Pablogger.com

Street Fighter and me, part III: PC

While doing some research to write this series of posts, I found this site: Scary Crayon. It has a great article on SFIBM, which turned out to be the version of Street Fighter I used to play on PC with my friends. This version features new moves like Chun-Li's shooting star and Blanka's electrifying bird. Check the link for more details.

What I find the most interesting about his version is that the hackers were able to predict some of the moves that were added to the game in later editions.

Street Fighter and me, part II: famicom

My experience with Street Fighter hacks did not stop with the first time I played the series. During the mid-nineties back in Argentina, my home country, famicom knock-offs and pirate copies of cartridges were super popular.

I never owned one, but renting a "family" was as common as Home Alone on VHS. SF2 for famicom looked something like this:

I guess back in the day, the industry was still in its infancy and there was no concept of piracy in videogames.  Even mainstream game magazines were covering these games as if they were normal releases: