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I wonder if kids know that most of the sophisticated games they play are adaptions of simple games kids have played through the centuries. Street Fighter, for example, is just Rock Sissors Paper. Blanka’s powerful spin tackle attack is beaten by Chun Li’s low power/fast kick, and so on. Actually, the game is only fun until you figure this out, so I hope I didn’t ruin it for you. (As everyone is just rushing out go get SF IV)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1183339
The reason I mention that this information is a buzz-kill is as follows: Let’s say you’re happily playing the game, and consistently you get to the 4th battle and loose, perhaps sometimes getting past and falsely believing that you’re somehow improving. If that’s you then all you’re doing is mashing buttons. Good luck son, you’ll need it. However, once you realize that every attack has a counter attack, regardless of how good you think you are at the game you just hit the right button and you’re done. Anyone can learn it. That’s the bad part. Knowing this, the next time you lose you’ll realize its not because you’re not good enough, its because you didn’t take the time to memorize all the moves. Thus, the game is now as boring as math homework. Memorize the button combinations.
I am not inspired to memorize buttons, therefor I will not master the game, end of story. The game is now ruined. I was happier not knowing this, sorry to have passed this information on to you.
