/vr/ - Retro Games

Man, I know I'm never gonna be able to find this again, but...

When I was young, my grandma got me some cheap LCD game from the drug store. The title was just "Arcade Fighter", but the presentation was kind of interesting. It had its own little tiny arcade stick, and six buttons. Had the generic built-in beeper speaker, but this one could actually play music. This thing had one of those block matrix displays on them, like a Tomogatchi, rather than the LCD "stills" you're used to seeing on Tiger handhelds and the like.

What was by far the most impressive, however, was that the game itself was a fairly accurate re-creation of Street Fighter II, just with REALLY low res stick sprites. A couple of details were recognizable, such as E. Honda being huge and Chun-Li's hairbuns. However, when you got to the character selection screen, it had low-res versions of the portraits from the arcade version, and you could actually play as several of the characters.

The port wasn't complete, and I think the joystick was too shitty to actually recognize any advanced inputs (no quarter circles, etc.), but I have to hand it to them for trying. It was a step above the traditional knockoff hardware.