I used to spend a lot of time and tokens on this thing back in the day. I'd just started college and Capcom was in a weird stage with their arcade games. They had kind of saturated the market with Street Fighter sequels and they took a break. Then they released DarkStalkers in June '94 followed quickly by X-Men: Children of the Atom in December that same year. It was quite a departure from the look and feel of the Street Fighter series, which by now felt rote and old-fashioned.
Then in June '95, just as I was starting college, Street Fighter Alpha came out, with a definite anime look and super fluid animation for the time (yes, I know Street Fighter III has more fluid animation, but it would take a number more sequels before we'd get there.)
Anyway, I never really wanted to play any of the home versions of Alpha because I can tell when a home port is cutting corners. I could always tell with the Super Nintendo. However, this anthology is the real deal. These are basically slightly modified emulated versions of the arcade games. And by modified I mean they added a training mode and button config features, little more. These games are frame by frame perfection.
My only problem is that I'm already as good as I'm ever going to be with a gamepad. If I want to get better, I think I want to try my hand at an arcade type fight stick, and since I don't have one, and I already spent a bunch of money on Christmas, I'm gonna move along on this one. I wish it had online play, but beggars can't be choosers.
Moving along.
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