till 1999 when the hype slowed down. street fighter 4 made some noise though when it came out. sf2 hyper fighting is my favourite(arcade version not snes)

@nickeq42 2 күн бұрын

Im 35 and golfland was the spot. So many good times at that arcade. Ill never forget when i got stomped by this dude using hugo on me. He beat me at least 15 straight times. I was crushed n couldnt take another loss after the 15th time😂

@foyo5497 19 күн бұрын

The guy who won this tourney is Nakano Sagat who still plays today, mainly ST. He was a CEO at few years ago.

@quarium5681 18 күн бұрын

That's hype as hell, thanks for sharing

@TwistedSoul2002 19 күн бұрын

Bear in mind that this tournament was about 40 days after the release on Snes. Oh yeh- and this was before training mode was a thing lol

@mercedesplay_more_kof8488 19 күн бұрын

Update! @GuntanksinSpace remembered the name of the series and I was able to find it on KZfaq again! There is also a Garou 3 video of a similar nature by the same production company on this channel. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9yDntJhnru1doU.htmlsi=w1cAVbNzCOD2ribt More of this please! There’s a godlike tape of an early KOF (95 or 96) tournament that happened in a mall and most of the contestants cosplayed. I wish I could find it again.

@phatplates 16 күн бұрын

I used to kick ass in KOF with Heidern, Clark and Ralf👊🏼👊🏼

@RetroPillowcase 15 күн бұрын

Dude you gotta find that video

@GuntanksInSpace 14 күн бұрын

It was 95, Saikyo Oza Sodatsu Hen. I remember seeing it before too.

@mercedesplay_more_kof8488 12 күн бұрын

@@GuntanksInSpace Well done! You did remember it! And I was able to hunt it down again! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9yDntJhnru1doU.htmlsi=w1cAVbNzCOD2ribt

@geese5061 19 күн бұрын

This tournament is legit just as exciting and fun as any evo tournament today

@albertoandrade978 19 күн бұрын

Here in Mexico we had them Arcade cabinets in every chemist's, convenience store, greengrocer´s... hell, there were houses who would put them outside their homes and bring them back in at 11 p.m. I remember walking to places to find new challengers. I would be walking by a place and start hearing the Dhalsim stage track and that was a game on for me. I couldn't believe it when I saw for the first time Champion Edition, I was mesmerized, being able to pick Boxer was my dream and bummer he was so nerfed compare to World Warriors, but it was fun still, a challenge. Good times to be a gamer.

@cucollins12 17 күн бұрын

Yo naci en el mero 90 y a mi me toco ya cuando SF estaba comenzando el "declive" por el 96 ya veias casi puro kof y no tanto SF... que chingon eso de que en las casas sacaran maquinas arcades!

@HenriqueRJchiki 16 күн бұрын

Brazil same thing.

@rodrigosainz6873 16 күн бұрын

Cierto ! En cada esquina había una maquina de SF o KOF.. por eso los mexicanos estamos perros pa los juegos de pelea , puro abuget !

@buckbreaker5185 16 күн бұрын

sovl

@chapel976 19 күн бұрын

I remember doing a KoF 95 Tournament in an arcade once. There was about 25 entrants and one machine. It took FOREVER and they would show it on the big screen in the arcade using video cameras so people could see. It was fun though. I won a few KoF tournaments back then.

@cedrickojet3626 19 күн бұрын

What was the winning set of characters ? I used play a lot kof95 (arcade and psx version)

@joaopedroalmeidacaetano1619 19 күн бұрын

@@cedrickojet3626probably clark + something. He could Grab you on wake up

@francisballon8854 18 күн бұрын

We had that set up for a cvs2 tourney.

@Ricardo-vt5hs 19 күн бұрын

I believe that these folks learned combos watching one of those official guide VHS tapes, which used to be very common in Japan. Even Gradius had a strategy guide released on VHS

@withoutthejuice7193 19 күн бұрын

That goes extremely hard

@carlosaugusto9821 19 күн бұрын

Yeah, but you didnt mention magazines (or written guides in general), that are naturally much more common and accessible even.

@Ricardo-vt5hs 19 күн бұрын

@@carlosaugusto9821 ikr! Most of these tapes were released alongside magazines as a gift. I remember when a brazilian magazine released an issue with the Fatal Fury movie as a gift

@KyokujiFGC 19 күн бұрын

There was tons of tech sharing in the arcade as well. Guarantee all of these kids were playing there regularly.

@Amc825 19 күн бұрын

Arcades. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who spent every waking moment in arcades back in the early 90s.

@Konahagure 19 күн бұрын

First time I played SF2, a cousin brought it over from Blockbuster video as a rental. Dhalsim's elephants trumpeting and Guile's stage music were iconic walking into an arcade. Those were the days.

@Patmanx1 19 күн бұрын

these OG boys doing it on super famicom with a d-pad!

@buckjones4901 15 күн бұрын

Yes looks like it is SF2 CE. Me and my nephews would have matches like. Ken was my best guy usually and my one nephew was amazing with E.Honda. I liked Guile but he was difficult to use for me, he got nerfed I think in the CE version, but if you could get someone cornered with Guile with quick punches and charging a flash kick at the same time, you could win.

@81carlos 15 күн бұрын

@@buckjones4901 It's Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

@LordShockwave9 10 күн бұрын

This brings back so many good memories. My absolute favorite non arcade version of SF and I've been in a few tournaments back in the day as well. Yes, they were that good back then, too.

@Kranzio- 19 күн бұрын

This is a really fun idea. Gotta show these youths that the OG FGC could still bring the hype.

@mindcrome 19 күн бұрын

Tiger knee past a fireball mixed with the upper cuts, plus the low tiger (fireball whatever) made Sagat god like in this game. My arcade had competition this tough.

@buckjones4901 15 күн бұрын

We would play like this on the SNES version as well, it was easier to pull off moves and combos with the controller over the arcade stick.

@brandonfarfan1978 19 күн бұрын

Yeah, SF2 and Virtua Fighter 1 and 2 tournaments, were insane and super hardcore back then. Those days were the golden age, of both Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter.👍😄

@richdixon 17 күн бұрын

I was VF back then and it was indeed super hardcore. Without the internet you had no way to know more than you were exposed to at your arcade or arcades. I went to a tournament in NYC and got Neo'd so hard, I didn't even conceptually know what my opponent was doing. I was a decent player but I was playing the game. He was playing the code of the game. There was a lot of mystery in games back then. It ruled.

@cerebralp666 19 күн бұрын

I'm in junior high again...JWong you just brought me back to the arcade down the street..and the SF tourneys in the school library at lunch hour. It turned the bullies on the schoolyard to your friends in the arcade. We all got good with the Gamepro guides. Much love homie.

@shingotink5062 19 күн бұрын

12:24 Justin's face after the Daigo parry.

@Shaiandra 17 күн бұрын

It's an amazing coincidence that this was also from a Chun Li defeated by Ken.

@Phar2low 19 күн бұрын

I been playing tournaments since 1990...... EGM was the go-to magazine to find out about combos. The rest was up to you!

@tpatt513 19 күн бұрын

No lies about EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) being the resource.

@salwellingood1689 19 күн бұрын

yep, SushiX knew all of the combos.

@kathleendelcourt8136 19 күн бұрын

Street Fighter 2 was released in 1991. In what kind of tournaments did you participate in 1990?

@stardustanimation7501 19 күн бұрын

After EGM, the next magazine to grab was GamePro

@tpatt513 19 күн бұрын

@@stardustanimation7501 PREACH

@cloudsleyfalconbridge 15 күн бұрын

I lived in Japan @ this time, and I've been telling people for decades that they had tournaments like this everywhere there. Even for a time, on-base, there were small tournaments every single weekend until Super Street Fighter 2 came out

@theblackboxpodcastshow1791 19 күн бұрын

I am a OLD man I started playing Street Fighter in 1987 /88 and I’m still playing now at 62 and I’m a ok Kimberly player

@TETCOM. 19 күн бұрын

Wow....cool...im 45 been playing sf since 92

@newzealandoldshen916 19 күн бұрын

I wish I can have your energy when I am at your age.

@carlosaugusto9821 18 күн бұрын

Now that's a real og. I won't take anyone else seriously calling themselves an og.

@Cworld1-md6qg 18 күн бұрын

Do you still play with retro pie/ arch or mame?

@cheeks_of_the_boreal_valley 17 күн бұрын

That is super cool ! Keep on gaming 👊

@terence7009 19 күн бұрын

the commentary is absolutely wild. sure I can't understand it but they're clearly so detailed about it, you'd think it was over a modern game. I hope a lot of these guys are still in it.

@willn8664 19 күн бұрын

if I'm not mistaken this was around the same time that Tomo Ohira and Mike Watson were running things in the U.S.

@jackcoleman1784 19 күн бұрын

"How good were fighting game players back in the day?" I was there. We had godlike footsies because that's all there was and complained about the kids on our lawn when long combos became a thing.

@njp4321 19 күн бұрын

Accurate. To this day I still play grapplers in any game that isn't SamSho because I've just never cared to get on the extended combo train.

@BananaHace 19 күн бұрын

"that's all there was" bro sf2 is one of the most degenerate games ever made. youre not going to tell me boxer throw loops or claw loops were honest.

@adriankheyon 19 күн бұрын

@@BananaHace well no one crying on this era cause of those loops unlike these days 😂😂

@Yeet-ing 19 күн бұрын

@@BananaHace they were, you had to get in on the cheap fireball zoning piece of monkey trash players and their safe on block invincible reversals/

@ifeobasa5459 19 күн бұрын

@@adriankheyon Well no shit sf2 and maybe some neo-geo fighting games was all that was relevant back in those days, ofc there wouldn't be much to bitch about, compared to now where fighting games actually have to be properly designed and tested rather than simply dropping the buggiest mess in world at full price and calling it a day.

@mus0u 19 күн бұрын

that venue looks like the Ryogoku Kokugikan, where all the grand sumo tournaments are held. what a cool venue for a tournament! can't be 100% sure from the footage, but it sure looks like it. (i watch a lot of sumo.)

@Xer_Alix 18 күн бұрын

The name boards at the beginning were definitely Ryogoku

@THENAMEISQUICKMAN 16 күн бұрын

I recognize it because New Japan Pro Wrestling also do shows there. Not big into sumo but love NJPW.

@streetfighter2tv843 19 күн бұрын

The winner of this tournament would go on to win Super Turbo at EVO 2019. Full circle.

@fXoKDM 19 күн бұрын

This is my all-time favorite video you done bro keep it up Jay I'm really happy that you're showing off this amazing video especially because this tournament is the foundation to the original timeline of tournaments A lot of people don't remember that which is a shame but thank you for sharing this amazing video bro keep up the great work Jay

@TETCOM. 19 күн бұрын

This is one of Justin's best videos ever....but have you seen the vid with Justin doing commentary on Daigo vs another guy in sf alpha 2?.....if u haven't look it up.....daigo and some high level dude go at it in alpha 2...Justin and a friend do commentary....AMAZING...as you know,alpha plays alot like regular sf2...so it's just hardcore old school fun on a super elite level...that vid and this are the 2 best I've seen from justin

@punchabunchabuttons 19 күн бұрын

I watch these vids for nostalgia. It is so much the 90s. Glad you give them attention.

@JackgarPrime 19 күн бұрын

These Sagats are WILD!

@jann9294 19 күн бұрын

Yes, he was that same Nakano. And also won another SF2 tourney around 2019 I believe.

@thisismybassgun 19 күн бұрын

This is one of your best videos yet man, loved seeing this blast from the past!

@nickr4837 19 күн бұрын

I feel like there's just different skill sets now: adaptation was more important 'back then' because there was so much you hadnt seen and you never knew what your competitor was capable of until you played them. I think now more studying, frame data , match footage etc . . every top player can be scouted and gameplanned. So much work involved.

@DoctorDoom84 19 күн бұрын

Execution was much harder then. You're watching 1 frame links in this video being done in the clutch. Those tight links have been completely removed in modern Street Fighter outside of very specific situations. No B&B combos have 1 frame links.

@RaamiahMorris 19 күн бұрын

Facts! Very well said

@Counselor-yj8hk 19 күн бұрын

dang its crazy to see how some things are different and how somethings stayed the same in Street Fighter 2.

@akumarev2420 19 күн бұрын

Love the retro review and classic footage. You really ought to do more of this content. I would love to see a deep dive old school Alex Valle VS Jesse Howard or ChoiBoi VS Truelson. The OG's don't get enough time in the light for the foundation they laid.

@chukukuroyame5216 16 күн бұрын

omg that was one wild ride! thanks for showing us Justin! I love it to be back in fighting games....even if i suck XD. But holy.....i cant remember sf2 was that fast O__O

@terracottapie 12 күн бұрын

I remember playing in a UMK3 tournament in 1997. That's the earliest I can remember a fighting game tournament event being held.

@magusomnius3201 19 күн бұрын

now that I'm actually learning the ins and outs, to see all this tech is amazing

@RaamiahMorris 19 күн бұрын

Excellent upload thanks Justin! Respect to OG'S always...

@rgm4646 12 күн бұрын

We WERE good back in 1993 lol. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, AND Tekken. We were GODS. My friends and I were in the arcade everyday after school, learning street fighter. Then tested our skills on weekends after dark at the fun fair arcade. BUT its 2024 and Im too used to a controller, cant use a joystick anymore, the torch is now in the hands of Justin and his friends. Its great watching you all fight! ;)

@38Jemar 13 күн бұрын

As an adult I think it's amazing that you find this 1990's era tournament interesting 🤔. Yes there were competitions in the early days. I was in my prime being the youngest competitors 4 yrs old

@albertoandrade978 19 күн бұрын

The fact that they were using SNES pads. The whole time I was watching this video I felt their struggle, yet I am sure they would smoke me. Guys were OP.

@wadewilson-xi1zs 19 күн бұрын

Bro, some of those players were like the AI on very hard with those input reads. 😂 Do you remember the movie in the early 90’s called the wizard? I used to watch that movie all the time, it was about a big Nintendo tournament in Los Angeles.

@carlosaugusto9821 19 күн бұрын

And there was no training mode, scarce learning means, and not big money prize. Maybe that's why those young guys could be seen as so powerful as today's top class adult players. In the early 90s there was no strong motivation source to master the gameplay to the point they are showing, but they were taking it very seriously.

@TETCOM. 19 күн бұрын

Of course there was motivation to be great..why would you think there was no motivation...I can tell you weren't born back then ....they are playing on an elite level...the motivation is to be the best in the world....nothing has changed....lol...young people always think their generation has the best everything...lies

@NightmareSnake 19 күн бұрын

I love the power glove. It's so bad.

@last7509 16 күн бұрын

better than the jokers winning tournaments these days. ez cheap characters like blank a

@wadewilson-xi1zs 16 күн бұрын

@@NightmareSnake bro, that was one of the best lines in cinema history 😂

@CloaknDagger 19 күн бұрын

Bro I fucking LOVE that you made this video. This is so classic. Seeing the same cast, and the same sweaty players we have today, this is amazing. THanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@laserdiscphan 18 күн бұрын

Darn cool vid! Makes me harken back to my high school days playing Hyper Fighting at the local billiards hall. When you mentioned tournaments in the US, I do recall GamePro magazine giving details of a Hyper Fighting tournament. Can't remember the names (hell, one of them may have been Alex Valle), but I recall the final two competitors using Guile and Vega (Claw.)

@EpsilonKnight2 7 күн бұрын

Watching old footage like this really makes me appreciate how we still have a relatively strong FGC with decent games out today. In a perfect world fighting games hold the big throne instead of FPS or MOBA stuff but I'll take what we have been getting.

@Krynis 19 күн бұрын

maybe it's time for you and a guest to play some of the SNES/SFC versions on stream.

@dogoku 19 күн бұрын

That was awesome. More of this please!

@ortill 19 күн бұрын

This video plus your commentary/ analysis be godlike. Hope you do more of it maybe for other games like co-op cup third strike 🙏

@DJG37S 19 күн бұрын

People don't realize how tough we had it back then, at the same time how fun it was. We basically had to go to the arcades to figure out traps, practice, etc. We had no online play, we had no frame data to go off of. It was we had to throw 50 cents into the arcade and get better.

@carlosaugusto9821 18 күн бұрын

And deal with random damage and random stun values, and cheating CPU, etc

@58jharris 7 күн бұрын

I remember throwing money into player 2 so I could practice the special moves lol.

@co81385 19 күн бұрын

I love footage from this era of fighting games!

@kato771 9 күн бұрын

Brings back memories! Great video, thanks for this.

@Yeet-ing 19 күн бұрын

great video Justin. Keep up the great work.

@Adeptzed 19 күн бұрын

Man, those kids were solid. Never seen anyone play like that on the SNES! Curious how many names are still recognizable today.

@abcmaya 19 күн бұрын

Using Tiger Knee thru a fireball is pretty good. But the one I like is doing a yoga fire to pass thru Ryu's fireball. But of course it has to be a fierce fireball or else it wont work.

@lvvsicpt1 19 күн бұрын

love ur content Justin, keep it up!

@alanfa3idan 18 күн бұрын

sick video justin i love this retro stuff man, just such a different vibe and niche back in the day. i miss that :)

@abcmaya 19 күн бұрын

Back in the late 1990's I remember watching a Street Fighter VHS video from one of those asian countries. It was crazy. The stuff they were showing was insane. Moves and counters that I didn't even think was possible.

@theselfproclaimedretrogame9383 19 күн бұрын

I saw that video about a month ago, I think there's World Warriors tournament as well, same style. haha, I started playing for real on the SNES, I had all the (coins) in the world and learned all the characters through there.

@dannynhl9441 17 күн бұрын

Growing up in NYC during the rise of SF2, MK, NBA Jam etc. was a great time. I was 11/12 when SF2 dropped on Super Nintendo and that helped blow it up around here more. Every Deli in NYC for the most part, bowling ally, laudrymat, arcade, comic book shop had a SF2 arcade. Fun times being that age

@ireaperslegend7426 17 күн бұрын

I love stuff like this! Watching old tourneys is very fun

@carlosaugusto9821 19 күн бұрын

Have you thought of making another video in this same line, about the classic A3 Daigo vs Valle matches? Or the old A2-A3 american tournaments? I dont remember those videos anymore, hopefully the quality is minimally usable for the channel video standards and streaming standards.

@chrisgiles9139 19 күн бұрын

I can believe there was tournaments in 1993 and 1994 back to back actually. 🤣

@TheMicahwitz 18 күн бұрын

From 1991-1994 SF2 was LIFE!!! 😆

@chrisgiles9139 18 күн бұрын

@@TheMicahwitz any blockbusters video game tournaments?

@E-MortalSojourn 18 күн бұрын

Best to ever do it.. under the brightest LED lights ...Hadouken!! 💪🏽

@BoricuaNice 15 күн бұрын

Your commentary is funny and extremely insightful! Keep it up good buddy

@TheThumbBreakers 16 күн бұрын

Love that you are giving love to the classic players!!!❤

@robgoins3672 19 күн бұрын

How good were they? Disgustingly good, like they always have been. God help you if you bump into one of them in the arcade.

@PikangsFutaba 19 күн бұрын

Those old days tournaments are always fun to watch, the magic of those will stay there forever.

@scottimusmaximus2032 13 күн бұрын

That was sick, more old school fighting game tournaments plz

@cerebralp666 19 күн бұрын

Really amazing content, thanks JWong😘❤️🇨🇦

@boombapmaniak5357 19 күн бұрын

My thumbs got ptsd after watching that mashout! 😂 That snes D-pad shredded my thumb back in the day 😫

@nathanhill3300 19 күн бұрын

This video literally made my day. Thanks for this Justin!! I was 18 when his game came out….how is that possible?!?

@thomasmilburn199 18 күн бұрын

That was a really good one! Keep it up

@AustinofEarth 19 күн бұрын

This was amazing. More!!!

@outerlast 19 күн бұрын

the most amazing thing is, they did all that with such small controller

@KnoxAnder 19 күн бұрын

How have we regressed going forward in 2024. The level here is insane!

@Akihito007 16 күн бұрын

Man, what a great game this was. I still remember reading GamePro and them having continual guides with different combos for each character. Were very detailed for the time.

@salwellingood1689 19 күн бұрын

There was local mall tournaments sponsored by EB (electronic boutique) video game stores. They gave away SNES controllers to the winner. I won the Ascii turbo pad =) This was in Ohio.

@SPac316 19 күн бұрын

Wow, This was amazing. I don't think Americans had tournaments of this magnitude back then, as far as I can remember. I was a teen back then as well and fighting games were huge but video games in general were looked down upon as a kids toy and very niche compared to how it is today.

@tylerbacoka4248 6 күн бұрын

Don't know about you but I was in the arcades, so was everybody that was a badass, did u get invited?

@BIGGIEDEVIL 15 күн бұрын

I first played when I was 10 and this is the my childhood thanks for the memories Justin still playing to this day sf6 at 41

@mirthumos 19 күн бұрын

I played sf2 in 1993 and i still play it until now with a snes controller. I'm also learning sf6.

@rahenry00 19 күн бұрын

I was there. It was legit feast or famine...famine being hold the L while you wait in line for another 25 mins to play.

@Shiin-Ryu-K3n 19 күн бұрын

1993?! The year I was born!

@theopulentone1650 19 күн бұрын

I was only 3 years old.

@ragingblade504 19 күн бұрын

I was in 2nd grade

@tiradouken2854 17 күн бұрын

@nunoarcade 19 күн бұрын

In the title screen, if you press left or right you can change the game speed. This also works in the snes version of Super SF2

@not_decaf 19 күн бұрын

We must learn from these old gods

@CosmicRPG 19 күн бұрын

The good times with Japan arcades dominating was the good times

@EMdemo 19 күн бұрын

This was terrific

@user-sw4wk3op9f 19 күн бұрын

This is beautiful to watch. I thought we had pretty good game in Texas until I walked into a Shinjuku arcade in the late 90's and was blown away by what they were doing.

@mars7317 19 күн бұрын

Justin bro, is C.Wong your little brother? this year is evo 37 20 anniversary, looking forward to it! btw, Lets' Goooo Jussstttinnnn!!!!

@Swaggernaut64 19 күн бұрын

Let's see, in 93' I was only 5. See's the 1:27 mark, Oh damn they got down LIKE THAT in 93'? That guy would beat my ass in SF 2 today.

@JunJunMusume 19 күн бұрын

At that year I could barely do a fireball motion... These people were on fire.

@LunatiqHigh 15 күн бұрын

Most of these methods and frame breakdowns, what beats what used to all be in the magazines. EGM had maybe 7 or 8 REALLY good Street Fighter mechanics guides. Everything you guys do today, they did back in the day also. There were so many cool combos you could do that I don't ever really see anyone do today in these games.

@LuisAFigueroa 15 күн бұрын

This reminds me of that one time I entered a SFII tournament at a McDonald's in Puerto Rico with exactly this game. My Sister, my cousin and my self joined forces. We even brought our own controllers (Cured). However, I end up battling my own cousin in the finals and beat him with Guile, he was a Ryu player. Then the person he defeated, won against me, with Ryu. I won second place and my sister 3rd with Guile. Sadly, I think my cousin could've won first place due to him being able to defeat the one who end up defeating me and winning the 1rst place. Ahhh the memories!!!

@tpatt513 19 күн бұрын

1992... I was 8. I remember my first ever win in SFII was at a Buffalo Wild Wings at The Strip (Short Vine) in Cincinnati, OH. Across the street from there, we had a legendary multi level arcade called Jupiter. Seriously, Gen Z, we had phuck'n fun during the 90s.

@dacatindahat8275 18 күн бұрын

The fighting game revolution and the arcade comeback it caused was an incredible time to grow up.

@darkestlost 19 күн бұрын

Please bring more videos like this I would love to see more fgc ancient times

@dgreater1 18 күн бұрын

If I would say, a lot of Prime Arcade Players back in the days would still cook a lot of players of today. They're just built differently and very very competitive. Just recently, I played one in a mall for nostalgia and there were young-lings having matches talking about being great that they visit other arcades to showcase their gaming skills. My competitive nature flared and I made them line up in a losing streak while I keep accumulating wins. I even heard one of them say "Holy sh*t, this guy is probably one of those legends." Hilariously, I wasn't even one of the greatest in my circle back in the days and could probably say I only have 10%~20% of the skills and reaction time of my fellows.