The battles downstairs were still raging fiercely.
The first version of Dead or Alive actually wasn't all that rich in content, with only a mere eight characters to choose from: Kasumi, Ji Long, Jann Lee, Leifang, Tina, Gen Fu, Zack, and Bayman.
The excited-looking high schooler on the left chose the most popular character, Kasumi.
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The high schooler on the right chose Leifang, the Chinese martial artist in a qipao.
The two began trading fists and feet on the screen, and the meaty impact effects of blows landing on flesh shook the surrounding air through the cabinet's speakers.
"Heh heh, I blocked all your attacks!" The high schooler on the right clearly had some foundation in fighting games. He skillfully pushed the joystick and seized an opening from Kasumi. "Eat my combo!"
Leifang rapidly closed in and unleashed a fierce string of straight punches.
Kasumi was beaten back again and again, forced straight to the very edge of the arena, with the towering chain-link fence right behind her.
"Crap, there's nowhere to retreat. I'm going to get smothered to death in the corner!" Cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the high schooler on the left.
In traditional fighting games, being forced to the edge of the screen almost meant being suppressed one-sidedly. In his panic, he began frantically mashing the joystick and buttons, trying to make one last struggle.
At the instant Leifang's heavy punch was about to smash into Kasumi's face, on the screen, Kasumi did not perform a conventional guard. Instead, she impossibly ducked under it, then suddenly reached out and precisely caught Leifang by the wrist.
Immediately after, an extremely gorgeous, overwhelmingly heavy shoulder throw!
Leifang's entire body was hurled into midair, then smashed viciously toward the chain-link barrier at the edge