Street Fighter - the hidden story
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The Street Fighter video game franchise that dominated arcade markets and home consoles of the 1990s endures today with a new fan base and a fresh generation of young players. When it was first released on Capcom’s arcade machines, online gaming was almost unheard of, so young people in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan instead found companionship in arcade halls. Few people today know that a mysterious group of Street Fighter fans from that environment would play a surprising role in the development of the series, by helping to make the franchise into a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Growing up as a young teen in NYC during Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat era was awesome. Every deli, bowling alley, comic shop, laundry store etc. had something. Everyone was the kid of a place. Bike riding to challenge people or beating older teens who would possibly punch you. Just came with it. I don't feel nothing game wise could ever bring that feeling back. Online gaming is great but nothing beats 1 v 1 at a arcade machine. No trolls, no hacks. Just you and an enemy. Best times
Facts!
I was obsessed with street fighter 2, then mortal kombat came along. The first time I played mortal kombat I was 9 years old, the guy I played was sub zero and he gave me the head rip fatality, I was so shook 😂😂😂
30+ years later, I’m playing SF6, and MK1 on my PS5
Wow, that was the golden era of NYC. You lucked out!
@@gianniclaud I did. I was born 1980 so was perfect timing in that sense. And I'll be honest I didn't know about Street Fighter 2 until 1992 when my cousin rented it for Super Nintendo and then I just had to play it everywhere. Samurai Showdown, Timekillers and Primal Rage were fun too. Loved Fatal Fury. There was and this is not a made up story. Local VHS rental place called Palmer Video which were around the NYC scene. Was a Japanese boy who couldn't see the screen and his dad would stand behind him and yell out moves in Japanese to him and the kid must of been like 6 years old and he whipped everyone's buts haha. NEver forget it.
While most friends were into Graffiti the SF2 craze had it's own graffiti vibe to be known around.
Chinatown and sunset park in Brooklyn were the best places to challenge each other. That's where I discovered rainbow edition. Once I played it I never wanted to go back. Then the clones came in. Those were some amazing times
I was there playing Street Fighter 2 in the arcades back in the early 90s. It was really big, u can see people lining up putting stacks of coins at the arcade machine to play it. It was a great time to play games, due to Street Fighter we can see tons of other fighting games mushroomed in the arcades. I'm glad i was born in that era. I am still playing it via my Super Famicom and Mega drive till these days with my kids.
Is it just me or did this video really have no main conclusion? Like, what was the maker trying to tell us? Just a bunch of history? What’s the point?
1987 to today, I was there since day one, Street Fighter 1, playing the arcade cabinet in a smelly taxi cab stand in Queens NY. 1991 changed the fighting game world forever with SF2
It was wild back in the 90s when you find a modded cabinet. I remember my cousin taken me to an arcade and told us you could do hadouken's in the air and it was way faster. It blew my mind. My child mind could not understand how it was possible.
Everyday after school in the 90's, my friends and i would headed to the liquor store and spent hours with SF2. It was a great experience and fun. Now you're online and dont get that same in-persin feeling.
Yep. i'll keep those memories of the SF2 arcade craze forever. It was soo exciting. When Mortal Kombat came out it was exciting but not like SF2 where I do remember lines and quarters being placed to hold your postion. Never seen that with MK.
I was lucky enough to get to play one of these crazy special editions back in 93 as a kid living in England. My parents worked at RAF Mildenhall, but there was an arcade attached to the BX at nearby RAF Lakenheath that had the hotness as far as arcade fighters. Mortal Kombat, Super SFII, a NeoGeo cab with Samurai Showdown, Saturday Night Slam Masters … and this weird glitchy version of SFII where everyone moved super fast and you could do special attacks in mid air you shouldn’t have been able to do. I remember doing jumping fireballs til you went through the top of the screen and appeared at the bottom. I was 12 at the time. Magical memories from back then
I'm English, I remember this version but, it was 'normal' for us.
I'm Gonna find it
I'm a Street Fighter player since 1989 to this day
Really? There are new Street Fighter games to play? I haven't played in years, but I would love to play again.
@@iii___iii I only play SF4 (evolved into USF). I have SF5 and SF6, i dislike them. SF4 is way more technical than the rest (just like SF 3rd Strike). Give it a try.
@@anjoLasDo you use gaming system? Because I don't have one right now, and don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to play only a few games. But I will check out Street Fighter 4 , thanks!
SF4 series is my fave and the first Street Fighter I played was called "Fighting Street" for PC-Engine CD. It cost 1 Canadian dollar to play an hour at this long defunct import gaming store at a local mall early 90's. @@anjoLas
“Till this day” - Deontay Wilder voice
still remember clearly when SF2 first came out, the queue to play was mind boggling, I miss the golden era of arcade. Playing the console game at home just doesn't feel the same.
how did people find out about it though.... i remember sf2 buzz being the chat everyone was talking about and most of us not knowing anything about it? you know till word of mouth spread..... again this really interests me..... as retrospectively there was no fighting game scene back in the day i presume before sf2 and the prequel was SF1
SF1 was night and day completely different..... so how did people just find out about the moves etc, its all genius and fascinating how the studio or creator went from like a poor first outing in sf1 to improving everything to what we now define as a classic.... the decisions made between Sf1 to sf2 is really fascinating and intriguing to me as a creative
I remember going back up to New York for a Xmas vacation. Our first trip back up since moving to Florida . The minute we got there my cousin took me and my brothers to a bodega. There was a street fighter 2 booth. I noticed my cousin had a rep for that game has ppl kept stepping up putting in quarters to challenge him. It was crazy how that crowd grew .
Finally a documentary highlighting those infamous bootleg versions of street fighter!
SF2 was my favorite childhood memory. The first place i go after school was at a baseball card store that has a row of arcade machines. The best thing I learned from a mysterious player was Guile Phantom throw. It allows me to defeat plenty of my opponents. The glitch was pretty new at the time and everyone thought it was a feature.
Phantom toss only work in the original arcade game call
Street Fighter 2 The World Warrior.
I got a video up of my SF 2 adventure
I was 7th grade at the time when street fighter 2 came out. I mean walking home everyday talking about street fighter 2 and wish if we could own one at the time. This is the reason why we re stuck with these games due to our childhood which the new generation doesn’t never understand.
I remember playing these modified version of SFII Champion in HK back in the 90s. They were technically Taiwan editions that enables the player to perform various tricks without backing for a few seconds or throw projectiles in midair.
If it’s the same one I played in Mexico, it’s the rainbow edition. It was awesome playing on those cabinets.
Awesome report on my favorite video game franchise. Yes i played SF as a teen in the arcades in the 90s. Never knew that one version with the air fireballs was non official Capcom. Lol.
The taiwan rainbow known as dragon version or koryu, has a several "cheat" to gain free credits... One of it is just input name when u gain 1st place and u get 99 credits.. arcade around my place soon banned these version haha
This explains why as a kid my local arcade had a version of SF2 where E Honda was throwing double fireballs when doing hundred hand slaps. Literally OP.
Iconic game that no one knows who did the voices for, its lost in time and will never be revealed now. No one knows who did the announcers voice, or the characters, its lost to time. Gone
I remember being in the arcades as a kid in the 90's and having that great feeling inside seeing street fighter 2 for the first time. Gaming back then was really special and there was so much imagination and personality in the games.... today lots of games are quite generic and have no soul... just mass produced and often unfinished.
Where evo moment 37?
hrhrhrhrhrhrhr
Man. Even though I was 25 back in '91, when I first saw and played Street Fighter 2, I was immediately HOOKED like a fish!! I was Obsessed with that game for years! I even started wearing Dog Tags for my gym workouts! Yeah. Guile was my #1!!! 😅
I remember playing Rainbow Edition in a Kroger in the Houston area. It was everywhere for a while
"These changes are not so extreme, and I like that."
Proceeds to jump with ryu, throws a fireball that starts in the air but homes in the middle of the screen.
he was referring to Capcoms official updates i think obviously.... the rainbow edition is the most extreme of course
Yeah ewww
Love this series, please make more on this topic...
SF2 Turbo was my favorite game out of the series to this day. Countless hours spent at the arcade playing that against others. That and mortal kombat 2 were my games back in the day. The friends that you met at the arcades was awesome. Online gaming at home is cool but nothing will ever beat being at the arcade with others, you can't ever replace that feeling. Whether it was playing or just watching, it just hit different
I remember there was a lawsuit Capcom filed on a company call Twobit. It was about illegally modifying it's SF2 arcade games. Maybe there were more than one companies out there modifying those arcade games.
Fighting games like Street Fighter were the only games I used to play growing up (once I graduated from the Mario Brothers series). Everyone else I knew were mostly into RPGs. I would love to start playing again, but don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a gaming system to play only a few games.😢😕
I used to play it on a Button phone, it was psych❤
Champion Edition is still my favorite, I'll always renember how cool it was when it came out back in 1992
SHIN AKUMA!👹
Two video rental places, one popular had original SF2 and the other had the rainbow SF2. I remember playing both. The rainbow was funny and unpredictable, Ken could jump after every fireball so could go infinitely high, when he reached the top of the screen he’d appear at bottom if going higher lol
SF2 will forever be my favorite. I just love hearing the sound of those 2-4 shoryuken combos from Ken or Ryu.
I remember playing this awesome fighting game in the 90s. Here in the philippines it is ond of the popular games in that time...
Also note that there are other 2D fighting games, like World Hero's and tons of other's like it. But these games didn't gain the popularity that SF2 did, and I believe it was because of the character design.
The character design in Street Fighter 2 is perfect. All characters are distinguished in their own right and are easy to identify are unique.
Super informative video. I love it ❤
I remember going to a grocery store and in the back they had this version. It was insane!
Hong Kong helped bring SF2 and the new arcade culture to Toronto!
Been playing since 92-93. The animated movie Street Fighter 2 is my favorite Anime.
Didn't expect this, but sure
Wish there was more news about games in asia
I remember one of these modded streetfighter two games I thought it was just an urban legend but I actually got a chance to play one you could do sonic boom after sonic boom levitating into the sky. What a time to be alive.
used to play various rainbow editions at a karoake hall in richmond hill
On my local arcade way back in 1998, the owner made several hacked rainbow arcade. It was fun!!!!
Reminds me of the game genie for Super Nintendo back in the day. Loved it
Fun fact: Balrog, the boxer, was originally M.Bison. As in Mike Bison (Tyson)
@1:10 I think that’s David Sirlin (who headed SF2 HD Remix) but not sure why they didn’t credit him (like the others) since he appears throughout the video.
I had the pleasure to visit HK back in the early 90s when SF2 was all the rage in the arcades. The city was still vibrant and flourishing in its role as a gateway for China to the outside world. Nowadays the CCP has crushed its freedoms so much it's not even funny. It's One Country, One Party all the way down.
The original SF2 Snes was my first ever fighting game i owned and played all the time during early 90's but for me the best thing Street Fighter has ever done is C.Viper in SF4 awesome awesome technical hard character❤
Think about that in a lot of cases your only chance was to play only in a friend's place with what you most desired, because you had to chose what you can own for a year...and it was limited..for sure.
Street fighter and Mega Man are the GOATs!
Yo invisible throws and freezing days. Iconic
Had no idea those crazy versions at the arcades were custom ROMs
I think I played a more tamed championship edition version in arcade where if you did the fireball or sonic boom whatever in midair it would act normal and just go straight. For long time I thought it was normal thing lol however interesting that Capcom would implement these elements into future games like xmen vs SF etc ..
Cool video!
Does anyone know what watch the arcade collector, Perry Yeung, is wearing at 2:48. It looks like a Casio.
This was the birth of insane gameplay style that later become the marvel series
SF2 is the reason I missed the school bus most morning
the amazing thing about it is its the sequel to SF1!!!!!? I mean its completely night and day in every department!!!! The Animations, the Art, the Characters, the Gameplay EVERYTHING about SF2 was like a completely different studio went and did SF2!!!??
If it was the same studio!? then what happened in the inbetween between SF1 to SF2!!!! is what interests me, the struggle, the design process! Was the lead creative the same!? I massuming thats the visionary creator.....
just everything about the sequel is perfect! The stances for instance when they complete the fireball / hadoken is beautiful, is what martial artists strive and practice for the perfect form.... and if you just compare everything to SF1..... the art for the fireball looks so much better too
i would love to watch a documentary..... no one talks about SF1 but will definitely have played it AFTER SF2 out of curiosity..... yeah the guy who masterminded SF2 interests me.... if he is the same guy etc, what decisions he chose and why etc in every department
SF2 was by a completely different division at Capcom that was headed by Yoshiki Okamoto. The first one was produced by Takashi Nishiyama, who would bring most of his team from Capcom to SNK to work on Neo Geo titles.
12 Main Characters, Thats our generation. We grew up with Street Fighters
arcade centres my childhood hangout place
Thank you Takashi Nishiyama. Creator of original 1987 Ryu and Ken travel across the map to fight strong opponents including SNK.
evo Moment 37 is the spark that began the revival of Street Fighter franchise
I'm glad to see the history or something of the same video games as I played in my childhood. In my country there is no longer vigor to make such reportages due to the corruption and the recession. Moreover, I have never played "the raibow edition" which seems to be made in Taiwan! I wish I had played it!
Interesting how “Street Fighter” is understood to refer to the universally lauded “Street Fighter 2” rather than the original.
I'm down for this new series
On this date, Chris Wong almost won 1 million USD at Capcom Cup X
In those times videogames were simple to operate in comparison with the games we have now. Modern games are too complicated for me, haha.
Everything about this game is great
AFTER the fighting games trend, there was the RPG trend in the late 1990s.
I remember playing on one with the double fireballs and you could go out of the screen
10:22 Go away??? EVO moment 37 made FGC immortal, JWong still getting Daigo'd in 2022/2023 never gets old
I thought it was error back then, every characters can throw hadouken or fire ball.
It's not been for long because customers started to complaining.
In the 90's it is common to see sf, caddilacs and dinosaurs, final fight, tekken, raiden on arcades.
Been a Street-Fighter since the very first arcade game back in 1987...and still StreetFighting on SF6.
#world warriors
SF2 on NES was literally my first ever console game :')
SF2 didn’t come out on NES… not officially anyway.
@@TwistedSoul2002 I just realized that it's a bootleg after all those years 🥲
Maybe Capcom secretly released these crazy "debug" versions cuz they knew they would make extra revenue on the side. I mean it would seem quite ridiculous if Capcom officially announced and produced and released this craziness.
There has been a fighting game Renaissance.
Can you cover King of fighters and it’s popularity in Hong Kong over street fighter.
@djfuvideo2 SNK’s fighting games are quite popular in Mexico as well because for slightly more than the price of a Capcom cabinet you could get a Neo Geo cabinet with four games instead of just one.
Such an amazing video game.
🎮🎮🎯🎯🎯
Street Fighter 2 is the trendsetter of all fighting games, 1 year before mk was released, 3 years before tekken was released, and there is street fighter
street fighter i played first time in Germany. it was so cool. Nowdays i changed mine mind and buyt xbox serie s. I get older so i decide doing other things. 😅
3rd strike greatest sf game of all time
Basically my childhood 😅
Back my primary school day.. we always go to the shop nearby school where they have Street Fight 1. Many occupied and some of us didnt like to accept the challenge cos that money is my pocket money left over from lunch and some even used up all the lunch money just for SF2 no lunch. if we lose the challenge GG in 5 minutes. But if i play alone i can last at least half an hour. Then year later came the SF2. More and more people jumping on SF2 instead of Rai Den or 1942 aeroplane shooting games. Everyday after school SF2!!!! Even on weekend out to midcity arcade stores where there is least 5 SF2 arcades on board in every stores. Is where everyone comes to challenge to be famouse SF2 stars.
I don't think there will ever be another arcade game that saw lines as long as SF2 created
I remember rainbow ver in a arcade in Kaneohe
The 90s were great
This story has been done for like 15 years now
I despised those mod/pirated versions of SF2 , but when Capcom officially released Hyper Fighting/Turbo I totally committed to it. Street Fighter and Capcom fighting games are truly the gold standard of the fighting game genre and it's been over 30 years since I was a child I've been playing them.
Nice! Amazing!
Today you can ROM and HACK and even create your own game online in so many different ways its way beyond Street Fighter.
How could they not even mention the sheng long hoax in sf2?
shoutouts to nocharge wavy sonic booms and infinite jumping spinning lariats
I didn't know the Rainbow edition wasnt offical and legit. Believe it or not, me and my friend would play it at Jockey Club when we were teenagers. How did HKJC get their hands into something so cool?
Anyways the game was fun, bit thinking back, it would probably be boring now at this day and age. All we did was throw fireballs at each other. Once you got hit, you're done cause the whole screen would be occupied with your opponent's fireballs.
Wooooooo yes!!
Sikat kaayo ni sauna sa among brng hulog2x ug piso duwa street fighter, Mortal Kombat ug uban pa.
Street fighter babey 😎
From street figther than born Samurai showdown and also my 1st time to discovered Ultimate skill than KOF Fighter birthed and discovered Joe Higashi Ultimate skill and Ryo haha.
*the best game in the world and I have 2 Super Nintendo and copies of SF II today!!* ⭐️ ❤ ⭐️
Still playing street fighter
Oh it changed EVERYTHING!!!!
Street Fighter 2 is a major influencer and redefinition of fighting games, without Street Fighter, we might not have other fighting games like Fatal Fury, The King Of Fighters, Tekken, Virtual Fighter, Mortal Kombat etc
Ken Masters was my first favorite character. Now it is Akuma
Brilliant x