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John Choi (gamer)
John Choi, also known as Choiboy, is an American professional fighting game player specializing in the '' Street Fighter'' series. Choi joined the fighting game community in the 1990s and was involved with the Evolution Championship Series since its beginning. Choi was the lead organizer of the annual NorCal Regionals tournament. Early life John Choi's family immigrated from South Korea to San Jose, California when he was 10 years old. Choi's father, Jae Jeon Choi, was a former participant of the Olympic Games in judo and wrestling. John Choi participated in the AAU Junior Olympic Games at a young age, practicing taekwondo, before turning to wrestling in high school. Choi's father dissuaded him from dedicated too much effort in amateur sports or video games, and Choi passed up a wrestling scholarship in favor of focusing on his education. John Choi attended the University of California, Davis. During his teenage years in the 1990s, Choi spent much of his free time playing '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Game
A fighting game, also known as a versus fighting game, is a video game genre, genre of video game that involves combat between two or more players. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "Combo (video games), combos". Characters generally engage in battle using hand-to-hand combat—often some form of martial arts. The fighting game genre is related to, but distinct from, the beat 'em up genre, which pits large numbers of computer-controlled enemies against one or more player characters. Battles in fighting games usually take place in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional plane, to which the characters' movement is restricted. Characters can navigate this plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping. Some games, such as ''Tekken (video game), Tekken'', also allow limited movement in 3D space. The first video game to feature fist fighting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |