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Like The Prisoner, I come full circle. With my old 1080i monitor installed on my Anthro-wback at 老婆’s, Street Fighter revisits, first by way of infallible Super Famicom, then Xbox360 and when even Fighting Commander-maker Hori’s import-only controller failed with analog sticks that leave even less room for the critical cross pad, already requiring a stretch for short thumbs forced into place by the grip handles, I went back and forth setting the display for the PS3 before learning it’d auto-detect by holding down the power button.

This doesn’t strike me as much more than an upgrade from the HD’d Super Turbo, less so if I’m awed by how far we’ve come today with things such as Shazam and President Barack Obama; online play we had 15 years ago with XBAND. As I was telling 남재 before I left, by the time they realize my dream MMORPG-style incarnation where avatars represent our virtual fighting skills, he and I will be relegated to two of many expendable guards of some punk kid’s fortress dojo.

Storm. “Shockingly bad” is right. Might as well have added a buzzer-type shock to each press of the screen. Incidentally I had a dream last night of watching an old Brit comedy show with Hugh Laurie spoofing 60’s spy shows, including the Prisoner.

Cameo. I sent an image attachment via e-mail to the display model in a 3-1 employee-to-customer ratio T-Mobile store and waited for as long as I could before the sad state of tech got to me (approximately 15 minutes), and it never showed. Neither did the picture message one of their guys tested.

Animal Crossing for Wii. Another chance for Nintendo to leapfrog Sony and Microsoft with an online world for their brand, wasted.

My thumb, after dusting off the Super Famicom with the Fighting Commander, having confirmed that the PS3 supports it through the SmartJoy. I pushed the new blister through the 8-star Super Battle, but it broke at Sagat, oozing fluid onto the pad—a new, slippery sensation, to be sure, at least for someone once protected so ably by a callous there. Like a champ who completes that last mile with a torn ACL, I kept up the fireball/dragon-punch combo against M.Bison and reached those ending credits where I used to swear to my friends I saw a beer can in T.Hawk’s hand. Didn’t you get a shot of the whole cast if you completed it without a defeat?

Finally, some straight talk.

Oh snap, check out what I came across looking for that screencap (and ending up having to do myself, only to learn that my MacBook’s SuperDrive is failing in OSX, too; thank god for my pre-PS2 Sony portable DVD-ROM), scans from Jack Kirby’s aborted adaptation, which I remember seeing even further back on eBay starting at $3500. I’m over art collecting, but I’ll keep what I can get:
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