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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">From 
                        the Mouth of Madness:</font><font color="#904C10" size="4"><br>
                        <font size="3">Fight!</font></font></i></font></b><br>
                      
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 6&nbsp; <br>
                      December 13, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The really 
                cool thing about it was the social aspect to<b> SF2</b>. Because 
                the game was so popular (and there really wasn't anything like 
                it) it became a big deal to be the best at any given time. There 
                was always a crowd around the<b> Street Fighter II</b> machine, 
                and typically there was that one kid who sat there kicking everyone 
                else's butt. If you could march in there and beat him? Damn, it 
                was the greatest feeling in the world. More often than not me 
                and my friends just lost our quarters&#133;but who cared? This 
                was some crazy fun.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's safe 
                to say that<b> Street Fighter II</b> launched the genre, just 
                like so many games have launched their individual genres. Capcom 
                was also pretty tricky with their releases for <b>Street Fighter 
                II</b>. They released the Championship version, and the Turbo 
                version, and jeez&#133;there was just a ton of different releases. 
                But every time they released a new one, we all flocked to play 
                it. Life was good.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When <b>Mortal 
                Kombat</b> was released, I first dismissed the game entirely. 
                First of all, the game looked cheesy to me. I mean, what was up 
                with these digitized people? Hand drawn characters were the way 
                to go, right? And blood? In a fighting game? No way! I can't remember 
                what caused me to give it a shot&#133;but once I started playing 
                <b>Mortal Kombat</b>, I was hooked. I very quickly learned a fatality 
                (Scorpion's fatality: block + up, up) and boy&#133;it was one 
                thing to kick someone's butt in <b>Street Fighter II</b>. You 
                felt good, you had the admiration of your peers&#133;but when 
                you won, and got to set his sorry butt on fire? Man&#133;that 
                was a whole other world. Especially when it was after a particularly 
                close battle. I was hooked.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And I 
                was good at it, too! That was probably what had me sucked in the 
                most. I wasn't bad at <b>Street Fighter II</b>&#133;I could do 
                fairly well, but when it came to <b>Mortal Kombat</b>, jeez&#133;I 
                was just the man. I would proudly walk into an arcade and slap 
                my quarters up on the machine, wait my turn, and humiliate whoever 
                attempted to challenge me. Ooooh, I was good. </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The sad 
                thing, is that while I'm decent with more recent fighting games, 
                I've never been half as good at them as I was with the original 
                <b>Kombat</b>. Heck, I can honestly say I know every move in that 
                game. Every single one. But then, that wasn't so difficult. With<b> 
                Mortal Kombat 2</b>, they started getting a little crazy with 
                the extra stuff. By <b>Mortal Kombat 3</b>, there was so much 
                stuff in there, that if you didn't have an Internet connection, 
                you needed to find someone who did so you could find out some 
                cool stuff to do. And even then, it wasn't half as simplistic 
                as the original.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But with 
                each<b> Mortal Kombat</b>, the popularity grew exponentially. 
                I never saw any signs that read, &quot;<i>we have <b>Street Fighter 
                II Turbo Championship Edition Release III</b>!</i>&quot; But there 
                were plenty of &quot;<i>we have <b>Mortal Kombat 2</b>!</i>&quot; 
                signs around. Heck, I even remember the &quot;<i>only fourteen 
                days until<b> Mortal Kombat 2</b> arrives!</i>&quot; signs. And 
                heaven help you if you wanted to try the game in that first 24 
                hours after its release. </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I still 
                play fighting games by the ton&#133;I've got a copy of <b>Virtua 
                Fighter 3: TB </b>sitting in my Dreamcast right now, with<b> Marvel 
                vs. Capcom </b>and <b>Soul Calibur</b> just waiting for me to 
                play 'em. But no matter how good those games may be, nothing can 
                compare to those early days of <b>Street Fighter II </b>or <b>Mortal 
                Kombat</b>. That, like so many other games throughout the history 
                of the industry, was the birth of a genre. Whether it's the release 
                of <b>Doom</b>, or <b>Street Fighter </b>or <b>Mario 64</b>, whenever 
                there's a release like that it changes the world. Maybe not in 
                a real, tangible way, but for those of us who were around to witness 
                it, those memories will never go away. </font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Illustration 
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