And i never even knew SHGL existed until after i had a car, so i never had to ask for rides either. Although i’ve driven almost every regular home at least once.

I was desperate for tokens that I even went into the infamous pool when the manager was out…

My memory’s a little fuzzy but i think i met tragic at SHGL in summer 2001, though i’d known him from GCC longer than that. We ended up collaborating on a couple of CvS2 combovids. Before that, it hadn’t even occurred to me that “regular” people could make combo videos. I must have assumed that you had to be a professional film editor or something.

I don’t remember any of the pre-2000 GCC layouts though. The first time i saw GCC was the same way it looked when it died out.

I think with 56k people were more appreciative of what they were getting because a simple combo vid would take almost a day to download and this would be at the cost of using someone’s phone line.

In fact, this is talked about in the tekken podcast at iamtekken.com
http://iamtekken.com/2010/04/02/myks-tekken-time-episode-8/ (around 10 mins)

where myk discusses if the internet is some kind of disadvantage
and also filthyrich talks about how if you beat a high status player and you didn’t shake their hand, you’d get jumped. Why? Since people are so poor in the phillipines, tekken is all they have so they put so much emotional investment into the game, whereas in the states its not uncommon to have people just buy a copy of sf play it a couple of times and then forget about it.

For me I had a 56k connection, and back then I used to trade cds of family guy real player files for street fighter matches taped in Japan. That was true gold.

I remember seeing this video posted on GCC, but i don’t know the story behind it. Back in those days, combovids were released less than once a month and nobody had capture cards. In fact i didn’t even know what a capture card was!