Without further adoo-doo, here’s issue #2 of Strawberry Scented Burnout: Taekwondo! Mina and Jay are about to have their first fight, but not before Jay goes over the rules. Rules are important, you know.
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…
Within a few seconds of hearing Ryu’s theme music, you know that some shit’s gonna go down. Hell, hearing any one of the Street Fighters’ theme music will get you pumped. The music for all the original Street Fighter II characters came from Yoko Shimomura, who was then a fresh graduate from Osaka College Music…
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.
Street Fighter week continues unabated at “Strawberry Scented Burnout”. At the end of each day I’m going to list 7 things that the Street Fighter franchise has given to us, its children bathed in arcade light and stale pizza from Chuck E. Cheese’s. Since this is the first day I figured that I should go…
Before I talk about the indestructible game of all time Street Fighter I gotta give a shout out to one of my best friend’s in college. Happy Birthday you crazy Owl. So street fighter is 25 just like me and I must say..we age damn fine! As a lad I detested,hated, reviled this game. Why? Because I…
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…
Ah, Dynasty Warriors. You took the formula of “1 dude versus a zillion peons + Lu Bu” and ran with it for a long time. You then mixed it up a bit by throwing in katanas. Then your Japanese sister came out and showed us how the Japanese get down with your formula. Samurai Warriors…
Too true, James. Too true.
Yes, shit was cray cray back then. 10 years ago, I was a member of an anime club. It was called the anime and games club. My claim to fame back then? My cousin was one of the founding members (and another founding member is part of Team Mixed Nuts today.) Our own MFNegatron also met…