Name: We Found the Champion of Street Fighter II
Uploaded: 2022-04-23T10:46:14.000Z
Duration: 6 min 55 s
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- [Narrator] Being a kid in the '90s meant

trying to beat your friends in Street Fighter.

The gaming community was filled with memorable players,

- One of the greatest video game players who ever lived.

- Tomo Ohira was this towering figure in Street Fighter II.

that's the kinda guy you wanna aspire to be.

- [Narrator] So why did the champion disappear?

In 1991, arcades went through a Renaissance

The game re-energized the coin-op business,

drawing people away from their home consoles

arcade winners were determined by the highest score.

players dueled each other in one-on-one competitions.

The fierce matches and cutthroat rivalries

made the game into a bonafide sporting event,

(electronic music with bass) To get this story started,

we first need to understand that Street Fighter

is a lot more than a bunch of button mashing.

And who better to explain the complexities of the game

than legendary players Jeff Schaefer and Mike Watson.

- What Street Fighter is really, is a chess game.

They have six different buttons that you can push,

and whether you're standing or crouching,

of different punches and kicks in a fighting game.

- Each character has their own specific moves.

Those specific moves can be used in combinations,

- [Jeff] Based on whatever character I'm playing,

I know what distance that character's weak at,

around staying at that distance to win the game.

- [Narrator] And if you haven't guessed it yet,

Mike and Jeff are really good at Street Fighter II.

- I became the best player in Orange County,

and then, eventually, I got banned from playing,

There was no one I ran into that I didn't beat.

but that was part of my strategy actually.

probably weighed about 90 pounds and was five feet tall,

I musta spent over $20 in quarters to beat him one game,

He's very much like Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.

- He was, hands down, the number one player at the time.

the three participated in a Super Tournament

to find out who was the best player of all time.

- [Mike] There was a big Super Tournament in Nor Cal

- It was like the biggest Battle Royale ever

in the history of Street Fighter at that time.

Is Southern California better than this group here?