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If a thread like this was made before, let me know. If it hasn't, color me surprised.

What was your first fighting game experience?

Mine was "Gundam Wing Endless Duel" on a SNES emulator. It never made it outside of Japan, but it was GREAT.
Had OTGs, two button dashing with crazy air mobility, Epyon as a boss/secret character, catchy soundtracks and overall animation you wouldn't believe was on a SNES.

Playing it as a kid in the days when toonami came on at 6 pm and had Gundam Wing, DBZ, Outlaw Star and all them was an extra bonus.
Seeing special attacks based on the show was AMAZING to my kid self.

Check it out sometime.

 
I think it was Street Fighter 4 or Tekken Advance on the GBA.
 
I honestly can't remember, it would either have been MK2 for Gameboy or MK Gold for the N64, but I didn't play either of them for more than a few hours.

The first game I played with any ambition to beat another human player? The Last Blade for the Neo Geo, shortly followed by Smash 64.
 
Virtua Fighter 2 on Sega Saturn. Though I did play a bit of Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2 before, but it was only for about an hour each. I also played a lot of Golden Axe The Duel demo before, that but it only had 1 character, so I dunno if those count, even though I learned about QCF and Dragon Punch motion from it (found both of them myself even, as there was no manual).
 
I think it was either Mortal Kombat 2 or some version of Street Fighter 2 on the SEGA Megadrive (It had M.Bison in it). I played a lot of other fighting games casually like SF Alpha 2 & 3, 2D & the crappy 3D Mortal Kombat games, Tekken 2, 3, 5 and 1st Tag, Shaq-Fu (Yes. Believe it or not), Virtua Fighter 1 on PC, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution and some other games on emulators like KI1 and KI2, but I became much more interested in FGs because of SF 3rd Strike (I love the artstyle and I didn't get into it just because of the Daigo Parry video. I never heard of Daigo at that time) and MK9.
 
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Screwing around as "the old bald guy" in 3S at the arcade in our movie theater
 
First "versus" fighting was MK2 on my friend's play station, and I didn't played it a lot. After that, when I got my Pentium S with 1mb video, another friend brought me some fighting ports. First was MK3 and second's name I don't remember. It was 2d fighter and I only remember some characters (short old man with a rice hat, bishonen with katana and standing back to opponent, berserker-guy with huge pillar, that can beat his head against pillar sacrificing health for some speed and damage boost). And last one was GGXX#R. After I got GG I totally outplayed my friend and we didn't played any more :( Tho, I stick to 2d fightings after those two games.
 
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First ever saw and played: Street Fighter 3: Big Attack
First time bothering to learn moves: MvC
First time actually going into training mode: Tekken Tag Tournament
First time getting serious about competing: Skullgirls
 
My very first fighting game was either Soul Calibur 2 for Gamecube as a rental, or MvC2 at the local arcade. Either way, I was pretty darn terrible at both, the latter especially.

I still fondly remember watching this one guy beat Arcade Mode in MvC2 with amazement, as I could never get past the 2nd or 3rd fight. I especially couldn't believe when he said he could beat Arcade Mode with Street Fighter characters, which even then I knew were terrible.

My first fighting game that I actually started getting serious about was SF3: Third Strike: Online Edition, which is funny because I am still pretty terrible at it, and it wasn't exactly the best fighter to really introduce me to higher level play. Regardless, I learned most of what I know about Fighting Games from playing SF3's Training Mode, Arcade Mode, Online Play, and character pages on Eventhubs.
 
Don't know which one, but I played Mortal Kombat when I was 7.
 
Street Fighter 2, back when I was like seven or eight. I'd always play it at my best friend's house. I remember getting explosively mad at him because he'd pick Balrog and then just constantly walk towards me and do his headbutt grab over and over again until I died.

Good times.
 
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Literally the first game I ever played in an arcade, let alone Fighting Game.
 
Super Smash Bros. Melee Oh, right, those don't count.

Well, then, it was probably Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 for the GameCube. Put your guns down, I'm not a Naruto fan anymore; I haven't watched the show in forever. Unlike your standard 2D fighter, with six buttons, there were really only four or five buttons to worry about in CoN: weak attack (Melee), strong attack (Projectile for almost every character), throw (Which was basically useless), special attack (A large-damage attack that costs the player's "Chakra" bar), and dodge/substitute (Swerve in a direction while out of a combo, warp out of a combo (At the cost of chakra) while in one). The oversimplified combat system made combos very easy to grasp (Every character had a "default combo" they could get just by mashing weak attack), and the substitute system means getting put in a combo is really not a big deal. There are no infinites, none of the complicated systems I'm sure you're all used to, and...well, one of the best playable characters is a dog. Definitely not comparable to, and probably worse than, any standard fighting game out there.
Even with all the game's flaws, though, I still kind of like its 3v3 Team Battle system.
 
 
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Super Smash Bros. Melee Oh, right, those don't count.

They do.

Mine was probably Tekken 3 on the Playstation. I don't really remember when I played which games, but Tekken 3 consumed probably most of my PS1 time, apart from Crash Team Racing, so I'm gonna go with that.
 
Streetfighter 2 world warrior in the arcades back in the summer of '91. It took us like a year (literally) to figure out what cancels were.
Not all special moves were known, last one to be figured out was giefs spd. There were glitches galore like handcuffs, freeze, resetting the machine, magic throw... And rumors that chun "really" threw her bracelets. That Sheng long was actually real.


This being supported by the fact that if you beat the machine without losing a round you got a special end screen that showed the programmers faces.


This would come to be known as "faces"

Like "I got faces twice today man!"

Those were good times. I remember the first time we were shown tick throws at the local arcade by an out of towner...We were speechless and enthralled. Our laundromat was tick throw city from then on. Fights broke out, people got punched... Shit was real... And this in a middle class white neighborhood... One can only think what the inner city guys were having to deal with.


World warrior set everything off. And after that, championship edition literally had 70 -75 games games back on its first three days and for months after it would be 10-15 people deep at all times. Till the bowling alley got 7 cabs, at which point it was still a 2-3 man wait to be able to play on any machine... Shit was soooooo hype.
 
Digimon Rumble Arena. The first one because the PS2 one is crap.
I actually came back to this game the other day and found that this game is actually pretty hype, I didn't even know there was a low block in this game as a kid... That's right, a brawler with real high/low mix-ups! And every character's dash>jump>square is an instant overhead! And Reapermon has a ToD combo! IN A BRAWLER!
Of course that doesn't make it competitive, you can't turn off items (and one of them basically fucks you over by making you move in random directions and attack when you didn't press a button) and they never added palettes so it actively prevents mirror matches for some strange reason, but when my sister and I played this the other day I was pleasantly surprised.
Veemon is OP though.
 
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I honestly can't remember if it was MK II or Street Fighter II. After that I played every FG that I could put my hands on. But I only got serious about it in Vanilla SF4.
 
First FG I've ever played was Street Fighter II: World Warriors in 1993, I was 7yo. It was on an arcade in a rental store. I picked Blanka and the first CPU was Guile, I lost the match and my "quarter". I remember like it was yesterday.

After that whenever I had a chance to play a FG I would. I started playing them more seriously when my local store had A2, XvSF, SamSho4 and KoF 96/97.
 
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My first was Tekken 3 which I got bundled with my PSX when I was 9, played Tekken uptil TTT2 and then I jumped on the Anime bandwagon with BlazBlue CSE and Persona 4 Arena. Now I´m here :3
 
Street Fighter for SNES. Soul Calibur 2 for the Gamecube is the first (and only) fighting game I got good at, though.
 
The Mega Drive/Sega Genesis port that didn't have Hwa Jai and Billy Kane but I was just a wee lad, I had no clue of such things. I loved the game, it had a big wrestler that could rocket from one side of the screen to the other, a roid raging old man and omigosh! the manual included the cheat to pick the endboss (Geese Howard) in VS play.

But as with some others here, SF2 (for me, the Mega Drive port again) was what really started it. We were a bunch of kids just mashing buttons but it was when I started to learn the QCFs and whatnot...sadly, it didn't take long for me to become "that guy" and scrubs would rather watch me beat the AI than play. I just wanted to play so I didn't mind. In retrospect, it leaves me feeling a little hollow. I could have been good at the genre with some proper opposition.

But this, THIS is when I really started to love the genre.
The Saturn port with it's chopped off animation (surprisingly, the PSX ports were a lot worse for 2D games).
(Yeah, I was kind of a Sega fanboy back then. Followed them until the Dreamcast...which I bought on purpose to play Soulcalibur which is IMHO the best in the series as well as the best arcade-to-home port EVER.)

Fun fact: only when I got SFA2, I learned how to 360º. I remember a phase of maining Zangief/Sodom/Birdie. HA! :3

Great, now I ramble like an old man... -_-"
"Back when I was your age we were bad enough dudes to rescue the President uphill both ways in the snow. We had to do it all in one sitting, no save states. And we had none of those fancy nancy joysticks you kids have today - no! We had two buttons and they were both red. And what's the deal with all this "rap music"?...."
 
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oooo hard to remember but it was either Street Fighter Alpha 3, or some other nontraditional fighter like Digimon Rumble Arena
 
I initially got into the genre with Blazblue Continuum Shift, however I could never play online (say no to XBL subscriptions).
Skullgirls was my first online fighting game.
 
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MK1 on SNES or SF2 on SNES. Either one could have been my first.
 
Well, then, it was probably Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 for the GameCube. Put your guns down, I'm not a Naruto fan anymore; I haven't watched the show in forever. Unlike your standard 2D fighter, with six buttons, there were really only four or five buttons to worry about in CoN: weak attack (Melee), strong attack (Projectile for almost every character), throw (Which was basically useless), special attack (A large-damage attack that costs the player's "Chakra" bar), and dodge/substitute (Swerve in a direction while out of a combo, warp out of a combo (At the cost of chakra) while in one). The oversimplified combat system made combos very easy to grasp (Every character had a "default combo" they could get just by mashing weak attack), and the substitute system means getting put in a combo is really not a big deal. There are no infinites, none of the complicated systems I'm sure you're all used to, and...well, one of the best playable characters is a dog. Definitely not comparable to, and probably worse than, any standard fighting game out there.

Wat.

Those... count? Are you kid-

(sigh) Dammit. That means mine was the first Clash of Ninja. God dammit...
 
Mine would be Street Fighter II on the Genesis. I don't remember which version it was, though. I do remember playing as Ryu and joyfully mashing on the buttons until victory occurred and being surprised when I beat Bison. I don't believe I played against anyone with it, though. That may have been MvC1 at an Ice Rink. Or Dragon Battle: Ultimate Battle 22.
 
I can't remember exactly. The first fighter I got into competitively was Tatsunoko vs Capcom.

I think my first fighter in general was....I think it was Marvel Super Heroes. It was in a skating ring I used to go to. It was pretty fun playing as my favorite marvel heroes in a 1 on 1 fighting game.
 
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Although I don't think I actually played it above the "punching bag" difficulty level, but maybe I did.
 
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SamSho 1. I just liked throwing the dog at folks.
 
Mine was Street Fighter IV. From there I grew a love for the Street Fighter franchise and the fighing genre. I think I have 3 versions of SFII on the SNES (the original, Super, and Turbo) and I have a collection of the Alpha games on PS2.
 
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior on my cousin's SNES. Loved it so much, I ended up getting the crappy PC port. I ended up getting a lot of PC ports of games when I was a kid: the first 3 Mortal Kombats, the truly abysmal port of the original Street Fighter, X-Men: Children of the Atom.
 
Street Fighter II World Warrior on the SNES
 
BlazBlue CSEX which I've heard is the worst one but it's what brought me to other stuff so eh. I played Lambda... rushdown Lambda... (Lots of 2B into C attacks and the C parser into 6A (I think.) then the D stationary spinny blade.) I dunno how I won at all. I'm assuming xbox players suck is all.

If we're counting other stuff like smash bros then Smash bros 1 was the first. I used Kirby, because he's cute and wrecks bitches.
 
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first one? Karate Champ on NES.

then SF2WW on SNES at a friend's.

then SF2CE & MK1&2 on Genesis. I even got that six button controller. It was so cool.
 
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