If you are not going to do a StreetFighter2 video for the reasons given then I guess I have to tell you a funny SF2 story. January 1992 my best friend at our high school Winterfest dance used the following pick up line “Hey dolls, either of you want to dance? I’ll tell you how to make Ryu throw a red fireball on StreetFighter 2!” He said with a sincere and eager smile like he REALLY thought it would work. The two girls looked at my friend looked at each other and then sorta melted into the mass of people there.
I honestly assumed that the character seen breaking through the brick wall on the game's title screen was actually Joe, since it looks exactly like him while wearing a leather jacket.
A few fun facts: Ryu's SF1 costume is dlc for Marvel vs Capcom 3 & its updated game Joe is based on kickboxer Joe Lewis Balrog has a Mike dlc costume is SF5 Lee is the uncle to Yun & Yang from the SF3 series Geki is in Vega's SF5 ending Eagle is a selectable character in Capcom vs SNK 2 & SF Alpha 3 Max Sagat has his SF1 costume as dlc in SF5
The thing about the special moves is that the game doesn't track the timing of the button press like in future games, but rather the timing of the button being released. That's why it's easier to hold down the button and release it after you do the special move motion.
Negative-edge input. It works in other fighting games, too. I'll try it on this one. There's a cheat code for easy special moves on the TG-CD port. After inputting a title screen code, special moves can be pulled off just by holding directions and pressing select.
The negative edge input was necessary because the game was designed for the original pneumatic buttons; the game can only know the strength of the punch/kick button that was slammed when the button stops traveling forward to travel back to its default position.
During the late 90s our Arcade crashed & my cousin and me went halfs on Street Fighter 2. We were too late, so I was out, but my cousin with his half had enough to get Street Fighter! I helped him transport it to his house & believe it or not that was the 1st time I ever played the original game! Glade I did & it looked great in his house! Then in the early 2000s a new Arcade opened up & bought his Street Fighter as they needed one more space at there Arcade. However, it didn't last long & not sure what happened to that Street Fighter Arcade after that.
10:08 It was a TRADEMARK issue, not copyright. Names CANNOT be copyrighted! Trademark and copyright are not the same thing. The issue stemmed from having a doll (i.e. action figure) named Ken from the Street Fighter IP when there already is a doll named Ken from the Barbie IP.
You have to do the special moves really fast to make them work, but you can spam them mercilessly once you get the timing and they are soooooo powerful. The game goes from nearly impossible to pretty easy.
When I played it back in the day, I had no idea how to do the moves. I played it again on MAME and it was quite difficult to pull of, but when you did, you'd just crush your opponent.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you have to hold the attack button down first & release it at the end of the stick motion... instead of pressing it at the end of the motion like sf2,.. this is called negative edge. If you do the moves this way they will consistently work.
This video brings back some great memories for me. This was one of the first arcade games I ever played. It was at the convenience store my mom worked at. My dad and I waited on her to finish her shift so I would try to figure out how to get a game or two in. It is not the most polished game but I do love that it is the first in a long line of great Street Fighter games. So I do have a fondness for this game in all honesty.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries thank you for the video back in May of 2018 I bought Street fighter anniversary collection and teenage mutant Ninja turtles cowabunga collection for PlayStation 4
The USA C64 version looks like it uses one of my favourite tricks for nicer sprites - use a low res multicolour sprite for the overall fill, and overlay a high-res black outline sprite for the details. On a real C64 with a proper CRT monitor this always had a nice refined look.
Man, the nostalgia, I was so in to this game, love the sound effects, the graphics, even though it was hard to play I was at the arcades two or three days a week, thank you for another great video!
I was one of the many who never actually saw this in an arcade. This makes your figure of it selling less than 10k make sense. That would. Make there pretty rare. It's shown being played in a scene of the movie "Juice"
Another amazing video! Love the nod to Way of the Exploding Fist. I remember the first time I ever loaded it up on my C-64, the volume was high on my tv and the initial "Hiyaaaaa" sound was super loud and definitely a surprise!
When I was a kid, my local arcade, TILT, had the Deluxe cabinet. The one with the pressurized buttons. The manager got tired of repairing those things and installed an SFII kit complete with redoing the button panel with the 6-button layout. Obviously, the installation of the kit paid off in spades.
Zx version, you can change colours during the game by pressing "C". Also, Mike is NOT Balrog from SF2 (you said bison by mistake I think lol) , Capcom confirmed that in an interview which I read in a magazine, all those Balrog rumours were created by dilusional fan boys. P. S, little fact you left out, U. S. Gold were guilty of placing an arcade screenshot on the back of the box and stated it was the Atari ST version, they should have been sued for false advertising. Another interesting thing, the PC Engine version has all the original speech but for unknown reason the GAME OVER speech has a completely different voice saying it, why did they do that?? Very nice video BTW.
After this video dropped, I went to my favorite vintage arcade in Tokyo, saw this game, dropped in a coin and blew chunks. Sf 2 has so many more coats of polish on it.
Everyone speculated that Mike and M. Bison/Balrog were the same character, but Capcom insisted that they’re not, and finally confirmed it by giving them different bios on the Shadaloo Database website in 2016.
Another fun game that came out in 1980 and for it's time was very fun to play was Wizard Of War, a video on that arcade would be very cool! Lots of good memories with that arcade.
I know I’m two months late lol , but have you ever tried purchasing arcade one up cabinets? They are smaller home versions of the arcade and they have both TMNT and street fighter versions out now. I personally own the TMNT one as well as Ms Pac Man. Oh, I’m sorry I just realized that they may not have the original Street Fighter included in the SF 2 cabinets.
15:00 I always thought that was US Fighter, Joe breaking through the wall during the title screen. Great insight into the beginnings of one of the most popular series of all time.
Great review of one my all time childhood favorites in the arcade! Thanks for the chuckle too! When you were explaining the title screen cameos you called Section Z, "Section 8" LMAO! Also we always believed that Joe from the US stage was the guy that punched through the brick wall! Keep em coming!
*PatmanQC* You finally did it, you covered one of my all-time favorite fighting games in your legendary video game documentary series! Thank you and well done sir.
Great video, I actually love this game, I remember when it came out, there are 2 things, first on the street fighter screen it doesn’t say section 8 it says section z, second you didn’t mention how the attack buttons are reversed on this that they are on street fighter 2, the heavy kick is closer to the joystick and in street fighter 2 it’s on the opposite side.
I haven't played Street Fighter 1 until owning the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. It was great to have some closure of this piece of History of the early years of fighting games, although I felt the game controls were quite stiff, and it was harder to pull off the special moves and time certain moves, so I tried to do some noob tactics such as button mashing, but that would go so far. Back in 1993, my first fighting game was Street Fighter II the World Warrior and got that along the Super NES as a Christmas gift. That game was addictive, but it was difficult and I spent hours getting better at it. The Street Fighter franchise set the standard of many other fighting games both 2D and 3D.
This original version was huge back then in NYC. We loved it. Quarters were lined up to play. This version also made a cameo in the movie "Juice" which starred the rapper Tupac.
I remember a discussion the kids in my neighborhood had about the existence of this game. None of us had ever seen it and it was pre-internet, so out conclusion was that there was no Street Fighter 1 (as we called it). Instead, Street Fighter 2 was the first game and they jumped straight to 2 because it was so good.
I can see why they might think that, since only Goonies II came out on the NES. The original Goonies could only be played on the PlayChoice 10 arcade machine in America.
That was exactly what the kids in my neighborhood said. It never made sense to me but I believed it because I had never seen a SF1 machine nor had anyone that I knew.
While most of the time, I hear this original wasn't very popular, it was quite popular at my local arcade back in the day. But it got really tough later in the game. No one ever saw Sagat. No one could get past Adon.
Thank you. Like I said in the video, streetfighter 2 has had so much coverage that there was little point in actually covering the game. I thought it was interesting to go back and see how the franchise started
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Now I know why the play control always seemed like the joystick and buttons were broke, because they weren't the original ones
The pressure button version of this game was almost always broken when I would see it around. Cool gimmick that didn't pan out. Thanks for another great video!
Fun fact i learned from Larry Bundy's videos, Tiertex made an unofficial sequel to the PC/home comp ports of SF1 in 89 called Human Killing Machine. I remember seeing the game in shareware mags back in the day.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries last year I’ve done a anniversary video on Street Fighter and you’re welcome to check it out th-cam.com/video/XWsbxedEy5Q/w-d-xo.html
I still remember playing the arcade version of Street Fighter for the first time. I never did see it at any arcades in the Quad Cities, but I did encounter it at the downtown bus station in Cincinnati OH in June 1991. I was travelling from Chapel Hill, NC back to the Quad Cities via Greyhound Bus then. During a stop at the bus station in downtown Cincinnati in the middle of the night I played Street Fighter for 10-15 minutes. I thought it was pretty neat but not terribly fun. I managed to play SF II for the first time a month or two later at Aladdin's Castle in Northpark Mall and was blown away at the time on what a massive upgrade it was to the original game!
I can’t think of another sequel completely overshadowing the original the way SF2 did to this one. Growing up I never even saw a SF1 machine. I remember kids spreading rumors that there was no such thing as SF1 and the series just starts with SF2.
You'd be surprised how many people are 100% certain that SF1's pressure-sensitive button cabinet never made it to the US. Meanwhile, my child self has vivid memories of playing on such a cabinet in the dead center of the continent, and only seeing the 6-button configuration way later-long after SF2 had hit arcades, in fact.
People are dumb, lol. The first time I ever saw the game was with the two ginormous buttons. It was really hard to play with those buttons (I figured that was why they switched to 6 buttons), and I had no idea about the special moves, so I didn't think much of it. But when SF2 came out...I spent absurd amounts of money on that game.
@@jc3drums916 Yeah exactly. Maybe it was because I was a kid, but it never quite registered to me that there were three distinct "strengths" of attack per button. The only thing that really mattered was that once you figured out "fireball motion", you were golden, until you got to Thailand, at which point if you hadn't figured out "leaping uppercut motion", you were screwed. Those big buttons earned battle scars over the months, I'll say that much.
I never even knew the original Street Fighter existed. The first one I saw was Street Fighter II, so I only assumed that a Street Fighter I must've existed, too.
Wow!! Very very impressive video, I don't think I've ever seen a video covering the original Street Fighter as in depth as this one. You even mentioned the "Fire Kick" and Terry Bogard 👍. I wracked my brain to think of something you didn't mention. One thing besides the manga Karate Baka Ichidai influencing the first game it was also very influenced by one of the manga's sequel series called "The Square Jungle" by the same author Ikki Kajiwara who's Martial arts manga in the 1970's influenced a tone of Japanese fighting games in the subsequent decades. Also the original Street Fighter had a manga adaptation that only lasted a single issue in Gamest magazine. It's only like two pages though. But I'm kinda just nit picking now. Impressive, most impressive.
Thanks for the nice words. There is so much information I didn't put in the video and I kept going back and adding more and more right up until I released the video. I was aware of the MANGA that came out around the same time as the first arcade game. Not sure that is the same one you are referring to or not? Did not know the story was inspired by One though. Thanks forr the info
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The anime of Karate Baka Ichidai goes by the name Karate Master in America. TMS (formerly Tokyo Movie Shinsha) has subtitled episodes on their TH-cam channel: th-cam.com/video/ddZCP2eu0K0/w-d-xo.html
Some came back for other SF games. Birdie is in the Alpha series & SF5 series. Gen is in the Alpha series & SF4 series. Adon is in the Alpha series & Super SF4 & its updates. & Eagle is in Capcom vs SNK 2 & in SF Alpha 3 Max for psp
@user-tf7nw1zh1p Of course we all know about them, I'm talking about Geki, Retsu, Lee, and Joe. And it's kind of weird that Eagle only came back in a crossover game.🤔
@geardog24 - Capcom's only interested in woke characters now. I've been waiting for Geki to appear again since '87.... nothing. But we get man-woman and Abel-gaga for SF6. Even Daigo commented that Capcom seems to have little Japanese representation in the game's roster. Yeah Ryu and Honda are in, but that's still pretty weak for a SF title. I don't like Daigo, but I agree with him here. I was very disappointed with Capcom dropping Sodom from the planned SF5 roster. Not bringing back him, Rolento, Guy, Eagle or Maki was inexcusable. They just kept pandering with woke character designs and young girls... few legacy fighters. I'm NOT playing SF6, in-case you can't tell.
Awesome video. First time I ever played this was on the SF Anniversary collection a couple of years ago. Managed to beat it, but man was it tough as hell. Honestly didn't know the game existed until I saw AVGN talk about it in his SF 2010 video lol.
Thought it was hilarious when this game was featured in It: Chapter One. One of the characters was planning on entering a contest. The game was not popular enough to warrant a tournament.
I remember making it all the way to Sagat. Got defeated by him. I wanted another shot, but we were late for class, so my friends had to literally drag me out of the store before we get in trouble! 🤣🤣
Talk about the original getting overshadowed by the sequel. Street Fighter II machines, and all their variations, have been inescapable fixtures of almost every arcade or pizza place or just generally where arcade games reside, but I have only once saw the Street Fighter cabinet. I barely remember if I played it or not. In fact, I always wondered why it was called Street Fighter II when I never even heard of the first one's existence as a kid during it's heyday. Not exactly a bad game, but I can see why it'd be completely forgotten had it not been for the internet making info about it more accessible.
I think the Street Fighter name came from the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times. Hard Times was called Street Fighter in Japan, and the Sonny Chiba movie was not. (These movies were involved in various regional name swaps, much like the boss characters in Street Fighter II.) Also, several of the locations from Hard Times (released in 1975) look exactly like stages in Street Fighter II. I think it was Ken's stage (with the tugboat, etc.) that can be seen in the trailer for Hard Times on IMDb.
I played this in elementary school. The controls were terrible then and they are terrible now! I remember when the fireball randomly came out for the first time and everybody went crazy 💪 great video Patman
I think Disney should seriously consider doing a long term collaboration with Capcom to make a proper Hero's/Princesses vs Villians game. It could be right up there with their SF franchise if done right, and could be one of those $120-$150 (not including cosmetics) games just like had been SFV. There is so much IP there and we only get so see what these characters are capable of for a few seconds in each film.
The music on the Turbo Graphics 16 does sound good for what it is. This game waaay passed overdue for an official remake. Capcom should hire the studio that made the SF2HD remakes to get on it!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Oh man, I'm 46 years old and you are right in my wheel house of stuff I loved as a kid. Can't say enough good things about your channel and can't recommend it enough. Please keep it up--it's fantastic.
The game that started a great franchise and inspired other fighting game franchises. Without it, The King of Fighters, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Arcana Heart, Virtua Fighter, Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and everything else wouldn't be around.
Great video! Like most people I started on SFII and was quite good at it in the arcade and on home consoles. In late 1992 I went to an arcade in Los Angeles and got to play the original Street Fighter which I'd never seen before. I found it clunky and hard as hell to control and just couldn't get into it. A few years later a friend let me play the PC-Engine version and after a ton of practice I was able to beat Sagat but it was not easy. This game is certainly an oddity and I consider it the Star Trek Motion Picture of the franchise. It may not be very good, but the rest of greatness that followed would not exist without it.
Your style of video game histories are both addictive and endearing. Well done sir.
How very kind of you to say. Glad you enjoyed them, thanks
Totally agreed. These vids are so comforting.
If you are not going to do a StreetFighter2 video for the reasons given then I guess I have to tell you a funny SF2 story.
January 1992 my best friend at our high school Winterfest dance used the following pick up line
“Hey dolls, either of you want to dance? I’ll tell you how to make Ryu throw a red fireball on StreetFighter 2!” He said with a sincere and eager smile like he REALLY thought it would work.
The two girls looked at my friend looked at each other and then sorta melted into the mass of people there.
Nice to hear that Slopes cameo. Keep on growing the channel, Patman!
Thank you, I'm trying
Amazing! A "Complete History" inside of another complete history!
30+ years later and I still hear the announcer say "MICHAEL!" at the start of each round.
LOL
I honestly assumed that the character seen breaking through the brick wall on the game's title screen was actually Joe, since it looks exactly like him while wearing a leather jacket.
A few fun facts:
Ryu's SF1 costume is dlc for Marvel vs Capcom 3 & its updated game
Joe is based on kickboxer Joe Lewis
Balrog has a Mike dlc costume is SF5
Lee is the uncle to Yun & Yang from the SF3 series
Geki is in Vega's SF5 ending
Eagle is a selectable character in Capcom vs SNK 2 & SF Alpha 3 Max
Sagat has his SF1 costume as dlc in SF5
Excellent info, thanks
The thing about the special moves is that the game doesn't track the timing of the button press like in future games, but rather the timing of the button being released. That's why it's easier to hold down the button and release it after you do the special move motion.
Negative-edge input. It works in other fighting games, too. I'll try it on this one. There's a cheat code for easy special moves on the TG-CD port. After inputting a title screen code, special moves can be pulled off just by holding directions and pressing select.
Very cool info, I did not know that
The negative edge input was necessary because the game was designed for the original pneumatic buttons; the game can only know the strength of the punch/kick button that was slammed when the button stops traveling forward to travel back to its default position.
During the late 90s our Arcade crashed & my cousin and me went halfs on Street Fighter 2. We were too late, so I was out, but my cousin with his half had enough to get Street Fighter! I helped him transport it to his house & believe it or not that was the 1st time I ever played the original game! Glade I did & it looked great in his house! Then in the early 2000s a new Arcade opened up & bought his Street Fighter as they needed one more space at there Arcade. However, it didn't last long & not sure what happened to that Street Fighter Arcade after that.
That's pretty awesome, having an actual arcade cabinet Especially back then
10:08 It was a TRADEMARK issue, not copyright. Names CANNOT be copyrighted! Trademark and copyright are not the same thing. The issue stemmed from having a doll (i.e. action figure) named Ken from the Street Fighter IP when there already is a doll named Ken from the Barbie IP.
You have to do the special moves really fast to make them work, but you can spam them mercilessly once you get the timing and they are soooooo powerful. The game goes from nearly impossible to pretty easy.
I always had trouble with this version. From the second game on it was no problem pulling out the special moves
When I played it back in the day, I had no idea how to do the moves. I played it again on MAME and it was quite difficult to pull of, but when you did, you'd just crush your opponent.
@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you have to hold the attack button down first & release it at the end of the stick motion... instead of pressing it at the end of the motion like sf2,.. this is called negative edge. If you do the moves this way they will consistently work.
tho I believe it was re coded for the turbo grafx
This video brings back some great memories for me.
This was one of the first arcade games I ever played. It was at the convenience store my mom worked at. My dad and I waited on her to finish her shift so I would try to figure out how to get a game or two in.
It is not the most polished game but I do love that it is the first in a long line of great Street Fighter games.
So I do have a fondness for this game in all honesty.
Thanks for sharing your gaming memories. You are right, if we didn't have this game we wouldn't have 25 years of fighting game greatness
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries thank you for the video back in May of 2018 I bought Street fighter anniversary collection and teenage mutant Ninja turtles cowabunga collection for PlayStation 4
The USA C64 version looks like it uses one of my favourite tricks for nicer sprites - use a low res multicolour sprite for the overall fill, and overlay a high-res black outline sprite for the details. On a real C64 with a proper CRT monitor this always had a nice refined look.
It did look really good especially when compared to the European version
Man, the nostalgia, I was so in to this game, love the sound effects, the graphics, even though it was hard to play I was at the arcades two or three days a week, thank you for another great video!
Absolutely, thank you so much
Best game ever, I played it for years in arcades in Hong Kong. Great memories 😊. Thank you so much.
Excellent, thank you for watching
Released in the mid-70s? So was I!
I actually remember watching my older brother play Heavyweight Champ at the State Fair.
Very cool, don't recall ever seeing one but back then it was mostly all about pinball
I was one of the many who never actually saw this in an arcade. This makes your figure of it selling less than 10k make sense. That would. Make there pretty rare.
It's shown being played in a scene of the movie "Juice"
I was actually thinking about you tonight and wondering if you've ever considered doing a history of the original Street Fighter. I must be psychic!
LOL you must be
This one as many others you do bring back memories. I had the turbo graphics Cd version and always wondered about the name change.
It's amazing how close that version was. Loved the music on it
Another amazing video! Love the nod to Way of the Exploding Fist. I remember the first time I ever loaded it up on my C-64, the volume was high on my tv and the initial "Hiyaaaaa" sound was super loud and definitely a surprise!
When I was a kid, my local arcade, TILT, had the Deluxe cabinet. The one with the pressurized buttons. The manager got tired of repairing those things and installed an SFII kit complete with redoing the button panel with the 6-button layout. Obviously, the installation of the kit paid off in spades.
That outrun cabinet though 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Absolutely
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I wonder how much one of those cost
Zx version, you can change colours during the game by pressing "C".
Also, Mike is NOT Balrog from SF2 (you said bison by mistake I think lol) , Capcom confirmed that in an interview which I read in a magazine, all those Balrog rumours were created by dilusional fan boys.
P. S, little fact you left out, U. S. Gold were guilty of placing an arcade screenshot on the back of the box and stated it was the Atari ST version, they should have been sued for false advertising.
Another interesting thing, the PC Engine version has all the original speech but for unknown reason the GAME OVER speech has a completely different voice saying it, why did they do that??
Very nice video BTW.
the best video-game history channel on youtube 🙂
That's awesome Thank you
After this video dropped, I went to my favorite vintage arcade in Tokyo, saw this game, dropped in a coin and blew chunks. Sf 2 has so many more coats of polish on it.
Yes it Does And thankfully they added those codes to Polish For us
Everyone speculated that Mike and M. Bison/Balrog were the same character, but Capcom insisted that they’re not, and finally confirmed it by giving them different bios on the Shadaloo Database website in 2016.
I kept reading conflicting reports on that so thanks for
One of the OG franchises that still relevant today.
Yes Sir
Another fun game that came out in 1980 and for it's time was very fun to play was Wizard Of War, a video on that arcade would be very cool! Lots of good memories with that arcade.
Yes that was an excellent game
Lol I love how in the Commodore 64 version, Bill Cravens is reduced to just a face, no name, and he's been transformed into Barry White
I wish arcades would make a true comeback. I want to show my daughter how rad I was at SF2 and TMNT when she's older.
I know I’m two months late lol , but have you ever tried purchasing arcade one up cabinets? They are smaller home versions of the arcade and they have both TMNT and street fighter versions out now. I personally own the TMNT one as well as Ms Pac Man. Oh, I’m sorry I just realized that they may not have the original Street Fighter included in the SF 2 cabinets.
Very interesting to see all of the history in deeper context.
Absolutely, glad you enjoyed it
15:00 I always thought that was US Fighter, Joe breaking through the wall during the title screen.
Great insight into the beginnings of one of the most popular series of all time.
Excellent Video for one of my favorite arcade games as a kid
! I hope you decide to create content for the History of Street Fighter 2!
Maybe at some point but it would be quite the massive undertaking. Thanks
Make a video about the Andore family!!! Especially Hugo Andore. Really cool history 😎
I still have Kung-Fu Masters music running through my head decades later.
Nice to see the first Street Fighter getting some attention.
Great review of one my all time childhood favorites in the arcade! Thanks for the chuckle too! When you were explaining the title screen cameos you called Section Z, "Section 8" LMAO! Also we always believed that Joe from the US stage was the guy that punched through the brick wall! Keep em coming!
*PatmanQC* You finally did it, you covered one of my all-time favorite fighting games in your legendary video game documentary series! Thank you and well done sir.
The wall also has "Wings" graffiti on it too. As a nod to Legendary Wings.
Great video, I actually love this game, I remember when it came out, there are 2 things, first on the street fighter screen it doesn’t say section 8 it says section z, second you didn’t mention how the attack buttons are reversed on this that they are on street fighter 2, the heavy kick is closer to the joystick and in street fighter 2 it’s on the opposite side.
I remember finishing this game in the Street Fighter Anniversary collection by just spamming the special move motions and hoping they worked.
LOL sometimes that's all it takes
Lol, same. My first time playing it at the time, and one of the hardest games I've ever beaten.
I haven't played Street Fighter 1 until owning the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. It was great to have some closure of this piece of History of the early years of fighting games, although I felt the game controls were quite stiff, and it was harder to pull off the special moves and time certain moves, so I tried to do some noob tactics such as button mashing, but that would go so far.
Back in 1993, my first fighting game was Street Fighter II the World Warrior and got that along the Super NES as a Christmas gift. That game was addictive, but it was difficult and I spent hours getting better at it. The Street Fighter franchise set the standard of many other fighting games both 2D and 3D.
The most difficult Street Fighter game of all time is Street Fighter 2 Turbo (The American version)
This original version was huge back then in NYC. We loved it. Quarters were lined up to play. This version also made a cameo in the movie "Juice" which starred the rapper Tupac.
When Mr. Nishiyama started talking in a British accent, I started choking on my food 💀6:00
LOL sorry about that
I remember a discussion the kids in my neighborhood had about the existence of this game. None of us had ever seen it and it was pre-internet, so out conclusion was that there was no Street Fighter 1 (as we called it). Instead, Street Fighter 2 was the first game and they jumped straight to 2 because it was so good.
LOL !
I can see why they might think that, since only Goonies II came out on the NES. The original Goonies could only be played on the PlayChoice 10 arcade machine in America.
@@KasumiKenshirou we couldn't figure out where Goonies 1 was either lol
@@KasumiKenshirou 1st Goonies home computer/console game came out in Japan/Euro only
That was exactly what the kids in my neighborhood said. It never made sense to me but I believed it because I had never seen a SF1 machine nor had anyone that I knew.
I know your voice. You played Ray Ray. I can't remember the series. But I loved your acting
12:28 actually no, they had made it clear that SF 1 Mike and SF 2 Balrog (know in Japan as Mike Bison), are 2 separate characters.
Thanks for all the great content!
Thank you so much I appreciate that
While most of the time, I hear this original wasn't very popular, it was quite popular at my local arcade back in the day. But it got really tough later in the game. No one ever saw Sagat. No one could get past Adon.
I don't really recall ever seeing a whole lot of people playing it in my arcade
14:36 - I think that's "Section Z". Anyone else hate fighting on that stage with Mt. Rushmore, due to the music?
Patman going against the grain with the original. This is why we love you sir
Thank you. Like I said in the video, streetfighter 2 has had so much coverage that there was little point in actually covering the game. I thought it was interesting to go back and see how the franchise started
Fist of the north star
2pac played this in the movie juice🤣💯
Great video my guy
The controls for the special moves work the same way as in the sequels. The only difference is that they work when they feel like it.
I used to play this game in the late 80's at the Warner Robins, Ga movie theater on Russel Prkway
Excellent
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Now I know why the play control always seemed like the joystick and buttons were broke, because they weren't the original ones
The pressure button version of this game was almost always broken when I would see it around. Cool gimmick that didn't pan out. Thanks for another great video!
I remember 10 year old putting my quarter in thinking I was gonna play Street fighter II for the first time... Boy was I disappointed
I always forget how many characters were actually in the original Street Fighter....that, or I'm thinking of a different game!
Fun fact i learned from Larry Bundy's videos, Tiertex made an unofficial sequel to the PC/home comp ports of SF1 in 89 called Human Killing Machine. I remember seeing the game in shareware mags back in the day.
Playing this game and trying to do the moves will give you arthritis. Glad the sequels made it easier to do.
No doubt
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries last year I’ve done a anniversary video on Street Fighter and you’re welcome to check it out th-cam.com/video/XWsbxedEy5Q/w-d-xo.html
I'm watching this while playing Mortal Kombat. 😅
MK > SF
Mk1 and Mk2 are the greatest arcade games ever made. SF2 is good, but not that good.
LOL
@@kingbaby8761 I disagree. It’s a very good game game but I think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.
@@ryanyoder7573 Donkey Kong sucks!
I still remember playing the arcade version of Street Fighter for the first time. I never did see it at any arcades in the Quad Cities, but I did encounter it at the downtown bus station in Cincinnati OH in June 1991. I was travelling from Chapel Hill, NC back to the Quad Cities via Greyhound Bus then. During a stop at the bus station in downtown Cincinnati in the middle of the night I played Street Fighter for 10-15 minutes. I thought it was pretty neat but not terribly fun.
I managed to play SF II for the first time a month or two later at Aladdin's Castle in Northpark Mall and was blown away at the time on what a massive upgrade it was to the original game!
Great vid and thanks for the shoutout!
Absolutely, thanks for the help
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Anytime!
I can’t think of another sequel completely overshadowing the original the way SF2 did to this one. Growing up I never even saw a SF1 machine. I remember kids spreading rumors that there was no such thing as SF1 and the series just starts with SF2.
Only one candy store in my hood had SF in 87 I was ten years old i spend a lot of quarters on it never beat it and never the Hadouken once by accident
Great video. I actually only saw SFI, twice out in the wild.
THAT HAS ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS IN THE ARCADE
I ordinally thought Barlog was the original boxer but apparently it was Mike
woah who knew Takashi Nishiyama sounds exactly like Guru Larry!
Great video as always.
Looking forward to the SF2 series of videos.
Wow! I thought you already have! I was like why is he re-uploading this? Awesome! Patman!
Thank you my friend
Imagine buying the Amiga version. This is an actual, retail product that costs money. Unbelievable.
I know, isn't that terrible?
You'd be surprised how many people are 100% certain that SF1's pressure-sensitive button cabinet never made it to the US. Meanwhile, my child self has vivid memories of playing on such a cabinet in the dead center of the continent, and only seeing the 6-button configuration way later-long after SF2 had hit arcades, in fact.
I only ever saw the six button configuration but I could never it determined in my research that it was officially released here or not
i live in mexico and i did play street fighter in one of those machines, but theres a 99% chance it was a bootleg
People are dumb, lol. The first time I ever saw the game was with the two ginormous buttons. It was really hard to play with those buttons (I figured that was why they switched to 6 buttons), and I had no idea about the special moves, so I didn't think much of it. But when SF2 came out...I spent absurd amounts of money on that game.
@@jc3drums916 Yeah exactly. Maybe it was because I was a kid, but it never quite registered to me that there were three distinct "strengths" of attack per button. The only thing that really mattered was that once you figured out "fireball motion", you were golden, until you got to Thailand, at which point if you hadn't figured out "leaping uppercut motion", you were screwed. Those big buttons earned battle scars over the months, I'll say that much.
I never even knew the original Street Fighter existed. The first one I saw was Street Fighter II, so I only assumed that a Street Fighter I must've existed, too.
Wow!! Very very impressive video, I don't think I've ever seen a video covering the original Street Fighter as in depth as this one. You even mentioned the "Fire Kick" and Terry Bogard 👍. I wracked my brain to think of something you didn't mention. One thing besides the manga Karate Baka Ichidai influencing the first game it was also very influenced by one of the manga's sequel series called "The Square Jungle" by the same author Ikki Kajiwara who's Martial arts manga in the 1970's influenced a tone of Japanese fighting games in the subsequent decades. Also the original Street Fighter had a manga adaptation that only lasted a single issue in Gamest magazine. It's only like two pages though. But I'm kinda just nit picking now. Impressive, most impressive.
Thanks for the nice words. There is so much information I didn't put in the video and I kept going back and adding more and more right up until I released the video. I was aware of the MANGA that came out around the same time as the first arcade game. Not sure that is the same one you are referring to or not? Did not know the story was inspired by One though. Thanks forr the info
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The anime of Karate Baka Ichidai goes by the name Karate Master in America. TMS (formerly Tokyo Movie Shinsha) has subtitled episodes on their TH-cam channel: th-cam.com/video/ddZCP2eu0K0/w-d-xo.html
That tiertex joke made me nearly choke to death 👍
Lol, why thank you so much
It's kind of sad that some of these characters never come back for the sequel.
Some came back for other SF games. Birdie is in the Alpha series & SF5 series. Gen is in the Alpha series & SF4 series. Adon is in the Alpha series & Super SF4 & its updates. & Eagle is in Capcom vs SNK 2 & in SF Alpha 3 Max for psp
@user-tf7nw1zh1p Of course we all know about them, I'm talking about Geki, Retsu, Lee, and Joe. And it's kind of weird that Eagle only came back in a crossover game.🤔
@geardog24 - Capcom's only interested in woke characters now. I've been waiting for Geki to appear again since '87.... nothing. But we get man-woman and Abel-gaga for SF6. Even Daigo commented that Capcom seems to have little Japanese representation in the game's roster. Yeah Ryu and Honda are in, but that's still pretty weak for a SF title. I don't like Daigo, but I agree with him here. I was very disappointed with Capcom dropping Sodom from the planned SF5 roster. Not bringing back him, Rolento, Guy, Eagle or Maki was inexcusable. They just kept pandering with woke character designs and young girls... few legacy fighters. I'm NOT playing SF6, in-case you can't tell.
@TexasHollowEarth personally I wish they just give Street Fighter a rest and bring back Darkstalkers.
@@TexasHollowEarth Anyone else find it weird that Birdie was Caucasian in SF1, then was changed to be African-American for Alpha? 🤔
So glad you covered this ,I loved the pressure pad version.way more immersive than anything out at the time.
Awesome video. First time I ever played this was on the SF Anniversary collection a couple of years ago. Managed to beat it, but man was it tough as hell. Honestly didn't know the game existed until I saw AVGN talk about it in his SF 2010 video lol.
I play the first street fighter game at the arcade it's excellent also Ryu and Ken are the best characters in the game of all time. 😀👍🎮
HA DO KEN!!
Yes it's a lot of fun
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries that's is right. 😀👍🎮
Thought it was hilarious when this game was featured in It: Chapter One. One of the characters was planning on entering a contest. The game was not popular enough to warrant a tournament.
I remember making it all the way to Sagat. Got defeated by him. I wanted another shot, but we were late for class, so my friends had to literally drag me out of the store before we get in trouble! 🤣🤣
Talk about the original getting overshadowed by the sequel. Street Fighter II machines, and all their variations, have been inescapable fixtures of almost every arcade or pizza place or just generally where arcade games reside, but I have only once saw the Street Fighter cabinet. I barely remember if I played it or not. In fact, I always wondered why it was called Street Fighter II when I never even heard of the first one's existence as a kid during it's heyday. Not exactly a bad game, but I can see why it'd be completely forgotten had it not been for the internet making info about it more accessible.
Awesome as always!!
Thank you
I think the Street Fighter name came from the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times. Hard Times was called Street Fighter in Japan, and the Sonny Chiba movie was not. (These movies were involved in various regional name swaps, much like the boss characters in Street Fighter II.) Also, several of the locations from Hard Times (released in 1975) look exactly like stages in Street Fighter II. I think it was Ken's stage (with the tugboat, etc.) that can be seen in the trailer for Hard Times on IMDb.
Excellent work, Patman! You make the most entertaining and interesting videos on the TH-cams. You’re my favorite, Dude!
I played this in elementary school. The controls were terrible then and they are terrible now! I remember when the fireball randomly came out for the first time and everybody went crazy 💪 great video Patman
I think Disney should seriously consider doing a long term collaboration with Capcom to make a proper Hero's/Princesses vs Villians game. It could be right up there with their SF franchise if done right, and could be one of those $120-$150 (not including cosmetics) games just like had been SFV. There is so much IP there and we only get so see what these characters are capable of for a few seconds in each film.
Thank you about to watch and go to bed!!!
you have good taste and great habits!
Hope you enjoy it
How nice of you to say :-)
6:03 Is that Simon Miller from WhatCulture? If not, that person sounds just like him.
The music on the Turbo Graphics 16 does sound good for what it is. This game waaay passed overdue for an official remake. Capcom should hire the studio that made the SF2HD remakes to get on it!
Geki's TG-CD audio track is mind-blowing. It's the best track in the game. The arcade version can't touch that Redbook audio version.
I agree. The music blew me away
I think there is a fan remake created using MUGEN, but I've never tried it.
@@KasumiKenshirou Well yeah, Even I tried making my version on MUGEN (It's tough when you don't know what you're doing), I mean an official remake.
History always has something valuable to teach us. Thank you for sharing this informative video!
Awesome video. I know a lot of others have covered SFII already but we would still love to see you cover it!
Great work, man. Love this channel.
Thanks a lot my friend
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Oh man, I'm 46 years old and you are right in my wheel house of stuff I loved as a kid. Can't say enough good things about your channel and can't recommend it enough. Please keep it up--it's fantastic.
@@johnsnow9653 That is awesome, Glad my silly little channel can bring you such enjoyment. Thanks
The game that started a great franchise and inspired other fighting game franchises. Without it, The King of Fighters, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Arcana Heart, Virtua Fighter, Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and everything else wouldn't be around.
I couldn't have said it better myself :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Indeed. Arcana Heart is one of those franchises I’ve become addicted to as of late, same for KOF.
You forgot to mention Virtua Fighter and Guilty Gear
@@chaosdromanah8620 I did mention Guilty Gear.
I had the MS-DOS port back in the day. Ryu looks like he's wearing a terry cloth robe and one of those poker dealer visors.
LOL could call
I have the arcade PCB but I haven't figured out how to hook up the kick buttons. I use to have the PCB for the pressure buttons too
Very cool
Great video! Like most people I started on SFII and was quite good at it in the arcade and on home consoles. In late 1992 I went to an arcade in Los Angeles and got to play the original Street Fighter which I'd never seen before. I found it clunky and hard as hell to control and just couldn't get into it. A few years later a friend let me play the PC-Engine version and after a ton of practice I was able to beat Sagat but it was not easy. This game is certainly an oddity and I consider it the Star Trek Motion Picture of the franchise. It may not be very good, but the rest of greatness that followed would not exist without it.
Amazing video !!!
Thank you!!
"For you, the day Street Fighter graced your arcade was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
I thought Capcom confirmed that Mike the boxer is not the same character as Balrog/M. Bison?
U are right, that is true. Also Balrog has a Mike dlc costume in SF5
I kept reading conflicting reports on whether he was the same character or not. Thanks for the info
Always glad to see your videos!!
Another good one I can't wait to watch this tomorrow.