Knocking out two of your opponent’s characters with only one of your teammates is tough in The King of Fighters XIV. SNK has their own fun little way of acknowledging this: beat two opponents in a row, get a new win pose! Well, sort of. Some are as simple as new voice lines accompanying the old win poses. Still, it’s a nice touch of personality!
Check out the video below to see all the alternate win poses found so far.
Sadly, not every character has a alternate win pose. Perhaps a future update will bring in a few more easter eggs like this?
Knocking out two of your opponent’s characters with only one of your teammates is tough in The King of Fighters XIV. SNK has their own fun little way of acknowledging this: beat two opponents in a row, get a new win pose! Well, sort of. Some are as simple as new voice lines accompanying the old win poses. Still, it’s a nice touch of personality!
Check out the video below to see all the alternate win poses found so far.
Sadly, not every character has a alternate win pose. Perhaps a future update will bring in a few more easter eggs like this?
Knocking out two of your opponent’s characters with only one of your teammates is tough in The King of Fighters XIV. SNK has their own fun little way of acknowledging this: beat two opponents in a row, get a new win pose! Well, sort of. Some are as simple as new voice lines accompanying the old win poses. Still, it’s a nice touch of personality!
Check out the video below to see all the alternate win poses found so far.
Sadly, not every character has a alternate win pose. Perhaps a future update will bring in a few more easter eggs like this?
Knocking out two of your opponent’s characters with only one of your teammates is tough in The King of Fighters XIV. SNK has their own fun little way of acknowledging this: beat two opponents in a row, get a new win pose! Well, sort of. Some are as simple as new voice lines accompanying the old win poses. Still, it’s a nice touch of personality!
Check out the video below to see all the alternate win poses found so far.
Sadly, not every character has a alternate win pose. Perhaps a future update will bring in a few more easter eggs like this?
Hold onto someone you love, dear friends. Super Street Fighter Carnival 2016 has ended.
If you’ve been following along, then you are aware SSFC2016 is Mikado Arcade’s 2 month long journey through the wildest arcade games imaginable. SSFC2016 started the season off with King of Fighters 95′ and Samurai Showdown 3 tournaments, and now we’re wrapping up this gauntlet with Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown and World Heroes 2.
VF5FS is the latest installment of the Virtua Fighter series. While it’s true VF has receded a bit into the background of modern tournaments, there’s no question that the skill of these players is as sharp and fresh as ever. Considering we were just watching the high damage, uneven terrain, ring out heavy Virtua Fighter 3 recently, it’s pretty interesting to see how far the series has come.
World Heroes 2 is the 1993 2D fighter from ADK and SNK. This odd little Street Fighter clone is a surprisingly pure choice for finishing out fighting games at SSFC2016, but it’s a treat all the same. Just old school, classic footsies employed by fantastic players. It would be a few years before the series beefed up the speed with World Heroes Perfect. Though they didn’t play it at SSFC this year, it is worth noting that Mikado certainly knows how to play that game, too.
I highly recommend you subscribe to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. Though SSFC2016 may be over, they run great events for lots of games all the time!
Recently at SRK we have covered the 5v5 between Team Japan and Team USA scheduled for NEC 17. In addition to going into greater detail on the players involved, the Pokkén pro points out a curious trend with the way Japanese players are mostly teaming up with Americans for the newly added 2v2 event. For a little more personal insight into some of the players attending NEC 17, Milln shared some one-off questions he had with participants over on PokkénArena.
NEC 17 starts December 16th in King of Prussia, PA.
It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that Super Street Fighter Carnival 2016, Mikado’s 2-month long tournament gauntlet through a wide variety of arcade fighters, has entered it’s last week. We’ve been covering the games since the beginning and if you’ve wanted to get in on anything you’ve missed, there’s plenty to catch up on!
Now is not the time for tears, though. We should look towards the future.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Heritage For The Future is Capcom’s wild attempt at interpreting one of Japan’s longest running manga into a fighting game. Not an easy task, given that it’s source material is largely full of endless monologues, posing, and puzzle bosses. While it’s Capcom’s only attempt at a JoJo game, JJBA:HftF is a cult classic thanks to its gorgeous sprite work and interesting system mechanics. The fact there’s menacing competition at Mikado for this game is probably no surprise.
Virtua Fighter 3: Team Battle wasn’t nearly the success in America that it was in Japan. It took forever to come out to consoles and, when it did, it was for the dwindling Dreamcast. And that’s a shame, because as this video shows, VF3 has a ton of depth and excitement. This ambitious entry fully embraced its 3D core and defined many of the mechanics that VF4 and 5 would become known for.
As always, you can follow along Mikado’s upload schedule on YouTube, or try to catch them live on their UStream.
“Super Street Fighter Carnival” is the regularly-occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. The series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high level play for a variety of fighters. SSFC2016, the current season, has been running since 10/11/16. It’s hard to believe, but we’ve only got one week left of tournaments from SSFC2016!
Tōkidenshō Angel Eyes is a 1996 fighting game by Tecmo. This game has a lot of mechanics that were pretty advanced for it’s time: air dashes, air blocking, homing jumps, and more. For me, though, my absolute favorite thing about this game is that at the beginning of every round, the game throws both combatants at each other automatically. That’s one way to stop turtling!
The King of Fighters is a staple of the Mikado scene, so KOF 95′ appearing twice in the tournament series is no surprise. Let the runback begin!
KOF ’95 was not the only game to get a second shot this week, though! Samurai Shodown 2 also returns to SSFC2016. After last month’s close grand finals, this is something I’ve been looking forward to in particular. I can’t believe I’ve lived as long as I have and didn’t know Potemkin learned to flick away incoming projectiles from Sieger!
“Super Street Fighter Carnival” is the regularly-occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. The series focuses on arcade titles of old, bringing out high level play for a variety of fighters. SSFC2016, the current season, has been running since 10/11/16. It’s hard to believe, but we’ve only got one week left of tournaments from SSFC2016!
Tōkidenshō Angel Eyes is a 1996 fighting game by Tecmo. This game has a lot of mechanics that were pretty advanced for it’s time: air dashes, air blocking, homing jumps, and more. For me, though, my absolute favorite thing about this game is that at the beginning of every round, the game throws both combatants at each other automatically. That’s one way to stop turtling!
The King of Fighters is a staple of the Mikado scene, so KOF 95′ appearing twice in the tournament series is no surprise. Let the runback begin!
KOF ’95 was not the only game to get a second shot this week, though! Samurai Shodown 2 also returns to SSFC2016. After last month’s close grand finals, this is something I’ve been looking forward to in particular. I can’t believe I’ve lived as long as I have and didn’t know Potemkin learned to flick away incoming projectiles from Sieger!
“Super Street Fighter Carnival 2016” is in its home stretch! SSFC2016 is the currently ongoing Japanese tournament series at Mikado Arcade for a wide variety of classic and bizarre arcade titles. If you missed the first few tournaments from SSFC2016, there’s a lot to catch up on!
Fighting Layer will feel familiar to fans of the Street Fighter EX series. This Namco fighter was developed by none other then Akira, just a year after their last SFEX effort. Though the game never saw release outside of arcades, it lives on at Mikado.
Samurai Spirits (Samurai Shodown in the states!) hascertainlybeen no stranger to the SSFC2016 roster. It really only makes sense that the first game in the franchise would show up on the schedule!
