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Remember back in the day when you were playing Street Fighter II at your local Arcade/7-11/Donut Shop? Some random kid would approach the machine and do one of two things.

1) Ask if it was okay to join in on the game. This was a display of proper Street Fighter II etiquette. Ninety-nine percent of the time you would say "Yes" anyways, it was just nice that you were asked.
2) They’d drop a quarter in without asking right before you were about to nail Bison with his final hit in the second round. Horrendous.

On rare occasions, the challenger would head straight for Dhalsim and select him. At that point you knew you were in trouble. (Especially if you had a character who couldn’t throw projectiles.) See if the kid actually knew how to use Dhalsim, he could usually cause a world of damage to you from the safety of the other side of the screen. I mean c’mon; the man could kick and punch the entire length of the screen!

Now in no way am I saying that Dhalsim was the cheesiest character in Street Fighter II. (An honor reserved for Cheese Li herself) I’m merely pointing out that there was a bit of unfairness in Dhalsim’s reach and that I sucked so bad at Street Fighter II that I was unable to find one of the possibly many ways to prevent these cross country long-arm attacks.

At least Lithuania knows how I feel.

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He could use some practice on his Hadukens.

by Hash on Oct 23, 2007 10:35 AM PDT   0 recs

HAHA Hash does it again
Aw nothing like the memories of Hash straight serving me in Street Fighter II and every other fighting video game known to man when I was growing up. Good times.

by Atma Brother ONE on Oct 23, 2007 10:45 AM PDT   0 recs

Dude...
You gotta come through my SJ crib (aka pop's crib)- my bro and I were big time SF2 fans... shoot we still are! (we have Street Fighter Tournaments every summer on top of our yearly Vandamme-athon's! anyways, 5 years ago we bought an Arcade machine with 6 buttons on each side and we bought the SF arcade board- It's always on at the .psd crib!


Every July at Tony.psd's house! LOL

by Tony.psd on Oct 23, 2007 12:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

YOGA
FIRE!!

THIS IS OOOAKLAND!!!

by Tim N Chris Burger on Oct 23, 2007 10:55 AM PDT   0 recs

Well played
I'd already seen that clip Hash, but your presentation and introduction was masterful.  Well done, B-Wright's the man.  I want to see him crush on fools Dhalsim style all season.

New nickname in the mix....?

"Oooh, watch yo biceps Buk, watch yo biceps Bukie."

by tobin on Oct 23, 2007 12:14 PM PDT   0 recs

man
ive seen it already, but everytime i do it gives me hope. once he gets used to the game, i think he can be a good player

by dsham001 on Oct 23, 2007 12:34 PM PDT   0 recs

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