The games music in the background makes it feel just that much better as well. When Max is passionate about something, it really shows and thats awesome
This is not a diss to max, but it's worth saying that Ken has literally been the most popular character in pretty much every version of street fighter.
@@colinreynolds01 yeah. But none of them have full playlists dedicated to Ken Masters. The fact that he is "The Ken Guy" over tons of Ken fans is what makes him the Ken Guy
Carl Bloke adorable but wierdly eldritch. They looked like they were going to eat their younger selves as soon as you clicked to the next pic. But they were smiling to look nice and sweet and non inhuman cannibalistic monsters until you did. They fooled you, but not me. Know how I knew?? The EYES!!!!! Don't mind me, I'm just really high right now😆🤣😂
Max's story of being the only person who pre-ordered fighters at EB/GameStop resonates with me so much. I was literally the only person in my neighborhood who pre-ordered Vanilla Marvel 3 and Street Fighter X Tekken! Woke up buttfuck early and rushed to the store, especially for Marvel.
I was the only person who preordered Tekken 7 in my city. and also apparently, I also bought a preorder Pokken tournament because nobody bought it where I liveXD
I would love to see more videos of Max talking about his history with games or looking at artwork. This should be a series on its own. Great video Max! I gotta say the art work is one of the few really fun to look at in the game. I remember my first arcade experiences were in the barbershop. I really miss going there. Too bad they removed them
Got Street Fighter 2 SCE for megadrive on December 3rd '93, my 13th birthday. Then played against my Mum and she battered me with Chun Li and I was Sagat... Good times and RIP Mum, you were awesome.
I remember in 97 they actually location tested in NYC. Ken and Ryu really wasn't in the game. And everyone in Manhattan in every arcade the game was out. Basically shunned the hell out of the Street Fighter 3 lol....
Scion Storm reminds me of KoF 99's loc test. They did not have Kyo or Iori (because they were supposed to be dead) and people flipped the fuck out and demanded them in.
Did Alpha ax a bunch of characters as well? Or is it the co-made EX series I am thinking of? Because it feels that, for a certain period of time, Capcom wanted both new and spinoff games to be their own thing and not have a substantial connection to past games, while most people want that returning roster.
Yea at the time I was still in college and worked for Fed Ex. I remember walking by an arcade omw from work. The line was long but people were like booing. And I was so confused so I went inside. And that was my first time seeing SF3 and I waited for my turn. When I finally got to my turn I thought I was crazy. I was like wtf where is Ken and Ryu? I just gave away my turn and left.
I still remember that shit. I think it's because when SF 3 focusing toward a new protagonist (Alex) where's Ryu and Ken story is finish, Everybody flip the fuck out...
I'm convinced that Street Fighter 2010 was one of those "Someone had an original game but we slapped another name on it at the last minute to make it sell more"
edfreak9001 that's exactly what happened. In japan, the game's protagonist is named, and I chuckle at this, "Kevin". 😆🤣😂 and he and the game's plot are totally unrelated to anything remotely having to do with street fighter. "Kevin" 😆🤣😂
Realistically, that's the most likely answer. But I like to pitch this theory too. Look back at how Final Fight was originally going to be "Street Fighter '89" and this game fits what would have been the franchise way better. I think there's a pretty good chance Street Fighter could have been a multiple-genre franchise which merely had street fighting as its central theme. Street Fighter II's insane success may have caused them to rethink that.
It's weird now to think that there were 2 MAIN street fighter games/series out at the same time, alpha and sf3. Like alpha 3 came out after sf3. That just seems so odd to me now, you couldn't imagine that happening today.
I have to say this has been the coolest thing out of 30th anniversary so far. Watching the old guys go back and reminisce about their street fighter history.
I remember when I was about 8 or 10 years old and I went to the arcade store. With my friends, we always passed quickly until we reached the Final Fight, Knight of the Round, Street Figter II, World Heroes and Fatal Fury. One day, we did not have chips and we were just hanging around there. A little apart, and closer to Galaga and Wonder Boy, there was a game with graphics that seemed even more "old" than these two. After staying for a while to see what it was called, the name "Street Fighter" emerges from the brick wall. The laughter with my friends did not stop. At last we had found the first game. We played some games for laughter, until we managed to defeat Sagat. How many memories. Fighting Games Never dies!
Videos like THESE should go into Max's Legacy series. Maybe a new one, for HIS legacy. Max has the best stories, and we need a playlist of them all. And may they be archived for the rest of Earth's lifespan, so "Transcending history and the world, a tale of dudes and souls; Eternally retold." will be literal.
Max! Dude! When you said that you played Hyper Street Fighter II online on Xbox with a guy named "Calipower" back in the day, that may have been Alex Valle! 'Calipower' is Alex Valle's moniker dude!
An old man now, I remember being absolutely obsessed with an issue of EGM (mostly white cover with Street Fighter artwork) and hoping desperately that I would get to play it. Eventually a local bowling alley would get an arcade version of the game. Every week I would go to that bowling alley and spend every last cent of my allowance on the game. Max's statement about jumping HK into low HK being the sickest combo ever is some of the realist shit I've ever felt about those early days of SF. As dumb as it might sound those were some of my most favorite childhood memories. Because of that I will always love the brand of SF even if the games themselves might leave me a little cold. Thank you for this walk down memory lane. While my experiences were different I do have a lot wrapped up in this entire series.
My mind was blown when you said that you can change from punches to kicks with the start button on the Genesis controller... I used only punches for YEARS!!!!!!
Between 1998 and 2008, with the failure of Street Fighter 3 and the fall of SNK, the only company that maintained faith in 2D fighting games was Ark System Works. Today time gives the reason to those who never gave up.
Team One Piece Mugen OS can't really fully cosign that statement, unless you point out something I'm missing. I love Arc Sys, but all they had in terms of fighting genre during that period were the guilty gear games, and most of those releases were just revisions or updates of GGXX. Can't really say they had all this faith in 2D fighters, as they weren't creating various fighting series, experimenting nor really creating anything truly impactful until Blazblue in 2008. But much props for Arc Sys being Arc Sys.
Hello Friend. What I say is based not only on Guilty Gear, but on a series of games that Arc System Works has released. Here is the list of games that came out in the period I mentioned (1998-2008): - Guilty Gear (1998) - Guilty Gear X (2000) - Guilty Gear XX (2005) - Melty Blood (2005) - Hokuto No Ken (2005) - Arcana Heart (2006) - Sengoku Basara X (2007) - Blazblue (2008) After 2008, in addition to Blazblue, the list of games could be doubled at least. In any case, the most important thing is not the number of new series that ASW will perform, but at a time when all the traditional companies of the genre are trying to pass everything to 3D gameplay (or directly they think that the genre is dead), ASW made new games. The meaning is more important than the quantity. For those of us who lived those years, it was like finding a spring in the middle of the desert. In any case, they were not a few games, and Guilty Gear were not revisions of the same game, but between the first and the XX they had made the entire graphic base again, and doubled or more character roster. I clarify that all this I say, is not like ArcSys fanboy. Currently I do not agree with the direction they were taking games like Persona 4A, Under Night in-Birth and Crosstagbattle. A greeting.
I, being born in 1986, had my first experience with SF in 1992 with Champion Edition. I was 6 at the time and wondered into the arcade at the mall. The first thing I saw was an SF Champ Ed cabinet and I was blown away. The larger than life characters doing all of these “over the top moves” (at the time) blew my mind. I was instantly hooked. Being in karate, I was drawn to Ryu and Ken and thought they were the coolest, most badass guys ever. After that I was officially hooked on the series. 26 years later I’m still a fan.
giftofgab247 Crazy man, that’s exactly what my local arcade was called as well,lol. I used to have a big bag of left over gold tokens from there but I lost them when I moved. Sigh.
giftofgab247 Bro! There was an Aladdins Castle in my local mall too! The feeling of walking into that place was nothing short of magic, there was this long hallway (lined with those mirrors that make it look like there's multiple copies of yourself) you had to walk thru to get into the main area, the crisp smell of electronics in the air. The blue lights inside gave it such a great atmosphere. Pure nostalgia!
I laughed when he talked about no one playing SF the movie the game, because the same thing happened all over the arcades here in south east México (and I'm sure the whole world). I vividly remember seeing it alongside the other SF machines and being vaguely curious but never interested enough.
I think it should have the updated versions too, but it's still really good. I think so anyway, been playing the collection loads since it came out. I wish especially that it was the updated version of Super Turbo. That is just too hard, I do well at every other game, but struggle big time on ST to the point it's not that much fun. I read that it was a bug or something that was fixed in an updated version. Is that right?
@@JustChrisWillDoTa i know this is late, but yeah ST on this anniversary collection is the version where arcade mode CPU is notoriously so hard, they even readed your inputs. They had to immediately make new updated arcade cabinets just to fix the problem back then, but since these are the 1st versions of the games on this anniversary collection, that literally impossible input reading bullshit CPU is problem is there. Even the best most competitive players couldn't beat it, thats how ridiculous it was. Only way to beat them was to exploit them using M. Bison and looping certain moves that the CPU can't react to. If u want to have fun with ST, definitely play it with a friend or go online, cuz arcade mode for ST was designed to take peoples quarters back in the old arcade days lol.
As someone who learned about that era of consoles through emulators, I initially assumed that Sonic and other games were just really conservative with buttons. 3 Button SF (with Start to switch between P & K) is crazy but Desk made a good video showing off combos.
That 6 button Megadrive controller is probably my favourite controller ever. I keep meaning to either get a USB version or a Megadrive-USB adapter so I can use it with my PC.
I remember the magazines back then with Genesis Street Fighter ads with the 6 button controller there. I would imagine they came up with the controller specifically because Street Fighter.
Before I die, I need to fight people like Maximilian in some of these games. Actually there's a LOT of people I want to fight in the fighter community. They are all over the world, you literally have to become a world warrior if you want to fulfill these desires of conquest.
Those arcade days where the best times in my life and we didn't know it. Those were the days of playing someone next to you. Beating them and seeing their faces and them spending all their money trying to beat you. We were living in the moment and didn't know how special it was. Seeing you go through the history of street fighter the memory's came in remember going to a lot of arcades playing the best people from different neighbor hoods. Alpha 3 and 2nd impact was my game I remember skipping church going to the arcade.
That's pretty cool. Me and Max competitive sf3 lives began at the same time. The difference was Max had access to these games while I was poor and had to hunt these titles down or hope to ever see them being played in a arcade near me.
Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 had to have been my two most-played SF games, A2 taking the cake by far. I spent countless hours bodying dudes in the arcade while playing Charlie and Adon.
I remember completing Alpha 2 on my first ever credit in the arcade as Ryu, then I tried as Ken or Sakura. Eventually I ended up maining Dan in the Alpha games and hustling a few of my friends.
I love that you love fighting games, I’ve always loved fighting games, and I had always had a special love for street fighter. I never played the first one as a kid but I did love everything from street fighter 2 and beyond
I remember i was on a school trip back from london and we stopped by a little shop and in the corner they had a new Fighting game....SF2.....one of my defining gaming moments i was blown away. Performing special moves was such a strange concept i saw the motion for dragon punch and i thought how the hell do i do that.
Man. Feels really weird when the I was born in '95, first fighting game I played was the very original Tekken, played Tekken 3 demo in some demo disk and after that, I had completely forgotten that fighting genre existed. Not until the announcement of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 I began to have Vietnam flashbacks about horrible inputs of the first game, bought the game on it's release, and later discovered the previous titles and other fighting games, like Street Fighter series. And holy ponky donkies I discovered HOW MUCH I HAD MISSED. Living in somewhat poor family fucking sucked back then.
TheFranss the demo disk for tekken 3 came from the ridge racer type 4. Bonus disc. Because I couldn't get any more games I spent alot of time playing the bonus disc. Lol
Cats in NYC were playing 3rd Strike back when it dropped. Alot of us were at the arcade in Chinatown. I learned how to really play it on the Dreamcast with the Double Impact and 3rd Strike release.
SteveSwipe if you want to play 3s and other old school fg in the city, visit iFix Machine and Next Level Arcade in Brooklyn. They're run by and have the nyc fgc hanging around regularly, and have versus/astrocity cabs
My first Street Fighter game was SF2 on the SNES and the arcades. I remember playing it on the arcades at roller rinks. Anyone remember those? I loved that day with Super Street Fighter II came out on the SNES. I then play Alpha 2 on the SNES. I remember when my friend had SF3 Double Impact on the DreamCast and playing it. I also remember playing it in the arcades. I never liked it that much but Second Impact I enjoyed more. Capcom Fighting Evolution was trash. I remember when Street Fighter IV finally came out on the PS3. Then there was Super Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, and then Ultra Street Fighter IV. You know, I hope that Capcom does more with 'Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection'. At the very least, I'd like to see them do things like: - Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (i.e. Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold) - Street Fighter Zero 3↑ or Street Fighter Zero 3↑↑ (i.e. Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper/Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max) How about releasing Ultra Street Fighter IV on disc for the PS4? Or what about a collection that has: - Hyper Street Fighter - Hyper Street Fighter II - Hyper Street Fighter III - Hyper Street Fighter IV - Hyper Street Fighter Alpha I'm surprised Capcom hasn't done a "Vs" collections yet: - X-Men vs. Street Fighter - Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter - Marvel vs. Capcom - Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - Capcom vs. SNK Pro - Capcom vs. SNK 2 - SVC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom
I remember the buzz for Third Strike. The anticipation was crazy in the arcade scene in NYC. 3rd Strike and Super SF 2 were the most hyped out of the SF library when they first appeared in arcades. Remembered it like it was yesterday :)
When Max talks about learning how to do Hadoken motions it reminded me of my story of when I first got it. I was about ten years old, with about 7 years of fighting games on my belt. One day I wanted to figure out how my brother did all the cool moves whenever we played Vs. so I went to the move list and saw the directions and figured out it was a motion, a flow and not wiggling the analog stick. This was back when I would only do Tatsumaki's facing left lol.
@Maximilian Dood getting blisters on your fingers, specifically the thumbs, was a rite of passage. A baptism under fire if you think about it. You went under severe scrutiny when it came to playing these games
Watching you speaking about your history with street fighter is really heartwarming because I can see how humble you feel for this series. It makes me wish I was there during that time period. But no worries, I'm definently going to get this collection and experience it for myself.
This guy knows his stuff. Alpha 2 being the best of the Alphas. Genny pad causing blisters. He hits home. My parents bought me the official sega 3 button joystick for my birthday to play Champion Edition. No more blisters for me but still had to hit the start button to switch over. I didn't even know SFIII existed till I found a SFIII Double Impact cab in some bowling alley when I was in HS. Can't remember the year.
19:59 you could have told me that was SF4 promo art and I would have believed you. I think the reason all that art looks so good is the artist really understands motion. You can tell exactly how the characters are moving and can see exactly how they'll end their motion
I remember when I found Street Fighter III New Generation in a Laundry Mat. It was there but not in my Arcade for a while. I did love the Animation of Ken and Ryu's Gi's when they threw a Fireball.
I'm not sure why I'm so excited over knowing Max owned a 240 (besides my interest as a car enthusiast) or the fact that the Mouse Street Fighter exists but I am.
I bought Street Fighter Collection. It has my favorite version of Alpha 2. Alpha 2 Gold. It has an option for infinite meter allowing you to spam supers.
I remember so many of these things too. I had a Genesis and refused to play on the normal gamepads until they eventually came out with the six button controllers. I'd go to my friend's and play it on SNES instead, where at least I had 4 face buttons and the mediums on the shoulders.
Forward fireball? Woah I been playing street fighter since the 90s and I have always done it as foward, down foward in one motion. This is the first time I ever heard that. It works well in 3rd strike and other games (kinda hard in super). This blows my mind! My game just went up. Thanks max!
SSF4 was when I started getting competitive with fighting games. I loved it. I mained Fei Long, and later Ken. Ken's my main to this day in any SF game.
Looking thru this makes me feel really, REALLY old. Born on 83'. I felt very cool back when SF3 2nd Impact when i was able to unlock Akuma using the legendary Magazine - Tips & Tricks
Max you don't know HOW happy I was when you were talking about Turbo Revival on the GBA. That was my first personal experience with SF as a series (apart from briefly playing EX3 on PS2 at a cousin's house). It was one of my favourite GBA games (I still have it) and because of it SF2 Turbo is one of my favourite games of all time! I have so many memories with it, especially discovering Akuma and thinking 'who the fuck is this guy!????'.
Watching Max go through this timeline made me reminisce on how I grew up next to Family Fun Arcade in the 90's then later on moved near Super Arcade in early 2000's, I really wonder how many times Max destroyed me at Street Fighter?
Its great hearing other perspectives on this amazing franchise I have been here since the SNES release of world warrior and never looked back I can't say I have ever been more excited over another game alpha 3 is my bride and will always love her!
I played Alpha at the arcades so much and had so many rivals at those arcades, then I would hop over to Mortal Kombat and get chased over to that game by those same Rivals. Ahh good times, the moment you realize there is someone out there just as good as you and passionate about defeating you. It’s just hard to explain the feeling, but the competitive fire is what most of this generation would probably never know sadly, unless they play video games online.
Man kids will never know the fun we had growing up during the 80's, 90's, and the early 2000's.... the anime craze....home consoles getting better.. Dreamcast....would give anything to go back and live a week back then.
87 in the building 1st off!! On another note oddly mike tysons punchout led me down the road of fighting game love! Street fighter 2 CE introduced me to one on one fighters and since then I've been here. Thank God for fighting games.
Haha, I’m reliving my childhood from SF2 onwards. Loved the ‘discovery’ of rolling QCF instead of down, down foward, foward. Though I was on the SNES. Misspent uni days spent playing 3rd strike.
Now that I think about it. I do remember hearing rumors about SF3 not having Ryu and Ken. I lived in NYC at the time. Also, Calipower was probably Alex Valle lol
There's something about hearing Max talk about this that feels so heartwarming
The games music in the background makes it feel just that much better as well. When Max is passionate about something, it really shows and thats awesome
Its called pssion something sorely lacking in everyday life
It's so wholesome...
It's like listening to your grandparents tell a good story.
joaquin trujillo its passion, and maybe mostly nostalgia of olddr gamers
"people knew who I was. I was the Ken guy"
Um, Max... you're still the Ken guy. Just saying.
Max has literally become a Family Man.
He has become ken
This is not a diss to max, but it's worth saying that Ken has literally been the most popular character in pretty much every version of street fighter.
@@colinreynolds01 yeah. But none of them have full playlists dedicated to Ken Masters. The fact that he is "The Ken Guy" over tons of Ken fans is what makes him the Ken Guy
@@Ffeoli1039 i don't think I've ever read anything more true
That thumbnail of Ryu Ken and Chun Li in a group photo with their younger selves is super adorable
Carl Bloke adorable but wierdly eldritch. They looked like they were going to eat their younger selves as soon as you clicked to the next pic. But they were smiling to look nice and sweet and non inhuman cannibalistic monsters until you did. They fooled you, but not me. Know how I knew?? The EYES!!!!!
Don't mind me, I'm just really high right now😆🤣😂
@@shinbakihanma2749 😒
@@peas6429 deadass dude killed the vibe
God damnit SHIN BAKI HANMA, you always take it too far.
@@shinbakihanma2749 are you well
LIES! LOL Max, we all know you were born as Ken Masters, but changed your name to get away from your Street Fighting life to become a family man.
Haha "go and be a family man" works on so many levels
Yes it does.
He looks like kens homosexual boyfriend. I think that max is the submissive, more feminine one and he will be the one to carry their baby.
(Brad Van dongen) I…I have many questions…
@@bradvandongen2777 *Confused screaming*
Max's story of being the only person who pre-ordered fighters at EB/GameStop resonates with me so much. I was literally the only person in my neighborhood who pre-ordered Vanilla Marvel 3 and Street Fighter X Tekken! Woke up buttfuck early and rushed to the store, especially for Marvel.
I was the only person who preordered Tekken 7 in my city. and also apparently, I also bought a preorder Pokken tournament because nobody bought it where I liveXD
I feel ya, I hit my Gamestop as soon as they opened for Tekken 6 and I could feel the lack of hype from the cashier.
But did you turn down a threesome with two hot bisexual chicks on your way there?
combat rock No I was underage lmao
@@combatrock81 Degenerate.
I would love to see more videos of Max talking about his history with games or looking at artwork. This should be a series on its own. Great video Max! I gotta say the art work is one of the few really fun to look at in the game. I remember my first arcade experiences were in the barbershop. I really miss going there. Too bad they removed them
Yeah.
Got Street Fighter 2 SCE for megadrive on December 3rd '93, my 13th birthday. Then played against my Mum and she battered me with Chun Li and I was Sagat... Good times and RIP Mum, you were awesome.
Maximilian: The Movie
Cross Counter Feat. Dante from the Devil May Cry series
Cross Counter YOU'VE WATCHED THE MOVIE. NOW PLAY.. THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@shinbakihanma2749 LET'S GO!
@@juicyd9233 and Knuckles 😂
The Dood abides.
I remember in 97 they actually location tested in NYC. Ken and Ryu really wasn't in the game. And everyone in Manhattan in every arcade the game was out. Basically shunned the hell out of the Street Fighter 3 lol....
Scion Storm reminds me of KoF 99's loc test. They did not have Kyo or Iori (because they were supposed to be dead) and people flipped the fuck out and demanded them in.
Did Alpha ax a bunch of characters as well? Or is it the co-made EX series I am thinking of? Because it feels that, for a certain period of time, Capcom wanted both new and spinoff games to be their own thing and not have a substantial connection to past games, while most people want that returning roster.
Yea at the time I was still in college and worked for Fed Ex. I remember walking by an arcade omw from work. The line was long but people were like booing. And I was so confused so I went inside. And that was my first time seeing SF3 and I waited for my turn. When I finally got to my turn I thought I was crazy. I was like wtf where is Ken and Ryu? I just gave away my turn and left.
A Mahrle That’s crazy, where did this happen?
I still remember that shit.
I think it's because when SF 3 focusing toward a new protagonist (Alex) where's Ryu and Ken story is finish, Everybody flip the fuck out...
I'm convinced that Street Fighter 2010 was one of those "Someone had an original game but we slapped another name on it at the last minute to make it sell more"
edfreak9001 that's exactly what happened. In japan, the game's protagonist is named, and I chuckle at this, "Kevin". 😆🤣😂 and he and the game's plot are totally unrelated to anything remotely having to do with street fighter.
"Kevin" 😆🤣😂
I bought it back in the day just cuz of the name. I actually like the game, even though its pretty unfair, but so were many NES games.
Realistically, that's the most likely answer. But I like to pitch this theory too.
Look back at how Final Fight was originally going to be "Street Fighter '89" and this game fits what would have been the franchise way better. I think there's a pretty good chance Street Fighter could have been a multiple-genre franchise which merely had street fighting as its central theme. Street Fighter II's insane success may have caused them to rethink that.
max played against alex valle (calipower) when online barely started?! rad
No way
dude a beast
I thought the same lol that was a nice name drop
Guy was going to events in the early 2000's. You can find max in a playstation demo video. Not too surprised.
Didnt that guy win evo before
They should have Ken outfit DLC for 2010 just for shits and giggles.
I mean...they add a non fighting game Street Fighter game in their history...they must add that shit on their legacy costumes, aight?
Plot twist they never did
It's weird now to think that there were 2 MAIN street fighter games/series out at the same time, alpha and sf3. Like alpha 3 came out after sf3. That just seems so odd to me now, you couldn't imagine that happening today.
R69NIX Alpha 3 came out as a direct response to New Gen bombing.
Back when they cared about quality control.
I have to say this has been the coolest thing out of 30th anniversary so far. Watching the old guys go back and reminisce about their street fighter history.
I remember when I was about 8 or 10 years old and I went to the arcade store. With my friends, we always passed quickly until we reached the Final Fight, Knight of the Round, Street Figter II, World Heroes and Fatal Fury. One day, we did not have chips and we were just hanging around there. A little apart, and closer to Galaga and Wonder Boy, there was a game with graphics that seemed even more "old" than these two. After staying for a while to see what it was called, the name "Street Fighter" emerges from the brick wall. The laughter with my friends did not stop. At last we had found the first game. We played some games for laughter, until we managed to defeat Sagat.
How many memories. Fighting Games Never dies!
Videos like THESE should go into Max's Legacy series.
Maybe a new one, for HIS legacy. Max has the best stories, and we need a playlist of them all. And may they be archived for the rest of Earth's lifespan, so "Transcending history and the world, a tale of dudes and souls; Eternally retold." will be literal.
Max! Dude! When you said that you played Hyper Street Fighter II online on Xbox with a guy named "Calipower" back in the day, that may have been Alex Valle! 'Calipower' is Alex Valle's moniker dude!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone knows it's Valle, especially Max.
If you listen closely you can hear his sarcasm
Max is 34, I doubt he remembers what the hell was he doing in 1987, lol
bro when he said jump roundhouse kick then sweep was the only combo in sf2... I still do it
An old man now, I remember being absolutely obsessed with an issue of EGM (mostly white cover with Street Fighter artwork) and hoping desperately that I would get to play it. Eventually a local bowling alley would get an arcade version of the game. Every week I would go to that bowling alley and spend every last cent of my allowance on the game. Max's statement about jumping HK into low HK being the sickest combo ever is some of the realist shit I've ever felt about those early days of SF. As dumb as it might sound those were some of my most favorite childhood memories. Because of that I will always love the brand of SF even if the games themselves might leave me a little cold.
Thank you for this walk down memory lane. While my experiences were different I do have a lot wrapped up in this entire series.
Born in 87, first SF I played was SF2 on SNES omg Vega was the hardest thing ever to me when he would jump on the gate omg 😡🤬😡🤬
If it were up to me, Vega would have been the final boss in SF2, but only because he's harder to beat than Bison
My mind was blown when you said that you can change from punches to kicks with the start button on the Genesis controller... I used only punches for YEARS!!!!!!
I could watch and listen to Max talking about fighting games forever, his passion shines through all the time
Between 1998 and 2008, with the failure of Street Fighter 3 and the fall of SNK, the only company that maintained faith in 2D fighting games was Ark System Works. Today time gives the reason to those who never gave up.
Team One Piece Mugen OS can't really fully cosign that statement, unless you point out something I'm missing. I love Arc Sys, but all they had in terms of fighting genre during that period were the guilty gear games, and most of those releases were just revisions or updates of GGXX. Can't really say they had all this faith in 2D fighters, as they weren't creating various fighting series, experimenting nor really creating anything truly impactful until Blazblue in 2008. But much props for Arc Sys being Arc Sys.
Hello Friend. What I say is based not only on Guilty Gear, but on a series of games that Arc System Works has released. Here is the list of games that came out in the period I mentioned (1998-2008):
- Guilty Gear (1998)
- Guilty Gear X (2000)
- Guilty Gear XX (2005)
- Melty Blood (2005)
- Hokuto No Ken (2005)
- Arcana Heart (2006)
- Sengoku Basara X (2007)
- Blazblue (2008)
After 2008, in addition to Blazblue, the list of games could be doubled at least.
In any case, the most important thing is not the number of new series that ASW will perform, but at a time when all the traditional companies of the genre are trying to pass everything to 3D gameplay (or directly they think that the genre is dead), ASW made new games. The meaning is more important than the quantity. For those of us who lived those years, it was like finding a spring in the middle of the desert.
In any case, they were not a few games, and Guilty Gear were not revisions of the same game, but between the first and the XX they had made the entire graphic base again, and doubled or more character roster.
I clarify that all this I say, is not like ArcSys fanboy. Currently I do not agree with the direction they were taking games like Persona 4A, Under Night in-Birth and Crosstagbattle.
A greeting.
@@teamonepiecemugenos2818 aside from Guilty Gear and Blazblue don't know too many people who talk about any of the other games listed
All of those games with maybe the exception of Sengoku Basara basically forms the main spine of "anime fighters"
@@Copperhell144 Question, wouldn't Marvel vs Capcom also be defined as an anime fighter?
Street fighter 4 really revived fighting games. I fell in love with sf4 the moment I saw the graphic style. I played the shit of it
I, being born in 1986, had my first experience with SF in 1992 with Champion Edition. I was 6 at the time and wondered into the arcade at the mall. The first thing I saw was an SF Champ Ed cabinet and I was blown away. The larger than life characters doing all of these “over the top moves” (at the time) blew my mind. I was instantly hooked. Being in karate, I was drawn to Ryu and Ken and thought they were the coolest, most badass guys ever. After that I was officially hooked on the series. 26 years later I’m still a fan.
giftofgab247 Crazy man, that’s exactly what my local arcade was called as well,lol. I used to have a big bag of left over gold tokens from there but I lost them when I moved. Sigh.
giftofgab247 Bro! There was an Aladdins Castle in my local mall too! The feeling of walking into that place was nothing short of magic, there was this long hallway (lined with those mirrors that make it look like there's multiple copies of yourself) you had to walk thru to get into the main area, the crisp smell of electronics in the air. The blue lights inside gave it such a great atmosphere. Pure nostalgia!
I learned how to play Street Fighter on Sega Genesis as well but I was lucky enough to buy a 6 button controller
same here. my dad taught me how to do hadoukens. took me 7 years afterwards to find out how to throw SRKs.
Alden White what?! Huh?! Seven years?!😆🤣😂
same here. didn't learn how to throw a hadoken until alpha. Back then I was a blanka main
I laughed when he talked about no one playing SF the movie the game, because the same thing happened all over the arcades here in south east México (and I'm sure the whole world). I vividly remember seeing it alongside the other SF machines and being vaguely curious but never interested enough.
MeMosh I played it the only time I saw it at a movie theater. I was pumped because I'm a fan of JCVD.
Yeah, Capcom really dropped the ball on the Anniversary edition. Every game should have the final version... not the first. WTF?
VZA yeah, capcom is disappoint😔
Hope fo updates/patches/dlc whatever smh CAPCOM drop the ball I understand they wana show each game in order 1st edition type shit but damn
I think it should have the updated versions too, but it's still really good. I think so anyway, been playing the collection loads since it came out. I wish especially that it was the updated version of Super Turbo. That is just too hard, I do well at every other game, but struggle big time on ST to the point it's not that much fun. I read that it was a bug or something that was fixed in an updated version. Is that right?
Surprised alpha 2 gold wasn’t in there no one gives a shit about arcade perfect. I’d rather have 3s OE than the plain version
@@JustChrisWillDoTa i know this is late, but yeah ST on this anniversary collection is the version where arcade mode CPU is notoriously so hard, they even readed your inputs. They had to immediately make new updated arcade cabinets just to fix the problem back then, but since these are the 1st versions of the games on this anniversary collection, that literally impossible input reading bullshit CPU is problem is there. Even the best most competitive players couldn't beat it, thats how ridiculous it was. Only way to beat them was to exploit them using M. Bison and looping certain moves that the CPU can't react to. If u want to have fun with ST, definitely play it with a friend or go online, cuz arcade mode for ST was designed to take peoples quarters back in the old arcade days lol.
There actually was a 6-button controller for Genesis, that I still have lol
As someone who learned about that era of consoles through emulators, I initially assumed that Sonic and other games were just really conservative with buttons.
3 Button SF (with Start to switch between P & K) is crazy but Desk made a good video showing off combos.
I remember that, but not everybosy had it, and the standart Genesis controller was so painful! XD
That 6 button Megadrive controller is probably my favourite controller ever. I keep meaning to either get a USB version or a Megadrive-USB adapter so I can use it with my PC.
I remember the magazines back then with Genesis Street Fighter ads with the 6 button controller there. I would imagine they came up with the controller specifically because Street Fighter.
SEGA really did have the best gaming pads for fighters.
Before I die, I need to fight people like Maximilian in some of these games. Actually there's a LOT of people I want to fight in the fighter community. They are all over the world, you literally have to become a world warrior if you want to fulfill these desires of conquest.
Robz Shishigami - Parental Basement Dweller well, put on your red bandana, grab your duffel sack, and start wandering, vagabond!!😆🤣😂
The answer lies in the heart of battle.
Anyone else pretty bummed out they didn't mention the ex games would have love to see that artwork in this
Skulla X probably because of legal stuff with Arika
Those arcade days where the best times in my life and we didn't know it. Those were the days of playing someone next to you. Beating them and seeing their faces and them spending all their money trying to beat you. We were living in the moment and didn't know how special it was. Seeing you go through the history of street fighter the memory's came in remember going to a lot of arcades playing the best people from different neighbor hoods. Alpha 3 and 2nd impact was my game I remember skipping church going to the arcade.
"I do know that Ken and Ryu go skinny dipping together, so that makes a lot of sense"
-Anonymous
I love the background music in that museum.
It sounds exactly like the Megaman RPG's, I love those songs.
Just got my dreamcast copies of 3rd Strike, Alpha 3 and MVC2, w a copy of Rival Schools otw (again), thanks for the look back.
That's pretty cool. Me and Max competitive sf3 lives began at the same time. The difference was Max had access to these games while I was poor and had to hunt these titles down or hope to ever see them being played in a arcade near me.
Is anyone gonna talk about how Max said he would always fight Alex Valle(CaliPower) online like it was normal.
I wish i had more fighting game friends in person
Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 had to have been my two most-played SF games, A2 taking the cake by far. I spent countless hours bodying dudes in the arcade while playing Charlie and Adon.
I remember completing Alpha 2 on my first ever credit in the arcade as Ryu, then I tried as Ken or Sakura. Eventually I ended up maining Dan in the Alpha games and hustling a few of my friends.
Damn i was graduating high school in 93. Sometimes i feel like me and Ed Boon are the only old guys still playing fighting games haha
I love that you love fighting games, I’ve always loved fighting games, and I had always had a special love for street fighter. I never played the first one as a kid but I did love everything from street fighter 2 and beyond
I remember i was on a school trip back from london and we stopped by a little shop and in the corner they had a new Fighting game....SF2.....one of my defining gaming moments i was blown away. Performing special moves was such a strange concept i saw the motion for dragon punch and i thought how the hell do i do that.
I definitely used to give myself blisters from mashing buttons back in the day. Geez. I don't miss that part lol
Man. Feels really weird when the I was born in '95, first fighting game I played was the very original Tekken, played Tekken 3 demo in some demo disk and after that, I had completely forgotten that fighting genre existed.
Not until the announcement of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 I began to have Vietnam flashbacks about horrible inputs of the first game, bought the game on it's release, and later discovered the previous titles and other fighting games, like Street Fighter series.
And holy ponky donkies I discovered HOW MUCH I HAD MISSED. Living in somewhat poor family fucking sucked back then.
TheFranss the demo disk for tekken 3 came from the ridge racer type 4. Bonus disc. Because I couldn't get any more games I spent alot of time playing the bonus disc. Lol
I love these chill videos. Hearing Max just discuss something he’s passionate about is great.
Cats in NYC were playing 3rd Strike back when it dropped. Alot of us were at the arcade in Chinatown. I learned how to really play it on the Dreamcast with the Double Impact and 3rd Strike release.
SHIN BAKI HANMA I've heard of the Chinatown fair arcade. Wanted to take a visit but i don't know if it still is what it was
SteveSwipe nothing is still what it once was. But I think it's still there. But Chinatown NYC itself is but a shadow of what It once was.
SteveSwipe if you want to play 3s and other old school fg in the city, visit iFix Machine and Next Level Arcade in Brooklyn. They're run by and have the nyc fgc hanging around regularly, and have versus/astrocity cabs
HerbalTEA aye thanks man
God i wish I was good at fighting games, i really enjoy playing but I'm trash af 😂😂😂
My first Street Fighter game was SF2 on the SNES and the arcades.
I remember playing it on the arcades at roller rinks. Anyone remember those?
I loved that day with Super Street Fighter II came out on the SNES.
I then play Alpha 2 on the SNES.
I remember when my friend had SF3 Double Impact on the DreamCast and playing it.
I also remember playing it in the arcades. I never liked it that much but Second Impact I enjoyed more.
Capcom Fighting Evolution was trash.
I remember when Street Fighter IV finally came out on the PS3. Then there was Super Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, and then Ultra Street Fighter IV.
You know, I hope that Capcom does more with 'Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection'.
At the very least, I'd like to see them do things like:
- Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (i.e. Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold)
- Street Fighter Zero 3↑ or Street Fighter Zero 3↑↑ (i.e. Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper/Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max)
How about releasing Ultra Street Fighter IV on disc for the PS4?
Or what about a collection that has:
- Hyper Street Fighter
- Hyper Street Fighter II
- Hyper Street Fighter III
- Hyper Street Fighter IV
- Hyper Street Fighter Alpha
I'm surprised Capcom hasn't done a "Vs" collections yet:
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
- Marvel vs. Capcom
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- Capcom vs. SNK Pro
- Capcom vs. SNK 2
- SVC Chaos: SNK Vs. Capcom
xxnike629xx It would take too many licenses to release it. They'd have to get Marvel, SNK and Tatsunoko involved in the development of it.
I remember the buzz for Third Strike. The anticipation was crazy in the arcade scene in NYC. 3rd Strike and Super SF 2 were the most hyped out of the SF library when they first appeared in arcades. Remembered it like it was yesterday :)
When Max talks about learning how to do Hadoken motions it reminded me of my story of when I first got it. I was about ten years old, with about 7 years of fighting games on my belt. One day I wanted to figure out how my brother did all the cool moves whenever we played Vs. so I went to the move list and saw the directions and figured out it was a motion, a flow and not wiggling the analog stick. This was back when I would only do Tatsumaki's facing left lol.
@Maximilian Dood getting blisters on your fingers, specifically the thumbs, was a rite of passage. A baptism under fire if you think about it. You went under severe scrutiny when it came to playing these games
Damn, that phrase about driving towards the sunset in a Nissan felt so poetic for some reason
I always thought Alpha Generations was a pretty cool movie, and the collaboration they did with Bill Laswell on the soundtrack was crazy
Watching you speaking about your history with street fighter is really heartwarming because I can see how humble you feel for this series. It makes me wish I was there during that time period. But no worries, I'm definently going to get this collection and experience it for myself.
This is one of my TH-cam comfort videos. Engaging, relaxing, informative, long, and heartwarming.
This guy knows his stuff. Alpha 2 being the best of the Alphas. Genny pad causing blisters. He hits home. My parents bought me the official sega 3 button joystick for my birthday to play Champion Edition. No more blisters for me but still had to hit the start button to switch over.
I didn't even know SFIII existed till I found a SFIII Double Impact cab in some bowling alley when I was in HS. Can't remember the year.
story time boys
19:59 you could have told me that was SF4 promo art and I would have believed you. I think the reason all that art looks so good is the artist really understands motion. You can tell exactly how the characters are moving and can see exactly how they'll end their motion
THIS was awesome. Thanks Max. I'm 38 and your exp starting back to SF1 is pretty much mine as well. You brought me back,...and it felt great.
I remember when I found Street Fighter III New Generation in a Laundry Mat. It was there but not in my Arcade for a while. I did love the Animation of Ken and Ryu's Gi's when they threw a Fireball.
So cool to listen to. '08 was a magical year with SF4
Played non stop KOF, Virtua Fighter, and Tekken during the dark ages
I'm not sure why I'm so excited over knowing Max owned a 240 (besides my interest as a car enthusiast) or the fact that the Mouse Street Fighter exists but I am.
Knowing that you had a 240SX is amazing
They mentioned Street Fighter: The Movie and The Legend of Chun-Li, but not Assassin's Fist, the best one of them all?
I bought Street Fighter Collection. It has my favorite version of Alpha 2. Alpha 2 Gold. It has an option for infinite meter allowing you to spam supers.
Listening to max is better than the radio in your car. Just makes going places better
I remember so many of these things too. I had a Genesis and refused to play on the normal gamepads until they eventually came out with the six button controllers. I'd go to my friend's and play it on SNES instead, where at least I had 4 face buttons and the mediums on the shoulders.
Dude, in my arcade, we went NUTS when Third Strike came out. The presentation blew us away
Forward fireball? Woah I been playing street fighter since the 90s and I have always done it as foward, down foward in one motion. This is the first time I ever heard that. It works well in 3rd strike and other games (kinda hard in super). This blows my mind! My game just went up. Thanks max!
my cousin drew that artwork of ryu facing akuma ,man he is a crazy artist
So glad I am old enough to remember my history with SF since II. Growing up in the arcades and early console gens was such pure innocent fun.
SSF4 was when I started getting competitive with fighting games. I loved it. I mained Fei Long, and later Ken. Ken's my main to this day in any SF game.
I pause this video and went to watch Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation. Then came back to finish. Good stuff.
Handing out bars of soap for fighting games... boy, kinda wish they'd do that at Smash Bros. events.
Looking thru this makes me feel really, REALLY old. Born on 83'.
I felt very cool back when SF3 2nd Impact when i was able to unlock Akuma using the legendary Magazine - Tips & Tricks
Max you don't know HOW happy I was when you were talking about Turbo Revival on the GBA. That was my first personal experience with SF as a series (apart from briefly playing EX3 on PS2 at a cousin's house). It was one of my favourite GBA games (I still have it) and because of it SF2 Turbo is one of my favourite games of all time! I have so many memories with it, especially discovering Akuma and thinking 'who the fuck is this guy!????'.
Had a Genesis and Champion Edition was the reason I bought a 6 button pad. Great video, Max!
Man a living legend.
Watching Max go through this timeline made me reminisce on how I grew up next to Family Fun Arcade in the 90's then later on moved near Super Arcade in early 2000's, I really wonder how many times Max destroyed me at Street Fighter?
3 honestly had my favourite sprite animation of all time. Still holds up to this day.
Harnessing the power of the shoryuken in street fighter 2 was the best memories I had when I was a kid.
ionicblood666 same here😀i felt like i was the best teenager in the fuckin world !!
Max drove a 240sx?
Truly a man of culture
SSF2 Turbo Revival with the art by Edayan is a genuinely great port, by GBA standards or otherwise. I still play it even now.
1994. That was my year. I had SF2 turbo on SNES and that movie is still great today. Chun-li vs Vega with that music, fantastic!
You got to see Chun-Li’s hoots! That movie was fucking great
This is awesome Max! Love to see a similar vid about your history with other franchises like Virtua Fighter or Tekken.
Nissan 240sx? You could've been a street racer hahaha!
CaliPower was Alex Valle yeah? I remember fighting him on USF4 quite a bit when he had open lobbies
Its great hearing other perspectives on this amazing franchise I have been here since the SNES release of world warrior and never looked back I can't say I have ever been more excited over another game alpha 3 is my bride and will always love her!
Maaaan Rival School's launch was bittersweet. The scrapped school mode was tragic.
I played Alpha at the arcades so much and had so many rivals at those arcades, then I would hop over to Mortal Kombat and get chased over to that game by those same Rivals.
Ahh good times, the moment you realize there is someone out there just as good as you and passionate about defeating you.
It’s just hard to explain the feeling, but the competitive fire is what most of this generation would probably never know sadly, unless they play video games online.
Man kids will never know the fun we had growing up during the 80's, 90's, and the early 2000's.... the anime craze....home consoles getting better.. Dreamcast....would give anything to go back and live a week back then.
87 in the building 1st off!! On another note oddly mike tysons punchout led me down the road of fighting game love! Street fighter 2 CE introduced me to one on one fighters and since then I've been here. Thank God for fighting games.
Wait... Let's talk about that 240SX you owned...
JamalTheTitan... yeah who cares about videogames when you have a 240sx... wtf dude?
Jonathan Rivera exactly.
lol, thanks what I'm talking about...
Glad i'm not the only one who picked up on that
I don't understand, was that like an expensive car at the time?
Haha, I’m reliving my childhood from SF2 onwards. Loved the ‘discovery’ of rolling QCF instead of down, down foward, foward. Though I was on the SNES. Misspent uni days spent playing 3rd strike.
Your commentary of this collection, should be considered the official commentray and added in a future patch.
"I wish they made every character broken.." go play Super Turbo my dude. XD
Now that I think about it. I do remember hearing rumors about SF3 not having Ryu and Ken. I lived in NYC at the time.
Also, Calipower was probably Alex Valle lol