For all our readers going back to school…

I hope your senpai notices you.

Social Media Blackout Day #1 – It feels weird.

Allowing Neggy to let this bet commence is weird.  I can’t status update or anything.  It feels like I’m detached from the world.  Recently I started thinking about how things were 10 years ago.  Before Facebook.  Hell…I think Friendster was still around.  Myspace was the big thing.  I can remember being 19 going on 20….

Street Fighter Gift #4 – Kickass females in gaming.

Up until Street Fighter II, you couldn’t really name any kickass females in gaming.  Well, besides Samus Aran in Metroid, but you only found that out at the end of the game!  Princess Peach?  She was always getting kidnapped by Bowser.  “Kidnapped”.  Right. There was that one cyborg female in the Guardian Legend, but other…

Street Fighter gift #2, HADOUKEN

QCF + PUNCH. No other input can evoke a response from a gamer than that.  Often imitated, never duplicated.  The fireball. The HADOUKEN. And that is the second gift to us that street fighter gave to us.

Happy Birthday Street Fighter!

We’ve come a long way, haven’t we?  Street Fighter, the ubiquitous 2d fighting game has now turned 25 today.  Happy birthday, Street Fighter!! And big congrats to Capcom and Ono-sensei for making such a wonderful fighting game. The franchise itself has gone through numerous twists and turns to get to where they are today.  Mixing…