From: julius@cco.caltech.edu (julius yang)
Newsgroups: alt.games.sf2
Subject: A Story of Revenge, or Missed Him By That () Much
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:26:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

So, there I am, lurking in the downstairs arcade near the HF machine as
usual, playing the occasional screwed up Classic machine against the
computer.  The usual afternoon crowd comes in, and I get into a three man
rotation with Yun and this other guy whom I don't know.  I figure, well,
maybe he's a friend of Yun, he plays an OK Ryu, we're all buddies.  So
Yun beats this guy, beats me, the guy beats Yun, blah blah, and Yun takes
off after running out of money.  So I'm left against this guy.

Now, I'm not a great player of any character, but I like to think I'm
better than average at almost all of them.  So in the natural course of
events I take Vega, and it's a damn close match against this Ryu.  I
take Dhalsim, and again I miss him by a whisker.  Each match goes three
rounds.  Great!  Even though I'm spending money like water, I've met
someone who's about my ability.  I can practice all my characters.  Hmm,
what to do?  Hey, I'll take Ken.

Pow! Bap! Haryuken!  In a tense and close battle marked by very few DPs
due to our lack of proficiency I barely eke out a three round victory.
I figure, hey, he's whupped me a coupla times, it's his day in the barrel.
But he looks incredibly indignant, as if I've personally affronted him
by beating his incredibly lame Ryu.  He plops in his shiny quarter and
presto, I'm facing a Bison.  I look at him questioningly, but he's got
this fixed, grim stare on the screen.

Sure enough, I'm in for torpedo/throw, torpedo/throw.  Well, with Vega
and Dhalsim I can counter these (Vega's backflip is awesome for
throwing unwary torpedoing Hondas and Bisons), but with Ken? Hmmm...
First round, he's taken only about two inches of damage, and he beats
me with nothing but torpedos and a scissor kick.

Second round--more of the same.  Whoooosh! Blap. Whooosh! Throw! Whooosh!
He takes a roundhouse kick, but is otherwise undamaged, and I'm at zero
life.  Hell.  Now I'm pissed that this scrub, who I've never seen before
here, thinks he's hot stuff.  I get mad.  I get even.  Torpedo.  DP!
Haw.  I leap in, he blocks, I push him back, I jump forward and in the
air I short hurricane kick.  I land, we both go for the throw nearly
simultaneously, but I win.  I toss a fireball, which he immediately runs
into with his torpedo.  I leap vertically, and his torpedo runs into
my roundhouse foot. Hee hee.  With a flourish I jab him once while he
was unawares and he falls down.  Presto! I win with zero life left.
He did NOT give me the second round.  Every time I did damage to him
he was incredibly pissed.

This guy can't believe it!  My god, his torpedo method completely failed
to work!  What's a Bison to do?  More of the same, of course.  Heh heh.
Well, to make a long story short, in a perfect world, of course I 
eked it out again and squashed his Bison in the dirt, leaving him to
trudge off and ponder his errant ways.  Well, it didn't work out that
way--I missed a DP and wound up fiercing into a torpedo, and he killed me.
He seemed pretty proud, too, that he had done so valiant a deed.  Well,
like the net says, what can you do but walk away from Bisons like this.
So I stick around and watch him play computer Ryu and get trashed in
about a minute.  The moral victory is mine, I suppose.

For some reason, he didn't expect a forward flip or a backflip to end
up in a hurricane kick, so often he'd try to punch or scissor kick me,
and I would land and throw.  (Call me cheap or what you will, I suggest
his cheaping was simpler to execute :) I guess people still aren't used
to Ken/Ryu HKing other than from a vertical jump.

Damn, I lost that third round by only a half inch of life, too.
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