Post your fondest memories about fighting games

Whether it's a memory about your locals, childhood or even some online match you had.

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Tokido doing the Akuma pose in SFIV.
Also Tokido crying realizing dedicating 10 years or so to Street Fighter was still not enough to beat Daigo in a ft10 during Kemonomichi

First time I beat him. Was playing on my cousin's PS2 and it took me fucking forever, but it was really satisfying.

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>Playing SFII as a kid on genesis
>dad tells me "CPU reads inputs"
>keep this in mind
>get to M.Bison
>die repeatedly
>get so mad and throw the control, crying
>cool off, go back at it
>beat M.Bison
I was like 5?

>fastforward to SFA3
>button mashing in dynamic battle with my cousin
>2v1 CPU
>wombocombo.avi
Best times.

Marvel 3 (original) was the first FG where I actually sat down, learned combos. Since then, I've loved FGs even more. As a kid, we figured out/looked up special inputs but combos? Never.

Started elevating myself in FGs and then my cousin wanted to. It was like DBZ where we trained to get better but then VSing each other in games we were super competitive and you could cut the tension with a knife whenever we played.

at EVO 2013 I tripped Marn. Fat fuck should have looked where he was going.

i had to get stitches because my cousin threw a giant hat at my head like kung lao

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My fondest memory is dropping them, because I can't handle taking Ls that often. You people must be masochists. That's the only way it makes any sense that you'd play these games. Good on you, maybe? Not sure to be honest.

Beating my neighbor at Samurai Shodown 2 using Nakoruru against his Ukyo. I even cut the body in half. We were both dumb kids so that stuck with me.

You have a fixed mindset.

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I lied anyway. I play them all the time, but they always just leave me depressed. I wish I'd stop.

the first time I saw the kung lao friendship in mk3, was on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

What is the kung lao friendship?

>playing sfiv with a buddy on a dual arcade stick
>Have to sit pretty close together
>I mash the controller pretty hard
>start getting into it
>really want to win
>I attack
>get interrupted
>I attack
>get interrupted
>I attack
>get interrupted
>it keeps happening
>"What the fuck it's like you know my every move"
>I look at my buddy and he's got both hands off the controller and I am literally mashing his side of the controller
>I was countering myself for a solid minute

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he plays fetch with a dog using the hat. The dog runs after it offscreen and kung does a cringe take to its yelp. lol so random xD was the appeal.

Was then pre or post Marn's leg? This is a dude who shit himself on an airplane and didn't bother to wipe.

Source? wtf...

>playing SFIV
>unlocking every character with frens
>we’ve been switching off but finally trying to get Gouken
>to get him you have to beat the game in a minimum of hard get two perfects two super finishers and three ultra finishers
>play as guile get a perfect at the beginning
>go through the whole arcade mode getting the three ultras and another super
>get all the way to the final bout against Seth without the last perfect and one super finisher left
>fucking WHOOP HIS ASS with a final flash ending
It was pretty fucking hype, I miss those days sometimes. We still hang but they don’t play sf anymore

Back when EVO exploded in popularity I got interested in fighting games for a bit. I played SFIV and tried my best to watch and read all of the theoreticals and apply them in game. I got about 100 hours of getting my ass kicked. One match stood out to me, where I beat a 2100 points Guile because at the very end I pretended to mash on him after a knockdown and blocked his wakeup super, which let me kill with my own ultra. He could have FADC'd a Flash Kick instead to be safe and I fully know that, but I'm still proud of that moment and have that replay saved to this day.

But the absolute best memory I have comes from this shit right here. Its simplicity in combos and low amount of characters let me apply my theoreticals and knowledge of matchups the most I could, and one match still lingers in my memory as the apex potential of fighting games fun.
I played Talos and got matched against a Chel, we were both at the same skill level both mechanically and mentally, we both knew what our characters could do and the options we had, at that moment at that match, we were no longer playing the game, we were playing each other, trying to get in each other's minds, trying to condition the opponent, looking out for optimal spacing, baits, and punishes. It was the most out of my mind I had ever played before and god damn what a fucking rush that was, everything felt so damn natural and the rounds were so immensely close every time. That rush, those mind games, I can safely say that it was the most concentrated fun I have ever had in my entire life playing video games.

I moved on to other games, but that memory still comes back every once in a while urging me to try fighting games again.

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sounds good. I seen this game before. I hope you cheerish dem memories

Wholesome.

Playing MVC2 with friends from 8PM to 6AM many weekends in a row in my youth. Didn't matter that we were mashing. Just had an all around good time.

Playing Undernight with the Any Forumsros for a good 2-3 years. The almost daily threads were comfy.