Tiger Uppercut!

Recently I've been playing all sorts of Street Fighter on the SNES. I've got SF II Turbo, SF II: The New Challengers, and Street Fighter Alpha II. Unfortunately I even recently spent $4 on SF II for my phone. I went in with low expectations, and while they were surpassed, it wasn't by much. It is a fully featured version of SF II. All the characters and moves are there. The only real problem is that you gotta play it on your damn phone. Good Luck trying to do anything with your number keys. The only real successful strategy that I found, was to fireball your enemies to death. Because the difficulty has been tuned down a bit, they tend not to try and avoid anything. This works up until Vega at which point your fucked. The spaniard jumps around so much that he's impossible to keep up with. If your looking for a cell phone game, I recommend sticking with Tetris.

That embarrassment aside, I'm pretty excited for SF IV. I recently read an Interview in which Yoshinori Ono said that a Wii port could be possible. That would be nice, so long as they don't throw in any unnecessary waggle controls. I can tell you one thing for sure, I'm probably not gonna play the arcade version all too much. I could see myself giving it a try at a movie theatre or laundromat (I don't actually go to a laundromat) but thats about it. Frankly, arcades are just way too expensive. Whatever happened to playing a game for a quarter? That seemed like it had been the standard since the Pac Man days up until fairly recently. Today the average machine is far more greedy, they even have a slot for dollar bills. I'm not going to drop a three bucks so that I can spend five minutes on a game that I could easily spend the entire weekend on for roughly the same price. The other, and perhaps more significant problem, is that I don't think I could find an arcade even if I wanted to.

Thats all, I've gotta go get my laundry...but not at the laundromat.