For about the past month and a half I have been obsessed with TvC. I doubt it will surprise anyone to hear that along with this, I have a newfound reverence for fighting games in general. I’ve always been a strong fan of SF2 and many others, but not on the same level. In any case, it surprised me a good deal to learn that I was completely oblivious to (arguably) the final iteration of SF2, that being Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. As far as I knew, Super Street Fighter 2 was the latest and greatest. If you take a look at it the reason can be understood: it never received a port to any mainstream platform. (Note: There are certain bundles and packages, but bare with me here). Hearing a lot about this game, I became very interested in it and, looking at the above hyperlink, I realized what I had to do.

I got the game. For 3DO.

Finally a reason beyond Road Rash to own a 3DO!! The game is awesome. Shocking for a 3DO game, the controls are smooth and responsive as any SF game and the load times are not bad at all. The controller cords are ever so slightly too short for my couch, but thanks to 3DO’s daisy-chained controllers, the game can be played with the 2P controller quite conveniently (score one for horrible design decisions!). Of course, this being 3DO, there has to be one horrible aspect of it. In this case it’s the 3DO controller. You’ll note there are 3 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, and…. a start button. Yeah, this is how you have to map the controls for SSF2T and as you can imagine, there are buttons you just don’t use when you’re playing like this. So here it is, 2010, and I’m in the market for a 3rd party 6-button controller. For 3DO.