Author: Mathew Perkins

Street Fighter, the name alone garners respect amongst video game enthusiasts. For many, Street Fighter 2 was their first foray into fighting games, bursting onto home consoles in the early 90’s and birthing millions of deep seeded sibling rivalries for decades to come. Like million of others, I revelled in the 1 on 1 competitiveness of these titles in which gameplay knowledge and execution were the only real secrets to victory. Unfortunately, due to where I grew up, I was never really able to immerse myself in the fighting game genre the way that I wanted; Huddled around cabinets...