I remember using E. Honda's jump + fierce punch, corner opponent, then hundred hand slap the hell out of him to get to cheap victories during the earliest SF arcade days, but that was before anyone knew how to play. I'm talking week one.
Our area has great SF players; it was brutal coming up through this bunch. Every grocery in my area carried this game, some had the modded Red Wave edition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-f9M5BOJcQ&t=0m45s
Pretty intimidating to play against someone who can throw 13 hadoken fireballs, then change to M. Bison at a whim and psycho crusher you at the speed of light. And I didn't even know how to use a stupid hadoken. I was still using Guile. And I sucked. I had a Ninja Turtle family back home that needed taking care of, I didn't need this sort of stress.
Anyway, I eventually mastered Ken and now I rape and pillage Putt-Putt Golf & Games whenever I'm in the area. I leave the people at the mall arcades alone, because they're mostly terrible and I feel bad for taking their quarters. But, yeah, screw those kids at Putt-Putt.
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But seriously, look at this shit! This is what we played!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCURTLbNaOY
This shit blew my young impressionable mind.