[quote name='BustaUppa']Ah, sorry, I wasn't around... but it was for a very good cause... on Friday night I somehow stumbled upon some Capcom vs SNK 2 competition at a local mall!!!! The arcade scene is dried up and dead on this part of Long Island, so needless to say I was stunned.
There was some promotion going on at Gillians... $10 for a movie stub from a nearby theatre, so I just planned on running in and getting some cheapass credit (they use this weird card system instead of tokens or quarters). No one there seemed to know about the promotion, which was a bummer... but before I left I noticed a frigging CROWD around the CvS 2 cabinet. Now I'm no expert at CvS 2, I pretty much use the same 5 guys (all of them on the Capcom side), but it had been YEARS since I had seen a legit crowd around a fighting game. No way I was gonna pass this up.
So after this one guy destroyed everyone for a while, I stepped in and gave it a shot. And oh baby, the instict kicked in and it was ON. Great, competitive match, and finally the crowd "oooohed" as this silent newcomer managed to take the reigning champ DOWN! Ahhh, what a rush. The guy promptly continued, and came back to beat me, in another close match. Some other people joined in and fought against him (as the crowd grew BIGGER... this was awesome). I rotated in every now and then for some reeeeeeally close fights but couldn't manage to beat him again. The guy had a really good streak going on now, but according to him I was the best competition he'd had all night (awesome

). After a while I FINALLY managed to kill his streak with my Honda/Chun Li/Ken team in another sweet match. Heh heh, unfortunately it was late and the crowd had finally dissipated by then, so I was just left to fight against the computer. But man oh man... words can't explain how refreshing it was to get some legitimate ARCADE action going. It's like some kind of PRIMAL feeling, man![/QUOTE]
nice! sounds like the good ol days
I'll be on DoA in about an hour and a half or so..