How Dragonball made me a fan of fighting games.

I was first exposed to fighting games at around the age 6 or 7; a friend had a copy of Street Fighter 2 on the Sega Megadrive (the Genesis for my American readers). While he was throwing fireballs, punching me into the sky and spinning kicking me into oblivion I had no idea HOW to even start to pull off a simple fireball. The movement felt slow and clunky and despite the special moves being flashy, the…