As FGC commentator and historian James Chen said on Twitter early May: 'It was supposed to be the very first version of the game. Most agreed it was related to an early version of Street Fighter 2 - perhaps the first. Memories are fading, events bleed into each other, and over time, the community has collectively forgotten how this myth originated - or even if it was real. This Zangief versus Honda 10-0 matchup has been known by some veterans within the fighting game community for years, and every now and then prominent members of the community would mention it on podcasts and the like, but there was never proof. The video below, from fighting game YouTube channel TheoryFighter, explains this mythical Street Fighter 2 10-0 matchup, and is well worth a watch to get more information. But remember, Street Fighter 2 was the first fighting game of its kind (it invented combos by accident!), with a raft of bugs and other quirks. It sounds absurd and completely broken - and it is. Honda cannot do anything to escape defeat - a true 10-0 matchup. The myth is that if Zangief starts with an SPD Honda cannot escape, the round is already over because Zangief will simply loop this mixup again and again.

Honda can't even jump out of the throw, as he can in modern fighting games, because in Street Fighter 2 the frames before the jump come out are throwable. So, in this game, if Zangief gets the SPD knockdown, he can simply walk up to Honda, force Honda to block an attack and then throw Honda again (what's called a 'tick' throw).

Street Fighter 2 does not have a reversal feature - that is, when you emerge from an inactionable state, such as a knockdown, you cannot do a special attack. That's bad enough, but what makes this a 10-0 matchup is that Zangief is then able to follow up this round start SPD with another SPD as Honda rises from the floor. So, round one, fight! SPD, slam! Nothing Honda can do to escape.

Its reach in Street Fighter 2: World Warrior - so the myth goes - is such that Zangief is able to grab Honda and perform the move from round start positions. Here's what the myth describes: at the beginning of a round, Zangief immediately performs his famous Spinning Piledriver throw. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer news cast: Do we give Nintendo's bad business practices a free pass?

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