I remember like it was yesterday. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was at school, and one of my friends pulls out this game mag. And soon almost the whole class was by his desk. Even the teacher was curious on what was so huge in the magazine he had. I had seen Street Fighter II for the first time, I wasn't an arcade junky yet. I thought it looked cool, and I was getting gassed up hearing about people who played it at the arcade. It had just came out on the SNES system and it so happened that I was going to blockbuster to rent a movie and a game while spending time at my uncle's house that day.
So I'm at my uncles house and my mother went and rented everything already, and I was disappointed because she just up and went without me because I was going after that game. But she pulls out the green case and said. "They guy at the counter said this was the newest and hottest thing out" And there it was Street F'n Fighter 2! My uncle who never played games since atari, was even hooked and would only pick Dalsim and was totally cheaping me out because I didn't know how to get past his lanky limbs with my main Guile. This was before the code was released about the same player vs same player.
Who remembers the real code and the hoax BOSS code for the SNES? Down, R, Up, L, Y, B at the Capcom logo. Sorry the Contra code had nothing over this! Now that code and the rumored boss code was also the first code I ever put into a video game. However the boss code obviously never worked. I tried for a good hour and found it was a hoax.
But Capcom would soon answer our prayers with Champion Edition. Now I ran into this game at a local movie theater by my house. My best friend at the time told me they had a new version of SF that allows you to pick the bosses, and I thought he was BSn me. We were on our way to school that morning...but never made it.
Here we are sitting in the movie theater spending all of our money that we had on that machine beating the game with everyone...... we were hooked and became arcade junkies since. It was worth the grounding, and punishments. All our snow shovel money, allowances, and yard work money went into that CE machine in the theater. One time we got dropped off to go see The Mask at a different theater. And what do you know? They had a CE machine as well. We went into the theater and ended up spending the movie money on a soda and some ass whoopins on that game.
Then Hyper Fighting came out and I remember Fudruckers having a wall lined up with the HF Big blue machines, with lines of kids including me waiting to play. I will never forget the new feel of the joystick and buttons, and the fast pace Guile in his dark blue cammys flash kicking Ryu out of his mid air hurricane kick. The sound effects, the music, and the announcer (whom they should still have this day) yelling "You Win!" would make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It was then I made a promise to myself to one day own a HF machine.
I own a candy cab and a few SF boards. But it's not the same. It has to be in a woodie, a dynamo at that! One day....One day.......
