Chindie Posted August 16, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 16, 2018 For more Street Fighter useless trivia (which a lot of gamers will already know)... On 1991 Capcom released Street Fighter 2, which became the defining fighting game of all time, and added in a bunch of characters that are now iconic in the series, including 3 'boss'-esque characters - a flamenco dancer come bull fighter called Balrog, a futuristic fascist dictator called Vega and a black boxer called M. Bison... Realising having a boxer called M. Bison probably isn't a good idea unless you want to receive lawyers letters in the US, and definetly not when said boxer is obviously inspired by the most famous boxer in the world at the time,they decided outside Japan to switch the names around. The bull fighter became Vega, the dictator M.Bison and the boxer Balrog. This causes confusion with international tournaments so announcers and players often ignore these names entirely and just refer to the characters by their defining features as 'Boxer' 'Claw' and 'Dictator'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted August 17, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2018 Street Fighter II on the Snes. Those were the days. And the correct choice is Ryu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 17, 2018 Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2018 7 hours ago, Troglodyte said: Street Fighter II on the Snes. Those were the days. And the correct choice is Ryu. It's always an interesting discussion. Which character is the best. It depends on your level. If you're crap at the game then someone like Blanka is probably the most accessible. If you're in that middle to top zone of good player then Ken is the one to go for (better range of dragon punch than Ryu), but I'm told the very very rarified air at the top where you can use the characters at the elite level, the best is ... Zangief. But very few people are able to use him to that level. So Ken & Guile are the most common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 17, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2018 Right, let's really get trivia-y... Inspired by the above discussion, I've gone through the history of Evo (as shown on Wikipedia) and collated the characters used by the winner of each Street Fighter game played officially at Evo (meaning the characters they used throughout the tournament, not just who they used in the final). This only includes Street Fighter series titles, so no VS series (i.e. no Mahvel, Capcom Vs SNK). Obviously as the event has gone on the lineup of games has changed and this in turn means changing character rosters, but there's not much that can be done about that. So... Street Fighter Alpha 2 Ken - 1 Sagat - 1 Ryu - 1 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Ryu - 4 Dhalsim - 3 Balrog - 2 Sagat - 2 Bison - 1 Ken - 1 Vega - 1 Street Fighter Alpha 3 Sakura - 1 Akuma - 1 Cody - 1 Street Fighter 3 - 3rd Strike Chun-Li - 5 Yun - 4 Ryu - 1 Hyper Street Fighter 2 Dhalsim - 1 Bison - 1 Street Fighter 4 Ryu - 2 Chun-Li - 1 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: HD Remix Balrog - 1 Dee Jay - 1 Zangief - 1 Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition Fei-Long - 1 Akuma - 1 Gouken - 1 Gen - 1 Ultra Street Fighter 4 Rose - 1 Ken - 1 Evil Ryu - 1 Elena - 1 Street Fighter 5 Nash - 1 F.A.N.G. - 1 Akuma - 1 Bison - 1 Abigail - 1 Making the totals across the games as follows Ryu - 7 Chun-Li - 6 Dhalsim - 4 Yun - 4 Akuma - 3 Balrog - 3 Bison - 3 Ken - 3 Sagat - 3 Abigail - 1 Cody - 1 Dee Jay - 1 Elena - 1 Evil Ryu - 1 F.A.N.G. - 1 Fei-Long - 1 Gen - 1 Gouken - 1 Nash - 1 Rose - 1 Sakura - 1 Vega - 1 Zangief - 1 So Ryu is the most 'successful' character. Obviously that will be helped by the fact he's in every game, he's also the character a lot of people start learning the game with so perhaps becomes many people's main, and might also be the most balanced character. SF3:3S seems to be the most... homogenous... of the series. It was played at multiple tournaments (unlike the Alphas for instance) and only had 3 winning characters. That might be explained by SF3 being dominated by certain players though - SF3 is famously a harder game to 'git gud' at than the rest of the series, with a very different lineup of characters and more mechanics going on, which is also why many consider it the best SF game overall (helps that it is still possibly the best looking pixel art game ever). Also it gave us the best moment of any fighting game ever - 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted September 20, 2018 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2018 Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the pyramids. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted September 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted September 20, 2018 On a similar theme of crazy timelines, two grandchildren of the tenth president of the USA are still alive. Essentially that means that the span from the birth of President John Tyler to his grandchildren today currently stands at 228 years and counting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chindie Posted October 7, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2018 There's a connection between Sega and Lockheed Martin. In 1993 Sega released a new arcade board, the Model 2. This became renowned for its extremely advanced, for the time, graphics and performance, which would take home consoles over 5 years to catch up with. Why was it so powerful? Part of the board was made by a company called Martin Marietta, most well known as an aerospace engineer, and the chip used was actually designed for use in advanced military flight simulators (and was bloody expensive). Martin Marietta would shortly afterwards undergo a merger and became Lockheed Martin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Haven't verified it but if true, what a golden time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 21, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, Xela said: Haven't verified it but if true, what a golden time! I know 2 good movies out at the same time, now its once every two years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 21, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2018 11 minutes ago, Xela said: Haven't verified it but if true, what a golden time! Jurassic Park was summer 1993, I'd be surprised if it was still showing 18 months later, even with its success. But the others were out at that time. Gump and Pulp Fiction actually got some of the blame for Shawshank flopping. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelle Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 The name of Denzel Washington's father is Denzel. Not uncommon, but his father's name is pronounced DENzel whilst Denzel's is pronounced DenZEL. I have a slow night at work. (Meaning I'm too tired to do anything of worth. For the company.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 21 hours ago, Chindie said: Jurassic Park was summer 1993, I'd be surprised if it was still showing 18 months later, even with its success. But the others were out at that time. Gump and Pulp Fiction actually got some of the blame for Shawshank flopping. I was bored so researched this. JP was in the charts in October 1994, albeit on a limited 116 screens in the US. Lion King was he one I couldn't find on US release in this month. Other films in the US charts in October 1994: Timecop, The Specialist, Quiz Show, Clear and Present Danger, The Mask, Natural Born Killers, Ed Wood, True Lies, The Client, The River Wild, Clerks and Stargate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Xela said: Other films in the US charts in October 1994: Timecop, The Specialist, Quiz Show, Clear and Present Danger, The Mask, Natural Born Killers, Ed Wood, True Lies, The Client, The River Wild, Clerks and Stargate. i would guess largely forgotten but what a great film that was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 22, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Xela said: I was bored so researched this. JP was in the charts in October 1994, albeit on a limited 116 screens in the US. Lion King was he one I couldn't find on US release in this month. Other films in the US charts in October 1994: Timecop, The Specialist, Quiz Show, Clear and Present Danger, The Mask, Natural Born Killers, Ed Wood, True Lies, The Client, The River Wild, Clerks and Stargate. 1 All better than Forest Gump, The Lion King and Jurrasic Park Though Jurrasic Park did make me loads of money by pushing the price of Amber through the roof and jewellers couldn't get enough of it. I brought a load back from Russia (along with a load of Pull McCarthorse albums) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 22, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2018 The first plastic model kits were made by a British company called Frog, in 1936. They made 1/72 scale planes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Albrighton Posted October 23, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2018 6 hours ago, chrisp65 said: It’s an interesting story, the rivalry between the brothers and companies. Both Adi & Rudolf are buried in the same cemetery, but at opposite ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 23, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, Chindie said: The first plastic model kits were made by a British company called Frog, in 1936. They made 1/72 scale planes. I knew this. Frog were still making kits into the 1960s (I remember building a few), although by then their maket share had been overwhemed by Airfix. I was also a fan of the American kit companies - Revell, Aurora, Monogram and Pyro. Edited October 23, 2018 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 The department store toy shop we had when I was a kid had shelves of kits. Revell and Airfix were at different price points I think I remember, plus each kit would be individually priced, so generally bottom price was a crap plane by Revell and top dollar would be a Lancaster or Superfortress by Airfix. But this pre dates bar codes. So the trick was to select the model kit you wanted, and the price sticker you wanted, and put them together. Woman on the till didn’t know her Fokkers from her Hellcats, so she just rung up the number on the sticker. They went bust eventually. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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