Remember when Street Fighter was all the rage? I myself remember kicking major butt and taking names but alas, those years are gone and I'm afraid to play again. I've since moved on to fighting games like Soul Calibur and Super Smash Brothers.
Well check out this video. It's from the EVO 2004 Street Fighter 3 tournament and just watching it brings back memories of geeks and nerds coming together in the name of ass kicking.
Preface to the video - it's down to two players battling it out for glitz-glory, the money, but more importantly bragging rights. Daigo (playing as KEN) and his opponent (playing as Chung Li) got him down to literally zero health. Daigo's opponent then unleashes a Chung Li super combo that lands 15 blows on him. The amazing thing is Daigo is actually able to block every single move and then proceeds to kick his opponents ass into submission with one thundering combo.
The crowd goes bonkers as hundreds of video game fanatics roar into a frenzy having bare witness to the event. You won't see moments of game mastery like this very often.
I just have one comment tho. Ass wonderful as Google Video search is - I love the fact that this video was found using the word "ass" as a search string.
The Chun Li player was a chap named Justin Wong. His defensive/turtling style of play isn't exciting but gets him very far in the tournaments. It doesn't win him many fans though. Hilariously, Justin Wong was humiliated by a japanese player using a much considered weaker character called Q in the Super Battle Opera or SBO3 tournament earlier this year. He won the match by timing him out. The crowd went wild.