Hello everyone and welcome back to a new GBAtemp Series by yours truly, the GBATEMP FIGHT CLUB!
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Here's how Fight Club throws down tempers and temptresses. I'm going to take either 2 franchises, 2 characters, 2 specific games, or 2 of SOMETHING gaming related, and I'm going to pit them against each other for your enjoyment. But how do we declare a victor you may ask? That's where you come in!

The way this will work is I will give a brief synopsis of the two rivaling entities, and leave it up to all of you to vote and debate which one is the better being, and why that is. A combination of the poll votes, and the arguments made in this thread, will determine the victor! I will take poll votes into account for the most part, but the supporting arguments will also heavily decide who the victor will truly be.

This will be an attempted weekly act every Monday, where a victor will be chosen and a new round will begin, so you will have one week to argue and determine who or what the better of the two is. So without further ado, let's get to our competitors this week:​

MORTAL KOMBAT VS. STREET FIGHTER

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These respective fighting games changed the landscape for the arcade fighter in numerous ways, and are probably the two most respected and competitive fighting franchises of all time.

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Mortal Kombat not only introduced insane streamlined fighting mechanics, but also established the brutality, the violence, and the most famous FATALITY of fighting games. It was also the first fighting game to use digitized sprites to represent realism, something no other game had yet attempted. Basically the reason the ESRB exists in the first place, MK took violence to an all new level, and remains one of the most competitive fighting games to date.

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Street Fighter is heralded as the beginning of the Arcade fighter, and others will tell you it is THE Arcade fighter. Beginning in 1987, Street Fighter paved the way for competitive fighting games in general, and established the meta that those games would soon follow. Street Fighter has some of the most iconic characters in fighting games, even with Ryu making hi guest appearance in Nintendo's latest Smash Bros series, and is one of the highest selling fighting franchises to date.

We have a real brawl on our hands here tempers and temptresses, and it's up to you to decide if it's victory by Shoryuken or Fatality!

If you have a suggestion for what the next fight should be, leave a post on my profile page!

 

[KineticSonata]

Such a classic argument, and one I've had in the RL many times.

I first played a SF2 cabinet at some hole in the wall laundromat. I was 10 in '91
A year later, I first played a MK1 cabinet at some hole in the wall pizzeria.

So many memories. Such a tough choice...

I could write pages about it, brimming with smoke-filled basements, heated rivalries, and
breaking barrels in Street Fighter EX+Alpha for 60 hours straight.

To this day none of my friends will ever play MK Trilogy with me

There is one memory in particular that sways my vote

 

[Hungry Friend]

I haven't played MK in years so I may not be able to make the most informed decision here, but I've appreciated the whole Street Fighter series throughout the years while the MK games never really interested me outside of some of the cooler character designs.

SF has just had so much development as well in terms of strategy and competitive play. I could tell you any number of in-depth things about SF strategy, but I have no idea what MK strategy is like.

I've never played MK9 and have only played 10 for a couple hours at a friend's house, but it's so much more technical than MK1-4. I still prefer Street Fighter or KoF and I think SF is still vastly superior overall but MK has made some big strides in the last few years.

 

[chavosaur]

Well Well, once again with a lead right out the gate, it appears the fatality goes to Mortal Kombat, and the victory goes to Street Fighter! Looks like it's time for round 3... i'm looking forward to it!