We asked, you answered. Here are the community's favorite memories including fighting games.
With that in mind, we want to connect closer with our community. Through our social media channels, such as the SteelSeries Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we've asked you for your favorite memories involving fighting games. We've picked our favorites to spotlight for Glory Stories.
The incoherent screaming crowd of Daigo vs Justin's fight
— Flexy: Your Local VTuber (@FlexyFive) July 20, 2022
FlexyFive is of course talking about the most famous event in fighting game history: Evo Moment #37, embedded below. Daigo Umehara pulled off a series of perfect parries to completely negate Justin Wong's Chun-li super.
My brother spamming leg sweep in Mortal Kombat II for SNES.
— Geneon (@geneon101) July 20, 2022
I might have been pissed at the time but it's a core memory for sure. ❤️
Ah, who doesn't remember spamming the sweep on an opponent who doesn't know how to block and winning easily. If this keeps happening to you, read our guide about how to get good in fighting games.
Tekken..the first one.. buddy was living in this game, knew all the moves.. me, a total noob who was just pushing random buttons and shredding him..
— Arthaios @Home Office since 03/2020 (@Arthaios) July 20, 2022
Conversely, button mashing works out just fine sometimes.
stone cold kenneth bradley
— Moist | Hotashi (@hotashis) July 20, 2022
CEO (Community Effort Orlando) is a fighting game tournament famous for having special ring-style entrances for the players. KBrad made an entrance just like WWE's Stone Cold Steve Austin!
First time hearing "ULTRAAAA COMBOOOOOO!" in the arcade. So damn hype.
— Garrett S (@IcedNote) July 20, 2022
Some of you may never have been to a real arcade, but back in the day, those were the place for hype community meetups, where rivalries were born and friends for life were made.
Ok, I'll give you this one -- Eddie is probably the best character for button mashers.
Shaggy is a lot of fun indeed -- check out our MultiVersus guide for some tips!
Remember, we've got tons of codes for Fighting games to giveaway, and keep coming back every week as we celebrate other genres! Game On!
