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

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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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.👍😄

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

Update! @GuntanksinSpace remembered the name of the series and I was able to find it on Youtube again! There is also a Garou 3 video of a similar nature by the same production company on this channel. https://youtu.be/YvSko09UQFQ?si=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.

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