Hello, my name is Michil Kroeder and I'd like to welcome you to Kenny Rind's interview Extra.

And this one ties in with our very recent podcast on Street Fighter 4, issue 355, which should now be available for your listening pleasure.

And here to talk more about the game from a competitive fighting game scene perspective on Street Fighter 4 is a key figure in set scene.

He's an old school Street Fighter competitor, a combo execution enthusiast

Extraordinaire, a writer of many an in-depth guide on some of the most complex games

in the genre, and one of the most prominent voices, i.e. commentators in broadcasted fighting

game competitions. He's the one and only James Chen.

Welcome, James, and thanks so much for doing this.

Yeah, no problem.

How's everybody going?

Yeah, so was that a bit of an apt description of, I mean, you've made quite a lot of

transitions throughout your involvement with.

Oh, yeah.

I've worn a lot, I've worn a lot of different hats in the fighting. Oh, yeah. I've worn a lot.

I've worn a lot of different hats in the fighting game community.

Right.

So for listeners that aren't too well versed in the fighting game genre and the scene,

the fighting game community at the FGC,

could you tell us maybe a little bit more about yourself and your history of fighting

games and the competitive community? Yeah, for fighting games, man, I've been playing

fighting games for very, very long time since the original Street Fighter 2. And yeah, I've just never stopped playing since that game came out. I've always

been a video game fan, but when that, when I started playing Street Fighter, it was like,

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