Dateline, some time in 1996...or was it 1997? I was about six years in staying with my foster family just outside downtown atlanta, and we sometimes did our laundry at a laundromat about a block or two away from us. That laundromat had a street fighter 2 arcade cabinet, but I simply just watched the attract mode, rarely attempting to play. Same **** with tekken 3, tekken tag tournament, tekken 4 in later years. Ah, but tekken 5 dark resurrection, which I found an arcade cabinet in downtown atlanta in 2014, is the real exception, but I digress. Me and my stepbrother and stepsister used to own it in 1999-2002, as did my stepcousins. My stepcousins also played street fighter alpha 3, and I played that a bit most times I visted them. Needless to say, they no longer have that. So, since 2002, I sorta forgot about street fighter--and tekken, for that matter--since smash bros. series was my new love.
Fast forward 21 years later to today...while I was away, I got inquisitive and watched a bit of street fighter gameplay on youtube...on dspgaming's channel of all places, lulz! And yes, I found it hilarious to watch dsp rage.
Anyways...while watching his content, some of the characters in sf6 interested me, especially marisa because she a big girl with her size bearing comparison to
. The avatar creator would of sold me, but too bad their use is limited to world tour and battle hub, two modes I am unlikely to touch. Oh well, soulcalibur's character creation is better anyway, and I do not even use
that very often.
For the time being though, I might start with the 30th anniversary collection and work my toward street fighter 4, then street fighter 5, and finally, street fighter 6 over time as a ps5 is well outside my budget at the moment.
Now smash, soulcalibur, and tekken are good, but time to challenge myself and try something new. I shall admit, I was a masher at it back in the day. But this time, I am willing to know much more than I did in those time periods.