I sucked really bad in videogames overall as a kid. My first fighting game was Super Smash Bros for the 64, and I liked playing Samus and Fox, but I was really bad! It wasn't until I got a PSO that I started getting a bit better, with Dragon Ball Final Bout. I loved that bad game so much! lol. I remember my favorite has always been vegeta in any DragonBall game.
Then I got this pretty badass game called Bloody Roar 2, a fighting game in which the fighters turn into animals. This game introduced me to the fighting games formally and I really liked playing as Long the tiger. I started liking games more with this one, and then I got to more complex stuff like Tekken and Street Fighter.
And then... I went to an arcade when I was eight and experinced for the first time... SoulCalibur! It was like the bst game EVER to me, I always won agaist my friends using Rock. For some reason he reminded me of my favorite Tekken character, King.