We remember those early Street Fighter II arcade days when gamers would crowd around the arcade cabinet to watch two gamer gladiators laying the smacketh down on one another. If you thought you had what it takes to beat out the last man standing, you would place a quarter on the cabinet to symbolize you as the next challenger.
We remember being the king of the hill. The one to beat! A glance at the notch between the cabinet monitor and controls would have several quarters lined up with would be challengers. We remember all the trash talk and the "OOhs Ahhhs and DAAAMMMNs".. Those were indeed the days.....
It looks like those wonderful days of yore will return....
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While no price tag was announced, Capcom has confirmed that Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting (known in the arcades as Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting) will become available over the Xbox Live Marketplace, with a number of new features (including online play) sometime in early 2006. In addition to the Xbox Live standard quick match and optimatch, Hyper Fighting will include a new quarter match option.
Intended to replicate the arcade experience, quarter matches will let two players duke it out while a group of spectators wait for their own chance to dethrone the reigning champ--similar to the online mode of the Xbox 360's only fighting game so far, Dead or Alive 4. Just as in the arcades, onlookers will be able to watch the brawls while they wait their turn, trash-talking the fighters or discussing strategy. Players' "quarters" will be used to represent their spot in line.
Before entering a quarter match, players will be able to choose ranked or unranked matches to determine whether or not stats will be tracked for the Xbox Live leaderboards. Beyond the somewhat common all-time and monthly leaderboards, Hyper Fighting will include rankings broken down by character, as well as a board for the most consecutive wins.
Capcom is also promising more than 10 online and offline achievements to reward players for meeting certain tasks, and a "feature limited" demo version will allow gamers to play single matches with two playable characters
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We are still not interested in X360, but we are happy with this online concept being introduced
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