So, I was heading home from Queens late last night, after catching another outstanding episode of Heroes, and the season finale to the generally-hokey but well-meaning White Rapper Show. I don’t have a TV, you see, so I have to soak up as much pop culture as I can when the opportunity arises, to, you know, try and keep myself relevant.

Nearing home, I walked past Barcade, a local Brooklyn bar/arcade, and it made me think of something that needed to be posted on PCS. Barcade, for those not in the Brooklyn-know, is a bar with a wide-selection reasonably priced microbrewed beers, and a slew of old arcade machines — Donkey Kong, Rampage, Tetris, Smash TV, etc. My favorite might be the old-school Star Wars cabinet (remember, with the wire-model towers and the “trench run”?). It’s two-credits for a quarter. Pro-tip: Most people don’t know they actually get two-plays per quarter, so they leave after just one. Most of the time, you can just walk up to the machine and find half-a-dozen credits already built up by however many drunken hipsters attempted the trench that night. Barcade is just that kind of lovely.

What I’m trying to say is, if you haven’t seen it already, you should really watch the CollegeHumor original series, Street Fighter: The Later Years. It’s filmed in my neighborhood, you see. The arcade Part 1 opens up in, that’s Barcade. It’s something that gives me a little rush, though I suppose you should watch it because it’s a surprisingly funny series made by some cool, geeky, and yes, talented people. I mean, really, this thing is much more well shot than your average YouTube video-blog. And having it set in my neighborhood made me love it a little bit more. I imagine it’s like a band turning on the television and hearing one of their songs as background music in a television show about something else entirely.

Only, you know, I didn’t actually do anything. I just live here.

Anyway, enough talk. If you missed it the first time around, here are all three parts of the very click-worthy Street Fighter: The Later Years. Who needs a TV these days anyway, really? You may have seen it already, but this post is sort of my own little silent offering, a prayer in hope that Part 4 isn’t too far off. And Capcom, if you’re out there listening, please hire these guys to make your next Street Fighter: The Movie. I mean, you’re writing about a mutated Brazilian beast-man who electrocutes people with his body. You cast Van Damme in the lead roll last time around. You don’t have to try to make this shit Shakespeare. No one ever played Street Fighter II to completion because its plot. Try to have some fun with it.

Street Fighter: The Later Years Part 1

Street Fighter: The Later Years Part 2

Street Fighter: The Later Years Part 3