• 30Jul 09

  Rebel 1 Fighting games.

  My first blog, thought I'd talk about the history of fighting games, or atleast the history of fighting games according to me.

  First proper fighting game I remember playing was "The way of the exploding fist" by Melbourne House.

  

  My brother bought this game and we played it alot on commodore 64. Joysticks had 1 button then and there was no health bar... every hit was fatal

  At school I'd play Karateka on the apple ][e's, though it wasn't a two player fighting game it was still pretty good fun.

  

  The I used to play alot of "Internation karate", it was the best so far, and zomg look its sydney!

  

  I played some "Yie ar kung fu" at a friends place, it was all a bit weird to me, health bars.. multiple characters..

  

  After these games, things started to get interesting, Street fighter, Mortal Kombat and Fatal fury got a lot of playtime among my friends. Not only did these games have unique characters they had a few of there own special moves and finishing moves, a great time to be into fighting games !

  

  I never had a Neo geo so I missed out on a lot of good fighters. I got some big combo's out on Killer instinct. Tekken and Soul Calibur I played fairly heavily, which are some of the earlier 3d fighters, My friend would always slaughter me at Marvel vs Capcom on dreamcast as I had no idea the moves

  

  Many incarnations of tekken later here we are and Blazblue comes out, the first 2d fighter I've played since probably MK3.

  

  Noel for the win!

  I's qute amazing how far they've come, more health bars than I have eyes, not only does each character have unique basic moves but a huge amount of specials, big moves and finishers. Air dashes, double jumps, sprints, recoverys, cancels it can all be pretty intimidating. Yet so much fun, finally feel like I have an arcade machine in my home

  • Posted Jul 30, 2009 7:55 am PT
  • Category: Games
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