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Your first fighting game. GO!

mvc2 was my first I liked cyclops everyone else was just team filler
 
Zazz said:
first one? Karate Champ on NES.
It almost lifted my spirits to see that, except mine was Karate Champ... in the arcade.
 
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers The Fighting Edition for the SNES. I had no idea what I was doing, but I liked it anyway. Shogun Megazord was my fav.
 
Super Smash Bros on the N64. Those were some good times.
 
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I had played a lot of fighting games before I really "understood" or had inclination towards them. Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat (snes version), Clay Fighters, Super Smash Bros (all of them), Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Soul Calibur 1 and 2, etc.

However I didn't really "play for real" a fighter until a friend made me play Marvel Vs Capcom 1 about 5 years ago, and that was when I started to play and understand them as something more than button mashers.
 
I believe it was Killer Instinct on the snes, that or Mortal Kombat 2, I can't remember.
 
"Dragon Ball Z : L'appel Du Destin" on Megadrive. It was the first time I look at a command list in a game ^^
 
First I actually played? Street Fighter 2. First I bothered to play properly? Skullgirls when it came out on PC.
 
Renting Mortal Kombat on the SNES. Beating the blood sweat out of my opponents the CPU.

My heart still holds a nostalgic place for the arcade version of UMK3 and MK4!
 
Pretty sure it was Mortal Kombat in the arcade.

My biggest achievement, aside from getting slaughtered by the first opponent, was making a little rhythm with the Character Select cursor in time with the background music, then turning to my Dad and giving him the "I have no idea what I'm doing" grin.
 
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One of those bootleg Street Fighters on the NES, if that counts. It's the one with Mario in it.

After that was Gowcaizer on the PS.
 
First one that I really remember was the NES version of that shitty Ninja Turtles fighting game. I'm sure I must've played some other games that capitalized on the fighting game explosion of the early 90's, but I can't remember.


I bodied all the kids at my daycare.
 
Vampire Savior on the PS. I remember loving Talbain, hating Rikuo, and getting uncomfortable when my sister played Felicia.
 
Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2.

OOOOOOOH! THE SUPER AMAZING TIGHT CONTROL FEELS! THE HYPE AS HELL CHARACTERS! the great stages and stage themes!

ILU Sega for making virtua fighter!
 
I think mine was either a one-time play of Genesis MK1 or Third Strike from the Anniversary Collection.
 
Moved to gaming section.
 
The first fighting game I ever ever remember playing was a MvC machine at some arcade somewhere. First fighting game I ever really got into at all was Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, but that was back when I thought the biggest competition for fighting games was the highest difficulty CPU :p
 
Super Street Fight 2: Turbo was, I believe, the first fighting game I've ever had on while I was holding the controller and moving the character. I think I picked Dee Jay, Ken, and Cammy (I had to have been 4 or something at the time). Don't know if that counts as an experience, though, so I'll keep going.

I also remember playing X-Men: Children of the Atom (that, and Marvel Super Heroes, but the following description matches them both). To me at the time I didn't really register it as a fighting game, though, it was just that game with all the cool super heroes in it (my family is big time in the nerd realm, from Forgotten Realms to Earth-616 to the Final Frontier). So I don't think that counts either (probably 5 or 6 at the time). Moving on.

I played Killer Instinct Gold or whatever, on the N64. I liked that sometimes hitting all the buttons would do a cool teleport move with the snowman. *ahem*. Next up...

Bloody Roar was when I started to understand that there was a whole genre of games that were awesome. And, ya know, turning into savage animals to tear each other apart was awesome.

Tekken 4. That was the first game that I really played like a Fighting Game. I had other people I competed with, I tried to get better, I learned the character best I could, and improved. So, for "first fighting game experience", in the experiencing a fighting game and not simply playing a game that happened to be a fighter sense, the first was probably Tekken 4.

I've of course played various other games (DOA, Virtua Fighter, some Beat-em-ups), but I don't think explaining them would have been necessary. This has already been too long winded. And if you care, the second Fighting Game Experience I had, in the above sense, was Street Fighter Alpha Anthology.
 
First game I played was either KI or SSFII on the SNES. I am not sure which one, but it was my brothers who exposed me to those games. First fighting game I owned was Fatal Fury 2 on the Snes, and then my brother gave me SSFII. KI was lost forever.
 
Galaxy Fight Universal Warriors on the Sega Saturn technically was my first fighter I touched thinking back.


I remember hating to fight against Roomi
 
you dont even know dude...


after that ive dabbled in clayfighter, eternal champions, MK1 2 3, sf2, alpha 3, soul calibur and god knows how many others.
 
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World Warriors. Unless you count Double Dragon.

Get off my lawn.
 
World Warrior in my mall's arcade when I was a youth..
 
If I remember correctly, it was Ultimate MK3 on arcade. Those were the days lol
 
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MK I when i was threeish.
Subzero and i are still BFFs nearly 20 years later.
 
I think it might have been Street Fighter Alpha 2 for the PS1.

I remember playing as that one stretchy armed guy in the arcade mode and spamming his arm attack all the way up until I reached Bison. I couldn't get past him.

I also used to play a lot of Smash Bros. back in the day. Especially Melee.
 
Street Fighter 2, in the corner of a Wal-Mart where they use to stick their arcade games.
 
I played Mortal
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ombat for the Genesis when I was a kid, that was my first fighting game.

Then I played the Demo for Hisoutensoku (Touhou 12.3) and that was crazy fun, I played with a friend for 12 hours straight I swear, that kinda got me into fighting games.
I got pretty good at Hisoutensoku and liked to play people in JP on NicoNico.
P4A was kinda cool I guess but it's no Skullgirls.
 
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Skarmand said:
I played Mortal Combat for the Genesis when I was a kid, that was my first fighting game.
LIAR. You spelled it wrong.
 
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The first fighter I played was Clayfighter on SNES, but the first fighter I ever really took interest and really got into was Tatsunoko VS Capcom (TEAM YATTERMAN REPRESENT).
 
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Hate to break this to you, but I think you had a bootlegged childhood.
It's cool though. My brother once drew crappy pokemon on index cards and traded kindergarten kids for the real stuff.

Also am I the only one waiting for that one guy that discovered fighting games from MUGEN? (That's how I discovered melty blood)
 
First fighting game I ever played was Super Street Fighter 2 on Genesis.

First fighting game I cared enough about to get good at was Third Strike.
 
killer instinct 2, i liked pushing buttons when i was 7
 
Super Smash Bros Melee.
I had no idea what the hell I was doing when I 1sted played.
But I was 7 after all.
 
Super Smash Bros. (N64) was the first fighting game I ever played, Super Smash Bros. Melee was the first fighting game I ever owned, Soul Calibur II was my first 3D fighter, and Guilty Gear Isuka was my first traditional 2D fighter. I didn't get into the competitive side of fighting games until BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger though.
 
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