Street Fighter from CAPCON

Have you ever play a game name of Street Fighter from CAPCON early 1990s. Yes, I have. 

If you are men around 30s, you might have played it once or heard of its name. This is one to one fighting game released from a Japanese game company both for arcade cabinet and home game computer named as Super Nindendo Entertainment System in U.S, Super Famicom in Japan. Looking back my past, one third of boys in my classmates played this game. This is my opinion, but one of reason why this game was very popular is that each game player can choose a variety of unique characters from all over the world. Additionally, each character is different in terms of moving motion and special technique. For example, one character can moving faster, but less powerful. On the other hand, another character is powerful but its moving is slower. There, of course, is a character whose performance is average totally. After school, we often gathered at someone's house and played this together until the sun goes down. At that time, unlike today, there was not smart phone to play with alone, and family computer like Windows machine was not so popular. So the game console was only a computer for children at that time. The place where I lived is not rich area, not every child had it even though they wanted it. So if someone have a game console and softwares, then children naturally gathered there and spent time by playing games. Games ranged from fighting game, baseball, soccer and so on. The game console which was available at the time was not so high performance than game consols available now, so game was not so complicated, and graphics was not so nice, so it was easy to play. Last year I bought a game soft named Battle field 3, but what I felt when I played it first time was that graphics is so nice and looks almos real, but it is difficult to find enemies and targets because of its nice graphics ironically. Some peoples would say that it's real in terms of everything and it's actually difficult to fine enemies in real battle field. I agree. 

Anyway, a reason why I though to tell this game is that I read news about pro Japanese gamer, Taigo Umehara who is a champion of Street fighter. He published a book which name is " strong will to continue to win", although my translation might sounds strange. It is all about how to keep motivation to win and do it actually, which can be applied to anything. In this case, it is practice, practice, and practice everyday.

Take a look at this video which is showing Street Fighter game between two players in 2004. One of them is him and another is a champion of U.S.

If you have ever played fighting games, you would know how awesome this is and how difficult it is to come from behind and win. As you can see, his player is a guy with blond hair and white Judo uniform. His player power gage is much less than power game of the opponent at the middle. At the end of the game, he defended from the opponent's special technique and offended his character's special technique and won the game with cheering and applause. Latter he said about his godlike technique that what he did is usual technique, but the reason why he could do that in very noisy situation is that we focused on it very much. This is an example which is possible theoretically but difficult to do practically. Additionally, he said that his secret of winning is to practice very much. 

What I felt is that as is always true for anything, but if you want to be a professional, you definitely need practice much, no matter what professional it is. This fact is common sense but I realized it again.