Street Fighter IV marks a strange milestone in videogaming history. Its recent home release for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is optimized for play on our HDTV home theatre set-ups, and yet its arcade roots remain obscure to most gamers who will play the game. It’s a rare occasion of the first home version of a game being better than its arcade predecessor, which is something we’ll likely see more of in the future as arcades all but die out.
So when you buy Street Fighter IV, you will not be getting an arcade game. And when you play it, you will not feel the authentic experience of playing it in an arcade. To best emulate this, you would have to play on a 27-inch flat screen CRT running at standard definition with your face just one foot away from the screen while you sit on an uncomfortable plastic chair with an arcade stick shelved up between you and the monitor.
Completing the experience, you’d have to have ambient music from other games pumping in the background, fighting for your attention while you struggle to maintain your composure facing off against the kid sitting in front of you - someone who has, without a doubt, been playing Street Fighter IV for much longer than you even knew it existed. This kid will mercilessly reduce your best moves to a pathetic joke, and above all else, you hear the frenetic rapid tapping as he rolls his fingers across the three punch buttons in between his actual attacks.
http://www.torontothumbs.com/2009/02/24/street-fighter-iv/
So when you buy Street Fighter IV, you will not be getting an arcade game. And when you play it, you will not feel the authentic experience of playing it in an arcade. To best emulate this, you would have to play on a 27-inch flat screen CRT running at standard definition with your face just one foot away from the screen while you sit on an uncomfortable plastic chair with an arcade stick shelved up between you and the monitor.
Completing the experience, you’d have to have ambient music from other games pumping in the background, fighting for your attention while you struggle to maintain your composure facing off against the kid sitting in front of you - someone who has, without a doubt, been playing Street Fighter IV for much longer than you even knew it existed. This kid will mercilessly reduce your best moves to a pathetic joke, and above all else, you hear the frenetic rapid tapping as he rolls his fingers across the three punch buttons in between his actual attacks.
http://www.torontothumbs.com/2009/02/24/street-fighter-iv/