What fighting game made you a fan?

What is the first fighting game you ever played that got you HOOKED?

 

Street fighter 2 turbo. The first fighting game i played and bought. I totaly sucked at it but still loved it. Come to think of it I still suck at it all i can do are special moves but no combos............ /versus/images/icons/frown.gif

 

I'd hafta say...Samurai Shodown...I liked samurais and still do and i said wow..fighting games kick ass and i kept getting more and more and soon became a fighting game fan... /versus/images/icons/wink.gif

 

Street fighter 2, that's for sure. Since then, fighting games have always been my favorite. Heh, when I got started with that, jumping fierce kick > crouching fierce kick was cheap, i couldn't block it /versus/images/icons/laugh.gif

3d fighters, tekken 2. That game was so good for its time.

 

This is mostly irrelevant to VF, so it has been moved into the General forum. Have fun.

 

street fighter 2, probably the first of all fighting games, and the first to get people hooked on fightin games, hell yeah.. and take note, the game still exist. /versus/images/icons/laugh.gif

 

Street Fighter 2, it's benchmark game that all fighting games have been collated against. Definitely the game that opened my eyes into the fighting game genre. It was just pure fun at the time and it still is.

 

Well, Karate champ wetted my pallet, Fighting Street (the precursor to Street Fighter II) got me more into it, but I still remember seeing street fighter II the first time...it was like having a holy moment. My hair started to blow slow in the wind and all the world seemed at ease...I just WATCHED for 15 minutes and then I played Guile...and it was good.

 

SFII. The graphics and animation did it. Also at the time I didn't know it, but it was really easy to be a complete scrub and still stand up to better players, using stuff they used to call cheap but would now call retarded:
f+strong strong strong strong with chun li
st. rh and fireballs with dhalsim
ryu fireball - DP fireball - DP
and later in champion edition, bison flaming torpedo baaack and fooorth, baaaack and fooorth (man, was that one unpopular, especially if you used it to tick people who blocked it in the corner... like 10% block damage + 20-25% for the throw or some absurd crap.)

That element of being scrub friendly is important if you want to make psychotically devoted players later on. Gotta get 'em addicted to winning at an early age.

 

hehehe, true, true! /versus/images/icons/laugh.gif

 

Yeah, the graphics completely blew me away...definatly a moment. What really got me though and it is a bit in retrospect, was the controls. The cps I system was revolutionary, allowing multiple inputs.
Hehe.talk about Cheap, Guile was really, really powerful (though it was sad to see him reduced to squat over the latter revisions)

 

The first fighting game that I liked was International Karate on Atari 800 XL. One hit = KO /versus/images/icons/grin.gif

SF2 really made a deep impression on me when I first saw it!
It was the game that got me in the arcades regularly!

 

As with most others, SF2 of course. I recall getting there after school on Fridays, and staying there until the morning of next day playing... And there were still lines even when the sun rose... I don't think there ever will be a gaming sensation that'll match SF...

 

SF2:WW was the one that started it all for me. I thought it looked cool but I spent my money on the Simpson's Arcade Game. The second time I saw it played the Simpson's again but vowed I would SF2 next time I went to the arcade. Third time I went I actually got around to playing it and when I did something just clicked and an addict was born. It was just a magical moment that I'll never forget.

 

I got hooked on SF Turbo and MK for Super Nintendo with my roomies. We would have tournaments and I would always pick Dalsim for SF because I thought he looked cool and Sub-Zero for MK because I loved his ice moves. Those fatalities blew me away. I can't wait for MK5 - the new Sub-Zero looks unbelievable: http://www.mortalkombat.midway.com/

 

I must be the only guy hre that was (and still is) immune to Capcom's marketing. While I had a small interest in the game when it first came out (I think I bought the SNES version just b/c everyone else had it), I've found all the little upgrades that they call new games tedious, and more importantly -- 2D games just too flat. Pardon the pun.

On that note, I got into VF1 when it came out, even bought a Saturn for it. Played ample VF2 on the Saturn as well.

Dunno -- I guess I can't say that I"m a fighting game fine. Weird, no?

 

I wonder why other fighting games don't have the bloody fatalities that MK has... maybe its a copyright thing. Still, it seems like they could find other ways to incorporate gore - it is, after all, what made MK so great.

 

God no. I never want to go back to the 1992-1995 "Shitty MK clones" era where all the fighters tried to be "cool" by being bloody.

 

i remember some weird ass games in miami that had japanese 2d looking fighters that would do auto fatalaties at the end of a match. it was strange as hell, but i like it for its weirdness. i like the whole fatality thing ONLY because its a fight. i only imagine the day someone getting into a fight, kicking someones teeth in and breaking an arm, and them helping them up and saying "good fight dude!!!" the more realistic/brutal the better for me IMO....doesnt have to be murderous, but it can help....... as for ......crap 2d fighters, anyone remember time killers????

 

Time killers, what garbage...it was fun for all of 5 minutes and 50 cents.