Someone told me that the Sheng pic was a photoshopped pic of one of the Rev figs.
I thought he became Gouken.
I recall a number of times picking up a mag at the store and writing codes and stuff on a piece of paper with my brother, but other than that i have no idea! Word of mouth maybe... What is BBS?
Looking at the Sheng Long fig, I think I could do it with my Wacom Tablet in Photoshop.
The hidden boss character that comes out to kill Bison and then fight you if you get there with no losses idea, came from the EGM article about Sheng Long and was used for Akuma. That's how an imaginary character became real in the game. Later on the actual master of Ryu & Ken would be named Gouken and the physical appearance of Sheng Long would get used by Ken (the long ponytail).
A BBS is a Bulletin Board System. A message board with no graphics. Later, really crappy graphics called ANSI would come in. These were the precursor to websites. Basically it looked like a giant DOS window filling the screen. I used to call them "Endless Lists". We would get every new upgrade to a game (SFII and MKII would have an upgrade like every month) shipped to our arcade, and the kids would be waiting. They'd know which arcade to drive to for version 2.1, or 2.2 etc. Each version had it's own glitches to exploit. We would always be the first one in a 100 mile radius to get the latest verion, and we would watch the BBS's like hawks to see when other people around the country would figure out how to do a move. Then we'd write it down on a paper scrap and race off to try it out. Other kids got wind and some started showing up with paper scraps too. Eventually a few months after we would know all the latest moves, a magazine would publish them. No doubt copying them directly from a BBS. A friend of mine who is a computer genius would sometimes find info a bit earlier than the rest of us. One day he started singing "MK babies" to the tune of "Muppet Babies" to taunt us. It wasn't till later that week that Babalities popped up on a few more BBS's than the obscure one he found it on, and we all found out what he was hinting at.
If I remember correctly, you didn't get to a BBS on the internet. You had to direct dial it with your modem. So you had to know where to go. There weren't search engines and such, and a lot of them charged subscription prices. That's how someone "in the know" could glean info that others wouldn't be privy to.
This is still my favorite rumor from MKII that never came true. It was posted in 1993 in a list of all kinds of legitimate game hints, and seems to have been completely forgotten and never referenced again.
PORTAL: Doing fatality in front of portal (with double
flawless) will let you meet Shokaku Lao in the High Priest Chamber.
You are challenged to fight (easy), and pass the 'test your might'
test; he will then tell you how to defeat Shirastro and make
use of the Flamebolt spell.
THE PIT II; Shirastro: Two fatalities/flawless/no block pressed;
Meet Shirastro, the Fire Daemon. If victorious, you acquire a
new attribute to any character 'Flamebolt' (F-F-HP+LP) to release,
very destructive.
Edited by Kevin Mayle, 09 December 2007 - 11:53 PM.
I think it was the same place I first played Primal Rage as well. Or maybe we rented it from BlockBuster.
I thought he became Gouken.
I know we used to get them from somewhere, but the constant source of the internet over the past 8 years has really drowned out that memory. I recall a number of times picking up a mag at the store and writing codes and stuff on a piece of paper with my brother, but other than that i have no idea! Word of mouth maybe... What is BBS?
