Street Fighter Retrospective - Part 1: The Birth of Fighting Games

Not only is street fighter 2 one of the greatest games of all time , this game has the greatest and most iconic music of any video game I’ve ever played, from the vs screen to the memorable theme music for the different fighters, I can recall certain theme music till this day from SF2

I think people saying fighting games were racist is a complete joke, ok so put yourselves in the shoes of a young talented Japanese dev and your team asks you do some research on combat sports in America you might see Pro Wrestling, Boxing or some Hollywood goofball dressed up as a soldier that's how you get Balrog it's not a stereotype it's based on reality Mike Tyson had to be represented if it was decades earlier then Rocky Marciano would have been there

i would sooner accept that cammy is a genetic clone of bison who was dumped into the UK only to become part of delta red than M. bison being able to have romantic feelings because this man is the one mf in existance who i cannot see being in love with anybody. let him go be with F.A.N.G. and have cammy be sapphic with her massive harem of girls

Freaking great video!!!

Females with a lower life bar makes sense to me since it is scientifically accurate if women are fighting with men. I would have balanced it out to where the men's attacks were weaker because they don't like hitting women. 😅

Why is so controvertial to say that men are stronger than women when is true?

There are hacks to change the difficulty to SSF2:TGM You have to reflash the Bios tho

More fighters : Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Clay Fighters, Sonic Fighers, Ultraman, Power Rangers, even WWF "The Arcade game" was turned into a FIGHTER!, Sat. Night Slam Masters, Mega Man..

I freakin spit out my coffee when Thorgi explained about the "Deluxe" version..

Considering shortening your fucking long intro please!

Ah yes a four part series...I remember when he said that now its looking like maybe five or six depending on what happens in the next part.

Rare bit of misinfo on Throgi's part:
Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is; surprisingly, not an update of HD Remix with updated balance changes.
It's actually Super Turbo with throw breaks added, and thats about it (besides the titular final challengers, I mean). All of the carefully planned out balance changes from HD Remix were tossed out for this game as a return to form. On top of that, some of the HD sprite animations that were in HD Remix are missing, such as the water in Ken's stage.

It's still a really interesting version of the game because throw breaks actually change things up a fair bit, and you can set up single button special move input shortcuts to help newer players.
Ironically it not being an update of HD Renix goes a long way towards explaining its weirdly high price, because the team had to go and reprogram Super Turbo into a new engine entirely from scratch. 🤔

I am so glad you gave a shout-out to Baberuthless, I found her a little while ago and shes genuinely awesome. 😊

Since the adult version of you uses loves diversity and unironically, uses words like “problematic“, I think I prefer the smalltown kid version.

Not really sure if Yoko Shimomura made Simple and clean. Pretty sure that was Utada Hikaru but regardless, the music in all of the kingdom hearts is amazing

My brain had to manually register the fact that someone hacked an arcade machine and manually changed a bunch of things, speed included. In 1992 WHAT!

This intro music rules, what is it?

I've never seen any of your videos before, I just clicked it cuz it seemed like original artwork in the thumbnail. Man that was a great video, I can tell you put a ton of work into it. The whole Sheng Long thing I had to rewind and show my 13 year old kid, it was too funny reliving that. I had that EGM issue and also fell for the joke, I spent endless hours playing Special Champion Edition on my Sega trying to get good enough to see him. Anyways I'm rambling, subscribed!!!

These depictions aren’t problematic at all. It’s Celebrating cultural differences and the uniqueness of the world.

I'm surprised you didn't add the other Blonde, Gay, Vampire who was also a Rock God in the 80s Lestat, from Interview with the Vampire

Violent Ken makes an appearance in Project X Zone (or maybe 2?) as a boss character that you have to defeat to get Ryu and Ken

you sound like vince mcmahon when he used to commentate in the 80s

I wish they would bring back the 2-D anime like graphic, miss those days

For the first Street Fighter, the game could be set so that you can choose from all four countries. Also, Ryu and Ken don't practice shotokan but rather ansatsuken. It's the Capcom Play System, not Power. Also, it's CPS and CPS2, not CP1/CP2. You forgot to mention that the Dreamcast port also has Shin Gouki (along with the fan named Ten Gouki). Hyper was also released in arcades being a port of the PS2 game (a rare occurrence where a console game was ported to the arcade). The Virtual Boy port was homebrew and, thus, unofficial. Capcom had nothing to do with it.

Sf2 at the laundry mat in San Bernardino California with my mom doing laundry,me and my brother were obsessed it was the best times. She wanted to know why we all of a sudden had to go with her to do laundry

Dhalsim punching the life out of Cammy hurt me irl

the graphics in street fighter soon or later it’s prob gonna look better in real life (opinion)

I love this video

Not admitting that men and women have physical differences (which the designer wanted to represent by giving Chun-Li a smaller health bar) but calling it dedication when that woman was basically enslaved overnight to finish the music is a reality stretch you'll have to explain to me.

In a movie called "Juice" starring actor/rapper Tupac Shakur "Street Fighter" was in the after school hangout.

Was the longest intro ever. Took 3 mins to get on with the video ... started to loose interest 😅😑

Puerto Rico deserves a fighter, a boxer

"...And attempting to destory Capcom from the inside in the late 2000s." Oooh the shade...

Who are trying to fool when you act shocked about chun li reduced health bar ? besides a lot of fighting games done it

HA-DUE-KEN?
NO.
Ha-DOE-ken

I think the Akuma name change is localization at its finest imo. Gouki doesn't sound threatening in English, but in Japanese it's just what an ogre or demon of mythology would be called. (Might be the case, not really looking it up) Meanwhile Akuma sounds foreign and menacing, but if his name was Akuma in Japanese that'd be super lame and uninspired because it just means "Demon".

Similarly, in Yugioh, the "Demons" archetype are known as "Archfiend" in English, which got a better punch to it.

Best intro. I love this already and I'm only at the end of the intro!

Incredible retrospective! Great to see you highlight other creators!

What a channel.. 🖤❤️👑

I dunno, Balrog being a rich blowhard who's only motivation is money insisting the American Dream is real as he stands over tyranny, fire, and oppression seems like a pretty opt depiction of capitalism to me.

Sexism aside, give Chun Li a short power bar and watch a good player break her to break into others so fast and deadly.

“For I beheld Satan as he fell from heaven! LIKE LIGHTNING!!!”

-M Bison probably...

actually there is a "correct" way to do special in SF1

the engine reads directional input only at regular intervals, if a directional input is placed outside those timing, those input will not be read and the move wont come out.
if i remember it right, the engine runs at 30fps, so you have to do the motions in 3 in-game frames to pull it off. that's why it so hard for modern gamers to adopt to sf1, cos we are doing the motion too fast

also another correction for the video

USF2 uses the HDremix sprits, but not the balance adjustment, and it plays like the normal SSF2T, so things like, honda light headbuut goes through fireball, guile upside down kick being overhead are gone.