These are preferred by players serious about fighting games for many reasons. The “ Street Fighter 4 stuff” was a partnership with publisher Capcom to make branded peripherals - arcade sticks and pads. “They asked me if I knew anything about arcade sticks and the following week I found myself working on all the Street Fighter 4 stuff.” In 2008, he said his co-workers took notice of the fact he always brought his own arcade sticks from home to play games in the office. He collected arcade sticks from other manufacturers, and “helped organize hundreds of tournaments” around San Diego. MarkMan started in Mad Catz doing support, and in the meantime he was consumed by fighting games.

“I was actually embarrassed to say I worked there for awhile.” “Mad Catz didn’t have the best reputation in the mid-late ’90s and early 2000s,” he told Polygon. I once told CEO Richardson during a meeting that until Mark came along, all we knew Mad Catz for were shitty gimmicks like chainsaw controls- March 31, 2017īehind the brand itself, there’s one name that every member of the community is also quick to acknowledge: Mark Julio, or MarkMan, who worked for Mad Catz from 2007 to 2016.

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