![]() ![]() Not all was lost! Despite the burning question “when and where is Street Fighter IV?”, Capcom had bought plenty of time with their older releases to keep the dedicated fans satisfied. Street Fighter 2 Turbo Arcade Machine (1994) The matches in SF2 Turbo were short and sweet and the game acted as a beautiful throwback to the much simpler “Hadoken” memories of the early 90s. Heck, EVEN Street Fighter II Turbo (1994) was still making the rounds in the arcade scene and the matches I played in and witnessed were probably some of the most epic “footsie” chess matches ever. If a younger gamer today was forced to play a game that was over five years old with absolutely no updates, or no-word on an upcoming new release, they would most likely post something on social media complaining about how this inconvenience has “ruined their life”, they would demand “a refund” and then start a viral hashtag to boycott the entire franchise. Like a kid who was always one gaming console generation behind, we PRETENDED like it didn’t bother us one bit… but it did. We were essentially playing games that were many years old and we played it as if it were brand new. These games were great but to put it into perspective, these games did not have new releases with extra characters or new add-ons. I use to drop dollars, not quarters, into CVS2 Our go-to games were Street Fighter III: 3 rd Strike and Capcom Vs SNK 2, and we played those games well into the mid 2000’s because we simply didn’t have anything else. I guess we had to stick with what Capcom gave us.īack then, I was frequenting a local arcade that had a small but dedicated group of fighting game enthusiasts. There was no social media or marketing campaign to relieve are inquisitive minds. I was one of those people in the arcade scene back then, and although everyone seemed to be happy with playing at least one of these games, I remember us all asking “Where is Street Fighter 4?”.
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