Street Fighter

What is Street Fighter? It is the greatest, most successful, most intricate and most popular fighting video game by Capcom of all time. Ever since it's conception in mid-1987, Street Fighter has rocked arcades all over the world.

The concept is simple; two fighters, dueling a best of three match, with each attack nipping off a bit of your opponent's health bar. However as Street Fighter has grown, new techniques have been developed: combination attacks, super combos, counters, making the art of Street Fighter increasingly more complex.

As we approach what appears to be a bottle neck in fighting game history, Street Fighter continues to refine, revolutionise and push the genre to it's very limits, and beyond.

Anyone who knows this popular game has probably gone out and seen the cheesy live-actoin Street Fighter movie. A total flop due to an absolutely stupid storyline and the horrific acting of Jean-Claude Van Damm. Through all the changes and development in character analysis, Ryu and Ken are still the best (although, Ken has too much eye-brow going for him).

Tekkaman Blade

The series takes place in a not too distant future Earth. It takes place in Federation Space Calendar year 192. Terrans have built an orbiting, manned, armed and armored ring around the planet called the "Orbital Ring". Unfortunately an alien species called the Radamu attacks the ring (as most typical anime storylines appear to be). Two military organizations still remain active and continue the fight against the aliens. The first are the "Space Knights", whose duties were to help protect the Earth from outside invasions. The other is the Earth Defense Force, a land-based force whose original duties seemed to have mostly been acting as a global police force. The events chronicled in the series start about one year after the aliens first arrived. More and more of the Earth's atmosphere is being changed into poison by the alien spores. One of the jobs the Space Knights now carry out is monitoring the spread of the spores. A Space Knight team is gathering such information as the series opens. In orbit somewhere above them, a humanoid- shaped, armored mecha is battling the aliens. Then it is attacked by a similar mecha, and the second one names the first one "Tekkaman Blade" and "Traitor". The second mecha is identified by the first during their subsequent battle as "Tekkaman Dagger". As a result of the battle, Blade is damaged and falls into a descending orbit. The Space Knight teams goes to investigate the resulting meteoric fireball. A humanoid crawls out of the crater and collapses. This is how Tekkaman Blade comes into contact with his future allies, the Space Knights...

Tekkaman Blade is the BOMB!!! He sure knows when to whip out a move that make him look like THE man and he sure has plans... BIG plans...(isn't that right, Mel? LOL)
The models I have collected of Tekkaman Blade are awesome. Hmmm... I think this is got me hooked into building those easy-chessy snap together models... LOL.

Tekken 3

Power and greed are the root of all evil. Heihachi and Kazuya lock horns for the final time to decide who is the head of the Mishima Financial Empire. Tremendous wealth and power go to the winner... the loser, a burial in a volcanic crater. Unsatisfied and a thirst yet for more, Heihachi sets his goals even higher. A plan for world peace falsely gains the confidence and support of leaders worldwide. In this time a baby is born...
Fifteen years later a secret excavation by Heihachi's "Tekken Forces" in Central American ruins unearths an unusual find. In their final communiqué with Heihachi they report the sighting of a mysterious "God of Fight."
Jin Kazama is now a young man of fifteen years. Though he and his mother Jun live peacefully in the mountains, her intuition warns of impending him of a danger. She tells him of a tremendous power seeking their lives. No longer a child and deserving of answers, Jun explains the story of his father, grandfather and the legend of Tekken. Fearful of what lay ahead she tells Jin to go to Heihachi if anything happens to her. Her intuition proves right on a cold, stormy night. The "God of Fight" comes to the mountains bringing a chilling, swirling wind. Still not a man and unpolished in his fighting skills, he is no match. His last words heard before losing consciousness are his mother yelling "run, run far away". Bright morning sunlight awakens Jin. The house and everything around it is burned to the ground. Searching frantically for his mother she is nowhere to be found. Following his mothers wishes, Jin seeks out Heihachi Mishima. Upon hearing of what happened, Heihachi reasons that the "God of Fight" thrives on the "strong souls" of others...the souls of Tekken. Jin asks Heihachi to teach him how to defeat the "God of Fight". As a ploy to lure the "God of Fight", Jin plans to one day organise "The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3". Such a gathering of strong souls would be too much for his arch enemy to resist! Jin enters his nineteenth year. Four years of tutelage under Heihachi Mishima have prepared him for his meeting with destiny. The curtains rise for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3...