'Street Fighter' Celebrates 25 Years: Can You Hadouken?

by SodaHead Gaming Posted 2012/01/13 14:00:00

Related Topics: Games, Street Fighter, 25th Anniversary, Arcade, Original Street Fighter, Hadouken, Hadoken, sequel, Commodore 64, Video, Game, Anniversary, Ex, Award, Spin-offs

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In 25 years, the "Street Fighter" franchise has released so many games, and versions of games, and spin-offs of versions of sequels of games, that it's unlikely anyone but a hardcore arcade junkie could list them all. Creators have rotated characters, changed the graphics, added locations and specials, but many of the characters and moves stay the same. If you can Hadouken in "Street Fighter II" at the arcade, you can Hadouken in "Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha" at home.

August 30 of this year will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the original "Street Fighter" game. It was originally released as an arcade game, but was moved to various early home consoles like the Commodore 64 the next year. It wasn't until 1991, when "Street Fighter II" came out, that the franchise really took off. It was literally a billion-dollar enterprise by 1993.

Now go ahead. You're Ryu. Fight!

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/13 18:40:13

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I never adapted; I tried for a long time. It only worked with racing games like F-Zero X; everything else was hard and obnoxious (Fighting and FPS games especially.)
Still, there are much worse controllers.

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 18:42:16

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What was that futuristic racing game kind of like slot cars with that early chip tune oriented speed metal duelling guitar soundtrack?

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/13 18:54:00 (edited)

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It was pretty complex; along with F-Zero GX, it's my favorite racing game. You were 1 of 30 racers; you're goal was to get 1st place overall in the cup. You could boost but at the cost of your health. If you ran out of health, your ship exploded.

You should try it out on an emulator some time. GX was a bit better though. By the way, it was the game with Speed Metal; it had the best Video Game sound track ever!

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 19:02:29

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Cheers! I feel 15 again!

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 18:49:25

My sister and my parents have a Wii, I refuse to get one, casual games , poor controls, and poor downtuned graphics... well consoles are overall (PC gamer), though prefer XBOX360 for most then PS3 (modern).

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/13 19:06:07

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I hate Wiis too, but you have to admit that some PS3 games have better graphics than their PC counterparts. Look at Call of Duty and the sort. I think that PC is the best, just because it has so many capabilities, but I don't consider my PS3 to have, "casual games , poor controls, and poor downtuned graphics" at all. Controls are my #1 complaint for PC; I don't like the keyboard system. At least, X-Box 360 controllers work well with Windows 7; that’s what I do for the emulators and any PC games that let you change input to the controllers.

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 19:10:21

Rember also that Beta was superior to VHS, the only problem is the Sony doesn't tend to share technology with its counterparts.

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/13 19:21:38

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For now, I am loyal to Sony. They make the best console, give me free internet access, and are involved in some of the best games.

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 20:40:15

I am an XBOX loyalist, easy to crack firmware and use it for whatever other means I want no matter if intended or not.,

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Ego Death to Ego Death 2012/01/13 20:40:56

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PS3 however is superior graphics and processing wise.

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/13 21:04:58

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If you're really good, you can make the Boss characters in MK9 playable using that method.

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Ego Death to ✞Knight... 2012/01/16 09:54:58

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Finish him!

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✞Knight... to Ego Death 2012/01/16 17:57:30

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Beat Magnum True Hero 2012/01/13 15:51:07

Hadouken!

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Zangief was my weapon of choice. Once you learned his moves he was unstoppable!

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✞Knight... to Beat Ma... 2012/01/13 17:37:53 (edited)

He was a beast in Street Fighter 2!

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Beat Ma... to ✞Knight... 2012/01/14 08:31:10

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The Gorbachev dance! I feel old because I know who Gorbachev is...

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✞Knight... to Beat Ma... 2012/01/14 08:34:48

I was born in 92, but we still learn about how incompetent he was in History.

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Tony 2012/01/13 15:34:23

Hadouken!

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✞Knight... to Tony 2012/01/13 19:34:26

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coach k 2012/01/13 15:33:09

Uh...

no

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ClarisseGwadaGirl 2012/01/13 15:27:24

Hadouken!

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I loved this game!!!! Go Street Fighter!!

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✞Knight... to Clariss... 2012/01/13 19:36:32

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This is one of my Favorite Games too.

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TD 2012/01/13 15:25:29

Hadouken!

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I can but I used to fight with Chun Li

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✞Knight... to TD 2012/01/13 17:06:58

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She was my favoirte character to play too.

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TD to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 17:59:31

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I spent many quarters at the arcade playing street fighter 2

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✞Knight... to TD 2012/01/13 18:08:53 (edited)

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I spent hours as a kid playing the SNES version at home; now I play HD Remix for PS3.

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TD to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 18:11:19

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Good old E-Honda and Sagat

Hyper!!!

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✞Knight... to TD 2012/01/13 18:13:18

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TD to ✞Knight... 2012/01/13 18:16:06

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I can smell the subshop I used to play the game in now
that you have posted these memories :)

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✞Knight... to TD 2012/01/13 18:19:01

Glad to bring them back; Happy 25th Street Fighter Anniversary!

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