New fighter-oriented arcade opened in SF

[Milk Thistle]

I have Japanese style joysticks for my home consoles. I have experience.

Maybe I should expound on my statement, I have played on some HORRIBLE U.S. sticks and some GREAT Japanese sticks, but I can't stand the cabinets for a few reasons. For one, this isn't Japan, I've been to Japan (lived there for 2 years) and I think it's cooler to play like that when there (kind of like home field advantage for a stadium). I think that playing stand up style is kind of a cool concept for fighting games anyway given the excitement the games can have. Plus, I think it adds an endurance element to vs. battles. It's draining to play intensely close games all day, so to last long while standing up adds to it albeit in a negative way.

My other issue is for some reason, when I sit down and play, I have a hard time w/the joystick. I motion crouch block and the character walks backward for example. Maybe I just need to get used to it, but so far I have limited exposure to them and it wasn't good.

Now for the bat stick thing. Until recently, I never looked into the differences between the joysticks. I've always just played on whatever was available at the arcade. Some sticks I loved, some I hated. For games like Street Fighter, I've found that most sticks will do. However, for SNK games, a round stick was generally more accurate in pulling off special moves. If those sticks were Japanese style, then I love them. However, I still don't like the look and feel. Now it is possible that all the good joysticks I used that were batsticks were Japanese, just w/a bat top (never knew that Japan made them til recently). If that is the case, then I think it would be more accurate to say:

This would be perfect for me except for SIT DOWN CABINETS and ROUND TOP JOYSTICKS!

I get all that man. And I have felt the same way at points. But tell me this, do you stand up when you're playing fighting games on a home console? Do you go to tournaments? I'm assuming you sit down to play at home, and if you do tournaments they sit down too. Also, American style cabs are completely on the way out. Most arcades that exist these days cater to the Vewlix/Sitdown crowd. Standing up to play is sort of dead. I agree on the endurance part of playing on American cabs, I miss long sessions of Alpha/Three at the arcade when your legs start killing you.

The ball/bat top difference is all in your head IMO, because it was for me back when I hated ball tops and swore by bats.

I think you'd do better than you think, just keep at it.

Also bat tops on a Japanese stick/cab is just terrible, I don't know why people do it.

BTW where's lord tariq?