When he did go to arcades, however, Kuroda spent his time mostly spectating matches, and memorising combos and footsie tools - which he tried out in single-player against CPU opponents. At that age, Kuroda did not go to arcades often, mostly due to middle school/junior high delinquents often hanging out at his local arcade. Although games like Pokemon were popular at the time, Kuroda said he took to fighting games because they were the easiest to play - all you do is hit buttons to throw out punches and kicks, beat the CPU opponents to clear the game.
Kuroda liked the speedy feel of SNK's fighters, and found the graphics to be appealing.
Mostly played SNK games such as Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters '95. As his mother would often return home late from work, Kuroda was not allowed to go out at night, unless it was to stay at the game shop nearby which allowed for Kuroda's mother to locate him easily when heading home from work. Started playing fighting games when he was in 4th grade (9~10 years old). Hit the jump to read our brief, translated notes on Kuroda's humble beginnings as a fighting games player, and to watch Kuroda take on top players such as Vanawo (3S) and Eita (USF4) in first-to-10 sets.īrief notes on Kuroda's beginnings as a Street Fighter player: And each one has Kuroda square off against a top fighting gamer (which explains the column's title), in either 3S or Ultra Street Fighter 4, on top of profiling Kuroda's past through interview snippets. Three parts of the irregularly-published column has surfaced so far.
Recently, the Weekly Playboy News portal has been running a series of columns where they interview Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike legend Kuroda, whom they're calling an "urban legend" amongst fighting gamers, on how he got his start in the game. In Japan, publishing giant Shueisha owns the rights to the Playboy namesake, which they use to put out a weekly men's magazine - Weekly Playboy - that is really quite different in nature to the US publication of the same name.Īnd while the Weekly Playboy magazine is nonetheless naughty in nature, and does feature nudity, its Web presence, Weekly Playboy News, is more of a lifestyle and entertainment portal featuring content that is a little more well-rounded, and a tad bit more safer for work (though not a lot more).
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