Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection! BUY IT!

Yea truly.  The big one around here was Gametime Arcade in Alexandria.  It was the stereotypical smoke-filled place with a buncha smelly chodes crowding around the machines.  But because of this people from that arcade placed 1st & 2nd in the TTT and T4 regional tournaments all over the east coast (from nyc to Florida).

We even had Valle come out here to play our top Capcom players (he pretty much owned the machine).  Same goes for that Southern Hills Golfland arcade that spawned all those well-known players on the west coast.  Those were the days.

But now Gametime is closed down, as is SHGL in Cali.  It\'s just real expensive to maintain an arcade with the controls busting all the time, new monitors, new games, cabinets, etc...  Maybe one day online play will pick up where arcades left off.

I really thought about investing in an arcade stick not too long ago, but it really won\'t be practical for me until online fighting games become flawless.  If SF3 3rd on the XBox is exactly what I\'m hoping it will be (and not what I know it more then likely will be), then I will pick up a mas stick and learn how to use it.  There\'s just no comparison between using a controller and using a MAS stick when it comes to serious competition.  However, the PS controllers have suited me fine for the past seven or eight years so I really can\'t complain at all.

Ryu i know youre the guru of the tourny videos. Do you know of any GGX2 videos or where i might find some? Ive been searching with no results

I\'ll look around, but I have to get going right now.  I\'ll let you know in a few hours.  You can always check out the srk forums to see what you can get.

Picked it up.

Played the original street fighter 2 when I was a kid atleast 4 hours a day for over a year. My street fighter skills are now completely gone.

Man this game is sexy. I forgot how good it was. And the Hyper SF2 game has gallery mode which is pretty neat. I didnt watch the whole thing but i think it has the whole SF2 movie in there. I rule at this game. Heh. Great purchase.

Thank you Ryu.

Though this may be dissapointing, as much as i love this game, i still have a passion for the alphas. There are just differences that make it still appeal to me. Meh.

Now i have them all.