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Now aged 15, our restless golden-era gamer youth finds himself obsessed with the arcade works of Capcom, the wonder of his Sega Genesis, and faces a critical choice about whether or not to leave home. It’s getting real, and this is all right before Street Fighter II lands like a fallen comet into his life!
Video games don’t get the same respect as movies and music do as formative influences upon us... but maybe they should? One retrogamer who came of age during the fighting game craze spawned by SFII takes a look at the scraps in his life, on and off the screen from boyhood forward.