it's a moral to the story, it shows how in life we have many options. Perhaps Tomo could of gone further with street fighter, perhaps he could of created a brand/market for himself. Perhaps he could of joined the capcom team and become a major developer. But his life choice of becoming a simple husband, he walked away from fame. While his two rivals are still big names to this day, he the number one player chose to walk away and be a dad. You missed the life lesson of the ending completely.
When you get older, your testosterone dwindles and your response time shaves down a few milliseconds and that means game over. The younger kids step up. He left early but when there’s no one to challenge you, why keep going? He left his mark and started the next chapter of his life with his confidence high.
Theres that burning question with a lot of the American players from back then is how would have he done against the Japanese players then they started coming over
CallMeNina honestly True I was playing over watch and some Korean kid killed me and type barely passable English on chat I felt defeated and never played again till season 7
Typical americans thinking the world is america, how can he be called the world's best when he hasn't beaten the world's best?????? How come there's no footage in this video showing how great he is?
When people have that high of expectations for you, and you have other great players trying to take you down, it comes to a point where you can't lose. Imagine how stressful that would be, definitely wouldn't be fun anymore. He did that last competition, he proved he was the best, and he walked away. I completely understand and respect that.
He summed it up perfectly in the video...when your focus shifts from winning to not losing you lose the ability to win for yourself...not losing becomes a neutral feeling below winning, there's no joy in it anymore; and he was entirely correct to go out on top and walk away.
The Tomo Ohira Evo interview they did in 2008 made me cry when I saw it on the Evo floor. He was so overwhelmed that people even cared honestly. He had moved on. Yet suddenly he was on the Evo screen because people were thinking about him and he was moved by that. Never forget your roots.
I don't think people grasp how huge Street Fighter II was. As someone that grew up in it - it was fuckin' crazy. I lived off a main street and there was one laundromat that had SF2 and it had lines forever. Eventually a video store and another laundromat got machines so we would have huge tournaments. Instead of repping a gang you repped one of the three stores. Great times. Someone needs to make a documentary about the game... if one doesn't exist already.
I think there's some out there (documentary) but isn't just given the light. It was big in those times because of limited games, good ones anyway, out there. I remember in those times for platformers(my favorite genre at the time) you only got to choose Megaman or Metroid (Mario excluded), but now there's so many developers out there and you have a lot of things to choose from and it's usually a gamble. Simpler times back then and it was great.
I remember first time I played Street Fighter II as a kid. I found one of the arcade machines during vacation in Mallorca. Didn't get any sun tan at all during those two weeks.
there are some great Street fighter docs. my favorite is the Street fighter anniversary doc. when Street fighter hit in the arcades it was unbelievable...there was such a buzz and these legends developing and make a name for themselves...it was the coolest thing ever as a kid and it stayed that way as the new versions came out..lol I even remember everyone all excited about ryu's goatee
“I spent $20 in quarters to try and beat him in one game” Real talk. You might not be the best but there’s still a reason you’re better than everyone else
That's also what the Generation of Miracles felt when they thought they were unbeatable. Also, don't get me started by saying "Kuroko doesn't feel the same way." He isn't part of the Generation of Miracles.
Yeah i didn't think of that when i typed this, but since this i kinda went on a Tomo binge and even seen him playing SF4 with a custom stick so i know he still plays. So i guess the moral is next time you just get absolutely smoked off some random you can't even get a round off who knows it might be the legendary Tomo!
Vahneris Don’t say that! You’re practically dooming his family! “My war is over. I am at peace. Go on your way, and good luck with your journey, but I will not be joining you....Now I’m going to go out hunting, happy in the knowledge that my family is safe and sound back home at the log cabin.”
I have a Tomo story. Me and my brother came out of the Central Valley underground and took down everyone who lined up next to us. From SF2 to Hyper Fighting my brother was my only competition. Years later my Mom becomes a CO and we start to move around California taking down every arcade and pizza stop we came across. Eventually we land in Blythe on the Arizona border and took down the city. At that time my Mom re-married and we went for a week to his Dad's place in Lake Elsinore during my 8th grade summer. My step-Dad had a kid brother our age and he had Hyper Fighting on SNES. As a terms of "no hard feelings" we let him keep Player 1 all time while me and my brother swapped Player 2 back and forth every match. This kid never won a single round...and of course like little kids we started getting cocky. Eventually he had enough of our crap for the night and told us that we wern't better than the people who went to this place in Orange called World's Finest. He told us they were having a tournament that weekend and that he could get his brother to take us. As far as me and my brother were concerned, it was going to be easy picking. So, that weekend we lineup and register for the tournament and we're holding or own against the locals. Except we don't know that we're holding our own, we THINK we're dominating again, we THINK this is just practice as we lose more matches than we're used to. Looking back, the guys at that place were DAMN good. So the tournament finally starts and eventually they call out me against this guy Tomo. By now I'm in full trash trash talk mode and start making fun of the guy's name. So he lines up Player one and I line up Player two. He jumps out the gate with Guile as I pick Ryu who is not my main, but who I have and still use to feel out opponents. I lose the match in about a minute, but more likely less. My alarms are up, I am officially put on notice, and I pick my main, Chun Li. I lose the match in just shy of two minutes. I am out of the tournament with not only a loss but the kind of loss that damn near strips you of your manhood. What's worse, I expect Tomo to trash talk me into the ground, but he does something worse. I glance at him slightly and he doesn't even look my way. He just shakes his head slightly like I just wasted his time. Personally, I would've preferred being trash-talked into the ground. My brother holds stronger against his opponent, but loses in his first match too. We're done in one and we leave World's Finest in shame. My brother would stay in competition into Super Turbo before he quit, but I was done that day. I started making excuses like "I'm going into High School and have to get serious" or "Girls are great and they don't like Video Games or hanging out in Arcades" . Looking back though, I knew that I quit because there was Tomo out there and probably more like him and I didn't want to be beaten that badly again.
These bunch of dorks wouldn't last a minute against me in street fighter 2 or 3 then or now!!I got $10,000 that says these nerds will get thrashed in 2020!?Just sayin😜
The story is great but even greater is the way it has been told. Seriously, who ever produced this video and put together the whole thing telling the story, deserves my utmost respect! I can't express how good it is! Simply WOW!
I think that was the beauty of it... it was a mystery when he left and they ended up with just a bit of information about the present... leaving it hanging... Still believe it's perfect. This is story telling at its best!
Lol if he will play even a year with training mode and will decide to adapt to the supers and comebacks mechanic he will be better than anyone it obvious
Tomo is the legitimate Ryu, he was the living breathing Ryu that walked the earth and won the street fighter 2 tournament and just like in the game, when the awards were given and he wasn't around.
I would skip school and walk 3 miles to the 7 11 in my area and spend my $1.75 lunch money on Street Fighter 2... that was over 20 years ago. I truly miss being a kid.
the arcade street fighter II scene was big where i lived back then but the crowds that mortal kombat drew were much bigger and louder. even laundromats would put mk machines in their building to hopefully drawl customers in. good times
What if the reason he left is because he wanted to become the Street fighter 2 champion so he decided to stop playing 1 and just practice at 2 but he found out he wasn't that good at it so he just stopped?
Honestly, I think if there’s one industry where the older you get, the worse off you become is progaming and eSports. It’s no surprise that no one is older than 30 in all major leagues and teams.
Would like to see an update on the guy in the 90s who used Dhalsim to win Street Fighter 2 Tournaments several years in a row. At the time, he was the only one using that character.
Tomo: *wins non stop* Everyone : “omg you’re so awesome “ Tomo: *quits out of boredom* Everyone: *searching for tomo for years* Tomo: *becomes a baller instead*
This was cool and all but the interview should of have had a question asking what he did after quitting, what other hobbies did you take up, did you focus on school only, etc. The timeline sort of just jumps from being champion to nearly a decade later when he's a family man
That wasnt the point of this video. This video is a nostalgic flash back to his days playing SF2. And where he is now. What he did in between is the sun total of his life up to this point. And That, just isn't a question someone can answer in a short time
I agree, there is this huge build up: who is this tomo guy? what does he do now. And than its over. Maybe he just wanted to keep his life privat. IF he is that good at something he probably knows that he doesnt need internet fame and the stress that can come with it.
Mohamed Ajjour all this person did was give constructive criticism, they’re not forcing the creators to do what he says but without that criticism this channel and it’s creators wouldn’t get any better.
Yes!! The girl I dated back then asked if I wanna hang out at the mall with her and her friends, I declined because I was shy. Made up excuses I had to fix my bike or something. Man the good old days.
@@drakedraven6961 ones that started off thinking Golden I was the greatest game then came Halo and now wack ass Forte night. Then generations of the iPad and tablets lost it.
That too, and you also have to remember back then there was no big sponsorships or anything like that. Could not really make a living off of pro gaming during those early times. Especially if some of the individuals came from a much more lower status. He probably had to just focus on studies and maybe choose a career path where he could get some good income to live.
@Jacoroni no my point still stands. Just like this guy, your moms will make the decision to give up their dreams so you maybe become successful in fortnite. I'm a gamer. I know this industry.
@@Mell0wY3ll0w yeah your right idk why people are cherishing him for being a normal person. Majority of people would stop playing video games to care for their child and family
Well to be fair, when you keep winning and winning with no struggle, it just gets boring, and I think that's what Tomo thought. However, I wonder if he ever played other fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom, Smash Bros, Injustice, and so on?
I think I played against this kid in SoCal back in the 90s. There was a group of us who were the best Street Fighter 2 players at our local arcade in the Valley. One day this Asian father brought in his son & encouraged him to play against us. We were teenagers but the boy looked young, the youngest & smallest one there and wiped us out like we were nothing. After that we lamented our gaming skills as obsolete. We would talk about the kid time to time bc he was that good. He didn't break a sweat, he was a machine. After watching this video, in retrospect, the father was probably bringing him around SoCal arcades and seeing how his son would fare. The kid was going around beating every player in town.
Yea, I grew up in the valley too(90's kid here) and I would always hit up family fun arcade cause it was my local spot. I can't remember too well, but I was there when he paid our arcade a visit. From the matches I saw him play he was smokin everyone in the joint. I didn't even bother wasting a coin on him, I wouldn't have lasted 10 seconds.
I played this when I was a kid growing up in Fresno CA, Now I have kids and me and my kids/wife we still play this to this day. We have so much fun playing Street fighter 2.
@@finallychee4808 The few people like Jeff and Mike who played both Tomo and Daigo continued to play fighting games to some extent past the original Street Fighter 2 days. By the time they played Daigo the playing had evolved and everyone had gotten better so Jeff and Mike aren't accurately judging the difference in players as their own skills weren't the same after an additional 10 years of play. On top of that I'm pretty sure Tomo's dominance was in the Hyper Fighting era of the game where as Jeff and Mike only ever played Daigo in a variant of Super Turbo.
@@P3GProductions And Daigo has merked Mike Watson numerous times, a Mike Watson who continued to evolve and play fighting games competitively to some extent for nearly another 20 years on top of being known as Tomo's closest competition. Jeff Schaffer is amazing but judging who is best based on a few non tournament matches is just silly. I mean the Dream Team, the greatest basketball team ever assembled, got beat in a practice game by college kids. If you only ever saw that first practice game you could claim that college kids "murk" the greatest NBA stars of all time. That said it would be amazing to see a well practiced Tomo go against the current top Street Fighter II players in long sets.
This is some genuinely history. As a fan of video games, learning about the legends and what happened to them was fascinating.
SO ..... he grew up and became an adult. Great story!!!
Genuinely history?
Why is there a rocket heart looking logo by your name?
Great Big Story thank you, I'll check them out at some point!
it's a moral to the story, it shows how in life we have many options. Perhaps Tomo could of gone further with street fighter, perhaps he could of created a brand/market for himself. Perhaps he could of joined the capcom team and become a major developer. But his life choice of becoming a simple husband, he walked away from fame. While his two rivals are still big names to this day, he the number one player chose to walk away and be a dad. You missed the life lesson of the ending completely.
If he grew up in this era, he’d be a multimillionaire
He can still do it.
Probably not, people change not just physically. When it’s over, it’s over.
Not true some of the top street fighter v players only earn 100k a year. Some of which is taken by their teams/sponsor.
When you get older, your testosterone dwindles and your response time shaves down a few milliseconds and that means game over. The younger kids step up. He left early but when there’s no one to challenge you, why keep going? He left his mark and started the next chapter of his life with his confidence high.
Well, his house does look pretty descent. I wish he'd say what he does for a living
And when the world needed him most... he vanished.
Beautiful.
Wow
Who are you prefering at Jesus or Superman?
@@lolobuto1608 hes talking about aang from the last airbender (not the movie of course)
Avatar refference?
He lost his passion because no one can defeat him, i c o n i c.
Saitama
gei
The only one who can beat me is me -aomine daiki-
But he can wait until someone beats him
Theres that burning question with a lot of the American players from back then is how would have he done against the Japanese players then they started coming over
imagine the faces of his kids atleast 12 years from now knowing their dad is a literal legend
And that there dad was the one punch man of arcade games.he was so good he didn’t even care anymore
This proves the old saying about "No matter how good you are at something, there's always an Asian kid better than you."
CallMeNina honestly True I was playing over watch and some Korean kid killed me and type barely passable English on chat I felt defeated and never played again till season 7
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Well not all of course...I wish to be a God rather than asian btw
Hold my kool-aid
CallMeNina yes but on math & video game only LOL
Wow these guys really did a segment on Tomo Ohira??? Man I'm glad I chose to subscribe to this channel!
Me too. Funny what our old subs bring out
There can only be one. He was literally top on every arcade High Score. His name was 'AAA'
@@jonahraser8996 lol
funny pfp
you should swap the base for a basic "s" one for more beliveability
or better, copy my pfp
Typical americans thinking the world is america, how can he be called the world's best when he hasn't beaten the world's best?????? How come there's no footage in this video showing how great he is?
When people have that high of expectations for you, and you have other great players trying to take you down, it comes to a point where you can't lose. Imagine how stressful that would be, definitely wouldn't be fun anymore. He did that last competition, he proved he was the best, and he walked away. I completely understand and respect that.
One punch man in a nutshell
Or maybe he was just so advanced and better than everybody else that the game lost its appeal.
Or you can't beat whats not there... Smart dude
Now I wish he went to Evo just once lol.
He summed it up perfectly in the video...when your focus shifts from winning to not losing you lose the ability to win for yourself...not losing becomes a neutral feeling below winning, there's no joy in it anymore; and he was entirely correct to go out on top and walk away.
The Tomo Ohira Evo interview they did in 2008 made me cry when I saw it on the Evo floor. He was so overwhelmed that people even cared honestly. He had moved on. Yet suddenly he was on the Evo screen because people were thinking about him and he was moved by that. Never forget your roots.
Shit now I'm crying again. He's got twins, a beautiful wife and a lovely home. Mr. Ohira, You Win.
*Perfect*
He got Guile's ending?
"Go home and be a family man"
There's no need to cry for the tiniest things, maybe you should get a thyroid check
You're Not That Guy lmao
Tomo: “family is everything now”
Other 2 guys: *surrounded by street fighter memorabilia*
Seems like Tomo got the best of both worlds
Seems like they’re living in the past, Tomo knew when was his time to leave
@@josedaviddazagaitan2454 - seems like you are living in the stupid…
@@SlickRick4EVER woah what's the problem
@Keenan Lewis: Great comment, So funny.🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏
He took Guile's advice and went home to become a family man
Mario U ha!😁
Wow, that was a great joke 👍
Mario U oh my haha so true, great comment
Came here to say this.
Lmfao more likes
“When Tomo Ohira saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
so he went home and eventually grew and became a family man.
*guile theme playing in the background*
So he got married and his penis died after the second kid.
Poor bastard..
Josh Eichholz
I don't think people grasp how huge Street Fighter II was. As someone that grew up in it - it was fuckin' crazy. I lived off a main street and there was one laundromat that had SF2 and it had lines forever. Eventually a video store and another laundromat got machines so we would have huge tournaments. Instead of repping a gang you repped one of the three stores. Great times.
Someone needs to make a documentary about the game... if one doesn't exist already.
I think there's some out there (documentary) but isn't just given the light. It was big in those times because of limited games, good ones anyway, out there. I remember in those times for platformers(my favorite genre at the time) you only got to choose Megaman or Metroid (Mario excluded), but now there's so many developers out there and you have a lot of things to choose from and it's usually a gamble. Simpler times back then and it was great.
I remember first time I played Street Fighter II as a kid. I found one of the arcade machines during vacation in Mallorca. Didn't get any sun tan at all during those two weeks.
EggnogInJuly yeah sf2 was a game changer. So many knock offs afterwards. Just like super Mario Bros and then Mario 64, so man knock offs after
there are some great Street fighter docs. my favorite is the Street fighter anniversary doc. when Street fighter hit in the arcades it was unbelievable...there was such a buzz and these legends developing and make a name for themselves...it was the coolest thing ever as a kid and it stayed that way as the new versions came out..lol I even remember everyone all excited about ryu's goatee
That's the kind of community I want to be a part of. I miss arcades.
“I spent $20 in quarters to try and beat him in one game”
Real talk. You might not be the best but there’s still a reason you’re better than everyone else
Plot twist: Tomo is Ryu, the game was based on him.
Joe , agree
That would be Daigo.
Ryu is Japanese, Tomo is a Japanese name
Your theory is confirmed.
So thats how saitama feels when he says im the strongest
Daniel Zulu lol that’s what i m talking about! Instead he sucks at it!
saitama can't beat King on video game, that's why he keeps going. LOL.
King vs Tomo who will win
That's also what the Generation of Miracles felt when they thought they were unbeatable. Also, don't get me started by saying "Kuroko doesn't feel the same way." He isn't part of the Generation of Miracles.
@@treray3168 a good question
Great video! Man i bet he sneaks a bit of online ranked in now and again, that fire never really dies!
Johnathan Coates his kids were holding PS controllers and clearly not old enough to play, so you're probably right
Yeah i didn't think of that when i typed this, but since this i kinda went on a Tomo binge and even seen him playing SF4 with a custom stick so i know he still plays. So i guess the moral is next time you just get absolutely smoked off some random you can't even get a round off who knows it might be the legendary Tomo!
That explains how I got my ass kicked 3 times in a row by the same guy, or maybe I'm just bad at this game.
Should have told us his Fightcade account
Im pretty sure he's still playing. winning competitions with cash. that house doesnt pay its own mortgage right?...
when you became adult.
RBREEZY OFFICIAL become*
become an
Hes fillipino, he doesnt know english that well
hi
Taena bat andito toh HAHAHAHAHAHA
He became a family man
LITERALLY.
Six Billion :D Rotfl!
holy shit you right man!!
Maybe he realized that when he lost to a Guile character player
Wow, he followed Guile's advice!
YOU WIN!
He went from being Ryu to being Guile . What a legend
He daigo'd
When street fighter needed him most, he vanished
Then Neather Realm attacked 😂
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lmao
Ryu, Blanka, Guile, Ken. Long ago there was peace in the Street Fighter world.
He has a life he kicked everyone's ass and kept it moving, no need for questions or responses.
"Street fighter champion? Haven't heard that name in years..."
That was oh so long ago....
😂😂😂😂😂
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Exactly... that's so cool!
Lowkey thought it would be cool if tomo was just never found again and then there would be theories of what happened to him
yea it sucks when a legend just ends up in the slow crawl to death we all must deal
"Lowkey" needs to stop being hamfisted into convos
Like the tupac of gaming
He was sucked into a street fighter arcade machine
Tomo became a family man.
Jared Lu
He grew up.
Jared Lu haha guile inspiring boys to become family men since 1992
Goddamit Guile
This! I 'm at that point myself. Still play casually, but there is so much more to life then knowing your frames.
Vahneris Don’t say that! You’re practically dooming his family!
“My war is over. I am at peace. Go on your way, and good luck with your journey, but I will not be joining you....Now I’m going to go out hunting, happy in the knowledge that my family is safe and sound back home at the log cabin.”
You're telling me that this man won so many games, that he got bored of winning?
What a freaking beast.
He lost his virginity and never looked back
That's the truth...
Shaun Yakoob lmaooooo
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Yeah.. everyone move on for something..
Rumor has it Ryu's Ending was inspired by Tomo's disappearance.
Derek hmm good point.
Derek lol
Derek In power rangers legacy wars,we have street fighter
Or Guiles, he went home to be a family man.
I srsly doubt that. Lol
he looks like such an awesome dad
Elias Games Naw mate. I can see it in his eyes. He's an Asian dad. You don't mess with Asian dads.
Joke That doesnt mean that they arent awesome ☺
Joke Indeed.
Joke I have a Asian dad
Elias Games who looks like a good dad
"When something is done I think you should realize it, face it and let it go." Wise words yet also easier said than done.
So basically Tomo grew up and became a responsible adult.
While the other 2 stayed in the past 😂
He got bored at winning
He went home and became a family man.
Yup he understood that there's no plusses in being a pathetic gamer like all gay-mers are and became a happy family man.
I have a Tomo story.
Me and my brother came out of the Central Valley underground and took down everyone who lined up next to us. From SF2 to Hyper Fighting my brother was my only competition. Years later my Mom becomes a CO and we start to move around California taking down every arcade and pizza stop we came across. Eventually we land in Blythe on the Arizona border and took down the city.
At that time my Mom re-married and we went for a week to his Dad's place in Lake Elsinore during my 8th grade summer. My step-Dad had a kid brother our age and he had Hyper Fighting on SNES. As a terms of "no hard feelings" we let him keep Player 1 all time while me and my brother swapped Player 2 back and forth every match. This kid never won a single round...and of course like little kids we started getting cocky. Eventually he had enough of our crap for the night and told us that we wern't better than the people who went to this place in Orange called World's Finest. He told us they were having a tournament that weekend and that he could get his brother to take us. As far as me and my brother were concerned, it was going to be easy picking.
So, that weekend we lineup and register for the tournament and we're holding or own against the locals. Except we don't know that we're holding our own, we THINK we're dominating again, we THINK this is just practice as we lose more matches than we're used to. Looking back, the guys at that place were DAMN good. So the tournament finally starts and eventually they call out me against this guy Tomo. By now I'm in full trash trash talk mode and start making fun of the guy's name. So he lines up Player one and I line up Player two. He jumps out the gate with Guile as I pick Ryu who is not my main, but who I have and still use to feel out opponents. I lose the match in about a minute, but more likely less. My alarms are up, I am officially put on notice, and I pick my main, Chun Li. I lose the match in just shy of two minutes. I am out of the tournament with not only a loss but the kind of loss that damn near strips you of your manhood. What's worse, I expect Tomo to trash talk me into the ground, but he does something worse. I glance at him slightly and he doesn't even look my way. He just shakes his head slightly like I just wasted his time. Personally, I would've preferred being trash-talked into the ground.
My brother holds stronger against his opponent, but loses in his first match too. We're done in one and we leave World's Finest in shame. My brother would stay in competition into Super Turbo before he quit, but I was done that day. I started making excuses like "I'm going into High School and have to get serious" or "Girls are great and they don't like Video Games or hanging out in Arcades" . Looking back though, I knew that I quit because there was Tomo out there and probably more like him and I didn't want to be beaten that badly again.
Boomer Gonzales awesome story
That’s a GREAT story!
Great story lol!
CO In Blythe? Did she work at ironwood or chuckwalla
Boomer Gonzales you have been to Ceres central valley
6:19 Just got even more respect for him also wish my parents did that
Tomo: here, son. Enjoy your new console and gamepad.
My dad: you doctor yet? Don't come home til you doctor!
Coefficient of Drag From the spelling in the last one, your dads a Indian?
Coefficient of Drag why would you go home if you're that successful?
😂😂
YeeMcGee 007 nope he’s Asian
YeeMcGee 007 No laaaah is defenetlee ashoon wan. I recohnais de accent which is asian lorr
When you truly master a game, it quickly becomes boring.
DeadlyDanDaMan If he just stuck around until Daigo and Alex, we would have seen a completely different history for Street Fighter
Until you find a better player than you!
Like saitama
DeadlyAnDaMan, i think it was more about growing up.
When has any one of us really mastered a game, especially fighting games.
6 minute video to give us a 20 seconds of "here I am, thanks, bye" lol
HAHAHAHA this really got me lol
TALK ABOUT ANTI CLIMACTIC!
You watched every second of it.. that was the whole purpose
@@UNcommonSenseAUS as fuck!
These bunch of dorks wouldn't last a minute against me in street fighter 2 or 3 then or now!!I got $10,000 that says these nerds will get thrashed in 2020!?Just sayin😜
"Go Home and be a Family Man"
4:52 - Totally thought you were going to say 'dead'.
Brutal
yeah me too
Royal Poison qq
So he discovered women... That explains everything.
He realized there was more to women then rapid kicking Kung Fu Chinese cops
@@Free-4554 like what?
@@divine02759 i wonder
Royj Divine Hes talking bout Chun Li
Gotta stay away from gaming to stay away from being virgin for life
The story is great but even greater is the way it has been told. Seriously, who ever produced this video and put together the whole thing telling the story, deserves my utmost respect! I can't express how good it is! Simply WOW!
Build up was great but the conclusion felt like it needed to be fleshed out a bit more. It was good just not tomo great 😎
I think that was the beauty of it... it was a mystery when he left and they ended up with just a bit of information about the present... leaving it hanging... Still believe it's perfect. This is story telling at its best!
I really want to see him play SF2 with Daigo even once.
Lol if he will play even a year with training mode and will decide to adapt to the supers and comebacks mechanic he will be better than anyone it obvious
@@vagrantman100 you clearly haven't seen Daigo play. Try searching him on the internet.
@@vagrantman100 you made me laugh daigo will beat him also did you even know who daigo is
I've editted this comment so now no one knows why it got 2,3k likes.
Lol 100%
😂😂😂
😂💯
🔥🤕
Much like I need to do instead of watching videos like this lol
Tomo is the legitimate Ryu, he was the living breathing Ryu that walked the earth and won the street fighter 2 tournament and just like in the game, when the awards were given and he wasn't around.
Skelen except he didnt travel anywhere
ripper021 he traveled to the tournament enough said...
Skelen I think you meant Umehara Daigo
True
then how does he have the trophy?
I would skip school and walk 3 miles to the 7 11 in my area and spend my $1.75 lunch money on Street Fighter 2... that was over 20 years ago. I truly miss being a kid.
Awesome story man!
Todays kids go on their smart phones
My brother n I did the same. Walk home in the dark.
Me and you both...
the arcade street fighter II scene was big where i lived back then but the crowds that mortal kombat drew were much bigger and louder. even laundromats would put mk machines in their building to hopefully drawl customers in. good times
Wow im getting goosebumps. His story is like from an anime a guy who is so good no one can beat him and suddenly he vanished.
Ofc
His Avatar Roku
Reiji
So Tomo walked away as champion like "Ryu". Got married like "Ken". Then became a family man like "Guile".
👍
I swear to you that I was looking for this comment!!!!!
From the looks of it he married Chun Li too
a better alternative than having his parents killed like Chun Li, then crash land in the Amazon like Blanka
And his kids look like blanka and e honda
@@OscarMaris ya, Zangief and pulled out hairy foot n a half of rope and stole his old lady
I bet he’s been training for years in secret and he’s gonna suddenly come back and wreck everyone
Watch the whole vid dude!
He actually won Hello Kitty Online!!!
You say that like he didn't wreck people before. This man was a champion unlike any other
That would be fucking crazy but cool.
What if the reason he left is because he wanted to become the Street fighter 2 champion so he decided to stop playing 1 and just practice at 2 but he found out he wasn't that good at it so he just stopped?
Cool story. Sometimes you just gotta move on.
wideface Looks at the fgc
#LeftBehind
Honestly, I think if there’s one industry where the older you get, the worse off you become is progaming and eSports. It’s no surprise that no one is older than 30 in all major leagues and teams.
theworldhere247 tokido, daigo, alex valle, mago, momochi, justin wong, li joe...just to name a few
theworldhere247 physical sports...yes
E sports...no...
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Tomo : teach kid to play game
My asian dad : ok so solve this equation
Oof 😢
But Tomo is Asian as well, he will push his kids to be the best though.
True
Would like to see an update on the guy in the 90s who used Dhalsim to win Street Fighter 2 Tournaments several years in a row. At the time, he was the only one using that character.
missingno you talking about Afro Cole? he's still around playing sf5
gotta be afro cole. i only know him as an amazing dhalsim player
It could have been Afro Cole or Gerald Abraham, perhaps
There was always that one Asian Kid who would kick everyone’s ass in arcades, Tomo was the king of the Asian Arcade Assassin’s.
He beat the sh/t out of me. And I was the best in my school.
Peter Don Corleone , Tomo was unstoppable, back then
Tomo: *wins non stop*
Everyone : “omg you’re so awesome “
Tomo: *quits out of boredom*
Everyone: *searching for tomo for years*
Tomo: *becomes a baller instead*
Tomo is one punch man but a person who used to play street fighter
Saitama knows the feeling. 😂
Along came Alex Valle and Daigo Umehara
What's a baller
Does anybody know what his main character he used
When your too good at one thing, the only person who will defeat you is yourself
Difficulty Level: Asian
Hakasauars 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@joeynachanphasuk7002
Roses are red
Violets are blue
There will always be
An asian kid
better than you
Hakasauars I’m the best Asian kid ever ! 🤣 follo me @enlightnd_one
@@KDD8 not trying to make look bad but i seen those jokes already but it's still funny
joey NACHANPHASUK stfu
Best to quit when you're on top
Not on sex brotha
Suck me please I don't mind being on bottom and girl being on top...
Kurt Cobain misunderstood that advice..sad
Noob Of All Trades Same to be honest. Sounds seductively hot.
LunarSkyWolf7 Its not that great unless the womans much lighter than you. Even if she's equally your weight, its pretty uncomfortable.
Tomo stop because of boredom, sound like saitama long lost brother
da sa Wonder if he ever faced Daigo tho. Or Alex Valle.
Lmao
Was looking for the saitama comment..thanks my brother
I have to say, this was VERY nicely edited. Loved that sequence near the beginning of zooming into/through scenes.
This was cool and all but the interview should of have had a question asking what he did after quitting, what other hobbies did you take up, did you focus on school only, etc. The timeline sort of just jumps from being champion to nearly a decade later when he's a family man
That wasnt the point of this video. This video is a nostalgic flash back to his days playing SF2. And where he is now. What he did in between is the sun total of his life up to this point. And That, just isn't a question someone can answer in a short time
This is not your channel
I agree, there is this huge build up: who is this tomo guy? what does he do now. And than its over. Maybe he just wanted to keep his life privat. IF he is that good at something he probably knows that he doesnt need internet fame and the stress that can come with it.
Mohamed Ajjour all this person did was give constructive criticism, they’re not forcing the creators to do what he says but without that criticism this channel and it’s creators wouldn’t get any better.
@@mohamedajjour9754 NOT YET!
Damn, miss the old stool, mall, arcades. What a different time and feel then.
This is the G-X era without the annoying millennial. I still remembered all my childhood memories going to arcade.
Yeah i love old stools
Yes!! The girl I dated back then asked if I wanna hang out at the mall with her and her friends, I declined because I was shy. Made up excuses I had to fix my bike or something. Man the good old days.
The best times when you be had to use quarters and work to get your next dollars for play. Lol
@@drakedraven6961 ones that started off thinking Golden I was the greatest game then came Halo and now wack ass Forte night. Then generations of the iPad and tablets lost it.
He's more like Saitama now
Joshua Albaladejo exactly what i thought
ikr xD
Joshua Albaladejo You've clearly never heard of Daigo Umehera
He’s just tired of winning
Imagine being so good at the game they had to ban you from playing
*Respect 9999*
He went home and became a family man.
missed dunkey reference.....
Wide Horizons lmao
“I’m the best at this game.”
Asian Kid : “Hold my gaming pad.”
these jokes are overdone..find some new material kid
@@me-bk9er not being rude or defensive to the guy but you have a unoriginal name
Asian kid: Hold my math homework
@@migzzz831 lol..none taken.
@@me-bk9er But its true...in speed at least
He calls controllers "gaming pads". He's gone full blown Dad...
He's obviously from an older generation. They were called that quite often back in the 80's and 90's. Maybe you were born in 2000 or something
Nope 1979...Although I have heard people say gaming pads before I wouldn't say it was common back then. If anything they were called Joysticks...
@@JohnStewart-bk6uz Maybe where you lived that was more the case...not where I grew up.
@@arianadonis4099 You might be right. I grew up in Parts Unknown. Things are a little different there. By the way, you spelled Adrian Adonis wrong...
@@JohnStewart-bk6uz No I didn't. It's MY name and that's how it's spelled. It's not for some old wrestler.
"The greatest trick Tomo ever pulled was convincing the world he didnt exist."
~Tomo Ohira
Kid at preschool : My Dad is a black belt in Karate
Tomo’s kid: Oh yeah? Bet my dad can beat your dad in Street Fighter II
My dad has a gold tooth.
@iFlickZツ my dad died because of diabetes.
@iFlickZツ My dad died with a gold tooth because of diabetes .
Tomo "will i ever become a street fighter champion?"
Ken "sure you can!"
Sun Phoenix 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
Lol great one
But how could he, how can he, and would he dooooo ittttttt?
Tomo "how do (i do) ken?"
when the world needed him the most... he vanished
that's just a little dramatic
He walked off into the sunset like Ryu to find another challenge. Too cool.
Like a gunslinger, once the mission was complete, he set sail of into the sun set and retired.
Great Khan24 , right on
He's a real cowboy
🤠
Not a cowboy, he's like the legend old man from a happening time
He got laid at the night of the tournament
@IMxYOURxDADDY actually Thor's in video games go for too players
Nice!
goku be like:
That's what hapoened....yes!!
Im almost certain.....
He got a girlfriend, and usually they make you pick between them and street fighter ii
Well I say begone evil witch :)
The most honest and genuine comment of all time,your a legend😱😱😱😱
That too, and you also have to remember back then there was no big sponsorships or anything like that. Could not really make a living off of pro gaming during those early times. Especially if some of the individuals came from a much more lower status. He probably had to just focus on studies and maybe choose a career path where he could get some good income to live.
YoungBlaze or any other self thought idea 💡 or decision 😂
4:29 Endeavor when All Might retired
Yea.
"It's always best to go out when you're on top"
He’s a really special person that he recognizes the fact that he needs to move on and take care of his family
Not special. Responsible. A decision your moms will make for you.
@@JacobAPayton this was in the early 90's. Context matters
@Jacoroni no my point still stands. Just like this guy, your moms will make the decision to give up their dreams so you maybe become successful in fortnite. I'm a gamer. I know this industry.
@@Mell0wY3ll0w yeah your right idk why people are cherishing him for being a normal person. Majority of people would stop playing video games to care for their child and family
If they would challenge their dad they would get the ass whooping of the century
Archerfish Johns i dont think so this old man might be rusty
I beat my dad 22 times in a row on Tekken
Arnold Amodia
Even if though he is the best at street fighter so even if he's rusty he can still kick serious ass
Archerfish Johns plus theyre kids lmao
Riann Lim
Exactly
This Dude Is Training His Two Children To Kill Everyone In Mortal Combat 11.
Good dad
Little do they know
He is Thelegend27
naah, he don't play a crappy phone app mate... Though he was a legend.
Another amazing video. Good job guys
Star Platinum I knew you'd say that.
Wait, isn't "ora" the only thing that's supposed to come out of your mouth?
Lutenant Bladey Jotaro can speak through his stand
Yes I can.
Star Platinum do you understand?
Spoiler Alert: He became a family man...
Yeep I wonder if he mained Guile
Yeep ohhhh...
I get it.
More like, he eventually lost interest in SFII and THEN became a family man.
Gweelay would be proud.
Well to be fair, when you keep winning and winning with no struggle, it just gets boring, and I think that's what Tomo thought. However, I wonder if he ever played other fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom, Smash Bros, Injustice, and so on?
6:14: Wow. All my dad ever handed me was a Math and human anatomy textbook.
PHD 100 imagine being a 7th grade having schedule 7am to 10pm
Jes Pla Respect for your hard work ma'am👍
Ah, so that’s how NuckleDu was born.
Looks like Tomo took a walk in florida 20 years ago!
I think I played against this kid in SoCal back in the 90s. There was a group of us who were the best Street Fighter 2 players at our local arcade in the Valley. One day this Asian father brought in his son & encouraged him to play against us.
We were teenagers but the boy looked young, the youngest & smallest one there and wiped us out like we were nothing. After that we lamented our gaming skills as obsolete. We would talk about the kid time to time bc he was that good. He didn't break a sweat, he was a machine.
After watching this video, in retrospect, the father was probably bringing him around SoCal arcades and seeing how his son would fare. The kid was going around beating every player in town.
Yea, I grew up in the valley too(90's kid here) and I would always hit up family fun arcade cause it was my local spot. I can't remember too well, but I was there when he paid our arcade a visit. From the matches I saw him play he was smokin everyone in the joint. I didn't even bother wasting a coin on him, I wouldn't have lasted 10 seconds.
Legend has it that he defeated Sheng Long to stand a chance.
I beat him that’s why he never played again that was your bet
No, HE IS Sheng Long.
@@320speed MAke sense. He became the incumbent Sheng Long after defeating the previous one.
@@RyuEnGamer no you fool. Ryu can only be defeated if you beat Sheng Long, hence Tomo IS SHENG LONG.
Best days of my youth!.. I remember walking to the corner store to wait in line to play this game.. Greatest arcade game ever.
But street fighter 3
@@kuma6572 - when that game came out on arcade, nobody wanted to play this game.
Like Ryu walked until the sunset.
Man this is the history I want to learn in school
yaser resay Haha
yaser resay history in school is watered down now m8
Your title led me to believe he was a time traveler
Qufox lmao
lol
Lol.. me too
So Ryu walked off into the sunset and had twin kids. The End.
This guy is legend27
Nooo waaay
Some say that tomo was the first street fighter II player, born from fire
ILY FLY haha! 😂😂
tyranado infernorino *mind blown*
YES.
this is one of the coolest stories i have ever seen on the internet
Tomo just did what my dad did 10 years ago !
He Disappeared);
💀😆
Your dad abandoned you, but Akuma on the other hand is about revisiting the past to seek out the truth.
Check a local arcade.
Lol
They dont make an emoji that expresses how hard I laughed 🤣🤣🤣
I played this when I was a kid growing up in Fresno CA, Now I have kids and me and my kids/wife we still play this to this day. We have so much fun playing Street fighter 2.
not being an asshole but i love to see him fight him daigo
The general consensus between people that fought both is that Tomo would win.
its like saying tyson would beat ali different times
@@finallychee4808 The few people like Jeff and Mike who played both Tomo and Daigo continued to play fighting games to some extent past the original Street Fighter 2 days. By the time they played Daigo the playing had evolved and everyone had gotten better so Jeff and Mike aren't accurately judging the difference in players as their own skills weren't the same after an additional 10 years of play. On top of that I'm pretty sure Tomo's dominance was in the Hyper Fighting era of the game where as Jeff and Mike only ever played Daigo in a variant of Super Turbo.
@@P3GProductions And Daigo has merked Mike Watson numerous times, a Mike Watson who continued to evolve and play fighting games competitively to some extent for nearly another 20 years on top of being known as Tomo's closest competition. Jeff Schaffer is amazing but judging who is best based on a few non tournament matches is just silly. I mean the Dream Team, the greatest basketball team ever assembled, got beat in a practice game by college kids. If you only ever saw that first practice game you could claim that college kids "murk" the greatest NBA stars of all time. That said it would be amazing to see a well practiced Tomo go against the current top Street Fighter II players in long sets.
I'd rather see him play Wong or Champ. Daigo lost to Lupe...not saying Lupe is trash...but still
The real Ryu
Chris Austria o
Nah that's more Daigo tbh. I mean he literally recreated one of Ryu's endings. Also had a statue of him next to Ryu and Evil Ryu
MORE LIKE THE REAL GUILE XD
=)
*cough* diago *cough*
ThatGenericRUclipsr He's the real Ken
3:25 Jordan knew he was the best but he whould talk a whole ton of trash and then back it up by scoring 30-40 points
You know it took them a long time to find the guy if the title begins with “We found...”
Great story.
Tomo should’ve said “Shoryuken” as he reached up to get the ball 😂
Oh-u-ken bro
Not shoryuken smh
Idiot
Mr. Makedonija damn bro why you so mad?
@@irishjoe2941 he just pissed me off man. U right tho bruh
Mr. Makedonija I hear ya
@@mr.makedonija2627 Shoryuken is the name of the dragon punch, you numpty lol
Now I want a Street Fighter chess game