So what was your first fighting game?

This is for everyone too young or too senile to remember the Versus Mode I mentioned earlier.

Or, if you're just like me and want to remember what things were like in grade school.

 
The first fighting Game I really played seriously was Samurai Showdown.
I kept playing it throughout the years and as the new ones came out I played those all the way up to 4
Heck I even played the obscure Samurai Showdown 64, and own the even more obscure Samurai Showdown: Warrior's Rage.

I didn't get into Street Fighter until 3rd Strike
I spent a significant amount of time playing Last Blade 2. (10 hit combos with Setsuna were always fun)
 
Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first one I played.

Marvel Super Heroes was the first one I got really good at.
 
my first was definatly the Killer Instinct on the Snes... cinder pwns Joo :P I still miss that game so much >.< still waiting for the remake one day for next gen

 
SF2, spamming jumping moves lol. I didn't realize it but I had tiger nee notation down when I was like 5! 2369 was on all day for me haha. But now, Tekken is the jam for me lol. SC is sick, but I fell in love with the Tekken series. DR tourneys were so hype....
 
karate champ!! back in the old school days where the arcade was cooler than the atari. then nes came out and it was all over. i was blown away with 2 joysticks and no buttons!! that was a bad ass game
 
Like most, mine was vanilla legit Street Fighter 2 arcade. Then I got into SF2:CE rainbow hack when I was 10 and picking M.Bison doing psycho crushers by tapping back forward and Fierce Punch. Shortly after, I ran into a legit non-hack SF2:CE and picked M.Bison to do the Psycho Crusher. "Why is he just punching? This machine is broken." Keep in mind, this was during a time when I used only Fierce Punch and Roundhouse Kick because they were the strongest and all the other buttons were just stupid.

First serious fighter I got into was when I was 10 and played Samurai Shodown 1. It was awesome because there was never a line and always just one quarter whereas SF2 always had a line and sometimes cost 2 quarters. Then SamSho II came out and people caught on.

My aunt gave me Rise of the Robots for the SNES. I remember playing it for the first time and thinking "Wow, this plays... different."
 
My first first, firstfirstfirst fighter game was the original SF2 at arcades, but I was absolutely horrible at it. I couldn't really do anything and relied on Dhalsim for his reach. Oddly enough, preferring long-reach characters is something I still do today, because I'm all about prediction and if they have to take some distance to get to me, I can predict their moves more easily. My real introduction to fighter skills, though, was Super Turbo... on the PC! No joke, I played it on the keyboard, no controller, and actually got good at it! Furthermore, that was almost the exclusive game I played for an entire year. I got it as a birthday gift and realized on my next birthday just how much time I had sunk into it. Needless to say, that was my first transformation into understanding the fighter genre.
I hate to call Smash Bros. Brawl a fighter, but that game did expose me to true competitive play level. I had won local Soul Calibur 1&2 tournaments before, but really, the competition was totally lax. Brawl forced me to think far differently than I had been previously, and here I am now. (I never played Melee competitively and never intend to.)

Lemme just put in an interesting story. I was working at a church festival in the Boy Scouts, and wanted to take a break. I asked another scout's parent helping out if she'd give me a quarter to play MvC2 in there. The parent probably expected I'd lose quickly and be right back. I was gone half an hour (I didn't learn true competitive play yet and just spammed Unibeam to turtling AIs). The other scouts just had to watch me do it when they could, too. They knew it after I kicked their butts seriously in Killer Instinct at an arcade without ever having played the game before.
 
My first was SF2 in the arcades, though I put in most of my SF2 time on my SNES.

Years later I found an arcade that had the original Street Fighter. Damn, that game was hard, couldn't even pull off a fireball.
 
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