While Activision may be creaming it every year with their Call of Duty franchise, in my books the Street Fighter series will always stand strong as some of the best video games ever made.
Sure, I'm not actually very good at many of the Street Fighter games, but to me, the old school fighters will always hold a special place in my heart. The childhood memories of friends talking about invisible throws and super combo finishes are always bought back whenever I see an arcade machine.
As a kid I always thought there would be no greater joy in the world on own a Street Fighter 2 arcade. So it comes as no surprise that, now I'm older, I find myself with a strange urge to live out this dream - over and over again.
I've owned 2 old arcade machines in the past, built numerous custom made joysticks (see earlier post) and built an entire Vewlix cabinet entirely from scratch.
This photo is my latest time waster ...
Above is the 'something completely different' I was talking about earlier (a few months ago).
Street Fighter 4 cannot be played on a gamepad and I wasn't ready to spend about $400 on a good stick (especially when it's best played 2 player), so I decided to spend months constructing my own.
In the end I went a bit crazy and made about 10 of them.
Not much to say really. It's been almost 2 years since I last posted some work, which is a pretty sad fact. But, despite this, I'm still hopeful that I'll get some new work up in the next few months. Autumn and Winter seem to have a depressing, secludedness about them that tends to motive me to create more. I guess it makes sense that I'd rather be outside during summer.
Anyway, above is an illustration I created about a month ago. It was for a competition to win an Xbox 360 Arcade Machine. The brief was to create a new character for the newly released Street Fighter 4. I tried to copy the style of the existing artwork created, while not taking a lifetime to illustrate. In the end it took about 2 nights work.
Did I win? Well, I thought I had it in the bag, but I don't even know if it got looked at it, cause some rough sketch created with felt tips took it's place as number one. Such is life.
