From: law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN YEW KEONG)
Subject: Re: Worldwide Guide to SF2 Etiquitte (Survey)
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:07:13 GMT


In KL Malaysia, there are video arcades with 30 sf2 machines and nothing
else. There are a few categories of people :

1) Ah Beng Professionals - they are non-english speaking but enormously
successful salesmen who have nothing better to do in their free time
than to play SF2. They're lousy.

2) 10 year olds - these are fearsome fighters who smoke (no kidding!)
They spend 1/10 of their life on Earth in the arcade, when their moms
play mahjong. These are very vulgar, and very tenacious and very fierce
little boys, which you cannot fight with coz anyone see you hit a 10
year old kid will hit you too! But when you beat any one of these kids
they unplug the machine when they walk away. There is no way you can
verbally assault them either coz they're the most vulgar people on
earth.

They can use any character, but prefer Vega and Ryu and Ken. They have
excellent timing, and attack non-stop using those 5 hit combos.
Obviously, they do not have the benefit of internet but have tremendous
match experience.

They never play the computer.

3) Teenagers - these are almost like the 10 year olds, but much more
fearsome coz some carry knives. They play among themselves, but if you
butt in and challenge them you better lose, then they'll just laugh at
you and push you away. If you win, however, they will disturb you like
gnats the next game you play by moving your hand, blocking the screen,
etc. Then you better lose. If you still win, they will provoke a fight
and you WILL get knifed!

They play very very cheap and use Ken almost exclusively. only slightly
less skillful than the 10 year olds, they play so bloody cheaply (ticks
all the way) they are like machines. The only way to win is to have a
strategy so new they don't have a counter. Then, they will work on a
counter and beat you the next time (if there is a next time!)

4) People like me (undergraduates) - of course, internet teaches us some
of the neatest moves, but most of the time I get the impression that you
people play very differently in the US. You rely on combos and ticks
very much to fight, but the people here rely on one thing - watching
your hands. They only look at the screen with the corner of their eyes,
and concentrate on your hands. Very difficult to play this way, combos
are almost useless. The only way to play is with speedy characters so
that these bums cannot react fast enough to counter.

Undergrads mostly get trashed by the (2) and (3), but they trash (1)
consistently. Undergrads also use Ryu and Ken, and Blanka. We try combos
and ticks, but have to resort to using trick moves and surprise moves,
and looking at THEIR hands after a while, coz the (2) and (3) have a
counter to every combo we have.

Comments :
(2) and (3) are the most fearsome people in the city. Look, they have no
need to go to school, spend 12 hours a day in the arcade (or more) and
extort money to pump into the machines. Even if these have limited
intelligence, their experience makes even the dumbest among them great
street fighters.

And with the new turbo editions, they are unbeatable, with one dragon
punch follows 6 simultaneous fireballs emitting from the arc. No, most
undergrads shy away from those hacks, coz the (2) and (3) spend enough
time in the arcades to find out all the subtleties of the new hacks.

Later ...
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Michael Tan Yew Keong | law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg | law40003@nusvm.nus.sg|
Final Year Law student - OH GOD, IT'S BEEN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!!       |
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