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Just wondering, was that SF2 clone Super Fighter, with Pho Huang among the characters? I did the same thing about figuring out which keys would block my oppone

by T-hawk 13y ago

Just wondering, was that SF2 clone Super Fighter, with Pho Huang among the characters? I did the same thing about figuring out which keys would block my opponent from moving, both in Super Fighter and in the PC ports of the Mortal Kombat games. Didn't go as far as automatically calculating it per keyboard, though. We actually tried to play honestly without using that for advantage, a gentleman's agreement to only press keys for just as long as you needed.

chinpokomon 13y ago
Eventually we decided it was cheating too and called a truce to key smashing. That wouldn't prevent us to use it on occasion as a last ditch effort. ;-) It's been a few years, so I don't remember too much about the game. I only remember it was such a good port that I could learn moves on the clone and that made me a much better player in the arcades. I also played my share of Mortal Kombat and Doom on those desktops. Mortal Kombat was great because it was actually a port by Probe/Acclaim and as far as I could tell it played identically. That became a valuable skill in college. Probably my favorite misuse of equipment was from my senior year of high school. I got myself a 486 DX2-50 monochrome laptop and my friend got a Toshiba color laptop. We hooked up Null MODEM cables and strung them out over a couple seat rows and columns. We played Doom death matches in the middle of class lectures. Having a laptop was unusual. Using one in a classroom, even more so. I don't know if our government teacher thought we were taking notes -- we weren't -- but I don't think he suspected we were playing multiplayer games. Besides, collectively my friends and I had the best grades in the class, so as long as we weren't being disruptive we could pretty much do as we pleased. We were still the only ones who would answer any questions or engage in political debate.

by T-hawk 13y ago

chinpokomon 13y ago

Eventually we decided it was cheating too and called a truce to key smashing. That wouldn't prevent us to use it on occasion as a last ditch effort. ;-) It's been a few years, so I don't remember too much about the game. I only remember it was such a good port that I could learn moves on the clone and that made me a much better player in the arcades. I also played my share of Mortal Kombat and Doom on those desktops. Mortal Kombat was great because it was actually a port by Probe/Acclaim and as far as I could tell it played identically. That became a valuable skill in college. Probably my favorite misuse of equipment was from my senior year of high school. I got myself a 486 DX2-50 monochrome laptop and my friend got a Toshiba color laptop. We hooked up Null MODEM cables and strung them out over a couple seat rows and columns. We played Doom death matches in the middle of class lectures. Having a laptop was unusual. Using one in a classroom, even more so. I don't know if our government teacher thought we were taking notes -- we weren't -- but I don't think he suspected we were playing multiplayer games. Besides, collectively my friends and I had the best grades in the class, so as long as we weren't being disruptive we could pretty much do as we pleased. We were still the only ones who would answer any questions or engage in political debate.