KING OF CHINATOWN STREET FIGHTER DOC.

I first met Justin Wong back in the mid 90's when I use to frequent the game and robot shops on Elizabeth St. in New York's Chinatown.

He was (and probably still is) a regular at a small arcade on Mott St. (the one with the Tic Tac Toe chicken) that use to get all the major fighting game cabinets before anywhere else in the city.

I played against him (most of the times, he was the guy who everyone was trying to get beat to stay on he machine) during my unemployed, wild vagabond days at that very arcade during one of many crowded stay and play sessions of Street Fighter 3 : 3rd strike, I plunked my Quarter down on the cabinet, waited my turn and lost several Dollars each visit never 0nce winning a match.

Ten years later, I have a good job with benefits, a wife and a child and he's making a living playing Street fighter....life sucks.



To give you a little back story on the Justin x Daigo rivalry. They are responsible for the greatest Street fighter video comeback I've ever seen. EVO semifinals Las Vegas 2004, Justin paying Chun Li and Daigo as Ken.

Justin, thinking that he has the win and the game with a Super move with Chun Li in the final round get's a rude awakening for Daigo's Ken.

I know you've seen this clip before but let's look at the entire match and wonder why we don't see highlights of Tournaments in HD on G4 or SPIKE.



Five years Later, Justin & Daigo met again in Vegas at the 2009 Evo Street Fighter 4
( sorry for the video quality)

Part 1


Part 2


Give it up Justin, Daigo is a Beast!

MY THOUGHTS ON WONDER WOMAN'S NEW OUTFIT.

Jim Lee is debuting her new look in this weeks WW # 600 but to me it looks like something more appropriate for Donna Troy or the current Wonder Girl.

Sorry Mr. Lee, but without the star spangled one piece, it just doesn't feel like the same character, it's not Wonder Woman.

I predict that DC will have back in her original fan servicing swimsuit in 4 issues.




Just for kicks, here are some of the classic Wonder Woman costumes next to a couple of abandoned attempts to revamp the characters look.



Did you like the 70's ultra white super spy and the 90's bike messenger look?

My point exactly.

NEW SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO TRAILER

I know it's chock full of J-pop idols and Toho films extras but I need this movie to be good damn it!

YAMATO FOREVER!

STREET FIGHTER 3 : THIRD STRIKE.....BEST OF THE BEST.

Here's a nice montage of some of the sickest Street Fighter 3 : Third Strike Tourney gameplay combos, parries and comebacks!

Capcom needs to put everything aside and get this out on the PSN and XBOX with online versus......NOW!

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD GAME

This takes me back to the Sega Saturn days of arcade perfect multiplayer beat-em ups.

Here's what they haven't told you, it will only be available for a limited time on the PSN so if your a fan of the Scott Pilgrim series, don't wait, support the game while it's available

also buy the books and go see the movie.

GRANDAIZA RETURNS

A nice little labor of animated love from the people at CD4Team-dedicated to the greatest japanese super robot of them all....


GRANDAIZA!

MY FAVORITE GAME CLIPS FROM E3

I first would like to give credit where it's due to our Mr. Mumblestien for bringing Two of these games to my attention.


let's begin:


STAR WARS : THE FORCE UNLEASHED 2

The original was an all time favorite of mine that I'm currently replaying for shits and giggles. Vader's apprentice is back out for revenge wielding dual lightsabers. The game looks phenomenal with major improvements to the in game character models and H.U.D.

Due out this October, I really can't remember the last time I was this excited for a traditional linear action adventure game.

Check out the G4 exclusive game footage below:







METAL GEAR RISING

Hideki Kojima's follow up to Metal Gear Solid 4 Stars Raiden, the controversial fey sword wielding cyber ninja first introduced over Ten years ago to hisses and boo's as Snakes successor in Metal Gear Solid 2, the backlash was so bad that plans for a follow up to MGS 2 staring Raiden were shelved and the Metal Gear series took a jump back in time to the cold war and returned "Snake" ( aka A young Big Boss ) as the series protagonist for the next installment.

Well I'm glad they waited cause the game looks amazing and the slice through everything gameplay makes me want to play this....NOW.

check it out courtesy of G4:





MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3

I've been waiting for this game for over 10 F*cking years! Aside from the questionable flavor of the month marvel character choices, I just hope the netcode is tight cause I'm looking to take my skills online.

Now if they could only add BEN GRIMM with his signature "IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!" and I'll be set.



So these are the games from E3 that caught my eye, nothing else stood out to me or maybe I didn't care for anything else since game time is at a premium in my house.

anywhoo, hasta luego....


Tomorrow: Buffoonery and high jinx!

OH WOE IS ME....SUMMER IS HERE

Every year it's the same thing, I want to look my best for summer but when it comes to food I just can't keep my trap shut.

Simply put, I like to eat food that's delicious, unfortunately for me that translates into food that's bad for me and my sedimentary lifestyle of work, movies, blogging and video games doesn't really help matters at all.

"Then quit your whining and get off your ass and do something about it!" easier said than done, for an out of shape manimal like myself I can go out and do a hours worth of cardio for a day and feel like shit afterward, losing what little motivation I had in the first place.

So for now I'm going to try and control my hungers and cravings, any zombie will tell you that it's not easy. But I'm going to it a try and I promise not to use one of Galactus's many self justifying soliloquies to go back to my bad eating habits.

(Click to enlarge and you'll see for yourself that he makes so much sense to a fat man.)

Tomorrows post: A few of my favorite games at E3!

AND WE'RE BACK!

I took a little time off to enjoy the finer things in life ( Super Street Fighter 4 & Lost Planet 2 ) I also was toying with the idea of giving some of the readers of my puny little blog editorial powers to contribute freely to this little corner of the interweb.

So if any of you want to get your junior ace reporting skills a try, drop me a line at grandaiza@gmail.com and I'll see if you got the chops for this business.


and now for something completely unexpected...