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I remember the first time I learned how to throw a hadou-ken. I was practicing on Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis. I did not have a strategy guide, nor did I have an instruction manual, so I was like, "how the hell did I do that?!" And I was training for the sole purpose of beating my cousin who was miles better than me at the time. I remember in the Arcade seeing everybody do all the special moves, and trying to ask them how they did it, but nobody would explain it to me
L-Y3T I remember my first time too. I was pressing the D-Pad counterclockwise with one of the punch buttons. Did it by accident like that and thought that it was the way to do it. For the longest time I was doing a full circle counterclockwise with the punch until years later a friend of mine showed me it was just down+forward-punch.
Wow, your arcade was populated by dicks. I learned SFII at my supermarket. The guy playing it let me interrupt his game and had us both stand on opposite sides of the screens so he could teach me the moves. I don’t think we even fought for those rounds. He just wanted to teach.
Why do I love this video so damn much? Two great friends sharing memories that strike close to home for me I guess. Every time I watch it I have to play some Street Fighter afterwards.
Great video! SFA2 is my favor game of all time along with CVS2. Interestingly, SFA2 aged very well, it is still extremely fun to play even after decades later, & its combat system one of the best among all the fighting games even comparing to all the current fighters in 2015! My friends & I still play the games regularly along with Xmen vs Street Fighter on my Sega Saturn! BTW, the Saturn version of SFA2 is way better than the PS1 one.
Street Fighter 2 was constantly sold out every where for SNES. My mom was definitely not coming back to the store. It was either Super Mario World, or nothing.
I remember the first time I played SFA2, I was 14 and my mom let me rent it from Blockbuster because she felt bad that I caught the flu from her. I played for 5 hours straight, nodding off and waking up with the game still on.
Lol you guys got me into street fighter a year ago (because of this video specifically), I remember it was the second to last day of term three and this game was on sale on PSN and I remember downloading it while I was doing something else, came back installed it and I booted it up. I remember going to training and trying to do a fireball as Ryu (lol had to look it up) and I wrote all the special moves down and I sat there for hours with my headphones in for three or four hours until I realised it was midnight. I played it for hours the next day and was starting to get moves down etc. I downloaded it on my Vita and I played Alpha 2 for endless hours for the next three months, got Alpha 3 for my birthday later that year (played that all Christmas and while I was on holiday). I looked into SFV thought it was kinda cool and pre ordered it (halfway through January) and then at the end of the holidays, I played SF2 (don't like it tbh) but then I was bored and looked up SF3 3rd strike. Holy shit that last week of the summer holidays was fucking awesome I played 3rd strike whenever I had a spare moment (my friend and I were goofing off on the internet and doing stupid things all the time so I didn't play it to much). SFV kinda killed my interest in the series, my mum let me leave school early so I could go pick it up from the store. Its alright I suppose but theres a reason I barely touched the Street Fighter series for six months. I have really gotten back to the point I was at this time last year again, I've started to flash my money around buying the MvC games and have been playing 3rd strike religiously. Sorry for the massive essay.
yup, there's nothing like playing fighting games for hours and having fun and especially the hard tapping on the controller for when you get real serious with the bosses. Street fighter is the only game to give me boils on my thumbs from playing to hard. I need to get my collection started back up and i want all the street fighters, besides the 30th anniversary collection i want all the original copies from snes to ps1 to sarturn and ps2.
Guys thanks for this episode this game brings back so many memories. This was one of the first games I played for the ps1. Back in late 1996 my cousin bought a ps1 with 4 games Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Street Fighter Alpha 2, and I love all of those games, but Alpha 2 was the game that got everybody together. I remember friends will go to his house, and we all play alpha 2. To this day in the Street Fighter series Alpha 2 is my second favorite game, only behind alpha 3.
Its really fun watching these two sit and reminisce and get nostalgic about their gaming memories and hear about the ridiculous things they used to do to each other. Reminds me of my childhood messin around wit my cousins
Hello guys! I loved your video, when you said you play daily 6 hours , this reminds me the afternoons with my friends playing Darkstalkers 3, Toshinden 3 and X-men Vs Street Fighter on my PS1. Ah I miss those days! Thank you for the nostalgia and loved that they are people who reminds so beautifully their gaming memories and experiences!
Alpha 2 is definitely my favorite fighting game :) I used to pause the ryu stage just to listen to the song ahaha and that announcer voice is so nostalgic
Street Fighter Alpha 2, I used to play the arcade cabinet all the time at Wal-Mart, LOL. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the SF game I invested hours and hours of time into with my friends.
***** well said man! I think the Saturn version is even better than the arcade version for I can enjoy it with my favor Saturn controller along with the more difficult AI setting.
Thank you. i just happened to play in a few days ago. My Sega Saturn gets regular love and attention....as well as Street Fighter Collection which also has a great version of Super SF 2 Turbo. :)
Your story reminds me of how my older brother trained me when we first got SNES with SFII. Except he picked Ryu and I picked Ken. Eventually we got really close in skill level and I could finally beat him every once in a while. He used to taunt me just like Johnny. By the time SFA2 came out we weren't playing together anymore (he's 7 years older) but I used to kick everyone's ass at that game and taunt them as well! One clear memory I had was the day SFA2 came out in the arcade and I played it for the first time and kicked the ass of everyone twice my size and so they started to actually gang up on me and physically hit me to make me lose! I was just a little kid and this made me cry! I guess I was too good for them! Since you're supposedly so good, I'd love to challenge you! Just the other day I got the Japanese version Street Fighter Zero 2 for Sega Saturn which is arguably even more arcade perfect than the PS1 version, plus the amazingly awesome Saturn arcade stick. Playing it today my face stays in a permanent expression of awe. The version I played the most at home back in the day though was SFA3 on PS1 and Dreamcast.
God man, I love Alpha 3, but never got around to playing Alpha 2. You two got me to play it, not only is the gameplay better, so is the music, the balance, and even the announcer are better. I still love me some Alpha 3, but Alpha 2 is better and almost perfect, as well as my favorite entry into the Street Fighter franchise!
Great video! It's so true: the snes and psone days are the Golden era of videogaming...there was no internet and the games were so good and memorable. So many good memories from two of the best consoles of all time. My fighting game, actually, was Darkstalkers 3...amazing video - like always - guys!
good show this time. Really spoke to me because i grew up the same time as you guys and had similar experiences with the game. I should've just made a video response but you didn't ask for any this week so.. But yeah great great memories from you two and made me think on my own memories.
I still got this game for the snes and after hearing ur memories it made me remember that my best friend and i used to be like this i didn't have any "rival" per se so i teached him how to play and used to taunt him like hell to make him mad so he would get better and we had some epic fights and still to this day we have our "rivalry" in the new street fighters but never like it was in alpha 2
Love your stories and your enthusiasm for old-school gaming! Unfortunately, I never played Alpha 2, but I was addicted to good, old Street Fighter 2 on the SNES...first time beating that game as an 8 year old playing with Dhalsim remains one of my crowning achievments when it comes to gaming :-)
thanks you for shearing your memories, its really brings a smile to my face hearing all this, i have the same moments with my friend, boot camp style. would be a real pleasure to play with you guys one day. thanks
Now your bringing golden days back. I waa a master at the SNES SF2. Unbeatable, after wasteing a tonn of cash on the arcade version in my local fish & chip shop. Id play winner stays on all day with my mates and never lose! Then SFA2... Simply perfect. I thought I was unstoppable then I visited Jonny Millennium in Vancouver... that guy destroyed me over and over again. Oh and I felt the massive Mellenium taunts. Fun days!
Man, Rob is an AWESOME friend. Sorry to say, Johnny and I know you probably already know of course but I've always gotten the feeling since Rob's introduction to the show that he's always been very open-minded and considerate to everything you have to do on the show lol. He's an amazing friend who can take an verbal beating and still smile at the end of the day. Of course we don't know how you guys are after the cameras are off but as far as I can sense Rob's a class friend :) love you guys both
great video! i never got into alpha 2, i remember getting alpha 3 and that shit was mindblowing to me. i know not as many people like it as they do with alpha 2, but thats all i knew as a kid, and while i wasnt nearly as competitive into fighting games back then as i am now, i remember that game and bloody roar were the two games me and my bros went hard on, that and tekken 3
I remember that, Dan was the joke character, and it was hilarious. Interesting thing is that even though Dan started as a joke character back in the day, I actually think he's a really good character to use and has evolved and been really well developed for Street Fighter IV :) @HappyConsoleGamer It's also cool how Capcom has kept the joke of Dan going right up until the present. One of Dan's alternate costumes in SF4 has him wearing Mr Karate AKA Takuma Sakazaki mask on the side of his face. Nice one Capcom lol... P.S. The music was awesome!! Capcoms QSound tecnology was amazing. My favorite QSound games is the incredible Street Fighter 3 2nd Impact music. Oh yeah!!! beautiful sounds and memories :)
I love this series! By the time I started playing it, SFA3 had come out. I bought so many versions of this game over the years. I love it! Good times... good times.
Brings back so many great memories. Me and my brother played this game all the time. We used have tons of people come over and have competitions. My brother kicked everyone's ass until one day this Asian kid moved in down the street. This kid made my brother look like it was his first time playing street fighter. It was a blood bath.
Street Fighter Alpha 2 was my intro to the alpha series and IS the best Alpha game! Alpha 2 allowed you to use your super meter for 2 types of attacks, you could stock up three super levels for normal super combos or you could opt out and use the custom combo option and spend your meter like that. Unlike Alpha 3 where you were stuck with only 1 or 3 choices (A,V,X-isms). Thanks for posting this guys!
I like to watch some RU-vid vids while I cook/eat. Today I got that "F*CK YES!!" reaction when I noticed I had a new "HappyConsoleGamer" video in my subs. Thanks guys, love the channel, love the vids - you rock!
Awesome stories guys! I can't tell you the amount of bitter feuds, rivalries, and all out war produced by this game. SF Alpha 2 got played to death in my neighborhood. This was when competition was at its most fierce!
My Golden Age for video games was the 16 bit and 32/64 bit eras, especially the SNES and PS1. JRPGs were in their heyday and I absolutely loved them. Plus we had Super Castlevania IV, Symphony of the Night, Mario 64, and so much else. I had a blast in the 90s.
Man this is what I miss about sitting in the floor and playing fighting games all day long...it was an awesome time. Alpha 3 was the game at my place...I didn't get to play Alpha 2 very much.
This was my third PS1 game behind FFVII and NHL 9-something. A friend and I would play it for hours in our dorm. We would always play with random characters, but the last round was always a mirror match of Shin Akumas. This is still my favorite SF game. (As fun as Alpha 3 was, I never liked the splitting of super combos and custome combos into the Isms system.)
I feel the same with Soul Calibur 3. Seeing the ads and getting excited with my brother and school buddies to make our own fighters. Made sure I got that demo disk. Played so much. Got the game and I still own it nowadays but I play emulated now that the mod community combined the game with Arcade Edition for the perfect experience. Now my autistic son and wife plays and loves the sounds and flashes. My wife likes just beating ass and being evil. The best to me It's my perfect video game I will never tire.
What's sad is that the first Alpha game I ever played, or owned was Alpha 2 for the SNES. I got it in Summer of '97. I was a die-hard Street Fighter fan at the time, but my local arcade had none of the Alpha games, oddly enough, and I had no access to any 32-bit systems, until that following September, when I got a PS1. I finally played Alpha 2 on the PSX, via Alpha 2 Gold, on the Street Fighter Collection Vol. 1
I just had to fire up Alpha I on PSX... I was raised in NYC, me and my buddies would go downtown to 42nd street and hit the arcades. The battles that took place there were LEGENDARY!!!! When Alpha first came out, he place was so PACKED and the crowds around the machines were crazy! Alpha I takes me back to those days. I loved the way the game played and accessing the "secret characters" I preferred the chain combo system over the custom one from alpha II.
I remember my dad got me this for the SNES. The game actually loads like a CD game, but once it did it played amazing. I was the best in my neighborhood.
i have not played this game but one of my fav fighting game on ps1 was tekken 3.me and my friends in my room played it around whole day.specially on sunday.this game was soo addicting that we bunk school for this game.
Also this video was exceptionally good. Real videogame experiences with good friend are always great memories to have. I still prefer this type of gaming compared to online. Nothing beats the basement :) Thanks for sharing.
Tons of memories playing the PS1 version, I discovered in the early 2000s the Saturn version, even better! This was the last top notch SF game. Liked Alpha 3 but Alpha 2 had much better balancing.
Street Fighter Alpha 2 is easily my favorite fighting game of all time. I got my chance to own it via the Street Fighter Collection on PS1 as Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. I remember wanting it so bad, but thinking I would never get it because I lived in such a small area. In the Summer of '98, I would find it at my local Wal-Mart, and had hours of fun with it. It helped me cut my teeth into playing fighting games. Then there was the luxury of owning an Arcade game on a home console.
I also have fond memories of playing Alpha 2 (specifically Alpha 2 Gold) with my friend way back when. I'd played SF games before, but Alpha 2 was new to me, and I chose to play as Sakura. My friend chose Shin Akuma, of course, intending to trounce me. Somehow, however, I was really good with Sakura, and managed to beat him. As I was doing so, he shouted, "How are you learning this?!?!" I'm not as good at the game today as I was, but it's still great fun to play.
Nice, I can definitely understand that, I love my Saturn to bits! The games must have been stunning back then as the 2D games are essentially arcade perfect. It was just a shame the console didn't do so well and so many classics were left in Japan - the Dreamcast picked up the torch nicely though, probably my joint favorite consoles.
I remember Alpha 2, not just being a very tactical fighting game, but a very artistic one too. For example, newer games like KOF 2002 had very lazy backgrounds, with very choppy animated characters in them. Like just the gameplay was important and f*ck the rest. But the alphas were balanced in both aspects. I really love this show, and specially this kind of videos with memories of the past. I feel really identified when I watch them. Salutes from Argentina, Johnny.
I think Street Fighter Alpha 2 is my favorite of the Alpha series. I remember always picking Sakura because the game was released around the time of Sailor Moon and seeing Sakura in her outfit (which I didn't realize was a school uniform) reminded me of a Sailor Scout. I also loved that the fighters fought different fighters for their end fights. It reminds me of a "choosing your own path" scenario.
That's a lot of Street Fighter. I actually was totally in the dark about SF releases after SF2 Turbo on the SNES until I got back into gaming in 98-99. I had no idea about any new characters etc.
Always loved alpha 2, it is my favorite in the series, Graphics, music, and fighting system were perfect combo. A lot of people love alpha 3 more but something about alpha 3 didn't quite have that magic that alpha 2 had for me. First time seeing it was in arcades and was surprised cause alpha 1 hadn't been out that long. First time actually playing it was also on ps1 at my brothers friends house.
so we discover your rough side huh.hehehe.i played the SNES version,and it became a favorite over time.the art style is beautiful,and like you said,so are the character sprites.i loved the animations and the sounds in the game.it's still my favorite fighter game on the console.my characters of choice are Chun-Li and Rose.sometimes Sagat a little
Great video. Can you do another one with Rob about another fighting game or Street Fighter game please? Love hearing these classic SF stories. Also, do you play with a stick or controller? Same question for Rob also. Hope you read this.
From the whole alpha series Alpha 3 is the best version. Especially on saturn. but don't count out Alpha 1 I can always go back and play that. Love the music too.
