I purchased street fighter iv recently and boy is it a blast.  I feel like a kid again spending hours and hours playing Street fighter II.  Recently most games i’m pretty bleh about.  I don’t have the patience to play them usually unless my GF is watching me play and it makes it more interesting.  A sign of old age I guess?  Maybe having too much disposable income being able to buy whatever game I please makes me value each game less.  I used to have to beg my parents to buy me the new game as a 8 year old and I definitely played each precious game I received every few months to death.

Anyways Street Fighter II definitely has rekindled my passion.  I played my cousin the other night and it definitely brought back my memories of sitting in the arcade with him wondering how to counter his damn cheap gulie flash kick move.  MY gf ordered me a fight stick for my early birthday and boy will I be spending time hadouking away for a long time.  A fight stick will definitely give you an advantage.  SNES there were no fight stick options so everyone was on a equal playing field (and it was all played against each other locally anyways.) So if you want to compete online either you pray the other person doesn’t have a fight stick or you’ll just be at a natural disadvantage every time. The game is way more complicated than it was with all these new fancy combat mechanisms, but hopefully I can learn them and keep up with the young kids that naturally learn faster than me in video games. haha.  Anyways if you like fighters at all I recommend Street Fighter IV.