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![The Tale of SFLIU
It was the summer of 1992, I graduated from high school and stuck a job working in a computer store as sales/technician. My pal Brian would visit often, biking for miles each way to reach the store. (Boy we had energy back then) and I would slip some time out of work to find various ways for being unproductive an hour or two at a time, playing computer games and what not. ^_^;
One day, we were trying out this "new" SF2IBM (v1.9) game when Brian talked me into editing this game. Basically SF2IBM is a home made Street Fighter 2 clone featuring absolutely no gameplay resemblence to the real thing because of a lack of gameplay programming. The way the game's data is constructed allowed easy adjustments to gameplay and animation sequencing, plus other gameplay related attributes. A number of people on the net had then altered the game to introduce wacky moves much similar to the hacked version of the SF2 Champion Edition arcade games, though the fundamentals remained absent: jumps would last for only a fraction of a second, roundhouse kicks would have no range and has the same recovery time as a jab, basically every single aspect of what the original game was about were not there. With an immense amount of free time to spare/waste, I decided to take on the task in making this game resemble the original Street Fighter 2.
At first there wasn't the idea in mimicking the original game. I just spent a few hours making my version of wacky moves, like a special move that will automatically throw in multiple hits plus a Dragon Punch. Though the "pretty cool, huh?" aspect didn't last for long and it certainly didn't impress Brian. Then, for whatever reason, I found myself putting in 10 hour days in this crazy project of putting together a real SF2 clone.
[Sorry about the buskee character limits lol, the rest is at http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/archives/SFLIU/sfliu.html]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fkf3ummp3au755fenvo5vtul/bafkreibhovsqwowx6jgbbye22iadvxydzqur67fmlm6zq3nucin5s4aatu)
