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Streetfighter II Rainbow Edition, the Bootleg That Changed Streetfighter History
- SubiculumCode 8y agoI saw this at a grocery store years ago and it blew my mind.
- arayh 8y agoWow, I still remember the first time I saw this ROM hack in the arcade. I was so confused, since I had never heard of such mods before that; I thought it was official (and completely absurd).
- toast0 8y agoI remember stuffing quarters into one of these with friends and seeing who could jump through the top of the screen the most, you could jump again after doing an air fireball. As I recall, when time was up, you'd fall back all the way through. I haven't seen any videos where people did this though :( Some threads mention the Zangief's spinning piledriver could catch someone who had wrapped through the top several times, and looked pretty impressive; I'd love to see a video of that (alas, neither I, nor my friends could ever do that move :( )
- mprev 8y agoI would have loved to have read more about the story behind such bootlegs.
- johnvanommen 8y agoFun fact: Ms Pac Man was made by hackers. Here's the story: Some twenty-something hackers at MIT had a decent little side business selling modified Missile Command boards. They wanted to make one for Pac Man. The hack was so good, the American distributor of Pac Man released the hacked version of Pac Man aka "Ms Pac Man." The Japanese team, Namco, was working on their own Pac Man sequel, "Super Pac Man."
- hbcondo714 8y ago> massive multi-level arcades in Akihabara Anyone been to these in Japan? Sounds fun.
- AndrewOMartin 8y agoYes and yes, but with variety comes entire floors of machines you're not interested in, or some machines that take up most of a floor on their own, not to mention the "no men" floors for dressing up photobooths.