This is validating. For more than 20 years I thought it was just me; literally the angriest I've ever been at a video game. I reached that tilted stage where you just start giggling and lose it.
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
This is a cool idea for a video. Watching streamers attempt a stupid hard boss from the comfort of their own home is one thing, but doing a whole "step right up, step right up, test you strength against Akuma" bit at a tournament is next level.
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
What was the handicap level though? Game becomes really unfair if you pick 8 stars, Akuma finishes you with a 3 level special combo whereas you can only do quarter damage.
I remember beating him in order to select him without code on PS1 back in 1996. Tough guy. I beat him with chip damage from a lvl1 Shinkuu Hadouken, while he was getting up. It was such a close call. Took me at least 20 tries, though and always playing the whole arcade mode in order to get to him.
🎉this is the way. I want the highest difficulty to be evil. Regardless, there is often a cheap strategy to win. Like this alpha 1 Akuma can also be beat by just jumping up and down and doing chun li roundhouse.
When I went to my first Evo back in 2009 when SF4 came out I was so intimidated by Justin Wong, Daigo and all the legends. But to see him here chilling with the boys on the floor is so wholesome. I'd have loved to meet him like this. 💜
@@YoYo-uh3xj In 2009 SF4 had just released. At that time people like Wong and Daigo, etc were just people we heard about in rumors and vines. Guys you read about in magazines. Terms like the "FGC" weren't really coined yet. They weren't the names in gaming they are today. They were just arcade legends and they had an aura about them. c:
I still play A1 on PS1 from time to time, Akuma is still the cheapest hidden boss in the game. A lot of newer players to the series don't realize how Akuma's A.I. was originally programmed. The trick to beating Akuma(Shin) was always to play with a defensive counterattack strategy, his algorithm was designed to counter any inputs you used against him, so allowing Akuma to be the aggressor without getting trapped in an corner with meter was always optimal. Whiff punish, footsies, and grappling are your best weapons against him, but even that will test your patience and skill level to a degree. But, it sharpens your reaction skills a bit, which can make you very OP against human players if you're a read and react type of player.
That's been pretty much the only strategy to fighting Akuma since Super Turbo. Even in crossover games like CvS2 and SVC Chaos, it's next to impossible to press buttons against Akuma without getting bodied. But if you wait it out long enough he does something stupid that you can punish (typically a Gou Shoryuken or the super version). But SVC had an added layer of his Raging Demon being a level 1 super with really fast startup (though thankfully the damage is low), so there's only so long you can turtle.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 Pretty much the same AI has been used for all Akuma fights, with the exception of the Alpha series, unless your opponent is Shin Gouki.
That's my buddy Lex at the beginning! Dude drives cross country as a freight trucker and still finds the time to go to events like this and live out his dreams. Total Badass
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
This was wildly entertaining! I've also floated around the idea of a one-round, single-elim Tekken 1 side tournament with an entry fee of $1, but someone famous (i.e. _you_ ) needs to start it. There's so much cheap crap in the first game, it's probably oddly balanced in that way... Also, 04:56 I don't think that was a cancel. It just has extremely quick recovery time in this game. Get it meaty enough and you can 1f link into another. Saw it in a Zero Koubou video (which you can find here listed as "Street Fighter Zero (Combo Exhibition 2)")
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
This was a fun change of pace, I would like more videos like this. _"I want people to take my money!!"_ JWong with that reverse psychology to make people choke under the pressure...
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
Gill is very easy with Chun Li. Use the spinning bird kick followed by the fast kick and use her hard sweep and downward jump kick a lot. I can beat him almost perfect with her
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
THIS is the one and true Akuma. No other fighting game represented him as well as this one. The music, his power, his incredible damage, and the cheesy AI.
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
Aw this was cool! The like "in-game" stuff in fighting games rarely gets any attention in competitive spaces (for obvious reasons) but this was a lot of fun. Justin's doing really fun work as an FGC personality and organizer.
Haha this was great. I remember first trying this Akuma a couple years back and finally took him out with Ken by using some neutral jump cheese that the AI wasn't ready to deal with. Cleared the game with 1 credit after the reboot also. Recorded that one and was so stoked to have an Akuma clear/1cc back-to-back for it. Loved seeing the grapplers take him out here! Vodka is a master of finding those niche methods to get in, but I guess you gotta be as a grappler main! Love these showcases you are pulling at events! Looked like a lot of fun for everyone who played.
Reminds me of a tournament I played in where they had a similar gig, except to beat Shin Akuma in Alpha 2. I tried with my good character back then, but it wasn't going well, for me or anyone else. So on my next turn I asked them, "I can pick anyone?" Yup, anyone. I picked Shin Akuma and got me my bonus money 😁
Preparing Your Heart for Prayer O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens. (Psalm 8:1) So often in the psalms of David, he began with an acknowledgement of the greatness of God. It’s important for us to look at the attributes of God. It’s important for us to consider His unlimited power, His unlimited knowledge, and the fact that He is present everywhere. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He said, “Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy” (Matthew 6:9) We should begin our prayers with adoration. We should consider the love, justice, and holiness of God and get our thoughts in order. Thus, we start by recognizing who it is we are speaking to. God is our Father in Heaven, not our servant in Heaven, our butler in Heaven, or our vending machine in Heaven. We are speaking to the almighty God, the Creator of the universe. That puts things into perspective. This, by the way, is the reason we have a time of worship at the beginning of our church services. It prepares our hearts and helps us set aside the things that are distracting us and troubling us. It puts us into a frame of mind in which we can be refreshed, taught, strengthened, and, if necessary, corrected. Before we offer a word of petition in prayer, we are to worship the Lord and recognize who He is. As we do, we’ll begin to reexamine things, and we may not pray for what we originally intended to pray for. For instance, you may have wanted to pray that God would change your spouse or judge someone who has wronged you. But after spending time in the presence of God, you instead pray, “Lord, change me. Forgive me for the wrongs I’ve done. Change my heart.” Things will change in your petitions because you’re aligning yourself with God’s will. And that is the objective of effective prayer.
Maybe you can't believe but I remember punishing akuma with a lv3 shoryu reppa. In the 3rd hit he performed lv3 gou shoryu over mine and I lost. I thought it was impossible 😂
The first step on my journey to learning fighting games for real was loading a save state of Alpha Akuma after school for weeks, pausing and rewinding trying to figure out how to survive more than a couple seconds against him.
FGs are not just about tournaments money and hype highlights. Man this takes it back into the good old days just getting off school heading over to my cousins playing on their living room tv tryna beat arcade mode and crap! Was great watching this, awesome event hope to see more like these in the near future!
As someone who's fought a LOT of fighting games bosses, it is hilarious to see tournament level players freeze like deer in the the headlights when facing this. I mean clearly they're not used to playing SFA1 or outplaying the AI but it's still amusing as hell to me.
I'm surprised players didn't even know combos! This was one of my favorite SF games because it brought in the easy chain combos like low weak kick, medium kick, roundhouse, special.
Even if they did, Akuma is so cheesy that most is a risk to try. Justin was saying from the beginning. You gotta cheese him. Means just keep it simple, find what works quick and pray he doesn't do some outlandish BS at the last second lol
This was very enjoyable, brought back memories when you got together with your friends and everyone got a chance to beat the boss character, total neo-nostalgic. I played against this version of Akuma so many times I scotched taped my thumb due to the huge blister the Sega Saturn fight pad gave me. This is still an insane boss though, thank you Mr.Wong for this gem. Maybe a God Rugal next? Or KoF 97 Orochi?
I played this a lot on PS1, and the easiest way to beat him is to pick Akuma, zone him out with air fireballs and teleport away whenever he teleports towards you. Getting above him with Chun Li's wall jump works too but be careful of his shoryuken. Kikoshou him if he dares to teleport in front of you.
There is also a cheap fireball trick to beat him that I used all the time to beat him with ryu that I haven't seen Justin or anybody use yet ! It works on sf alpha 2 shin akuma also but the timing and speed has to be perfect to do it ! I got to upload the footage but I still have the old video of myself playing this on vhs !
Great vid man, I hope you do more like these, they're super entertaining! Plus it's nice to get to see you kick back and watch other people get tossed around by the evil CPU.
This is so much fun to watch! Can’t wait to see more! BtW, it took me SEVERAL tries to beat Akuma in Alpha. Even with save states, winning a single round was tough.
it's funny how the developers of street fighter are madly in love with ryu and the characters who do the best tricks in the game are the ones they continuously mock, such as birdie, zangief, dan, etc.
Nice vid man definitely brought back some memories. This maybe the equivalent of A "Street Fighter" or amateur boxer going up against a season Vet. Akuma is Ridiculous☠💯
Just getting to fight Akuma was alot of work. You had to have like no losses and a certain number of super finishers. And he would just roll up and kick the crap out of you. There was no practice back then really, it was hours of involvement to learn his counters. Until you get hit with his Raging Demon.
I remember hearing about you a little while ago when I watched a Completionist video on Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Glad to see you're still around. I didn't have the Alpha games growing up because I didn't have systems that could play them, so seeing just what it takes to beat a monster like Akuma is incredible. Keep up the good work, Justin.
I used to be able to beat this game on level 8 difficulty with all double Perfects and no losses in about 30 minutes, including the Akuma fight, all by cheesing the AI out with Sodom. I played this game WAY too much when I finally was able to play it without pumping quarters into the cabinet, and none of my friends would play me anymore, so I ended up playing the CPU for hundreds of hours LOL.
That is the mistake that most people do: They play against the Imput-reading AI like they play against humans. If you want to beat the bosses of MK1-3 for excample: You have to use cheap tricks. If you do that, they are easy. I´m sure, Akuma has a simular thing. You need to learn what he is doing and try to get him to jump to you so you have the upperhand!
Justin: Here's a hint, just runaway tatsu and build that bar.... Player: *nah, Imma stay in the pocket and try to be more technical than the friggin computer* 😂😂
Street Fighter Alpha was my favourite. A girlfriend of mine bought it for me for the SNES for Christmas in the 90’s. I spent 100’s of hours playing it. Great times, great game.
In Zero 2 the computer doesn't stop dive comboes. They have surprising long reach, I've never been able to break the dive+special combo. It is literally a bait for you to take full damage to the special.
Akuma and his many forms is a forced to be reckoned with there are many other games that he has appeared in to where he is just as hard or harder than this one. You should make this a series Justin. Gather all the games that Akuma appears in where he is at his hardest and make people face his wrath! Lol! This is hilarious! Btw, you should also include his appearance in Tekken 7 as part of your list. Particularly the “Special Battle” that you have to fight him in with Devil Kazuya. That shit is old school hard.
This is an awesome idea for more videos against crazy AI in these old fighting games! Really enjoyed watching it thanks Justin. Did Yipes attempt this or just photo bomb the back of the intro? 😆
"You got a lot of sweeps off" is legitimately how I beat them back in the day. It's less about being good at fighting games and more about exploiting his AI since they actively punish you for playing.
they always make him a pain. in marvel vs snk on xbox you do the endurance challenge beat 30 computers in a row, then fight M Bison, then Akuma. I knew about M Bison but i didnt know about akuma. i lost so i didnt get the last unlock and haven't tried it again since. over 10 years ago :(
