Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat | Video Gaming Memories by Imraan Nazir 🎮🤜💥🤛 #RetroGaming #SuperNintendo

Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were two of the biggest rival fighting games of the early 90s. I remember at school we would ask each other the famous question of that time.

‘What do you think is better: Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat’?

My First SNES Game | Video Gaming Memories by Imraan Nazir 🎮🤜💥🤛 #RetroGaming #SuperNintendo

In the early 90s Street fighter 2 The World Warrior hit the arcade machines. This game changed the fighting game genre and till this day I think this is one of the best Street fighter games and I still play it till this day.

My local chicken shop had the street fighter 2 arcade machine and used to play it with my older brother. I could never do the moves and I would always lose. I was always player 2 for some reason. Till this day never knew why that was.

In 1992 Street Fighter 2 came out on the Super Nintendo. This put Nintendo on the map. Street Fighter 2 was only available for Super Nintendo. This meant that anyone with a Sega Mega Drive had to buy a Super Nintendo to play the game.

There was a poster that came out saying 'Street Fighter 2...Sega owners dream on'.

⌚️ These Seiko 5 Sports Street Fighter V Limited Edition Watches Are Awesome! ⌚️ #StreetFighter #WatchCollector

Introduced in 1968 and re-born in 2019, Seiko 5 Sports has offered a wide variety of mechanical watches for watch lovers for over half a century. 

Now sees the release of six new Seiko 5 Sports creations that take inspiration from Street Fighter. 

First released in 1987, it is now the leading fighting game in the esports field, played and viewed by millions worldwide. 

🤜💥🤛 Every Single Street Fighter Player Select screen - 1987 to 2018 🤜💥🤛 #StreetFighter

"Here is every Street Fighter Player Select Screen From Every Fighting Video Game That Features Any Street Fighter Characters"

⏬⏬ Have I missed any? ⏬⏬

Let me know in the comments below...

☆ The Perfect Version Of Street Fighter ☆ #Retrogaming

Imagine if you were to create the ultimate video game version of Street Fighter.

Just sit there and think about it for a minute...

☆ Thoughts From The Freezer - #1 "Super Play Issue 48 is REAL!" ☆ #Retrogaming

Join me for a chin wag about all the things in the world of video games that I have found interesting over the last few weeks.

☆ Freezer Facts Episode 1: Street Fighter ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Find Out Where Dhalsim Keeps His Pet Elephant!

"Stay Frosty"

☆ "Gamer Geek Girl Is The Undisputed Chun Li Queen Of Street Fighter 2" ☆ #retrogaming #PS4 #GamersUnite

"Chun Li Looks Good For 48 Years Old!!"

When you come across the amount of awesome people I do within the video games community you tend to want to know their background and how they originally got into video gaming.

My favourite stories from people are the ones where they reminisce about early video games memories as I just love to wallow in the nostalgia of being blown away by a NES, SNES or SEGA Mega Drive.

To me and a whole generation of awesome dudes and dudettes these were the formative years of our love affair with video games.

Today I would like to introduce you all the Bethany who is the latest member of the Games Freezer family.

Bethany has agreed to share with us all her video games life story so far and I know a lot of this will bring smiles to all those people who were 80's & 90's kids....

☆ Street Fighter GIFS Are A Thing Of Beauty ☆ #GamersUnite #Retrogaming

Behold The Street Fighter GIF!

I love a Street Fighter GIF as it encapsulates what we all love about Street Fighter....

Street Fighter is all about the Special Moves and Grapples and us gamers love to watch those moves over and over again!

☆ My Favourite Street Fighter 2 Memories Inspired By Retro Asylum ☆ #retrogaming @RetroAsylum1 @RetroRic79

Listening to the latest Retro Asylum podcast which is totally dedicated to Street Fighter 2 has made me realise how much of an effect the game had on me.

There's a brilliant appearance from @retroric on the podcast that brought it all back home to me.

After listening to the podcast I felt compelled to write a Street Fighter 2 article to get these memories off of my chest.

☆ Graphical Wonders From 8 & 16 Bit Past ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite #C64

When I was a young inexperienced gamer in the mid 80's to early 90's graphics were one of the first things that I looked for in a game.

Maybe that's a superficial mindset but you have to remember that I was only 8 years old and having been brought up on Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari visuals that were hit n miss in terms of quality, any advancement in graphics were always met with an open mouthed disbelief as I witnessed either the latest hardware blowing my mind or maybe an example of someone being ultra clever and resourceful with the current hardware of the time.

☆ The Mystical Four World Warriors ☆ #Retrogaming #Gamersunite #StreetFighterV

They were the untouchable street fighters........

They had an allure and an aura about them......

They struck fear into a generation of gamers........

They were the greatest world warriors we'd ever seen.........

They were Balrog, Vega, Sagat & M Bison

☆ Pang Man's Video View - "Part 4: Guile's theme goes with everything!" ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite #Gamers

Today Pang Man Steps Up To The Plate With An Absolute Classic & Hilarious Set Of Video Clips All Based Around Guile's Theme Music From Street Fighter 2......

☆ Retrogaming Controllers That Make ALL the Difference ☆ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

Retrogaming is best enjoyed using your favourite controller.

Whether that be a Joystick, Joypad or even a Gaming Mouse.

Over the years I have found that I can only play some games properly with one particular type of controller and if it isn't that controller I turn into a cack-handed jibbering idiot!

Read on to find out more about my favourite controllers and the games that they make me great at!

☆ The Best Of Street Fighter Deviant Art Game Art ☆ #GamersUnite #Retrogaming

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If left to my own devices I could quite easily spend a whole evening immersed in the countless Game Art images on Deviant Art....

For me it's the mecca of Video Game related art...

Over the next few articles i'll be picking a Video Game Franchise and bringing YOU the cream of the crop when it comes to Video Game Art for that franchise....

Let's Get Cracking!

First Up Is The Legendary Street Fighter Series....

SHORYUKEN!

🕹️ 1992 - The Greatest Year In Video Games History? 🕹️ #GamersUnite #RetroGaming

After extensive thought and research (Google) 

I hereby declare that 1992 was...

"THE GREATEST YEAR IN VIDEO GAMES!"

Why!? I hear you yell….

Well if you sit down for a moment and listen to 

what I've got to say then I'll tell you exactly WHY….

☆ Pang Man Part 14 – "Top 10 Video Game related movies" ☆ #GamersUnite

"I was watching the Street Fighter movie the other day, and was thinking this is truly awful. 

I mean, why would anyone cast Kylie Minogue as Cammy? Is she English? (no, but I suppose she can attempt an accent). 

Can she act? (um I suppose she was fine in Neighbours) 

and does she have a martial arts background? (nope).

★Games Freezer Top 5 Favourite Special Moves★ #Retrogaming #GamersUnite

You're pummeling your opponent to within a 10th of their remaining life bar when you get to point that you can either finish them off with a mis timed soft punch to the arm or you could unleash an almighty finishing manoeuvre that lights up the screen and makes time itself sllllllllooooowwwww down.......

For all the button bashers out there its a case of a mistimed jab will do as long as you win.......

BUT .... For those Video Game Beat Em Up connoisseurs out there, finishing off the opponent MUST be accomplished stylishly with MAXIMUM WOW FACTOR!

So, what are the Top 5 Favourite Special Moves as judged by ☆The Games Freezer☆ ?

Let's crack on find out shall we......

FINISH HIM!!!!

☆I Am Street Fighter☆ @AREA5 #RetroGaming #GamersUnite

If you are a gamer of a certain age you will remember the heady days of arcade greatness when Street Fighter II cabinets were in every chip shop, video shop and Newsagents across the land.

With those cabinets came the queues of "New Challengers" and wannabe Kings Of The Arcade.

It was a time when just as many people came to watch as those who came to play.

Street Fighter II was and still is a phenomenon that so many of us have enjoyed both in its natural habitat (the arcade) and at home on the many many console conversions.

Don't forget the hacked editions of the arcade machine that also appeared in the arcades such as the "Rainbow Edition" 

Such was the demand for these hacked editions that Capcom had to release an official updated version of Championship Edition.

The "I Am Street Fighter" Documentary captures the spirit and feel of Street Fighter and really gets across what it felt like to play Street Fighter back in those halcyon days of arcade gaming.

There is a part where they talk about the symbolism of putting your 20p or 25c on the machine to signify that YOU are the next challenger which really resonated with us.

Please take an hour of your time to sit down and watch this gem of a documentary and hopefully you will enjoy it just as much as we did.

Let us know what you thought of this brilliant documentary?

What other cool Videogames documentaries or films would you recommend for us at Games Freezer to watch?

You Still there? 

Why not Head on over to this COOL SFII Gallery! Streetfighter 25th Anniversary Gallery

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☆ "My Top 5 Most Quoteable Retro Arcade Games" ☆

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The arcade games from the past that tend to stick in the minds of all of us at Games Freezer* are the quoteable ones.

Its not unusual to hear "Power Up!" or "Haduken!" ring round the Games Freezer office as we go about our daily gaming business!

It got us thinking about the best example of the most quoteable games over the years.

 

We had a think and compiled some of the coolest Quoteable retro Arcade games that we still quote to this day.

 

So without further ado cast your eyes over our Top 5 and "Get Over Here!"