Jamaican here. As a zoomer kid just getting into Street Fighter in the mid to late '10s, Dee Jay was HUGE to me. Imagine being from such a small country that it's often forgotten on maps, seeing your culture represented among all of these much bigger countries would've meant the world to you. I used to copy Dee Jay's moves in my room all the time, he was the best character to younger me, although, looking back, he could've represented us a bit better, even I realized this back in the day.

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

What is a zoomer kid

@hailghidorah2536

Жыл бұрын

@@pleaseshutup7053 Gen Z

@eagle3802

Жыл бұрын

Imagine how I felt when Isla was revealed to be Chilean ❤

@sethwick8348

Жыл бұрын

​@@pleaseshutup7053 a kid in generation z. Someone born between the late 90s and early 2010s

@Sub__0217

Жыл бұрын

@@pleaseshutup7053zoomers are gen z which are the generation after millennials

16:21 - 16:39 "Street fighter 1 is the only fighting game in history that fought back" Only the most elegant and well written responses to explain why the design of a fighting game cabinet was horrendous.

@kokoro_gospel

Жыл бұрын

I'd hate to be one of those poor fools who'd need stitches or otherwise busted their hand from going overkill on the attack buttons.

@fruitjuice225

Жыл бұрын

Oh God it's like the fighting game version of Mario party 1s joystick mini games.

@Silverwind87

6 ай бұрын

​@@kokoro_gospelI'd hate to be Capcom's lawyer at that time.

_"He wanted to call it Street Fighter to make it sound like a fight could breakout anywhere"_ The series has taken us to some crazy places but the World Tours even cooler with that bit of hindsight

@nomaschalupas2453

Жыл бұрын

World tours been around a long time.

@DasNordlicht91

11 ай бұрын

I think they were specifically mentioning Street Fighter 6’s World Tour, where fights can literally break out on the streets at random.

@nomaschalupas2453

11 ай бұрын

@@DasNordlicht91 yeah, thats been around a long time. im not just talking about the little plane flying around.

As for Cammy's SSF2 ending, Capcom didn’t retconned it out per se, they (Capcom USA) started to use the Japanese ending as canon, where Bison said that Cammy killed for him rather than them being lovers. In otherwords, Cammy being Bison's lover was a Capcom USA invention, something of which happened often in Capcom games when localized in the states. Other examples include Nash being changed to Charlie in SF2 and Gunlock being Guile's brother. There is an article online where one of the Capcom of Japan producers mentioned how during the 90s, the Capcom of USA would ask Capcom of Japan to change something during the localization of a Capcom game "to appeal to western audiences." Capcom of Japan soon realized that Capcom of USA wanted to change character names and storylines so as to make a mark onto the game so to speak. As a result, Capcom of Japan put a stop to it.

@Neogears1312

Жыл бұрын

Wish they’d pull that shit again. Capcom us is doing it again.

@killerb255

Жыл бұрын

At least they came up with a (rather basic) compromise for Charlie: "Charlie Nash."

@misterjersey5460

Жыл бұрын

Now that I think about it, that reminds me of how they changed MegaMan 7's ending

@shinzouwosasageyo9717

Жыл бұрын

I would like to think that bison lied to cammy just to fuck with her

@emperormegaman3856

Жыл бұрын

Funny enough, Ryu-like characters being called "Shoto", when their style doesn't look like Shotokan is also a exemple of theses kind of shenanigans.

1:25:55 ACTUALLY in Dead or Alive 4, Jann Lee’s ending shows a flashback to him as a poor hungry child, where he became inspired to fight just like Bruce Lee. It’s my favorite fighting game ending and I think of it at least once a week

As far as Rainbow Edition goes, I ran into a cabinet in the wild during the 90s. When I tried to tell people about this, they looked at me like I was absolutely insane and it was so hard on kid me because I gaslite myself into thinking that maybe I was tripping.

@TrevorHamberger

Ай бұрын

That's one thing people forget about the 90s is how often that type of thing happened

Street Fighter will forever be the most famous and blueprint fighting game in history no fighting games wouldn't exist without Street Fighter that goes for Mortal Kombat, Tekken, King Of Fighters, Virtua Fighters, Killer Instinct, Dead Or Alive, Bloody Roar you name them.

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

Tekken and mortal Kombat are bigger

@dragontea6426

Жыл бұрын

@@pleaseshutup7053 mortal kombat you could argue but not Tekken

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

@@dragontea6426 tekken is the most sold fighting game and is one of the main reasons why PlayStation sold so well

@sp2dagger965

Жыл бұрын

Why can’t we just enjoy all of them 😃

@Jayy_Kicks

Жыл бұрын

​@@sp2dagger965 This guy understood the mission.

Regarding the inspiration of the Hadoken, while it is true that the Dragon Ball anime came out only one year before SF1, you gotta remember that Dragon Ball was originally a manga, and the manga came out in 1984. So I think Nishiyama was aware of Dragon Ball by then.

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

No

@marplatense31

Жыл бұрын

​@@pleaseshutup7053 yes

@ssppeeaarr

Жыл бұрын

ya some of them had to know about dragonball and were fans. but when shin akuma and oni came around it was deff dragonball inspired. oni looks like super saiyan blue and has his beads floating around like dragonballs... gouki pretty much the saiyan of SF verse. 😁

@marplatense31

Жыл бұрын

@@ssppeeaarr I don't think Super Saiyan Blue existed back when Oni was introduced though.

@ssppeeaarr

Жыл бұрын

@@marplatense31 still he looks like super saiyan none the less! i just used ssb as for defining example. cuz its bluish hair. maybe toriyama got inspiration from Oni akuma for ssb. lol. u never know. could be a SF fan. i always also in my head canon believe goku ss3 dragon fist was a low key homage to street fighter. 😆😁

None of Thorgi's descriptions of just how big the fighting game boom was is hyperbole. I was there, can confirm. I was NYC-based during the '90s. Arcades where you once played Pac-Man and Defender and Konami beat-em-ups morphed into virtual fighting dojos. EVERY laundromat and video store and most bodegas had at least one fighting game in it. You could legit be a wandering warrior like Ryu and challenge different people in different machines, each like their own dojo with their own crowds, mere blocks from each other. This isn't even bringing Chinatown Fair into the mix. SNES SF2 was THE killer app for the SNES that kids salivated for months before release due to the arcade version blowing up. Then Mortal Kombat did it all over again (for the Genesis, at any rate...). Literally everything _and I do mean everything_ became a fighting game. If it was an established, IP, if it was a new IP, whatever, it got the treatment. PONG was turned into a fighting game, only half-ironically (and definitely unofficially). I watched footage of Battle Arena Toshinden and Mortal Kombat 3 playing on the Jumbotron in Times Square to hype the PS1's launch. Street Fighter II got the ball rolling for my world changing before my eyes. Thanks, Thorgi. Love what you do.

@johksdvc

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget pizza parlors. I'm an NY native, and they were everywhere back in the day.

@ryanholter6820

Жыл бұрын

I wanna see the PONG fighting game!

KoF Retrospective: This is the longest series of videos I’ve ever done. SF Retrospective: Hold mah beer.

@edgarlozada3858

Жыл бұрын

Seems that the Street Fighter retrospective is gonna be 4 videos like The King of Fighters'. Same area, *for now.*

@dnmstarsi

Жыл бұрын

KOF Retrospective: Challenge Accepted.

@hjames78

Жыл бұрын

Because it's the first true fighting game and the best fighting franchise ever made..when I here dumbass kids who weren't alive say something overthrows it I literally yell at them lol. There's no way! They just don't know. Get Tekken and mortal Kombat out my face! I like all those games but none made me walk a frinkin mile with a dollar to the closest store that had the game at the time to play....when some stores charged 50 cent for one game 😂. Yup it was like that

@le01jack

Жыл бұрын

Part II soon, I hope. Wonderful first episode!

@whiteninji352

3 ай бұрын

@@edgarlozada3858This didn’t age well

Wow. Hearing about Shen Long brought back memories of Guile's gun rumor.

@jngo172

Жыл бұрын

Guile with a gun?!?!

@jasonngo1966

11 ай бұрын

@@jngo172 Guile with a gun?!?!

38:42-39:36 So my eyes *WERN'T* playing tricks on me yesterday! I recently downloaded Street Fighter II The Definitive Soundtrack and added it to my phone yesterday. I saw some familiar names such as Isao Abe & Shun Nishigaki, and then I had to double take 3x to make sure I'm seeing Yoko Shimomora's name as one of the artists. I thought to myself, "The Kingdom Hearts JRPG lady?! Nah, what I downloaded was a bootleg high-quality gamerip of SFII's music. There's no way Yoko help make the SFII music." I'm kinda happy to be proven wrong. And hearing how she made the music with her struggles made the woman go up even more for me then she already has!

“You ever lose over half your life to one throw before?” …. *Distant Potemkin noises*

I think the most fascinating part about Final Fight to me is the fact that the setting of the game, Metro City, is also the setting of Captain Commando, another Capcom beat'em'up, except taking place in the distant future of 2026. Street Fighter 6 also takes place during 2023, because every mainline Street Fighter title that isn't a prequel to 3 canonically takes place at the same year of release, which means Capcom has to decide soon whether or not to feature the Captain Commando characters or keep them in their own separate timeline. Most likely the latter, but the way Capcom ends up tying all their franchises together, especially with the MVC series, has always been such an interesting topic to me.

@Klonoahedgehog

Жыл бұрын

The shared universe of Street fighter is really cool. I wish more Rival schools stuff would get in.

@toxictincan

Жыл бұрын

@@Klonoahedgehog Totally agree, Rival Schools has some of my favorite designs in Street Fighter At least we got Akira in SFV, definitely hope to see some more in 6

If this man covers all the spin offs than he is truly a legend!

@therussianwanderer4851

Жыл бұрын

He will cover the EX series.

@anmoldembla4743

Жыл бұрын

@@therussianwanderer4851 Even the movie game

@TheCarrotMan248

Жыл бұрын

He usually does

@catriamflockentanz

Жыл бұрын

He did even cover some Pachinko Machines (those with lore, because that exists for some reason) in his King of Fighters Retrospective so it's unlikely he won't.

@Phantom034

Жыл бұрын

If Thorgi's KOF Retrospective is anything to go off of, spin-offs will be covered, more just a question of where in the series it will fall.

Gentlemen, it's time.

@WexyBooBooBear

Жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for what feels like my entire life for this day

@starcast3905

Жыл бұрын

@@WexyBooBooBear,good things come to those who wait

@grahamlogan4068

Жыл бұрын

"Iiiiiit's tiiiiiime!"

@airbendingeagle2358

Жыл бұрын

"What did you put into the sauce?" "It's THYME!"

@thegreatest3082

Жыл бұрын

It's mf time

51:53 I wasn't prepared for how ...compassionate Guile's Japanese win quote was. Damn.

I think people who were born after 1991 cannot ever truly comprehend what a *HUGE* deal Street Fighter II was. It really did change EVERYTHING. It made arcades a scene. It cemented a truly competitive aspect to video games. It made a genre template that is still used today. There was really nothing like it, on such a grand scale, before.

@hitmanmonaghan6633

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes. I was in middle school when it came out. Kids that never sat together at lunch (nerds, rockers, gang members, jocks) came together to talk about it.

@ssppeeaarr

Жыл бұрын

ya it did. but in asia arcades were always a thing and still are. but the impact of sf2 did pave the way for all fighting games. its great how it all came together like that in the end. when u see how crazy it was in conception and what it could have been... lol.

@PCGamer77

Жыл бұрын

Arcades were a scene long, long before Street Fighter II. SFII did not change everything. There were lots of things on a grand scale before it. For thousands of years, really. What SFII and other fighting games did was to give people a reason to keep going to arcades when home console systems (and personal computers) became more common. For a few brief years, competitive and co-op gaming was more practical in the arcades than at your home. Then the Internet happened.

Thorgi constantly uploading quality content… you love to see it!!!

The amount of times SF2 nearly goofed up on things that would've lead to fighting games being totally different today is insane.

@s.p.d.magentaranger1822

Жыл бұрын

I mean, sometimes the best inventions are by accident. Penicillin, super glue, the slinky, even the chocolate chip cookie!

@FeiFongWang

11 ай бұрын

I couldve done without combos though, memorizing combos is the worst part of fighting games bar none.

@docs.a.t.7161

11 ай бұрын

Play a game without combos then. Nobody will kill you for playing Samsho or Divekick

Y'know I just had a thought that I'm surprised nobody thought of while the premiere was going on, SF2 Rainbow Edition is just "RANDOM BULLSH- GO!" the fighting game.

Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 1 were the first fighting games I've ever played, thank you for bringing back some memories.

I've read that the original two Fei Long characters were suppose to be brothers known as the twin dragons of flame and thunder each one of them having one of those elements in their attacks which might have been interesting but its better off that Dee Jay took the spot in SSF2 because they would later reuse and refine the concept into Yun and Yang down the road

@conradojavier7547

Жыл бұрын

They Abort this Twin for an American Made Character.

@chidaluokoro9104

Жыл бұрын

The double dragons lol

@edgewiseCL

Жыл бұрын

You should watch thorgis vid on cut sf characters...really interesting

@MozeXI

Жыл бұрын

And they became broken in every single game they're in. Although I do think they'd be fukin awesome in sf6 but I fear they won't put them in it

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

Since fei long is bruce lee then The other one could have been Bolo Yeung , his enemy in the movies .

Street Fighter is the grandmaster of fighting games Street Fighter II started it all.

@IdentifiantE.S

Жыл бұрын

Yesss ! 👑

@kenterminateddq5311

Жыл бұрын

Didn't Street Fighter 1 made fighting games popular first?

@pakarpintu4917

Жыл бұрын

@@kenterminateddq5311 IMO SF2 that make fighting games popular first

1:22:17 never heard of this James Goddard person until now but this entire section where he kinda fights for his vision of Deejay's design has made me a fan, shoutout to him for making Deejay what he is today

That title sequence was so beautiful leading up to the brofist of Ryu and Ken

I like how the evolution of the street fighter franchise is similar to Ryu's character development In the first game, Ryu is a rookie fighter who hasn't reached his full potential yet, similar to the first game having potential, but just not being very good.

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

Another amazing video! I honestly think you could do a retrospective on phone books and it would be a banger. Also thank you so much for the shoutout 🙏

My first memory of SF2 was seeing the full body flame effect after a guy hit Ryu with Dhalsims fireball and going "Woah, what the Heck, that was cool!"

Thorgi has finally done it! A Street Fighter retrospective! Let's enjoy the ride kids!

Off topic but still Street Fighter related we need another Street Fighter animated series or anime as well an animated or anime movie we getting another Street Fighter live action movie and I hope it's taken seriously but we'll see how that turns out.

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

Another live action movie oh boy 😝

@emanuelminue4457

Жыл бұрын

at least we have the web serie, assasin fist. for me it was a good show

@ssppeeaarr

Жыл бұрын

i think they said awhile back a new sf movie or anime is in the works. official from capcom...

@LupineShadowOmega

Жыл бұрын

@@pleaseshutup7053 Van Damme isn't around to never want to leave his trailer, so they'll be fine. Its just likely to turn out like the new Mortal Kombat where its just middle of the road.

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

@@LupineShadowOmega the new mortal Kombat was good. That chun li movie made me lose all hope how do you mess up a chun li movie she has the easiest storyline to make a movie out of and the hardest part should be finding a Chinese woman with thick legs who mows martial arts

A small note: in Super, it's not that Ryu's Hadoken will "OCCASIONALLY" come out red. In the previous versions of SF2, there was a glitch that made Ryu & Ken's fireballs sometimes come out red for no reason; it didn't affect any other properties of it - damage, etc. - just a graphical hiccup. For Super, they decided to acknowledge the glitch by turning it into a full-fledged unique move for Ryu, complete with its own unique input command, that could also light the enemy ablaze.

Shout outs to growing up in a small town and having your mind expanded by the media you consumed when you were young. I don't know if it was your experience but these places are not exactly welcoming to those who are different, even if they aren't hostile there's still a whole lot of Foghorn Leghorn dismissiveness and these kinds of media were almost like portals to other worlds. And sometimes escape hatches when the decision got oppressive.

@jeremyblackwater439

6 күн бұрын

I completely understand

You missed something major about Vanilla Street Fighter II: There were no Mirror Matches (excluding Ryu vs Ken, back when they were practically the same). iirc, they were added in the Super Nintendo port as a secret code. It would become standard in Champion Edition.

@unlimited-6183

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.. but yeah I always thought World Warrior was a bit broken... Like fireball hits would take extra damage and Blanka cannon ball hits would take nearly half of the energy 😂 therefore, Champion Edition tweaked all these faults and supported 12 playable characters rather than 8, previously... Plus mirror matches started with this game 🎮

I've dived into the world of 2d fighters recently and this channel has been a godsend. Every game i have besides skullgirls is covered by this man and thats why he's the goat 🐐

@dnkakusei

Жыл бұрын

Thorgi's videos are awesome! I think he has a Skullgirls video planned for this year actually

@CuteKuroki

Жыл бұрын

@@dnkakusei on god ill be there

@dnkakusei

Жыл бұрын

@@CuteKuroki So will I lol

Fun Fact: In the OG SF, you can hold down a button and input the motion command for a special move before releasing the button. After experimenting with executing specials, I found that this was the most reliable method. Granted it's not a very big margin, but it helps. Luckily, this button-first input system would return with great improvements in games like SFV and Smash Bros.

@ShellShocks14

5 күн бұрын

they were pressure sensitive buttons.

After watching this and the previous video on cut characters, I can't help but wonder how different things would have been if Dick Jumpsey had stuck around. Also, on the subject of Capcom nearly giving us characters before other games gave us those characters: Rejected Tiger Mask wrestler nearly became Capcom's version of King a whole 3 years before Tekken gave us King.

1:26:06 - Capcom of America was REALLY going to a weird place with the translations of some of the Super SF2 characters' endings, but the change to Cammy's is probably the worst, lmao. He doesn't give an anguished statement of love, he tells her "you were my spy, but since you don't remember anything, you're useless to me now, gtfo."

Also, surprised there was no mention of how Special Champion Edition coming out for Genesis was a big enough deal that they actually created a 6-button Sega controller just to play it properly.

The original Street Fighter was actually quite popular at my local arcade back in the day. Nobody could do the special moves as Ryu, but could do them as Ken (for some reason). NOBODY ever saw Sagat. Most players couldn't get past Eagle, but no one beat Adon. It wasn't till MAME I found out how ridiculously overpowered the special moves were.

Street Fighter will always be the standard fighting game franchise 🍵

@IdentifiantE.S

Жыл бұрын

Fr they are the king ! 👑

@hhaammzzaattaarraaff3313

Жыл бұрын

It's always overrated Sorry

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

@@hhaammzzaattaarraaff3313 soul calibur underrated

@davidkerr7350

Жыл бұрын

@Hhaammzzaa Ttaarraaff Other Fighting Games wouldn’t happen if wasn’t for Street Fighter though.

@harrylane4

Жыл бұрын

@@davidkerr7350 “fighting games” as in side-view, 1v1 competitive games about punching each other in the face would definitely have happened eventually, but not in the same way

3:41 Guy: “The Rumble Fi-“ Girl: “The Rumble Fish.” Guy: “EVERY TIME!!!”

From what I've been told about the Street Fighter 1 Specials You can apparently consistently activate them through Negative Edge inputs

@gaolbrake

Ай бұрын

Yes, you can perform them fairly consistently when you adapt.

Capcom: Shen Long is simply a misunderstanding I’m sure people will forget about it. EGM Magazine Writers: Allow us to introduce ourselves…

I remember getting into the SF series thx to the 30th anniversary collection for the switch and all the games were great but SF3 took the spot as my favorite in the series bc of the characters/hip hop influence in both the settings and soundtrack and I’m happy to see that aesthetic live on in Street Fighter 6🔥

I have what the KOF retrospective a thousand times, now I have a new series to watch over and over again!

I’m glad I get to know more about Street Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2, and of course Street Fighter 2.

My body is ready for Thorgi to fill it with ALL the Street Fighter knowledge. LFG!

@pleaseshutup7053

Жыл бұрын

I can feel the nostalgia coming inside of me 😫

Finally time to begin that road to the Street Fighter Retrospective! Loved this video so much I love this series to death and it’s great to see while I’m having a blast with Street Fighter 6 😊😊😊

Street Fighter was my first venture into fighting games. I first played it in 1987 when I was 10 years old at an arcade I frequent throughout the years afterwards. My mom would drop me off there while she went shopping at the Hecht's Department store next door. I remember I always played on the first player side and thus my "bromance" with Ryu began and I've been maining him ever since. Now when I found out Street Fighter ii came out, I had got dropped off at the arcade while my mom went shopping next door. It had a bunch of people there playing it. I remember say, while in the crowd, "I didn't know they made a part two! The first one was fun as hell to play!". The other players looked at me like I was smoking crack. I think a couple of them tried to argue me down but I said to them, "Why does it have a 2 at the end of it?". One guy was like "Whatever motherfucker!". LOL!! Edit : When I played SF1, I actually played on the arcade cabinet with, what is now iconic, the joystick and 6-button layout. I remember hearing several years ago about the pressure pad layout.

It's crazy how one glitch created something that's common for fighters now. I wonder how what would happen if it was cut?

Been dying to see this!!! SF and KOF is life!!!

Its hard to describe how important Ryu was for my childhood. He and Link were like friends and heroes to me, and its carried through to adulthood. I was a weird kid.

@Billswiftgti

6 ай бұрын

you were not weird, but Ozymandias was not right

The answer lays. **IN HEART OF BATTLE!!!** Yeah babbyy!!!

Sheng Long is how ironically, we got Akuma. Akuma was born from an April Fool's joke since Sheng Long in the screenshot looks almost a lot like him before he was corrupted by the Dark Arts. And I gotta do the thing... 1:23:47 Aurora Borealis?! In this time of year, in this time of day, in this part of cyberspace, located within the entirety of this youtube channel?

@opalander

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Seriously thorgi excited to see this while I play sf6 world tour fun evening ahead ^_^. Cheers for the efforts and skill at keeping the retrospective fresh and wonderfully details with movie length runtime. Hope channel and ideas go from strength to strength

@unlimited-6183

Жыл бұрын

How far ahead are you in World Tour?

"A lot of people thought Street Fighter 2 was the first one!" Me hearing people talk about "Fallout 3" being the first Fallout game several years later.

Worth noting Dragon Ball was a wildly popular manga and came out in 1984, its very very possible that things were inspired by the manga even if no one had watched the anime. Afterall that is 3 years before the release.

1:15:04 Just say CPS. PLEASE!!! 😭😭😭 Also incredible video, I legit could not stop watching lol

Sheng long is real you can fight him in street fighter 6! You can finally stand a chance!

I now want an SF6 side tournament using "Ancient" controls on set-ups using two pressure sensitive buttons. I need to see if combos can even work in that circumstance.

@unlimited-6183

Жыл бұрын

That would be insane 😂

The Capcom Play System has only been officially abbreviated as CPS, not CP system. The successor to the hardware was called the Capcom Play System 2, or CPS2 for short. Ryu's red Hadouken is NOT random in The New Challengers. It WAS random in previous games, because it was a glitch. However, in The New Challengers, the player can do the burning Hadouken with its own motion, namely the half circle forward, same as Dhalsim's Yoga Flame. By the way, that Chun Li projectile sprite from Hyper Fighting/Turbo is actually a couple of recolored Yoga Fire sprites. The more you know...

I’m sad that y’all couldn’t be there!!! SF 1 was AMAZING!! You can’t diss this Jawn compared to new games.

THE PERFECT VIDEO TO CLOSE OUT THE WEEKEND CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF STREET FIGHTER 6! YOU OUTDID YOURSELF! 🎉👏🏻

Street Fighter has some crazy history. Also Capcom can count to three better than Valve at least.

Bro. That intro has me feeling nostalgic about a series that ive only started exploring this past year or two.

I love what you do. I came across “part 2” before seeing this one, but I am floored by all the detail in these retrospectives. I can’t wait for future parts. Thank you!❤❤❤❤

This is gonna be extra fun!

One more thing I feel like I need to correct you on: In Street Fighter 1, originally you select between four countries; Japan, USA, China, and England. It was in the 30th anniversary collection where, for some reason, they removed the choices of China and England.

@dariogonzalez8989

Жыл бұрын

The problem with the anniversary collection version is that SF1 apparently has more than one revision, and one or more of them only let you select between Japan and USA, while the rest let you choose between all countries minus Thailand, as you stated. I have no idea why Capcom hasn't settled on a particular version, considering that they used the 4-countries version for the old Capcom Classics Collection.

So hyped for this series thorgi.

@jjjsalang

Жыл бұрын

I cant wait for Thorgi to discuss the SF Alpha Series.

I can tell this is a MASSIVE undertaking, if one part is just SF2 then I'm intrigued to see how the other parts are divvied up. Keep up the good work!

I don’t think you’ve ever done THIS amount of editing before you mad man 🎉

Another great retrospective starts. I hope when the time to talk about the spin-offs comes, you talk about the weird but interesting story of Blade and how he is connected with Guile and the Slammasters series lore, and how that story returned in the CFN for SFV years ago. That alone just made me want Blade to be in a main SF game.

It's funny how part 1 is just SF 1 and SF 2 again and again and again. Love the video.

I certainly do remember the hype around SFII back in the 90s. I was 13-14 years old at the time it released. I first read about it in EGM number 42, the one with Sonic 2 on the cover, then I played it at a local arcade first, Champion Edition, and then the SNES port. It was a good port, all things considered. At first...I didn't like it because I couldn't understand the motions to do special moves. But deep down I still felt compelled to just play it and I found Guile with his charge moves to make it easier for me and soon I became a fan. I moved on to guys like Ryu and such. Good times indeed... I never played SF1 till years later. I agree that it was rough. But it's interesting to see how it started.

@unlimited-6183

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Good times 😊

I remember it took me years to even realize there was a street fighter before 2. But where the heck was SF1? I thought it was probably one of the dozen versions I've seen at the arcade, each so subtly different that it made no sense. Some even had ken throwing fireballs with his shoryuken and guile could fill the whole screen with sonic booms. And I found nothing about it on the gaming magazines. The 90s lack of instant information created quite a bit of legends.

I think (at 1:15:44) for Ryu's red fireball, it was random in the previous games, but a regular special move (half circle forwards + P) in super street fighter II

@FallenGemini

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That is correct. I also don't think it was exclusive to Ryu as Ken can spit out a red fire in the SF2 games before Super. IIRC, it was a glitch that occurred randomly.

@DragonMasterSubo

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@@FallenGemini yep, just saw a clip of ken doing it as well. I just remember on SNES Super SF II doing Ryu's new red fireball back in the day.

@killerb255

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...an ascended glitch, similar to Johnny Cage's fatality in MK1 punching off more than one head. In MK1 it was a glitch, but in MK2 it was added intentionally.

The intro music is pumping!! I don’t know where I first played SF2, but the characters stuck with me. Street Fighter 6 will be the first game I buy for my PS5, and this series is like a journey to show me how we got here.

Ok, i must say this. I loved those elephants.

1:25:55 actually Jann Lee does this in doa. He’s literally a clone of Bruce Lee. In the sense he canonically was an orphan who watched enter the dragon in the orphanage and was inspired to learn jeet kun do to grow strong and even gives him self the surname of Lee in tribute to the man who inspired him to be a warrior. So the only person *ryu hayabusa* considers a rival in the series is just a guy who wanted to copy Bruce Lee.

Finally. Now we get to the blockbusters

Only the most elegant and well written responses to explain why the design of a fighting game cabinet was horrendous.

Really loved the history lesson of Street Fighter in your video and how Street Fighter set the benchmark of other fighting games.

Fun Fact: The skulls around Dhalshim's neck are children who starved to death in his village. Me when I found this out: The fuck?

I still haven’t picked up SF6,I hate that this will just make me more hyped and excited.However,Thorgi is uploading so I kinda have to.Side note,THAT INTRO WAS AWESOME

Thorgi: "Ok, I'll stop" Me: "NO THORGI! KEEP GOING! MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND!" 😂

Amazing video as always! I will look forward for the next parts of this restrospective.

Never even bothered questioning that the boxer in SF1 might be a different person than Balrog. It's the friggin' Lemon Demon in Friday Night Funkin' all over again.

How many of us can actually claim we were there in the beginning, burning quarter after quarter marching through the arcade mode, only to get to the end for some fukknuckle to challenge you right when you were about to see the story ending of the characters you were playing? Ahh, good times. Not to mention wasn't too much trash talking...since the irl butt whooping was standing right next to you😅😅😅

Sure, let's dig in point of origin, very appropriate. I subscribed to you during earlier retrospectives in hope of that SF series later. You do not dissapoint!

1:06:15 JOY MECH FIGHT YES I love seeing that game be brought up even if it's just briefly among the rest of the fighting games that originated in the 90s. It's such a unique little title

This series is going to be a masterpiece by the time we reach the conclusion everybody, just letting you know

The hype is real!!!! 🎉

This was a great watch, looking forward to the rest of this series.

Man listening to SSF4 theme again after years got me really nostalgic. Best thing about seeing so many sf documentaries is that you see comments about how ppl connected with the fighting game genre

Yes street fighter now were talking good games😁

I know there's a lot to cover and you did great I do think it should be pointed out that SF2 Championship edition introduced mirror matches to the series (maybe genre too). Its actually a cute story in chapter 4 of polygon's street fighter an oral history. There were 2 little girls dressed up as chun-li for Halloween arguing who got to play play as her at the arcade and one of the guys at capcom USA saw that and had a realization so he called up the Japanese offices and asked if that would be possible.

I can't wait for the rest of this retrospective! I always enjoy your retrospectives! Long live SF!

I was so ready to click onto part 2 and binge this series but it's not uploaded yet. Can't wait for the other parts.