It was my first real taste of hip-hop culture as a nerdy white kid from the American suburbs – one who was a fan of bands They Might Be Giants, Beck, and Ben Folds Five. Every fighter is essentially a stylised version of their rap persona. An entire game filled to the brim with a who’s-who list of actual rappers, actors, and icons surrounding the hip-hop pantheon. READ MORE: Red Bull Kumite reminds me how much I miss offline fighting game tournamentsĭef Jam: Fight for NY is bonkers there’s no doubt about it.In 2004, I stumbled upon the game I still tout as the single greatest fighting game of all time – Def Jam: Fight for NY. Fighting games quickly became my favourite genre, as my then undiagnosed ADHD could handle playing speedy matches over the slog of replaying the same levels in a platformer every time I died. Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Tekken these were the games that I could win by mashing buttons, stumbling on special moves, and accidentally chaining together combos. The arcades of my youth were filled with fighting games and beat ‘em ups that devoured quarters.
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