Thank you! The reason we do these videos is to record the great times we have had over the years! and we are so happy people have enjoyed them! it's win win for us!
I remember the first time I learned how to throw a hadou-ken. I was practicing on Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis. I did not have a strategy guide, nor did I have an instruction manual, so I was like, "how the hell did I do that?!" And I was training for the sole purpose of beating my cousin who was miles better than me at the time. I remember in the Arcade seeing everybody do all the special moves, and trying to ask them how they did it, but nobody would explain it to me
L-Y3T I remember my first time too. I was pressing the D-Pad counterclockwise with one of the punch buttons. Did it by accident like that and thought that it was the way to do it. For the longest time I was doing a full circle counterclockwise with the punch until years later a friend of mine showed me it was just down+forward-punch.
Wow, your arcade was populated by dicks. I learned SFII at my supermarket. The guy playing it let me interrupt his game and had us both stand on opposite sides of the screens so he could teach me the moves. I don’t think we even fought for those rounds. He just wanted to teach.
Why do I love this video so damn much? Two great friends sharing memories that strike close to home for me I guess. Every time I watch it I have to play some Street Fighter afterwards.
Street Fighter 2 was constantly sold out every where for SNES. My mom was definitely not coming back to the store. It was either Super Mario World, or nothing.
Guys thanks for this episode this game brings back so many memories. This was one of the first games I played for the ps1. Back in late 1996 my cousin bought a ps1 with 4 games Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Street Fighter Alpha 2, and I love all of those games, but Alpha 2 was the game that got everybody together. I remember friends will go to his house, and we all play alpha 2. To this day in the Street Fighter series Alpha 2 is my second favorite game, only behind alpha 3.
Street Fighter Alpha 2, I used to play the arcade cabinet all the time at Wal-Mart, LOL. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the SF game I invested hours and hours of time into with my friends.
I remember the first time I played SFA2, I was 14 and my mom let me rent it from Blockbuster because she felt bad that I caught the flu from her. I played for 5 hours straight, nodding off and waking up with the game still on.
Brings back so many great memories. Me and my brother played this game all the time. We used have tons of people come over and have competitions. My brother kicked everyone's ass until one day this Asian kid moved in down the street. This kid made my brother look like it was his first time playing street fighter. It was a blood bath.
Alpha 2 is definitely my favorite fighting game :) I used to pause the ryu stage just to listen to the song ahaha and that announcer voice is so nostalgic
Lol you guys got me into street fighter a year ago (because of this video specifically), I remember it was the second to last day of term three and this game was on sale on PSN and I remember downloading it while I was doing something else, came back installed it and I booted it up. I remember going to training and trying to do a fireball as Ryu (lol had to look it up) and I wrote all the special moves down and I sat there for hours with my headphones in for three or four hours until I realised it was midnight. I played it for hours the next day and was starting to get moves down etc. I downloaded it on my Vita and I played Alpha 2 for endless hours for the next three months, got Alpha 3 for my birthday later that year (played that all Christmas and while I was on holiday). I looked into SFV thought it was kinda cool and pre ordered it (halfway through January) and then at the end of the holidays, I played SF2 (don't like it tbh) but then I was bored and looked up SF3 3rd strike. Holy shit that last week of the summer holidays was fucking awesome I played 3rd strike whenever I had a spare moment (my friend and I were goofing off on the internet and doing stupid things all the time so I didn't play it to much). SFV kinda killed my interest in the series, my mum let me leave school early so I could go pick it up from the store. Its alright I suppose but theres a reason I barely touched the Street Fighter series for six months. I have really gotten back to the point I was at this time last year again, I've started to flash my money around buying the MvC games and have been playing 3rd strike religiously. Sorry for the massive essay.
yup, there's nothing like playing fighting games for hours and having fun and especially the hard tapping on the controller for when you get real serious with the bosses. Street fighter is the only game to give me boils on my thumbs from playing to hard. I need to get my collection started back up and i want all the street fighters, besides the 30th anniversary collection i want all the original copies from snes to ps1 to sarturn and ps2.
Street Fighter Alpha 2 was my intro to the alpha series and IS the best Alpha game! Alpha 2 allowed you to use your super meter for 2 types of attacks, you could stock up three super levels for normal super combos or you could opt out and use the custom combo option and spend your meter like that. Unlike Alpha 3 where you were stuck with only 1 or 3 choices (A,V,X-isms). Thanks for posting this guys!
***** well said man! I think the Saturn version is even better than the arcade version for I can enjoy it with my favor Saturn controller along with the more difficult AI setting.
Thank you. i just happened to play in a few days ago. My Sega Saturn gets regular love and attention....as well as Street Fighter Collection which also has a great version of Super SF 2 Turbo. :)
Man this is what I miss about sitting in the floor and playing fighting games all day long...it was an awesome time. Alpha 3 was the game at my place...I didn't get to play Alpha 2 very much.
Great video! SFA2 is my favor game of all time along with CVS2. Interestingly, SFA2 aged very well, it is still extremely fun to play even after decades later, & its combat system one of the best among all the fighting games even comparing to all the current fighters in 2015! My friends & I still play the games regularly along with Xmen vs Street Fighter on my Sega Saturn! BTW, the Saturn version of SFA2 is way better than the PS1 one.
Its really fun watching these two sit and reminisce and get nostalgic about their gaming memories and hear about the ridiculous things they used to do to each other. Reminds me of my childhood messin around wit my cousins
My Golden Age for video games was the 16 bit and 32/64 bit eras, especially the SNES and PS1. JRPGs were in their heyday and I absolutely loved them. Plus we had Super Castlevania IV, Symphony of the Night, Mario 64, and so much else. I had a blast in the 90s.
Man, Rob is an AWESOME friend. Sorry to say, Johnny and I know you probably already know of course but I've always gotten the feeling since Rob's introduction to the show that he's always been very open-minded and considerate to everything you have to do on the show lol. He's an amazing friend who can take an verbal beating and still smile at the end of the day. Of course we don't know how you guys are after the cameras are off but as far as I can sense Rob's a class friend :) love you guys both
Your story reminds me of how my older brother trained me when we first got SNES with SFII. Except he picked Ryu and I picked Ken. Eventually we got really close in skill level and I could finally beat him every once in a while. He used to taunt me just like Johnny. By the time SFA2 came out we weren't playing together anymore (he's 7 years older) but I used to kick everyone's ass at that game and taunt them as well! One clear memory I had was the day SFA2 came out in the arcade and I played it for the first time and kicked the ass of everyone twice my size and so they started to actually gang up on me and physically hit me to make me lose! I was just a little kid and this made me cry! I guess I was too good for them! Since you're supposedly so good, I'd love to challenge you! Just the other day I got the Japanese version Street Fighter Zero 2 for Sega Saturn which is arguably even more arcade perfect than the PS1 version, plus the amazingly awesome Saturn arcade stick. Playing it today my face stays in a permanent expression of awe. The version I played the most at home back in the day though was SFA3 on PS1 and Dreamcast.
Love your stories and your enthusiasm for old-school gaming! Unfortunately, I never played Alpha 2, but I was addicted to good, old Street Fighter 2 on the SNES...first time beating that game as an 8 year old playing with Dhalsim remains one of my crowning achievments when it comes to gaming :-)
Awesome stories guys! I can't tell you the amount of bitter feuds, rivalries, and all out war produced by this game. SF Alpha 2 got played to death in my neighborhood. This was when competition was at its most fierce!
Great video! It's so true: the snes and psone days are the Golden era of videogaming...there was no internet and the games were so good and memorable. So many good memories from two of the best consoles of all time. My fighting game, actually, was Darkstalkers 3...amazing video - like always - guys!
I still got this game for the snes and after hearing ur memories it made me remember that my best friend and i used to be like this i didn't have any "rival" per se so i teached him how to play and used to taunt him like hell to make him mad so he would get better and we had some epic fights and still to this day we have our "rivalry" in the new street fighters but never like it was in alpha 2
Now your bringing golden days back. I waa a master at the SNES SF2. Unbeatable, after wasteing a tonn of cash on the arcade version in my local fish & chip shop. Id play winner stays on all day with my mates and never lose! Then SFA2... Simply perfect. I thought I was unstoppable then I visited Jonny Millennium in Vancouver... that guy destroyed me over and over again. Oh and I felt the massive Mellenium taunts. Fun days!
Street Fighter Alpha 2 is easily my favorite fighting game of all time. I got my chance to own it via the Street Fighter Collection on PS1 as Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. I remember wanting it so bad, but thinking I would never get it because I lived in such a small area. In the Summer of '98, I would find it at my local Wal-Mart, and had hours of fun with it. It helped me cut my teeth into playing fighting games. Then there was the luxury of owning an Arcade game on a home console.
I just had to fire up Alpha I on PSX... I was raised in NYC, me and my buddies would go downtown to 42nd street and hit the arcades. The battles that took place there were LEGENDARY!!!! When Alpha first came out, he place was so PACKED and the crowds around the machines were crazy! Alpha I takes me back to those days. I loved the way the game played and accessing the "secret characters" I preferred the chain combo system over the custom one from alpha II.
I remember my dad got me this for the SNES. The game actually loads like a CD game, but once it did it played amazing. I was the best in my neighborhood.
What's sad is that the first Alpha game I ever played, or owned was Alpha 2 for the SNES. I got it in Summer of '97. I was a die-hard Street Fighter fan at the time, but my local arcade had none of the Alpha games, oddly enough, and I had no access to any 32-bit systems, until that following September, when I got a PS1. I finally played Alpha 2 on the PSX, via Alpha 2 Gold, on the Street Fighter Collection Vol. 1
I think Street Fighter Alpha 2 is my favorite of the Alpha series. I remember always picking Sakura because the game was released around the time of Sailor Moon and seeing Sakura in her outfit (which I didn't realize was a school uniform) reminded me of a Sailor Scout. I also loved that the fighters fought different fighters for their end fights. It reminds me of a "choosing your own path" scenario.
I also have fond memories of playing Alpha 2 (specifically Alpha 2 Gold) with my friend way back when. I'd played SF games before, but Alpha 2 was new to me, and I chose to play as Sakura. My friend chose Shin Akuma, of course, intending to trounce me. Somehow, however, I was really good with Sakura, and managed to beat him. As I was doing so, he shouted, "How are you learning this?!?!" I'm not as good at the game today as I was, but it's still great fun to play.
For me, Alpha 2 remains my favourite Street Fighter game. It was the first Street Fighter game I played regularly in the arcades, and do well in. In my opinion, it felt so complete. The graphics and art, character variety, classic music, awesome sound, but importantly it felt the most accessible to beginners. My only gripe with it was the dialogue, which made everyone sound so out of character and early 90's Americans!
good show this time. Really spoke to me because i grew up the same time as you guys and had similar experiences with the game. I should've just made a video response but you didn't ask for any this week so.. But yeah great great memories from you two and made me think on my own memories.
Hello guys! I loved your video, when you said you play daily 6 hours , this reminds me the afternoons with my friends playing Darkstalkers 3, Toshinden 3 and X-men Vs Street Fighter on my PS1. Ah I miss those days! Thank you for the nostalgia and loved that they are people who reminds so beautifully their gaming memories and experiences!
great video! i never got into alpha 2, i remember getting alpha 3 and that shit was mindblowing to me. i know not as many people like it as they do with alpha 2, but thats all i knew as a kid, and while i wasnt nearly as competitive into fighting games back then as i am now, i remember that game and bloody roar were the two games me and my bros went hard on, that and tekken 3
God man, I love Alpha 3, but never got around to playing Alpha 2. You two got me to play it, not only is the gameplay better, so is the music, the balance, and even the announcer are better. I still love me some Alpha 3, but Alpha 2 is better and almost perfect, as well as my favorite entry into the Street Fighter franchise!
This was my third PS1 game behind FFVII and NHL 9-something. A friend and I would play it for hours in our dorm. We would always play with random characters, but the last round was always a mirror match of Shin Akumas. This is still my favorite SF game. (As fun as Alpha 3 was, I never liked the splitting of super combos and custome combos into the Isms system.)
I like to watch some RUclips vids while I cook/eat. Today I got that "F*CK YES!!" reaction when I noticed I had a new "HappyConsoleGamer" video in my subs. Thanks guys, love the channel, love the vids - you rock!
I love this series! By the time I started playing it, SFA3 had come out. I bought so many versions of this game over the years. I love it! Good times... good times.
I remember Alpha 2, not just being a very tactical fighting game, but a very artistic one too. For example, newer games like KOF 2002 had very lazy backgrounds, with very choppy animated characters in them. Like just the gameplay was important and f*ck the rest. But the alphas were balanced in both aspects. I really love this show, and specially this kind of videos with memories of the past. I feel really identified when I watch them. Salutes from Argentina, Johnny.
Saturn controllers are so good for fighting games that I actually bought a saturn to dreamcast converter to play fighting games on my DC with the saturn controller. It truly is great for those games!
After all these years I finally realize why Dan's hadouken only goes so far before stopping! Capcom was mimicking the taunt gimmick in AOF where if Ryo or Robert had been taunted to the point that they had no special gauge then they would shoot out a haouken that evaporated as soon as it came out! Now it all makes sense!
thanks you for shearing your memories, its really brings a smile to my face hearing all this, i have the same moments with my friend, boot camp style. would be a real pleasure to play with you guys one day. thanks
That's a lot of Street Fighter. I actually was totally in the dark about SF releases after SF2 Turbo on the SNES until I got back into gaming in 98-99. I had no idea about any new characters etc.
From the whole alpha series Alpha 3 is the best version. Especially on saturn. but don't count out Alpha 1 I can always go back and play that. Love the music too.
I got my Playstation at the same time and I also got Street Fighter Collection. Convinced my dad to buy It since a lot of new games averaged $29.99. Played Alpha 2 Gold all day! It also blew my SNES copy of Alpha 2 out of the water!
Thank you!
The reason we do these videos is to record the great times we have had over the years! and we are so happy people have enjoyed them! it's win win for us!
This is still THE GAME!
I love Alpha 3, but the art design and music is so much better in Alpha 2.
I remember the first time I learned how to throw a hadou-ken. I was practicing on Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis. I did not have a strategy guide, nor did I have an instruction manual, so I was like, "how the hell did I do that?!" And I was training for the sole purpose of beating my cousin who was miles better than me at the time. I remember in the Arcade seeing everybody do all the special moves, and trying to ask them how they did it, but nobody would explain it to me
L-Y3T I remember my first time too. I was pressing the D-Pad counterclockwise with one of the punch buttons. Did it by accident like that and thought that it was the way to do it. For the longest time I was doing a full circle counterclockwise with the punch until years later a friend of mine showed me it was just down+forward-punch.
Wow, your arcade was populated by dicks. I learned SFII at my supermarket. The guy playing it let me interrupt his game and had us both stand on opposite sides of the screens so he could teach me the moves. I don’t think we even fought for those rounds. He just wanted to teach.
someone just showed me courter circle motion with there fingers
listening to you guys makes me smile.
I wish I could give this video a thumbs up again. Such amazing memories that take me back to the good old days of gaming.
And that's why Rob went home and became a family man.
And now Johnny’s a family man.
I miss these older HCG videos. It feels weird feeling nostalgic over a video about feeling nostalgic.
Why do I love this video so damn much? Two great friends sharing memories that strike close to home for me I guess. Every time I watch it I have to play some Street Fighter afterwards.
Street Fighter 2 was constantly sold out every where for SNES. My mom was definitely not coming back to the store. It was either Super Mario World, or nothing.
Had it on the Saturn, and would beat the masculinity out all my friends in Alpha 2.
Guys thanks for this episode this game brings back so many memories. This was one of the first games I played for the ps1. Back in late 1996 my cousin bought a ps1 with 4 games Crash Bandicoot, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Street Fighter Alpha 2, and I love all of those games, but Alpha 2 was the game that got everybody together. I remember friends will go to his house, and we all play alpha 2. To this day in the Street Fighter series Alpha 2 is my second favorite game, only behind alpha 3.
Love these videos so much. The story telling is pure magic. Feel like Im there
Ryu vs Sagat stage, throwing back to their fight in the animated movie. Still my favourite memory of SFA2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, I used to play the arcade cabinet all the time at Wal-Mart, LOL. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the SF game I invested hours and hours of time into with my friends.
I remember the first time I played SFA2, I was 14 and my mom let me rent it from Blockbuster because she felt bad that I caught the flu from her. I played for 5 hours straight, nodding off and waking up with the game still on.
This video turned 10 years old yesterday. Happy birthday to this video 🎉🎉🎉
Brings back so many great memories. Me and my brother played this game all the time. We used have tons of people come over and have competitions. My brother kicked everyone's ass until one day this Asian kid moved in down the street. This kid made my brother look like it was his first time playing street fighter. It was a blood bath.
I love the chemistry between these two, you can tell that they've been close childhood friends back then, and still are now.
Alpha 2 is definitely my favorite fighting game :)
I used to pause the ryu stage just to listen to the song ahaha
and that announcer voice is so nostalgic
Lol you guys got me into street fighter a year ago (because of this video specifically), I remember it was the second to last day of term three and this game was on sale on PSN and I remember downloading it while I was doing something else, came back installed it and I booted it up. I remember going to training and trying to do a fireball as Ryu (lol had to look it up) and I wrote all the special moves down and I sat there for hours with my headphones in for three or four hours until I realised it was midnight. I played it for hours the next day and was starting to get moves down etc. I downloaded it on my Vita and I played Alpha 2 for endless hours for the next three months, got Alpha 3 for my birthday later that year (played that all Christmas and while I was on holiday). I looked into SFV thought it was kinda cool and pre ordered it (halfway through January) and then at the end of the holidays, I played SF2 (don't like it tbh) but then I was bored and looked up SF3 3rd strike. Holy shit that last week of the summer holidays was fucking awesome I played 3rd strike whenever I had a spare moment (my friend and I were goofing off on the internet and doing stupid things all the time so I didn't play it to much). SFV kinda killed my interest in the series, my mum let me leave school early so I could go pick it up from the store. Its alright I suppose but theres a reason I barely touched the Street Fighter series for six months. I have really gotten back to the point I was at this time last year again, I've started to flash my money around buying the MvC games and have been playing 3rd strike religiously. Sorry for the massive essay.
yup, there's nothing like playing fighting games for hours and having fun and especially the hard tapping on the controller for when you get real serious with the bosses. Street fighter is the only game to give me boils on my thumbs from playing to hard. I need to get my collection started back up and i want all the street fighters, besides the 30th anniversary collection i want all the original copies from snes to ps1 to sarturn and ps2.
Sakuras music has always been my favorite
Street Fighter Alpha 2 was my intro to the alpha series and IS the best Alpha game!
Alpha 2 allowed you to use your super meter for 2 types of attacks, you could stock up three super levels for normal super combos
or you could opt out and use the custom combo option and spend your meter like that. Unlike Alpha 3 where you were stuck with only 1 or 3 choices (A,V,X-isms).
Thanks for posting this guys!
Alpha 2 on the Saturn is still my favorite version of SF. Love it.
Likewise.
***** well said man! I think the Saturn version is even better than the arcade version for I can enjoy it with my favor Saturn controller along with the more difficult AI setting.
Thank you. i just happened to play in a few days ago. My Sega Saturn gets regular love and attention....as well as Street Fighter Collection which also has a great version of Super SF 2 Turbo. :)
lol, yes, I also have it with the America Sega Saturn humongous CD case which has been cracked & broken with frequent use & some careless accidents.
Man this is what I miss about sitting in the floor and playing fighting games all day long...it was an awesome time. Alpha 3 was the game at my place...I didn't get to play Alpha 2 very much.
Playing SF Alpha 2 Gold on the PS2 Alpha Anthology while I watch/listen to this. Love hearing you guys talk about your gaming memories.
Great video! SFA2 is my favor game of all time along with CVS2. Interestingly, SFA2 aged very well, it is still extremely fun to play even after decades later, & its combat system one of the best among all the fighting games even comparing to all the current fighters in 2015! My friends & I still play the games regularly along with Xmen vs Street Fighter on my Sega Saturn! BTW, the Saturn version of SFA2 is way better than the PS1 one.
The cloak of shame lol
Its really fun watching these two sit and reminisce and get nostalgic about their gaming memories and hear about the ridiculous things they used to do to each other. Reminds me of my childhood messin around wit my cousins
My Golden Age for video games was the 16 bit and 32/64 bit eras, especially the SNES and PS1. JRPGs were in their heyday and I absolutely loved them. Plus we had Super Castlevania IV, Symphony of the Night, Mario 64, and so much else. I had a blast in the 90s.
I first played SF Alpha on the Sega Saturn. The impression it gave me was so profound, that I still remember it very fondly.
Man, Rob is an AWESOME friend. Sorry to say, Johnny and I know you probably already know of course but I've always gotten the feeling since Rob's introduction to the show that he's always been very open-minded and considerate to everything you have to do on the show lol. He's an amazing friend who can take an verbal beating and still smile at the end of the day. Of course we don't know how you guys are after the cameras are off but as far as I can sense Rob's a class friend :) love you guys both
Your story reminds me of how my older brother trained me when we first got SNES with SFII. Except he picked Ryu and I picked Ken. Eventually we got really close in skill level and I could finally beat him every once in a while. He used to taunt me just like Johnny.
By the time SFA2 came out we weren't playing together anymore (he's 7 years older) but I used to kick everyone's ass at that game and taunt them as well! One clear memory I had was the day SFA2 came out in the arcade and I played it for the first time and kicked the ass of everyone twice my size and so they started to actually gang up on me and physically hit me to make me lose! I was just a little kid and this made me cry! I guess I was too good for them!
Since you're supposedly so good, I'd love to challenge you! Just the other day I got the Japanese version Street Fighter Zero 2 for Sega Saturn which is arguably even more arcade perfect than the PS1 version, plus the amazingly awesome Saturn arcade stick. Playing it today my face stays in a permanent expression of awe.
The version I played the most at home back in the day though was SFA3 on PS1 and Dreamcast.
Love your stories and your enthusiasm for old-school gaming! Unfortunately, I never played Alpha 2, but I was addicted to good, old Street Fighter 2 on the SNES...first time beating that game as an 8 year old playing with Dhalsim remains one of my crowning achievments when it comes to gaming :-)
Awesome stories guys! I can't tell you the amount of bitter feuds, rivalries, and all out war produced by this game. SF Alpha 2 got played to death in my neighborhood. This was when competition was at its most fierce!
Great video! It's so true: the snes and psone days are the Golden era of videogaming...there was no internet and the games were so good and memorable. So many good memories from two of the best consoles of all time. My fighting game, actually, was Darkstalkers 3...amazing video - like always - guys!
I still got this game for the snes and after hearing ur memories it made me remember that my best friend and i used to be like this i didn't have any "rival" per se so i teached him how to play and used to taunt him like hell to make him mad so he would get better and we had some epic fights and still to this day we have our "rivalry" in the new street fighters but never like it was in alpha 2
Now your bringing golden days back. I waa a master at the SNES SF2. Unbeatable, after wasteing a tonn of cash on the arcade version in my local fish & chip shop. Id play winner stays on all day with my mates and never lose! Then SFA2... Simply perfect. I thought I was unstoppable then I visited Jonny Millennium in Vancouver... that guy destroyed me over and over again. Oh and I felt the massive Mellenium taunts. Fun days!
This was the best street fighter game til third strike. Man I love that game, it plays so well and the animation is still amazing
Street Fighter Alpha 2 is easily my favorite fighting game of all time. I got my chance to own it via the Street Fighter Collection on PS1 as Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. I remember wanting it so bad, but thinking I would never get it because I lived in such a small area. In the Summer of '98, I would find it at my local Wal-Mart, and had hours of fun with it. It helped me cut my teeth into playing fighting games. Then there was the luxury of owning an Arcade game on a home console.
I just had to fire up Alpha I on PSX... I was raised in NYC, me and my buddies would go downtown to 42nd street and hit the arcades. The battles that took place there were LEGENDARY!!!! When Alpha first came out, he place was so PACKED and the crowds around the machines were crazy! Alpha I takes me back to those days. I loved the way the game played and accessing the "secret characters" I preferred the chain combo system over the custom one from alpha II.
Me too!, I ordered my PS1 bundled with Alpha 2 from this Fingerhut catalog. I have great memories playing at my friends house & drinking.
I remember playing Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the Super NES. I also remember playing the Alpha 2 Gold Version in the SF Collection on the PlayStation.
The whole Alpha series was just so damn good.
Absolutely fantastic game, one I can play pretty much infinitely. Pocket Fighter gives it a run for it's money as most addictive 2D fighter.
I had this on the Saturn. It was as close to arcade perfect as you could get. I loved playing as Rolento
I remember my dad got me this for the SNES. The game actually loads like a CD game, but once it did it played amazing. I was the best in my neighborhood.
i used to fight as charlie, socom and rolento as they were my favorite characters.
What's sad is that the first Alpha game I ever played, or owned was Alpha 2 for the SNES. I got it in Summer of '97. I was a die-hard Street Fighter fan at the time, but my local arcade had none of the Alpha games, oddly enough, and I had no access to any 32-bit systems, until that following September, when I got a PS1. I finally played Alpha 2 on the PSX, via Alpha 2 Gold, on the Street Fighter Collection Vol. 1
Johnny must've been a badass kid. They're reminiscing playing street fighter and smoking during their childhood...
Played this game on the Sega Saturn and I played it so much I had to go and buy another copy. Its still the best SF game ever in my eyes.
So many memories of playing this with my cousin for hours at a time.
Awesome video, lots of great stories here. It's hard to come up with any specific comments, but I think this is one of you guys' best moments.
I think Street Fighter Alpha 2 is my favorite of the Alpha series. I remember always picking Sakura because the game was released around the time of Sailor Moon and seeing Sakura in her outfit (which I didn't realize was a school uniform) reminded me of a Sailor Scout. I also loved that the fighters fought different fighters for their end fights. It reminds me of a "choosing your own path" scenario.
Well if you're ever in the Tulsa area, you can come by and play SFA2 on my Arcade cabinet.
I enjoy this video because I also have a good friend who trained me with alpha and we still do to this day. Great times.
6:12 - "That's the cloak of shame and the sunglasses of denial" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you guys make me laugh!
Alpha 2's soundtrack is Gold I love Gen's theme and Sakuras' theme is really good too
I also have fond memories of playing Alpha 2 (specifically Alpha 2 Gold) with my friend way back when. I'd played SF games before, but Alpha 2 was new to me, and I chose to play as Sakura. My friend chose Shin Akuma, of course, intending to trounce me. Somehow, however, I was really good with Sakura, and managed to beat him. As I was doing so, he shouted, "How are you learning this?!?!" I'm not as good at the game today as I was, but it's still great fun to play.
For me, Alpha 2 remains my favourite Street Fighter game. It was the first Street Fighter game I played regularly in the arcades, and do well in. In my opinion, it felt so complete. The graphics and art, character variety, classic music, awesome sound, but importantly it felt the most accessible to beginners. My only gripe with it was the dialogue, which made everyone sound so out of character and early 90's Americans!
My favorite of the alpha games. Played this so much
good show this time. Really spoke to me because i grew up the same time as you guys and had similar experiences with the game. I should've just made a video response but you didn't ask for any this week so.. But yeah great great memories from you two and made me think on my own memories.
I played SFA2 on SNES and I still love it more than any other SF I've ever played.
Hello guys! I loved your video, when you said you play daily 6 hours , this reminds me the afternoons with my friends playing Darkstalkers 3, Toshinden 3 and X-men Vs Street Fighter on my PS1. Ah I miss those days! Thank you for the nostalgia and loved that they are people who reminds so beautifully their gaming memories and experiences!
Alpha 2 Gold was my absolute favorite street fighter game.
great video! i never got into alpha 2, i remember getting alpha 3 and that shit was mindblowing to me. i know not as many people like it as they do with alpha 2, but thats all i knew as a kid, and while i wasnt nearly as competitive into fighting games back then as i am now, i remember that game and bloody roar were the two games me and my bros went hard on, that and tekken 3
God man, I love Alpha 3, but never got around to playing Alpha 2. You two got me to play it, not only is the gameplay better, so is the music, the balance, and even the announcer are better. I still love me some Alpha 3, but Alpha 2 is better and almost perfect, as well as my favorite entry into the Street Fighter franchise!
This was my third PS1 game behind FFVII and NHL 9-something. A friend and I would play it for hours in our dorm. We would always play with random characters, but the last round was always a mirror match of Shin Akumas. This is still my favorite SF game. (As fun as Alpha 3 was, I never liked the splitting of super combos and custome combos into the Isms system.)
4:00 You finished Johnny's sentence with him! That's the definition of bromance!
I like to watch some RUclips vids while I cook/eat. Today I got that "F*CK YES!!" reaction when I noticed I had a new "HappyConsoleGamer" video in my subs. Thanks guys, love the channel, love the vids - you rock!
Many of the stages in Alpha 2 are simply beautiful.
me and my cousin were the same way with golden axe, streets of rage, forgotten worlds, mortal kombat series, and street fighter for genesis
Love street fighter XD street fighter 2 was my first game, ohhhh the memories :')
You can sure tell Rob was excited about doing this one! Great video guys, wish I was better at street fighter.
I love this series! By the time I started playing it, SFA3 had come out. I bought so many versions of this game over the years. I love it! Good times... good times.
Good old Alpha times.😭😭
It happens a lot when two fighters are good. They study each other a lot, because one fuck up could cost a half energy bar.
Oh my god you guys, you gave me a new set of abs. I was laughing so hard at the part with "the cloak of shame and the sunglasses of denial". XD
This is my fav video so far. I hope Capcom releases an HD version of Alpha 2 & 3 to play online.
Seriously the best show on youtube. Great episode!
SF Zero 2 was my first time playing an Alpha/Zero game.
I picked it up with Rockman X3 for my saturn. Both were incredible games!
Was never really into the Street Fighter, but I did a bit of Alpha 2 and 3. Not that good at all, but I had a lot of fun trying. Amazing stories guys!
that feel when guile will never find charlie
I don't know if you guys saw TooBokoo's comment, but I 100% agree. You should make an episode of you guys playing some Street Fighter Alpha 2!
I lost it at the cloak of shame & sunglasses of denial part
Street fighter alpha and alpha 3 are the best out the series for me. Great with two players fighting Bison and I had loads of fun.
I had a Saturn before I had a playstation as a lad, I loved this game. Saturn version was the best of that era.
I remember Alpha 2, not just being a very tactical fighting game, but a very artistic one too. For example, newer games like KOF 2002 had very lazy backgrounds, with very choppy animated characters in them. Like just the gameplay was important and f*ck the rest. But the alphas were balanced in both aspects.
I really love this show, and specially this kind of videos with memories of the past. I feel really identified when I watch them.
Salutes from Argentina, Johnny.
Saturn controllers are so good for fighting games that I actually bought a saturn to dreamcast converter to play fighting games on my DC with the saturn controller. It truly is great for those games!
After all these years I finally realize why Dan's hadouken only goes so far before stopping! Capcom was mimicking the taunt gimmick in AOF where if Ryo or Robert had been taunted to the point that they had no special gauge then they would shoot out a haouken that evaporated as soon as it came out! Now it all makes sense!
Love the video and the chemistry between you two.
First game I learned 720 motion on dpad. This game really did have great music and stages.
thanks you for shearing your memories, its really brings a smile to my face hearing all this, i have the same moments with my friend, boot camp style.
would be a real pleasure to play with you guys one day.
thanks
You guys have such an awesome friendship
That's a lot of Street Fighter. I actually was totally in the dark about SF releases after SF2 Turbo on the SNES until I got back into gaming in 98-99. I had no idea about any new characters etc.
These memories episodes are some of the best episodes ever!
I’ve always loved playing as Dan
From the whole alpha series Alpha 3 is the best version. Especially on saturn. but don't count out Alpha 1 I can always go back and play that. Love the music too.
When the Alpha games were being released, I was getting into the Marvel Vs. Capcom series.
I had the Saturn version. That Saturn controller made it the best console version hands down!
I got my Playstation at the same time and I also got Street Fighter Collection. Convinced my dad to buy It since a lot of new games averaged $29.99. Played Alpha 2 Gold all day! It also blew my SNES copy of Alpha 2 out of the water!