(reaction to the last article made it profoundly clear that I was adding too many notations to the articles, I am leaving this one as-is - ed) A beat up standup machine at a 7-11. Video games in the Pizza Hut lobby to distract children. The town arcade. When Street Fighter 2 took off, it was in these places that people gathered to face off against each other in visual gladiatorial combat. The age of American circle gate bat sticks and convex buttons sure to grind your fingers to the bone. The age of Street Fighter. Street Fighter 2 took the world by storm, and gave many people who could not afford game consoles or computers at home a vibrant and exciting way to prove who was better. A handful of quarters was much cheaper than a Super Nintendo, and if you were one of the town's elite, you could put in a night's work on some pocket change. Because of the accessibility and low price, inner city youth flocked to these arcade machines and were th...