I'm just about driving myself insane.  I really want to play SFIV.  As a Wii owner I have no chance in hell of ever playing it.  As a one console owner I knew there would be games that I'd miss out on and that's fine.  Between 2 jobs, wife and kids there's not enough time to play everything I want on one console, let alone 2.  But this is the first time I truly am regretting it.  

Street Fighter II was just legendary to me.  When I first became interested in the game I remember trying to play it in the arcade but the lines was too long.  So instead I settled for the original Street Fighter that had the punch pads.  But one of those pads was ripped off and I ended up cutting up my hand on some of the exposed metal.

Despite the injury I never lost interest and a few months later I bought a SNES and a copy of SFII along with it.  And it was amazing.  Worth all the hype that I had heard.  I remember the shock of seeing the 4 bosses the first time.  Each one infinitely harder than the next.  Vega was a complete blur.  How the hell were you supposed to hit him?  And for the love of god look at Sagat!!! He's huge!!!  And Bison with the Psycho Crusher?  Screw that I quit!  But I of course preservered and in time got half way decent.

And I played each of the next installments, Championship Edition, Hyper Fighting, Super SFII, etc.  The Alpha series would eventually go on to be my favorite, particularly Alpha II.  Loved the aesthetics of it, loved the cast, and it just felt perfectly balanced.

But now here I am without a system to play the new installment, which looks simply magnificent.  I'm sure in a couple weeks I'll be able to deal once Madworld and Rune Factory: Frontier come out, but right now it's hell.  I guess I'll take some comfort in knowing that I wouldn't be able to play as either Adon or Rolento and those were my fighters of choice in the Alpha games.

Crap... it doesn't work.  This sucks.