Street Fighter EX [ARCADE, 1996]: Arcade Playthrough with Chun-Li
3Played on MAME 0.264
Well, while I'm on this nostalgia trip, might as well dig in some more and go back one deeper. Everyone knows about ARIKA's Street Fighter EX series, and many were introduced to it via the PS1 game, Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha (SFEX+a). Just like SFEX2Plus, the updated rerelease was the one everyone bought up back in the day, but there were actually two versions of the game before-hand, SFEXPlus... and this game, the very first one, SFEX. Unlike SFEX2 and it's Plus variant, SFEX1 didn't really change too much through it's iterations, and mainly just added more characters or alternate versions of characters as it went along. So ultimately that means that it's pretty primitive for today's instances, but hey, many a hour was burned on this game in some way shape and form, so I'll give it that.
0:00 Test Menu setup
0:33 Start-up, Company Logos & Game Intro
1:34 Character Select
1:44 Stage 1: Cracker Jack
3:48 Stage 2: Guile
5:31 Stage 3: Hokuto
7:22 Stage 4: Ken
9:05 Stage 5: Skullomania
11:57 Stage 6: Ryu
13:48 Stage 7: Pullum
16:38 Stage 8: Zangief
19:14 Stage 9: Doctrine Da--
19:17 --NAH JUST KIDDING. TIME TO DIE.
19:20 SECRET BOSS: Garuda (Yep, still see that THIS version of Garuda is STILL a pain in the ass even after all these years. Barely takes any damage, deals TONS of it, can NEVER jump in on him)
22:50 Lose & Continue
23:04 Stage 9: Doctrine Dark (FOR REAL THIS TIME)
26:06 Stage 10: M. Bison [FINAL BOSS]
30:15 Game Over (...oh yeah, I forgot this game didn't have endings at all until the PS1 release. But damn, not even name entry? Must've been because I was on custom settings, but still THAT was abrupt...)