Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the video gamers podcast. You know, something that doesn't get

talked about nearly often enough on this show is a segment of the video game world called

Fighting Games. Fighting games are something that are near and dear to my heart, and I wanted to

invite somebody who's a very special guest and a very good friend of mine, Charles on the show,

who is a fellow fighting game enthusiast. I am your host, John, and we are going to be going through a history of fighting games

in this episode.

Charles, welcome to the show.

Oh, thanks, man.

Happy to be here.

And super stoked to talk about fighting games, especially, one of my major passions.

Yeah, for sure.

And that's actually one of the things that we connected on initially when you and I met like whatever it was 20 years ago.

We attended a Comic-Con up here in Seattle, Washington.

And aside from our mutual love of comic books, we ended up clicking on fighting games.

Yeah, for sure. And video games in general. But yeah, especially fighting games. All the general nerd adjacent stuff. So before we get into the content

of the show, man, what was your first fighting game that you played? Oh, gosh. You know,

karate champ back in the day, I remember my my dad taking into the arcade and we would play

karate champ i don't know if you remember we would play you know the the characters you had one in the

white gey and one in the red gey and uh it was super simple basically were ru and uh kin yeah probably a big

influence i would imagine but yeah uh i think there was only one or two buttons to or something. And it was super simplified. Like a punch kick. Yeah, something like that. But it was super fun. That was one of my fondest memories, you know, back in the day. Especially playing with my dad. I was like, maybe that's where it all started, you know. So did your dad end up, like, continuing on as your dad a gamer at all? No. I know the answer. Yeah. Dad is the coolest guy I've ever met and way too cool for video games. Yeah. Yeah, he's much more of a sports guy. And it was probably like some sports bar or something he took me to. Right. You know, as a kid, you gravitate towards the video games. He probably just

played it with me. But yeah, it was a special memory for me, especially. Yeah, I do. So when I was

doing the research for this show, you know, karate champ, which we'll touch on here shortly is

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