Feature: I Play This One Particular SNES Game Every Xmas ...

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Breaking it down: Mr Blobby was the funniest thing on television (according to your parents), and Whitney Houston had been tricked into singing a love song about everyone’s favourite sentient cardigan, Kevin Costner (I feel like I’m having a war flashback now).

Well, I was having a solid time despite all of this, actually. Because Santa had done me a massive solid. (we’re not making this up)

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Com Features SNES Retro Christmas Feature: I Play This One Particular SNES Game Every Xmas As A Personal Tradition Please help me by PJ O’Reilly 1 hour ago : 15 It was the Christmas of 1992. Firstly, Santa hadn’t done a toilet in my lounge.

That’s not what I mean at all. Secondly, I was 14 years old in 1992, so I shouldn’t have been asking my bewildered and frightened parents (Mr Blobby-loving fools) to send a rather bullish letter to the North Pole requesting — demanding — a Super Nintendo Entertainment System with a copy of Street Fighter 2 .

Why This Matters

With the arrival of this tour-de-force into to the sitting room of my Dickensian home on 25th December 1992, I, for the first time ever, was experiencing graphical and gameplay parity ( after a lot of trying on my beloved Commodore 64 ) with the local arcade version of The World Warrior , where I had before been spending all the money I could steal from my Mr Blobby-loving dad to feed my addiction to Eddie Honda’s big shiny chest. (Don’t worry, I never paid him back. ) Images: Capcom This was my first Nintendo console!

Gaming fans have strong opinions about moves like this, and for good reason.

The Bottom Line

My first console of any kind that was mine, in fact, and so of this, and because it was the first game that fr made me feel as though the home experience could indeed match the flashy side of the arcade one, Street Fighter 2 has — and always will have — a special place in my heart. It was a bonus, fr, that it was also phenomenal to play as well as to sit and stare at.

What do you think about all this?