Ruminations of a Six Button Samurai

Long ago, a 747 damaged by lightning attempted a crash-landing over a dense jungle in Brazil… from the flames emerged a boy, a lone survivor, far from home, who began to feast on the plants and small creatures unlucky enough to cross his path. His skin turned an odd greenish hue, and his long, unkept hair turned a vivid orange the shade of Gatorade. He grew strong in the crucible of the Amazon, and later became a champion at the global Street Fighter tournament, when a smallish older woman peeled from the crowd and recognized him from long before he became one with the jungle. “Jimmy?” she called out. “Are you my long-lost son, Jimmy?” BUT ENOUGH ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD ALREADY… let's talk about the early days of the video game that shook the world, spawned a generational phenomenon that enshrined an entire genre and left a permanent mark on the pop-culture landscape. Street Fighter II! I'm JJJ, and this is a special edition of Ruminations of a Six Button Samurai, right here on the Ruminations Radio Network. RIGHT. NOW! TIME STAMPS:5:00 The Samurai's history at the time SF II hit10:28 Brando's memories (the other guys first times)14:18 Tony's recollections16:40 Hoptimus ruminates23:29 TRIVIA!!!Music Composed by Steve Wilder Blumenthalhttps://twitter.com/sixbsamuraiwww.RuminationsRadioNetwork.comwww.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetworkTwitter: RuminationsRadioNetwork@RuminationsNProduction by Mitch Proctor

Music Composed by Steve Wilder Blumenthal www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.comwww.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetworkTwitter: RuminationsRadioNetwork@RuminationsNMusic and Production by Mitch ProctorProduction by Mitch Proctor

The Elusive Happy-NES of a Salty Arcade Rat: Once again firmly ensconced in his ancestral desert home of Tucson, JJJ finds himself torn between the games on his NES (and some of the awful arcade ports that threaten his faith in the platform), and roaming free in the then-plentiful arcades that beckon to his pre-teen soul. Either way, his allowance is doomed. www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.comTwitter: Ruminations@FromTheRedRoomhttp://guillermotheivth.blogspot.com/Facebook  Ruminations from the Red RoomInstagram www.instagram.com/FromTheRedRoom Production by Mitch Proctor

The story begins here... a young Samurai begins his lifelong passion for gaming, and arcades.Video games don't get the same respect as movies and music do as formative influences upon us... but maybe they should? One retrogamer who came of age during the fighting game craze spawned by SFII takes a look at the scraps in his life, on and off the screen from boyhood forward.Twitter: Ruminations@FromTheRedRoomhttp://guillermotheivth.blogspot.com/Facebook  Ruminations from the Red RoomInstagram www.instagram.com/FromTheRedRoom www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com