Great Pic

Which ones the balrog ?

Or maybe Blanka and Balrog. 

The reference is probably a little lost on those older than me. Alas. 

Blanca v Dhalsim!

haha SF2 References.

I mained Ryu for years...because purist!

Edit: I can probably write a thesis on this series. Its evolution, frame based machanics, mix up 50/50 situations, its psychology and on and on. The amount of depth available in simple 2d is staggering. The gaming world will forever be in awe of Capcom for this pure masterpice managed in the most simple of code. Since the 80s, the basics stayed exactly the same, only the speed, frames and move set improve, but the core mechanic remained identical. i can;t think of any other series in history that has managed that. And its still on the mian card at Evo every year. That's pure genius.

An aspect of being from my generation that i'm eternally greatful for.

I would never have guessed! Much respect to you Plum. I was primarily drawn to the dark side: Akuma and Balrog. Though there was Sakura and Yun. I was never much into gaming, but this series did suck me in. So too Guilty Gear.

You've got to admit, Beeno1 could be the very Dan Hibiki himself! 

Yes, there were shades of Blanka in the way Kits, the ginger and green menace barreled into those All Blacks. I was mightily impressed. He looks too slow sometimes, but it never really shows in his game. Great movement for such a locked-in looking frame. 

Most of my arcade SF was done in a blur of duty free at our Army boozers ,same for the real time Street Fighting bizzo too I would say 

@ Wardad

When you're drunk enough to start throwing fireballs accross the bar then you know you're on the good stuff!!!

There is a wonderful term in gaming for getting angry and having a real life fight because of gettings one's arse handed to you in digital format...Salty.

Not that you'd be interested but in some competitions they actually call the loser's bracket "The salty suite".

@ Aug

Haha you're an Akuma vortex boy huh! Nasty as hell. Love seeing people panic when he starts that shit. Such a weird character. His skill cap is extremely low, nothing in the middle and then super high end on the other side. Always a mixed bag when see Akuma load in. You know it's either gonna be easy as hell or you're gonna get rag dolled into oblivion.

Beeno is either Adon or Dan. Can't decide. I suck at psoting urls on here but it would be great if we could have the two side by side and see which people rate is more Beeno'like.

Nah all my bar/street fights were down to booze and aggro ,whether mine or someone elses Its hard to remember.

In only the twenty years since my teen age days, bar fights went from a way of making friends to a way to end up in ICU.

These days everyone wants to bloody stab you.

I blame rap music haha

Never been beaten one on one but had my head kicked in more than once by getting too ambitious and lippy in the wrong places ,get enough dirtbags pile in and even Bruce Lee is g onna end up rap dancing on his face.

lol WD

In SA we have a unique term for being "too ambitious"...it's called Windgat.

Directly translated it means Wind(moving air, not winding) Arse. No idea how it came about.

My older brother taught me the following.

Always punch first if you knows it going down. Use a jab to open.

A stiff jab to the nose is always responded to in one of three ways...

1) He wants to talk about it - you've already won.

2) He swings back with a dominant hand cross, normally telegraphed - be ready to duck/move and counter.

3) He rushes you for a clinch - get out the way and land a couple to the side of his head.

If he responds with a jab of his own...you're in for a long one haha

Pocket full of change in ones fist adds weight ,dropping it on the floor can be distracting or even just letting a full glass of beer drop.If you hit some fucker upside the head with all youve got and hes still standing then maybe a humorous anecdote will suffice to save ones arse.

Just dont talk about his sisters arse cos that can end badly if both her brothers are either side of you with their cousin at yer back.

My brother runs a security firm [ bouncers ] and he just uses the wrestling we learned as kids [ our dad was a professional wrestler in his younger days and a pretty good amatuer too] ,my brother has no neck and looks like a large beer keg with eyes .He once emptied a VIP tent of bikers at Randwick races simply by grabbing them as they came out for a piss or a lookyloo picking them up in a bear hug and squeezing them until they passed out .

Very few people can handle close up contact and arent used to it like wrestlers and judoka but if theres more than one your doing it hard.

Last fight I had was outside a Hospital where some young twat was going to do a Bruce Lee on me ,it ended up with his face in the dirt whi le I applied an armbar and he screamed for his GF to save him "help me baby help me hit him with something help me !"

Disgusting behaviour ,most unmanly of him made me not want to touch the back of his head with my fist eew.