It's good to see the game held up to your memories after all this time.

This was both one of my first Genesis games and a favorite as well, and I spent soooo much time playing against other the people that lived around me. We were all awful at the game, but there was a lot of magic in the title I wish I could get back, like being amazed at a Spinning Pile Driver or Vega climbing the cage in his stage. I even remember being amazed when we discovered Balrog's grab, then we banned him because we all thought he was cheap because of it. Then people discovered the Honda slaps and Chun-Li kicks. X_X I mean, we had the manual and everything, with its awesome pictures and whatnot, but that was just alien gibberish to us. You made a joke about learning the Shoryuken (with a Hadouken in the picture, which may be part of the joke), but it was a big deal when I finally learned to pull it off -- it was like new weapons tech. >: D Much wailing and gnashing of teeth was had on that day. I can only imagine what would have occurred had anyone managed to get 'Geif's Spinning Piledriver off. X_X Makes me want to play this again.

Have you tried any later versions of the game?