Todays Youth Dont know how to play videogames.

[Staxeon]

Street Fighter isn't a button masher if you want to actually be good at it and not a lamer. Crouching and using light kick is an offense punishable by noogie (not the yoga noogie, a real one).

I'm in complete agreement. I'm a huge advocate of the coin-op arcade. I spent nearly all of my childhood and high school years playing and working part-time in an arcade. Nothing compares to that first month Mortal Kombat came and everyone was in complete awe.

But I'm a father now and wanted to pass on some of that gaming experience to my sons. We have a Gamecube so I got Soul Caliber, and literally 13 times out of 15 got my ass beat by an 8 year old. Button mashing. I went to Toys R Us and found one of those sega emulators, has 2 controllers and SF2 built in. I've been teaching them the basics since then. They almost have QCF down.

I'll be damned if my sons call themselves "gamers" and not know the roots like fireball, uppercut, or any charge move.