What got me into fighting games in the beginning was a Street Fighter II machine at my local Safeway when I was 6. I had never seen a game like it before, and it blew my mind. I had a little kid memory at the time, so I went home and told my best friend about the game where I got to play as Dull Sam the pirate against a sumo wrestler.
Anyway, you guys should get Maximilian Dood on as a guest scientist sometime and do the science to either Third Strike or KI '13.
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