Posts tagged Super Street Fighter IV
Retrospective Overdrive: Street Fighter series
Apr 14th
The Overdrive continues unabated. This time Doug is looking at the king of all fighters, the Street Fighter series. Other entries in the Retrospective category can be found here.
This month is the 20th anniversary of Street Fighter II. Let that sink in for a while; how old were you 20 years ago? For how much of your life have you used a joystick and six buttons to try and beat up your opponent?
For my money, the most amazing thing about the Street Fighter series is how such a simple core concept has proven to be both flexible and timeless. I’m not going to do a full, detailed analysis of the history of the series — 1up has done a decent job of that in recent weeks, including an excellent SF-centric episode of the revived Retronauts podcast — but instead point out a couple of games in the series that have meant quite a bit to me and my appreciation of the greater series. It’s a high-quality franchise, but some of the titles mean more than others.
Backlog: Big G Edition
Feb 18th
What, pray tell is “G”? Beyond an uninspired sports drink ad campaign, methinks the man pictured above knows a thing or two.
In any case, G’s up this weekend on the Backlog. Nick has been fly like a G6 and popped into the rejuvenated Ground Kontrol, Doug got some AP English flashbacks playing a Great American Novel-inspired flash game, and Aaron apparently has the world’s gnarliest bird flu or ebola or something and has bravely pushed through to make an appearance here this week.
Now, unfortunately, the schtick is wearing thin so onward! Backlog, ho!
Backlog: Clever Unifying Theme Goes Here edition
Feb 5th
Okay, fine: So maybe we didn’t put our thinking caps on this morning to figure out what ties all three of our Backlog entries together. It’s possible that we didn’t get enough sleep because some jerk woodpecker just had to poke the hell out of a dying fir tree about five feet from a certain editor’s bed for roughly three hours. Maybe that same editor grew frustrated in hunting down a hilarious .jpg and drew a crude comic to vent his frustration instead.
Who knows? It is a mystery. So why don’t we just file it away for now and move on to more pressing matters?
Lovely.
Here’s the skinny: Nick is up to his old tricks, Doug is off the friggin’ deep end of football-induced insanity, and Aaron just really, really hates free stuff.
Backlog: Is January the cruelest month?
Jan 28th
Truly, April may be the cruelest month, but January is getting damn close. After a respite granted by the holidays, the real world stings like the fog on a frosty January morning. Aaron’s got the working man’s blues, living for the weekend (whenever that may actually fall for him — it’s like a shell game, you see), while Doug and Nick have the non-working man’s blues. It’s enough to drive a person crazy.
Plus the days are still crazy short around here. At least we have video games to keep us company! Time for the Backlog!
The Backlog: Final Collision Fantasy with Friends edition
May 7th
Our Backlog is full of Awesome Sauce this week. Don’t believe me? Good. You shouldn’t.
But click the link anyway, please. We know when you don’t!
The Backlog: We Are The World Warriors Edition
May 1st
Plenty to discuss this week — racing games, zombies, spaaaaaaaaaaace! (warning: funny, but spoilers!), and world warriors.
Oh, the world warriors!
Enough of this nonsense, on to the backlog!