We love a clever and funny parody, and this RackaRacka produced Street Fighter In Real Life (IRL) video nails it perfectly.
The character depictions, stunts, VFX and special moves are the cherry on top of this hilarious Street Fighter parody cake!
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We love a clever and funny parody, and this RackaRacka produced Street Fighter In Real Life (IRL) video nails it perfectly.
The character depictions, stunts, VFX and special moves are the cherry on top of this hilarious Street Fighter parody cake!
Celebrating it’s 40th Anniversary (since 11th of June 2023), CAPCOM has launched a very special website destination in honour and celebration of this event – CAPCOM TOWN!
Capcom Town offers an interactive museum, a product factory (allowing you to download Capcom-themed icons for X/Twitter!), pages dedicated to C-Suite level Capcom executives telling the story of the company, and most importantly, the Town allows access to retro games that you can play gratis (that means FREE) directly in your browser!
What are you still doing here, go and play some Super Ghouls’n Ghosts or Street Fighter II or Breath Of Fire or Final Fight or…..ahhhh, you get the picture 😉
NOTES:
image source: CAPCOM TOWN
We’ll admit that we didn’t mind the Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue Street Fighter Movie back in the day, but this Japanese version is probably the better of the two.
How darn charming and awesome is this! The round 3 fight between Chun-Li and M. Bison is one for the ages!
PS: Thank you to our friend, Daniel Major (aka: GuyFawkesRetro) for sharing this cool vid!
The Street Fighter II film we needed. pic.twitter.com/Y3XXOBp4tO
— Electronic Eggs (@ElectronicEggs) June 29, 2023
The silly season is upon once again! After the last couple of years we’ve had, we reckon it is time to spoil ourselves and our loved ones on some stuff that will spread the cheer.
With the millions of things out there, we thought we’d give you a hand at picking some cool geeky items in this year’s gift guide. So no matter if you are a retro or modern gamer, into emulation, pinball, a Star Wars fan or into comics, we have you covered.
Anbernic RG351V $209.99 (via Amazon)
LENOXX Bluetooth/Turntable Retro Music Centre $179 (via Catch)
The Legend Of Zelda Game & Watch $69 (via Catch)
Arcade1Up Mortal Kombat II Midway 12-in-1 Legacy Series Arcade Machine $770 (via Catch or Amazon)
Pinball : A Graphic History of the Silver Ball $31.96 (via The Book Depository)
The Best Of Archie Comics $23.14 (via The Book Depository)
LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Helmet $71.20 (via Amazon)
Pixel Frames Street Fighter II – Car Scene 9×9 inches (Big) Shadow Box Art $45.59 (via Amazon)
Game and Watch Display Stand $9.50 (via Etsy)
Exploded PS1 – Art Print Poster (A4 size) $20.00 (via Etsy)
Enhanced Wireless Controller Super Mario – Nintendo Switch $89.00 (via Amazon)
Hyperkin M07280 RetroN 77 HD Gaming Console For Atari 2600 $103.70 (via Amazon)
TheVIC20 – Full sized VIC20 with working keyboard $260.64 (via Amazon)
LEGO Super Mario Master Your Adventure Maker Set $42.87 (via Amazon)
NOTE: Prices correct at the time of publication
Round 1, fight! This awesome limited edition 1oz silver coin celebrates the iconic 1991 arcade game, Street Fighter II™. The first Street Fighter was released by the Japanese game manufacturer Capcom Company in 1987 and gave rise to an entire genre of fighting games and spawned a multitude of sequels.
This precious collectable incorporates the game logo on a mirror finish background, above a coloured image of Ryu and Ken, mid-battle, with Ryu executing the special attack Hadoken. The obverse of the coin features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, confirming it as legal tender.
image source: NZ Mint
The coin is housed inside a specially designed Street Fighter II-themed box which replicates the arcade cabinet – which is pretty darn cool! It features the coin’s battle image on the display screen and shows the main protagonist of the game, Ryu, on the sides. Confirmation of the coin’s authenticity is printed on its base. Lifting the “cabinet” off the base reveals the coin inside cushioned in black velvet.
Officially licensed, there are only 2,000 available worldwide. This is a perfect memento for those who grew up playing Street Fighter™ or indeed any gaming enthusiasts!
Check it out at NZ Mint here!
By David Cutler
image source: TheGamer
By: D.C. Cutler, U.S.A.
When I was a kid, I looked forward to playing the arcade version of “Street Fighter” at my local bowling alley. When I would enter my local arcade, I had to make a choice: “Double Dragon” or “Street Fighter”? I usually split the difference; I would play a few games of “Double Dragon,” then, play a little “Street Fighter.” Both were exceptional games for their time.
I always found the choice of fight moves playing “Street Fighter” more attractive and challenging than “Double Dragon.” “Street Fighter” is a $12.2 billion dollar media franchise. “Street Fighter II” alone made $10.6 billion in total revenue. That’s not a successful game, that’s a gaming phenomenon. When a game franchise is as successful as “Street Fighter,” a movie based on the game gets made. I enjoy some of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s performances; this is not one of them. He apparently got a big paycheck to play Colonel Guile. He didn’t just phone the role in, he telegraphed it in; and I even wonder if he read the screenplay.
image source: Little White Lies
The 1994, live action “Street Fighter” is the great Raul Julia’s last film. It seems like Julia is having fun playing General M. Bison. He’s easily the most watchable part of the movie. Julia basks in being evil. When he is on screen, the film goes up a few notches on the entertainment scale. He sold me on his over-the-top wickedness. Raul Julia was one of the most talented actors in cinema in the 1980s and the early-1990s. He should’ve won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1990 film “Presumed Innocent.”
There are so many different versions of “Street Fighter,” by now you would think a screenwriter out there would have enough strong material to make a halfway watchable film. I’ve played “Street Fighter” enough to know that the pure gratification of the game is the simulated fighting and the delight of advancing; no film or cartoon can do that better than the iconic game.
It’s a simple game of strategy that changes with every new opponent. That’s what makes “Street Fighter” still one of the best hand-to-hand combat games ever produced.
The folks at Replay Magazine have been quite busy of late conducting classic gaming surveys, like Your Top 4 Favourite Classic Video Game Characters of All-Time, and their latest one, Your Top 10 Favourite Classic Video Games.
We were quite surprised to see Ms. Pac-Man at number 1, but then again, it is the best arcade Pac-Man game, so it deserves to be on any favourite classic video games lists. Galaga (woohoo!) was up there in second spot and of course, Donkey Kong! Oh yeah, great to see our fave arcade game of all time, Double Dragon, make the list too. But what happened to Street Fighter II?
Your Top 10 Favourite Classic Video Games by Replay Magazine:
image source: Click Americana
Hadouken! Hey peeps, you gotta check this out – a full-on mechanical LEGO Street Fighter II creation!
This is so darn cool, perhaps it should be submitted to LEGO Ideas. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY indeed 😉
🛠🎨 VOS CRÉATIONS ! 🎨🛠
Une borne #StreetFighterII en #LEGO… totalement fonctionnelle !! 👌😍❤
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ! 💰💰💰
(via pixeljunkie) pic.twitter.com/Sop3ZmyK4x— Recalbox (@recalbox) August 8, 2020
Nintendo may be grabbing a lot of attention with their Nintendo Direct announcement this week, but we reckon you need to know about this other awesome news too.
So what’s the awesome news? Well, remember when Street Fighter II hit the 16-bit consoles and we were all discussing which version was better? For the record, we preferred the SNES version, but the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition) game was no slouch either. The awesome news is, things have changed for the better on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis version, thanks to coder Gabriel Pyron.
Gabriel has been toiling for 4 years, reworking the Mega Drive / Genesis Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition game to bring it as close to arcade perfect as possible, aptly titled, Street Fighter II Remastered Edition. Gabriel has injected better/more colours, updated the graphics, animations and art, fixed some bugs and removed the pesky censorship elements to name just a few of his updates.
Head on over here to download Gabriel’s update and apply the patch to play the ultimate (and best) Street Fighter II game on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis!
image source: Romhacking
The ultimate 2D Fighting game showdown: Mortal Kombat VS. Street Fighter!
This is it peeps, choose your side, either Capcom’s venerable Street Fighter or the gore-fest from Midway Games (now Warner Bros.), Mortal Kombat. Chun Li versus Kitana, Ryu taking on Raiden, Blanka versus Jax – which franchise will deliver the final fatality? Finish him!
source: Untitled Animation via Facebook
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