Glory Stories: Fighting Week

Your favorite win, worst defeat, and most memorable moment.

by Luke Siuty ٢ Minute Read

We asked, you answered. Here are the community's favorite memories including fighting games.

With that in mind, we want to connect closer with our community. Through our social media channels, such as the SteelSeries Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we've asked you for your favorite memories involving fighting games. We've picked our favorites to spotlight for Glory Stories.

The incoherent screaming crowd of Daigo vs Justin's fight
— Flexy: Your Local VTuber (@FlexyFive) ٢٠. يوليو, ٢٠٢٢

FlexyFive is of course talking about the most famous event in fighting game history: Evo Moment #٣٧, embedded below. Daigo Umehara pulled off a series of perfect parries to completely negate Justin Wong's Chun-li super.

My brother spamming leg sweep in Mortal Kombat II for SNES.

I might have been pissed at the time but it's a core memory for sure. ❤️
— Geneon (@geneon101) ٢٠. يوليو, ٢٠٢٢

Ah, who doesn't remember spamming the sweep on an opponent who doesn't know how to block and winning easily. If this keeps happening to you, read our guide about how to get good in fighting games.

Tekken..the first one.. buddy was living in this game, knew all the moves.. me, a total noob who was just pushing random buttons and shredding him..
— Arthaios @Home Office since ٠٣/٢٠٢٠ (@Arthaios) ٢٠. يوليو, ٢٠٢٢

Conversely, button mashing works out just fine sometimes.

stone cold kenneth bradley
— Moist | Hotashi (@hotashis) ٢٠. يوليو, ٢٠٢٢

CEO (Community Effort Orlando) is a fighting game tournament famous for having special ring-style entrances for the players. KBrad made an entrance just like WWE's Stone Cold Steve Austin!

First time hearing "ULTRAAAA COMBOOOOOO!" in the arcade. So damn hype.
— Garrett S (@IcedNote) ٢٠. يوليو, ٢٠٢٢

Some of you may never have been to a real arcade, but back in the day, those were the place for hype community meetups, where rivalries were born and friends for life were made.