User blog comment:Raddical/How did you first discover MUGEN?/@comment-25197865-20140903182613

I discovered MUGEN way back years ago by YouTube videos all over the site in like 2008. I watched only a few of them and thought MUGEN was a stupid idea to be honest. Then a few months ago I think it was in May I found this website. I looked at the Wario character and saw that many different people made many different Warios. Now, even back then I thought MUGEN was a bunch of people creating thousands upon thousands of MUGEN games with static rosters that could not be edited, and that every character in each MUGEN game was hand crafted every single time by thousands of people individually. I still didn't get into MUGEN at all. Then in mid July I was chatting with some family of mine and they told me about how they played MUGEN. I told them it was a terrible idea for thousands of people creating a thousands Peter Griffins all by themselves but then they told me how MUGEN actually worked, with you downloading few sets of characters and making the game custom. Somehow that never popped into my head before and I instantly thought, "that changes everything". So then I got MUGEN the end.