BaD #17: Street Fighter

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BaD #17: Street Fighter

On 02/23/2018 at 02:25 PM by daftman

The Street Fighter franchise is a worldwide powerhouse that has been popular for decades, even if its cultural foot print hasn't been as large in recent years. All that is due, however, to Street Fighter II, and not this slow, clunky, horribly unbalanced first effort from 1987. Not that it has to be balanced. You start up the game and immediately play as Ryu (I've heard Ken is playable too but I don't know how to pick him). The other characters are not playable, so they don't have to be balanced. The game plays like a series of boss fights, which by itself isn't damning, even considering how things are stacked against you. It's the fact that it's, well, slow and clunky and not very much fun to play. There are so many great Street Fighter games that there is really no reason to play this one.

You can kick this ninja's shuriken right out of the air, which I have to admit is a cool touch.

Comments

KnightDriver

02/23/2018 at 09:43 PM

I liked Clayfighter.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/24/2018 at 10:04 PM

Those graphics used to blow my mind and I still kinda wish someone would make another stop-motion video game like that. I'm sure they've been made since, but I don't remember any that were as known as Clayfighter.

KnightDriver

02/25/2018 at 10:58 PM

Well, I'm on the trail of zany, cartoony sports games. Ready 2 Rumble is the next one I want to try out.

Cary Woodham

02/24/2018 at 12:46 AM

I remember seeing the very first Street Fighter in an arcade once. It was a special cabinet with big buttons and the harder you punched them, the harder the attack would be. It's true! Look it up.

daftman

02/24/2018 at 06:06 PM

The collection mentioned that. So weird! I'd love to see tournament-level players trying to use controls like that today lol

The Last Ninja

02/24/2018 at 09:28 PM

The first SF is so weird. It's not a good game, yet the second one is just astounding. It's a good thing Capcom didn't give up on the franchise. Also, wasn't this game the first in the fighting genre?

daftman

02/25/2018 at 03:54 PM

It depends on how you define fighting games but I think that distinction usually goes to 1984's Karate Champ. But the genre, of course, didn't really come into its own until SFII.