So image the shock and awe on display when 13-year-old Lucas, both a hardcore X-Men superfan and dedicated SF player, saw an X-Men vs Street Fighter machine at a mall arcade in Ames, Iowa. By the middle of the decade, I was a hardcore SF fan as well. When Street Fighter Alpha came out, I was even more pumped for its overtly anime aesthetic, and really dove into the series’s story and characters (extremely light as they were). I also watched the campy Hollywood disasterpiece starring Van Damme and Raul Julia. I watched and rewatched Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie-which I genuinely believe is a secretly good film and the best video game movie of all time. I dug into SF player guides just to see the artwork. We of course had SF2, SF2 Turbo, and Super SF2-which I believe was the version I played the most. Street Fighter II on SNES had introduced us to the Fighting Game genre and gotten me immediately hooked.
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