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You know, collectively these games don't necessarily get the respect that they deserve or at some point they haven't gotten the respect and it's taken people a while to come around to them.

So that's kind of the direction we're going with. There's not really much of a preamble for this one. So we're just going to jump right in.

So everyone here except Joe put down a title that we failed to understand the first time we played.

I'm putting you on the hotspot because you did not contribute to the notes.

You didn't participate. So here's your lack of participation trophy. You get to go first.

So what is a game that you failed to understand why did this happen and how can Trit are you now?

This will probably really bother Jared because he knows how I feel now.

And he probably wishes I still felt this way. But a game that I failed to understand the first time around was Killer Instinct.

I was a big fan of Street Fighter 2 growing up and Killer Instinct was a game that got a lot of buzz in the arcades.

It was very loud, very popular, very aggressive.

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