I can't remember exactly where, but I want to say it was about 3 or 4 countryside game stores later. Physically, in-person, this is one of the most difficult-to-find Capcom games ever made. Throughout my travels, I had discovered that Capcom had made dedicated Capcom Soldier Pad controllers for it just like they did with SNES. I never knew about them, but knew exactly what they were when I saw them, picked them both up immediately, and proceeded to buy them. Passing on them could result in years and years of waiting for them to appear again as trade-ins; a fate I could not allow. Spotting such relics in the wild was not common, and therefore must be treated as once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Boy, did treating this opportunity as such really pay off. Capcom's 3DO Soldier Pad controllers were made especially for Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and there's nothing like it. Yes, despite mainstream media reporting absolutely nothing at the time, it is true that Capcom did make a six-button controller for the 3DO.

I have finally obtained the GameFan issues dedicated to Super Street Fighter II Turbo on 3DO all this time later, and it was great to see Nick Rox do the game justice. The main thing that separated GameFan's work from anyone else's is that they actually had a fan cover it. Big, beautiful screenshots cascaded around the page, enticing screenshot choreography, and Nick Rox's signature writing style all gave the game the recognition it deserved. Other magazines paled in comparison. Anti-3DO, anti-Capcom, anti-GameFan, or all of the above, there were detractors, but I agree and believe that GameFan's coverage was definitely the best at the time. It was the most passionate, positive coverage for the game - not just then, but even today. In fact, one of the things that drove me to do an article on the game is that fact that even the "diverse" and "all-encompassing" Internet has virtually no coverage of the game (beyond bad screenshots and even worse writing). My goal was to do both the game and GameFan's coverage justice on the web (although this work may not even get close to the quality of GameFan's 3DO Super Street Fighter II Turbo article)!

There's a huge disparity between how GameFan covered the game back then, and what is said about the game on the Internet today. The game was viewed generally in a positive light at the time of its release, but that light would eventually dim as the Internet got bigger and bigger with more and more questionable information. When I first got the game, it felt like I went back in time to the arcades I first played it at. If there was any missing character animation like some of these Internet phantoms claim, I sure didn't notice. Even frames that are easy to miss in the blink of an eye are there; the first frame of Guile's FP grab, early damage frames for Bison, the first frame of Balrog's win pose, continue-screen bloodied character portrait animations, backward walking animations, and a lot, lot more. I'm not sure if these Internet phantoms were actually playing the game on real hardware or not (as in, an actual 3DO console with an official disc of the game), but I am. It is due to this fact that I also reject the recent assumption that this game was based off a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis Street Fighter II. There absolutely no proof of this, and there never has been. I've never seen a single interview with any Capcom employee (past or present) that confirms nor implies that assumption. Even if we don't count that, animation alone debunks the theory.