General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Ahhh yeah get ya ..original boards just chips changed . So it's not bootleg but a conversion I suppose 👍

Boards died with the move to Vanilla in reality. The communities I knew, all fell off a cliff around that time. As it stands, it's a shell of itself needing six figures a year to remain on life support. It's over, be it this year or next. The only way it'll survive is if its sold, and that doesn't appear to be likely given the existing debt. If there was a fundraiser to raise capital to support a move away from Vanilla, and onto something more sustainable & something that works correctly, I'd be far more likely to have donated to that.

It's bad enough Vanilla killed off so much but it is baffling these dead communities haven't been shuffled off into an archive to clear things up as would happen in the past. The main games forum has like 6-7 dead subforums at the top of the page before you even scroll down to see there's some life left here.

Granted, the Discord appears to have wound back the clock on the A&R side of things, it's like 10 years ago in terms of the amount of activity — fair play again to you and Steve X2 taking the initiative on it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLLgnT0vhM

Was a real shame about that one, seemed like they were always meeting up for games.

Any idea what happened?

It's extremely axtivr on discord nowadays . I joined but these young fellas has all manners of things on it , flairs , threads within threads.just convoluted.

As then I was banned for saying Juri in St6 looks like a Tinker !!! The word was offence supposedly .

The mod was this young lad I've played in meet up tournaments before and made him genuinely cry after I beat him in a SFV4 meet up tournament as I was dancing around during the game and not taking it seriously !!!!Just a young snow flake

@Retr0gamer may rember him..dark onion

At least we know where the FGC landed, the Pokemon forum was super active (even had its own podcast) with meet-ups and the like, then just scattered to the wind. Hell, I've not seen nor heard from Banjo in years despite them being the objectively best poster that's ever existed on a forum anywhere.

A good friend of mine who goes by K.O.Kiki on here used to attend a few of those meetups. Generally whips my arse any time we're playing Street Fighter 2 games when he's over. 😂

Yeah SFV5 ruined it. I never got involved and came back from the dead for sf6 to find the forum dead

Yeah knew his frame data and such malarkey like the back of his hand.

One of the good uns

I did yeah ...he owns my astro city now !!

I didnt mind him but he seemed to get knocked a lot of people's wicks..don't know reasons

Probably ken. He played a mean vega ..himself and trev where twins and played in the scene. And myself and a-trax where twins also

The best player was a young northy called cobblecog . Lovely lad always smiling . He decimated everyone and played on a pad . He won the tournament for trip to play in Evo in vegas .

I did alright in that, got to losers finals .

Looking at it now I was a noob. Was first tournament I think

Ahh ridiculous to compare it to sf5. Waaay better ..faster .tactics where back in play like a finely tuned game of chess. Not a patch on SFVI though. That was the Pinnacle of street fighter , many might argue third strike though