With the release of both the Japanese and American Dreamcast versions of Marvel vs. The more I became familiar with MvC, the more I began to appreciate it for what it is, and the more I was interested.įlash forward to almost two years later. While a lot of the game's moves and two-in-one executions were similar, the method of attack, and possible combinations you could pull off were distinctly different. Capcom fighting engine or not, this was NOT Street Fighter. could they? As I sat back and watched her systematically destroy the CPU opponents, I began to understand why I had been scrubbed like the bathroom floor.
Hulk+lets+Dunham+Smash! What happened? I was the Street Fighter sensei damn it! My Ryu and Chun Li (in her appropriate blue togs) couldn't possibly have fallen to Morrigan and a sissy-pink Chun Li counterpart. The only difference here, I thought, is that I pick two characters to tag-team instead of one, right? So, it was just as I prepared to show my future sweetie what I was made of, that she handed me the beating of my life, and effectively kicked my ass in less than 15 seconds. This WAS a Street Fighter clone after all! A game that I had spent years and years mastering with friends, relatives, and any Tom, Dick, and Ken I could find at the local arcade. I sat there mesmerized, not only by the hotness playing the coin-up, but the insane action taking place onscreen.Īnxious to try my hand (and impress the girl with my profound fighting skills), I popped my two quarters into the cabinet and took my stance. Yes I know, I must have been caught under a rock somewhere, because up until that point, I had never laid eyes on Marvel vs.
While that fine establishment's selection was mostly of the driving and shooting variety, she managed to find the fighters section and moseyed on over to a machine I hadn't seen before. A few moments after I met my future girlfriend for the first time, we headed down to the local "Fun Putt" to play some games.