I was never really good at the game but I would bull rush guys into the corner and do the machine gun low kicks till they go dizzy with ryu. I would also use E Honda and to the turbo bitch slap.
I got my brother so made he destroyed a controler.
I was in the hood and was playing against some black kids one time and I was beating a bunch of them just mashing buttons, they were cool though, we had a blast.
That “tap, tap, THROW” style of playing was against a lot of “local” rules. Ive seen a lot of liquor store brawls over SF2 because of it. I was always of the opinion that if its in the game its fair, but I also gave no mercy to people playing against me on a machine with a broken stick or buttons. A good carpenter doesnt blame his tools!
Using Guile’s “magic throw” glitch (we called it the “Dim Mak”) was another fight starter.
Sf2 was a real GameChanger for arcade games. It was cool how they had a head to head game that was skill based and deep. You could win by mashing buttons but not against a skilled player