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From: vyin@mira.sce.carleton.ca (vincent w. yin)
Subject: Re: Street Fighter II AI?
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:42:51 GMT
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jjchoi@fas.harvard.edu (James J. Choi) writes:

>I remember a couple of years ago, when Street Fighter II was still big in
>the arcades, that the players would sometimes turn off the machine and
>start it up again because there was a belief that the game learned as it
>went along and thus got harder to beat. Was there any truth to this
>credence?

I think that some of the fighting games (don't know if it applies to
Street Fighter) have a difficulty level set and every time someone
completes the games the difficulty moves up one notch.  I'm pretty sure
that this is the case for Mortal Kombat and I _think_ SF2.
