![]() Zangief, a musclebound Russian, had scars from fighting bears.īlanka, who was from the Brazilian rainforest, was a beast-man who growled and grunted. ![]() He was fond of shouting "Yoga flame!" as he spat a fireball. You fought with Dhalsim in a temple as elephants watched. His fighting stage was a bathhouse.ĭhalsim, a skinny Indian fighter with shrunken skulls around his neck, could stretch his limbs really far to punch or kick, because his fighting style was based on yoga. Polygon's piece got us talking about the Street Fighter characters that we preferred to play with (As I said before, I was a Ryu guy). I rarely had money left over for lunch, but I was nice with Ryu, so it was basically a wash. The grocery store across the street from my middle school had a Street Fighter console, and all the other boys and I would play it before the school day began. And it introduced a flotilla of nonsense words into our cultural lexicon. It spawned all sorts of sequels, quasi-sequels, and imitations, like the bloodier, even-schlockier Mortal Kombat series and the more technically ambitious Tekken games. Street Fighter II - once the fighting game for anyone who played video games - was a touchstone for Gen-Xers and folks on the earlier end of the Millennial cohort. A cologne (The 1990s, ladies and gentlemen). ![]() The piece says the game even spawned a cologne. ![]()
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