Fun fact: Kirby was doing hadokens before Smash. He had an ability called ‘fighter’ since Kirby Super Star on the SNES and it can shoot fireballs as a blatant Ryu reference. However, it took until Return to Dreamland on the Wii for the quarter circle input to be implemented.
MegaMan also did it too in one of the X series, and he was given Ryu's shoryuken in sm4sh because they didn't know Ryu was gonna be added at the time so they threw it in there
@@blyat8832 if im not mistaken in the same x game he can get a hadouken he also gets the shoryuken, it's pretty much referenced in every fighting game apperance of megaman, like the marvel vs capcom series.
The Hadouken also appears as a secret weapon in the first Mega Man X. You do the same input to use it as you would in Street Fighter, and have to be at full health, but it took out even bosses in one hit!
Yep, only two enemies in the game didn't go out with one hit of it: final form sigma and the destroyer thing in the armadillo stage. Never managed to get it to work on final form sigma, and that destroyer thing took two in order to be destroyed.
Funny how it's so commonly called a fireball when it has nothing to do with fire. This was a cool video and learning about the name origins of Hadouken was pretty neat. A world where fighting games didn't have projectiles would be a strange one to consider and their inclusion allows for more variety of gameplay styles within a fighter. 2:04 - Yie-Ar Kung Fu crops up so often in the topic of fighting game history. It's rather surprising it didn't get more entries.
Well technically Ryu were eventually able to fire a literal flaming Hadouken throughout the SF games, so it's not entirely incorrect to label it as such
In super turbo Ryu can do a red hadouken with a halfcircle instead of a quartercircle and its literally a fireball. Plus, pretty much all projectiles in fighting games are colloquially called fireballs, even Cody's rocks.
It's just easier to describe it as a fireball to someone who has never played Street Fighter. Instead of having to explain it as some sort of energy projectile made up of Ki or whatever, it's easier to just say he threw a fireball.
I find curious the regional difference for how we can refer to hadouken-like attacks, in Mexico instead of calling them "fire balls/bolas de fuego" we used to call them "magias/magics", mainly because that's basically what they are, magic, and not every projectile looked like a fire ball like hadouken so calling them magics made more sense. Saicobol
I was about to comment on that too, over here in Chile we called them "mágicas" as well and some people simply called them "el poder/the power" or "la energía/the energy", it is a bit weird to label all projectiles as "fireballs" since most moves have nothing to do with fire or don't even look like balls (like Guile's Sonic Boom), there's also the case of characters who shoot out water or ice projectiles and people still will refer to those as "fireballs" by default in english.
@@MayhemEverFree y además hay otro término acá para las barras de energía para los combos, acá en México dependiendo del nivel se les podía llamar "quintos" si estaban llenos al máximo, y creo recordar que había otro término para cuando usabas menos.
Dan's Gadouken should've gotten a mention too and especially since that move is jokingly ripped from SNKs version of the Hadouken the Haoh-ken in Art of Fighting which they throw fireballs with one hand and the Haoh Sho ko ken being the super version of the move.
And then SNK made that parody into a serious thing by making EVERYONE's projectile into a Gadouken for several KOF games starting from 96, not just Ryo & Robert's, even Terry's Power Wave dissipates in one step forward, while Geese's reppuken turns into a melee slap attack
@@tedjomuljono3052 Yea man I still prefer it that they travel full screen instead of it barely traveling forward. They really nerfed their projectiles that time. And 96 was also when they changed Kyo from a shoto like chracter to a full rekka character
Space Battleship Yamato was a big Contributor of what we known today as "Anime", it also influences most space opera in anime like Gundam, Macross and Evangelion. It also Influences Battle Star Galactica, Star wars and Star Strek.
Karate Champ was a really underrated game. It was the first fighting game I remember as a kid that had a number of joystick/button combinations to pull off more moves. It even had a move list chart on the front to learn the moves. Me and my brother played the crap out of that game before Street Fighter and Mortal Combat came along.
Is this the first death kwon do episode? Because I do remember Mordecai blatantly pulling a shoryuken there Can you tell me where the psycho crusher happens I'd love to go back and see
one stats you forgot is that SF2 was the ost sold fighting game (across all edition) before smash ultimate came out (wich is kinda unfaire because like half the people buy it as a party game). this is super impressive considereing the amount of time it stayed at the top.
Fun fact: the Kamehameha begins and ends with the dominant hand on top, while the hadouken starts with the dominant had on top, but ends with that hand on the bottom, meaning it has a twist when releasing. That seems logically more powerful, since a lot more power can be produced with a twist rather than a straight push.
Then again the Kamehameha is a continuous blast while the Hadoken is (usually) a singular burst, so you can just keep pumping more energy into the Kamehameha
@@nuberiffic well, it's physics. A twist would mean there is more inertia put into the projectile, giving more force to it. Same logic behind a punch or a kick: the body shifts and twists to generate force that gets focused into a small point, like the the index and middle knuckles in a proper punch. A cross has significantly more force than a jab because of how the hips and torso twist. I would apply the same logic to launching a ki blast.
@@jeffgoode9865 ...no dude. A cross has more force than a jab because a jab I a quick pinch designed to stun, and a cross is powerful punch designed to damage. The jab is an arm movement, and the cross is supported by the entire body.
@@nuberiffic Wha- yeah, exactly. the body twists, building power from the feet to the fist. The jab is, like you said, just pushing your arm straight out, while the cross uses force from the body to whip. More over, in both cases, the wrist rotates over, like a drill, which ALSO generates force. And the hook is even more devastating with a bigger *wait for it* twist! Are you doing this on purpose?
I would double check the thing about SF1 fireballs needing to be frame perfect. I have trouble with frame perfect inputs, but SF1 fireballs are really easy for me (comparatively)
In the early editions of SF2, there is a 1/512 chance a regular button will perform a special move instead. This was intentionally done to clue players in on the existence of special moves, but it happened so rarely that players thought it was a wierd glitch for almost 2 decades.
The hadoken is named after the Yamato weapon, but blasts of energy are common in Chinese martial arts fiction like in the wuxia genre. It's in turn based on qigong and Taoism, blasts of chi are a very old trope and it's why you see it in things like the Kamehameha in Dragon Ball and even the Force in Star Wars, since it was all influenced by the same movies, tropes, and martial arts/spiritual ideas.
This is what i was expecting to see in this video: how did the concept of a fighter being able to throw an energy projectile by doing some secret movement even begin? It certainly wasn't in street figher, since dragonball is older.
@@tiger-rgn feel free to read 1UP's interview with Takashi Nishiyama, the game designer who created the Hadouken in SF1. Regardless of other examples of energy blasts, Nishiyama explicitly refers to Space Battleship Yamato as the inspiration for the move.
@@jonahlee-ash4900 sick fanboys, japanese are known to never admit to copy pasting stuff, the laser thing you talk about being the inspiration of the hadoken, does it have the exact same position as goku's kameha? of course not its a freaking battle ship laser it has NO animation and positions/choregraphy! (its not even a powerball but a laser btw!) hadoken has the same color, same freaking animation, starting and ending positions body AND hand position as the kameha, he got that from a battle ship? wtf this is ridiculous! if you cant see that you are demented. its like saying super sonic didnt get the inspiration from the super saiyan transformation, keep living in denial like the fool who is ashamed he bited from toriyaman's creation
You can do all the special moves easily in Street Fighter one if you input the commands with negative edge. Releasing the button rather than pressing the button after the directional input. I think this was an artifact of the original buttons for street fighter one being just two buttons you literally punched, with the strength of the punch determining if it was a light, medium or heavy strike. They only changed to the 6 button layout later when the pressure sensitive buttons kept breaking. Its not die to having to enter frame perfect but due to the original input button design.
This was interesting to read, I had no idea about the pressure sensitive buttons. Thank you for sharing! Edit : I downloaded Street Fighter to MAME (Just for the heck of it) and it was indeed very easy to do the hadoken!
Just to mention that DragonBall's Kamehameha was before Hadouken. The way is used in Street Fighter is a total copy of how it was depicted in DragonBall.
I remember when someone in our neighborhood where no one can beat him in this game and can last long and even longer when someone challenge him. He'd be pulling out a quarter while other kids spend way more only to last a fight or two.
When I was a teen before SF2 came out, me and a friend accidentally discovered the hadouken in SF1 and we'd just revolve the stick around while the other rapidly hit punch. We got to Sagat that way but couldn't beat him. It angered the other players quite a bit when they'd see us two kids beating up the machine like that
So cool that megaman got it and his game almost entirely revolves around his projectiles. Capcom was still like, “you know what would be cool, tho? If we have Rock a hadoukens!” *in Keegan Key’s vc*
I could barely ever execute a Hadouken in Street Fighter 1 in arcades when I was a kid. I constantly tried. Especially with those big ass buttons you had to pound on made it even more difficult.
I've been playing some of those games since they came out and I can still only do that move maybe 1 in 5 tries. It's maddening that to this day I still haven't ever been able to figure out the timing to that infernal move!
I can’t imagine SF2 without the hadoken it would basically just be kicking punching and jumping and it would have been boring when you consider other characters like sagat guile and all the characters that have some sort of projectile as a special move
Even SNK's Metal Slug uses this legendary projectile. Hyakutaro, one of the POWs you rescue, follows you and shoots these dandy little fireballs at your enemies for assistance. Just a little dry humor here, but Lucario is also the first and only Pokémon that can throw a Hadouken. Yeah, I know it's called Aura Sphere, but it's April Fools' today 😊
@@NAT-turners-Revenge I do. Sometimes I used to play Metal Slug 2 down at this local swapmeet in my city...that is, if I wasn't blowing my quarters on Marvel vs. Capcom 2. First time I saw it while on Mission 1, I kept thinking to myself, "Why is this old guy throwing a Hadouken in an SNK game?" I honestly thought I was buggin' 🥴
@@foreverfirebird5712 ok well i meant in general, from the start, then applied to every other entry in franchise history. Except V where they got it right.
fun fact, the metsu hadouken was most likely first featured in capcom vs snk 2, with evil ryu doing it, it would take a small moment to charge, leaving him vulnerable to attack, but once fired, it could not be blocked, and would result in a stun, which would probably be a more stronger version than ryu's in sf4
I was born at the right time to grow up with all this as it was new, a gift. I played a LOT of SF2 but it was Tekken 2 on PS1 that was the first fighting game I truly enjoyed; it didn't really do fireballs, it only had an easy to counter laser from demon :p I don't like fireballs but, they are necessary to stop people crouching and hiding in a corner with the one counter that people hate
They called SPACE BATTLE HIP was called ALL STAR BLAZERS in the 80s in America. I used to watch that and G Force. Derek Wildstar was the man back in the day! WOW!!
Maybe you said it and I missed it, but just in case: Ryu’s hands can be seen inside the Hadouken (10:25), reinforcing the idea of it not being a fireball but a projection of the fighters hands. About its origins and sources of inspiration, I cannot believe Capcom was not aware of Dragon Ball, which at the moment of the first Street Fighter’s release date was already a huge thing since 1984.
they are lying, stevie wonder could see it, the position, hand motion, color of the wave? its a carbon copy of the kamehameha, they claimed they got their inspiration from a BATTLE SHIP's weapon in a anime? biggest joke ever said lmao
I think the Hadouken is great. I was a huge SNES SFII player and honestly without it the game just isn't the same. Don't think it needs to be everywhere and used by every fighting game though. Like Tekken which is probably my all time favorite series doesn't use projectiles and it doesn't need to. Also think projectiles really work well for 2D games but for 3D games I think the concept just starts to fall apart.
The hadouken's iconography is solidified for all eternity i'll always remember the tatsumaki senpukyaku more cuz my brother always thought they were saying "chop chop barookin" when were kids.
in another part of the world we used to call it "Cat Cat" and/or "Tak Tak" because it sounded like "Cat Cat Cat Booooo Gut", More interestingly those sounds became words for my generation : we came to associate the joystick movement with the special move sound i.e : in future games if you wanted to teach someone how to do a special move you would say for example : 2 Cat Cats, or 2 Hadoukens (this was for non SF games like KOF and co) to reference the 2 quart circles back or 2 quart circles forward.
Projectiles are too difficult to deal with. They had become so powerful that the only character I could actually play was Rose, because she could turn fireballs back. Even then, it was at best 50/50.
Excellent video. Just had a minor issue with Jonah doing the VO(pronunciation errors). Firstly, though it's spelled "ha-dou-ken" it's pronounced "ha-do-ken." Also, for the English spelling of Japanese words, typically when "ts" is proceeded by a vowel(a, e, i, o or u), the "t" isn't pronounced(i.e. tsa = "Sah," tse = "Seh/See," tsi = "See/Sih," tso = "Soh" & tsu = "Sue/Shoe"). A small nitpick, but just something to better help those of whom don't regularly hear such spoken regards become more familiar with such.
SF 1 you almost had to press punch first before you performed move with stick. I've mastered it now, but i remember when i could only accidently make it happen.
As someone who sided with Tekken over street fighter at the age of 5 I don't feel projectiles to be completely necessary in fighting games. But a lot of games would be made worse if you remove them and I do love the rock/paper/scissors of reactions to a projectile.
Hadouken + chip damage made your opponent the incentive to offense., they have to jump or stay close to avoid being spammed. Imagine SF2 launching with no fireballs. E.Honda vs Blanka, Zangief vs Chun Li... i'd imagine many turtleing and time outs. I would think it wouldn't made it as popular as it is today. it was the most genius game design IMO
I know we all know this so there was no sense in making it but this video should exist 4all the new people and thanks 4 making this. This is a true corner stone of our 🌎world. Hadouken!💨🔵
Imagine watching this as a tekken player lol. Like I love Akuma and Geese and I was originally a street fighter casual till a couple years ago when I found Tekken but projectiles are something that adds to the game for me, not an essential component.
Fun fact: Kirby was doing hadokens before Smash. He had an ability called ‘fighter’ since Kirby Super Star on the SNES and it can shoot fireballs as a blatant Ryu reference. However, it took until Return to Dreamland on the Wii for the quarter circle input to be implemented.
MegaMan also did it too in one of the X series, and he was given Ryu's shoryuken in sm4sh because they didn't know Ryu was gonna be added at the time so they threw it in there
@@blyat8832 if im not mistaken in the same x game he can get a hadouken he also gets the shoryuken, it's pretty much referenced in every fighting game apperance of megaman, like the marvel vs capcom series.
@@planetaoruga yeah I think that was also right too. Idk I never played mega man only street fighter so I'm just going my what I heard lol
@@blyat8832 he does shoryuken in X2
@@blyat8832 he also already had shoryuken in one of the 2 arcade games
The Hadouken also appears as a secret weapon in the first Mega Man X. You do the same input to use it as you would in Street Fighter, and have to be at full health, but it took out even bosses in one hit!
Killing Sigma with that was magical
@@onizodd I agree!
Yep, only two enemies in the game didn't go out with one hit of it: final form sigma and the destroyer thing in the armadillo stage. Never managed to get it to work on final form sigma, and that destroyer thing took two in order to be destroyed.
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i think there's nothing that sparks more memories than ryu's 'ha-DOUO-ken' voice line.
Had it as my notification tone. One time it went off at a gas station the clerk was like “broooooo” 😎🤙🏽
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@@prodbyhostile uhggf
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Unless you're the author of this video, who doesn't even know how to pronounce it.
i was 12 years old when sf2 came out and it's hard to overstate the cultural power it had
Seconded. It was so revolutionary in so many ways. Everyone I knew was completely hooked.
I remember the first time I saw sf2 and I didn't think I would be able to figure out how to get into the game.😊
I was there plopping quarters on the machine playing SF2 in the early 90's. Good times!!
No matter how much hadouken evolved and used by other characters. It will always be Ryu's voice for me 😂
Throwing hadokens as a kid was some the most hype moments you could have throwing hadokens now still feels good to this day
Correction for SF1: hold punch, then motion, and release punch will do a Hadoken.
A secret to executing special moves in Street Fighter 1 is to use negative edge. Works every time.
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Funny how it's so commonly called a fireball when it has nothing to do with fire. This was a cool video and learning about the name origins of Hadouken was pretty neat. A world where fighting games didn't have projectiles would be a strange one to consider and their inclusion allows for more variety of gameplay styles within a fighter.
2:04 - Yie-Ar Kung Fu crops up so often in the topic of fighting game history. It's rather surprising it didn't get more entries.
Well technically Ryu were eventually able to fire a literal flaming Hadouken throughout the SF games, so it's not entirely incorrect to label it as such
In super turbo Ryu can do a red hadouken with a halfcircle instead of a quartercircle and its literally a fireball. Plus, pretty much all projectiles in fighting games are colloquially called fireballs, even Cody's rocks.
We all called it that back in the day when there was no info about what it is.
@Jansen Tanu Tekken 1, no, but Tekken 2 and on had beams, plus occasional projectiles like Kazumi's tiger attack and Akuma's hadokens.
It's just easier to describe it as a fireball to someone who has never played Street Fighter. Instead of having to explain it as some sort of energy projectile made up of Ki or whatever, it's easier to just say he threw a fireball.
Please keep the fighting game videos coming. They are so good and its always nice to have more quality fg content on youtube
I find curious the regional difference for how we can refer to hadouken-like attacks, in Mexico instead of calling them "fire balls/bolas de fuego" we used to call them "magias/magics", mainly because that's basically what they are, magic, and not every projectile looked like a fire ball like hadouken so calling them magics made more sense.
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I was about to comment on that too, over here in Chile we called them "mágicas" as well and some people simply called them "el poder/the power" or "la energía/the energy", it is a bit weird to label all projectiles as "fireballs" since most moves have nothing to do with fire or don't even look like balls (like Guile's Sonic Boom), there's also the case of characters who shoot out water or ice projectiles and people still will refer to those as "fireballs" by default in english.
@@MayhemEverFree y además hay otro término acá para las barras de energía para los combos, acá en México dependiendo del nivel se les podía llamar "quintos" si estaban llenos al máximo, y creo recordar que había otro término para cuando usabas menos.
Dan's Gadouken should've gotten a mention too and especially since that move is jokingly ripped from SNKs version of the Hadouken the Haoh-ken in Art of Fighting which they throw fireballs with one hand and the Haoh Sho ko ken being the super version of the move.
And then SNK made that parody into a serious thing by making EVERYONE's projectile into a Gadouken for several KOF games starting from 96, not just Ryo & Robert's, even Terry's Power Wave dissipates in one step forward, while Geese's reppuken turns into a melee slap attack
@@tedjomuljono3052 Yea man I still prefer it that they travel full screen instead of it barely traveling forward. They really nerfed their projectiles that time.
And 96 was also when they changed Kyo from a shoto like chracter to a full rekka character
@@kaceejones2282 it's as if to tell people "our main character loses his projectile, so now nobody else in the game has one too"
Also with an empty AOF bar your projectile became a flashy slap
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@@tedjomuljono3052 and Takuma, in at least one KOF game, went Grappler Baki and ZONED YOU WITH DISPLACED AIR
I never knew Space Battleship Yamato was so influential. This reminds me of how Equilibrium brought the fighting genre guns akimbo.
Space Battleship Yamato was a big Contributor of what we known today as "Anime", it also influences most space opera in anime like Gundam, Macross and Evangelion. It also Influences Battle Star Galactica, Star wars and Star Strek.
projectiles are the greatest thing to ever happen to fighting games tbh. cant imagine playing without em
Karate Champ was a really underrated game. It was the first fighting game I remember as a kid that had a number of joystick/button combinations to pull off more moves. It even had a move list chart on the front to learn the moves. Me and my brother played the crap out of that game before Street Fighter and Mortal Combat came along.
In Regular Show Mordecai did Hadouken and Shoryuken meanwhile Rigby did blankas electric and M bison pyscho crusher
Is this the first death kwon do episode? Because I do remember Mordecai blatantly pulling a shoryuken there
Can you tell me where the psycho crusher happens I'd love to go back and see
I always thought the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball influenced the Hadouken in Street Fighter.
Me too. It did come first in 1984
It HAD to be an influence. Ryu even has the same iconic stance as the delivery of a Kamehameha.
one stats you forgot is that SF2 was the ost sold fighting game (across all edition) before smash ultimate came out (wich is kinda unfaire because like half the people buy it as a party game).
this is super impressive considereing the amount of time it stayed at the top.
Fun fact: the Kamehameha begins and ends with the dominant hand on top, while the hadouken starts with the dominant had on top, but ends with that hand on the bottom, meaning it has a twist when releasing. That seems logically more powerful, since a lot more power can be produced with a twist rather than a straight push.
Then again the Kamehameha is a continuous blast while the Hadoken is (usually) a singular burst, so you can just keep pumping more energy into the Kamehameha
how on earth did you determine twisting provides more power?
@@nuberiffic well, it's physics. A twist would mean there is more inertia put into the projectile, giving more force to it. Same logic behind a punch or a kick: the body shifts and twists to generate force that gets focused into a small point, like the the index and middle knuckles in a proper punch. A cross has significantly more force than a jab because of how the hips and torso twist. I would apply the same logic to launching a ki blast.
@@jeffgoode9865 ...no dude.
A cross has more force than a jab because a jab I a quick pinch designed to stun, and a cross is powerful punch designed to damage.
The jab is an arm movement, and the cross is supported by the entire body.
@@nuberiffic Wha- yeah, exactly. the body twists, building power from the feet to the fist. The jab is, like you said, just pushing your arm straight out, while the cross uses force from the body to whip. More over, in both cases, the wrist rotates over, like a drill, which ALSO generates force. And the hook is even more devastating with a bigger *wait for it* twist!
Are you doing this on purpose?
Never knew his hands and wristbands was inside the hadouken
Thank you so much akshon for making amazing videos on fighting games!!
I would double check the thing about SF1 fireballs needing to be frame perfect. I have trouble with frame perfect inputs, but SF1 fireballs are really easy for me (comparatively)
In the early editions of SF2, there is a 1/512 chance a regular button will perform a special move instead. This was intentionally done to clue players in on the existence of special moves, but it happened so rarely that players thought it was a wierd glitch for almost 2 decades.
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Orange: "Did you say "Hoboken New Jersey"?"
Ryu: "NO! I did not say "Hoboken New Jersey"."
The hadoken is named after the Yamato weapon, but blasts of energy are common in Chinese martial arts fiction like in the wuxia genre. It's in turn based on qigong and Taoism, blasts of chi are a very old trope and it's why you see it in things like the Kamehameha in Dragon Ball and even the Force in Star Wars, since it was all influenced by the same movies, tropes, and martial arts/spiritual ideas.
yeah, so it has nothing to do with that battle ship thing, its bullcrap
This is what i was expecting to see in this video: how did the concept of a fighter being able to throw an energy projectile by doing some secret movement even begin? It certainly wasn't in street figher, since dragonball is older.
@@leonardogoulart3245 this video is a joke
@@tiger-rgn feel free to read 1UP's interview with Takashi Nishiyama, the game designer who created the Hadouken in SF1. Regardless of other examples of energy blasts, Nishiyama explicitly refers to Space Battleship Yamato as the inspiration for the move.
@@jonahlee-ash4900 sick fanboys, japanese are known to never admit to copy pasting stuff,
the laser thing you talk about being the inspiration of the hadoken, does it have the exact same position as goku's kameha? of course not its a freaking battle ship laser it has NO animation and positions/choregraphy! (its not even a powerball but a laser btw!) hadoken has the same color, same freaking animation, starting and ending positions body AND hand position as the kameha, he got that from a battle ship? wtf this is ridiculous! if you cant see that you are demented.
its like saying super sonic didnt get the inspiration from the super saiyan transformation, keep living in denial like the fool who is ashamed he bited from toriyaman's creation
Then followed by the mega man blast, kame hame ha, raygun, 8 fire dragons and rasengan,
You can do all the special moves easily in Street Fighter one if you input the commands with negative edge. Releasing the button rather than pressing the button after the directional input. I think this was an artifact of the original buttons for street fighter one being just two buttons you literally punched, with the strength of the punch determining if it was a light, medium or heavy strike. They only changed to the 6 button layout later when the pressure sensitive buttons kept breaking. Its not die to having to enter frame perfect but due to the original input button design.
This was interesting to read, I had no idea about the pressure sensitive buttons.
Thank you for sharing!
Edit : I downloaded Street Fighter to MAME (Just for the heck of it) and it was indeed very easy to do the hadoken!
HADOOOOOUKEN!
HADOOOOOUKEN!
SHOOOOORYUKEN!
TATSA-RIGHT-SAID-FRED-BIIIIRD KICK!
No matter if u like projectiles or not it adds a better dynamic to the gaming experience
Just to mention that DragonBall's Kamehameha was before Hadouken. The way is used in Street Fighter is a total copy of how it was depicted in DragonBall.
i still heard Houdeken as in,ABUNGKETT!!!
There’s a rapper named lady of rage she made a street fighter 2 reference of ryu
I remember when someone in our neighborhood where no one can beat him in this game and can last long and even longer when someone challenge him. He'd be pulling out a quarter while other kids spend way more only to last a fight or two.
When I was a teen before SF2 came out, me and a friend accidentally discovered the hadouken in SF1 and we'd just revolve the stick around while the other rapidly hit punch. We got to Sagat that way but couldn't beat him. It angered the other players quite a bit when they'd see us two kids beating up the machine like that
uchuu senkan yamato kodi ready the wave motion gun.
Learn something new every day.
The Kamehameha & Hadouken will always be the most legendary moves in media.
Shakunetsu Hadoken (灼熱波動拳, Shakunetsu Hadōken) means "Scorching Heat Surge Fist"
Gohadoken (豪波動拳, Gōhadōken) means "Great Surge Fist"
Zanku Hadoken (斬空波動拳, Zankuu Hadoken) means "Slashing Air Surge Fist"
Gorai Hadoken (轟雷波動拳, Gourai Hadouken) means "Booming Thunder Surge Fist"
Shinku Hadoken (真空波動拳, Shinkū Hadōken) means "Vacuum/True Void Surge Fist"
Metsu Hadoken (滅・波動拳, Metsu Hadōken) means "Perish Surge Fist"
So cool that megaman got it and his game almost entirely revolves around his projectiles. Capcom was still like, “you know what would be cool, tho? If we have Rock a hadoukens!” *in Keegan Key’s vc*
Another fighting game vid! Hype as hell. Thanks for all the fighting game love these past few vids
At 5:00 seeing that punch with the intro song, instantly took me back to the arcades of my preteen years.
I could barely ever execute a Hadouken in Street Fighter 1 in arcades when I was a kid. I constantly tried. Especially with those big ass buttons you had to pound on made it even more difficult.
The 3d games really lost that “punch” the old 2d games had. Now fireballs feel like slippery water instead hard hitting energy attacks
True... some skill was lost
I've been playing some of those games since they came out and I can still only do that move maybe 1 in 5 tries. It's maddening that to this day I still haven't ever been able to figure out the timing to that infernal move!
This video is overloaded with nostalgia. #80skids
I can’t imagine SF2 without the hadoken it would basically just be kicking punching and jumping and it would have been boring when you consider other characters like sagat guile and all the characters that have some sort of projectile as a special move
You kind forgot the megaman X one
Projectiles are great! They're just another kind of footsies but for upward movement.
Although it wasn't in the book, in the movie "Ready Player One",
Parzival uses it as his finisher against Nolan Sorrento.
Even SNK's Metal Slug uses this legendary projectile. Hyakutaro, one of the POWs you rescue, follows you and shoots these dandy little fireballs at your enemies for assistance.
Just a little dry humor here, but Lucario is also the first and only Pokémon that can throw a Hadouken. Yeah, I know it's called Aura Sphere, but it's April Fools' today 😊
I dont remember that 😅
@@NAT-turners-Revenge I do. Sometimes I used to play Metal Slug 2 down at this local swapmeet in my city...that is, if I wasn't blowing my quarters on Marvel vs. Capcom 2. First time I saw it while on Mission 1, I kept thinking to myself, "Why is this old guy throwing a Hadouken in an SNK game?" I honestly thought I was buggin' 🥴
As a Zangeif and E Honda player, I hate Hadokens and all other fireballs
loving the fighting game videos!
Projectiles come in handy because punches, kicks and grabs and throws do not always work.
No lie I went to the middle of the desert to meditate 🧘♂️ by the time I was done, I did a HADOUKEN . Yep can’t prove i didn’t 👍
Seeing how they evolved over the years, i think Ken should’ve gotten the red hadouken and Ryu should’ve gotten a electricity based variant
That's what happened in Street Fighter V exactly, lol
@@foreverfirebird5712 ok well i meant in general, from the start, then applied to every other entry in franchise history. Except V where they got it right.
Some many memories
Interesting that you didn't bring up the use in game design up, as in making running away weaker by being able to threaten at a full screen distance.
fun fact, the metsu hadouken was most likely first featured in capcom vs snk 2, with evil ryu doing it, it would take a small moment to charge, leaving him vulnerable to attack, but once fired, it could not be blocked, and would result in a stun, which would probably be a more stronger version than ryu's in sf4
I was born at the right time to grow up with all this as it was new, a gift. I played a LOT of SF2 but it was Tekken 2 on PS1 that was the first fighting game I truly enjoyed; it didn't really do fireballs, it only had an easy to counter laser from demon :p
I don't like fireballs but, they are necessary to stop people crouching and hiding in a corner with the one counter that people hate
Shinkuuuuuuu.......
HADOUUUUUKEEEEEEEENNNNNN!!!!!☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️
Idk how I stumbled on this video but damn I needed it. Hadouken mf lol
They called SPACE BATTLE HIP was called ALL STAR BLAZERS in the 80s in America. I used to watch that and G Force. Derek Wildstar was the man back in the day! WOW!!
Maybe you said it and I missed it, but just in case: Ryu’s hands can be seen inside the Hadouken (10:25), reinforcing the idea of it not being a fireball but a projection of the fighters hands. About its origins and sources of inspiration, I cannot believe Capcom was not aware of Dragon Ball, which at the moment of the first Street Fighter’s release date was already a huge thing since 1984.
they are lying, stevie wonder could see it, the position, hand motion, color of the wave? its a carbon copy of the kamehameha, they claimed they got their inspiration from a BATTLE SHIP's weapon in a anime? biggest joke ever said lmao
Anybody remembers Tekken and Eternal Champions? love those almost as much as street fighter.
So… who had it first? Yusuke Urameshi, Goku or Ryu & Ken🤔
I think the Hadouken is great. I was a huge SNES SFII player and honestly without it the game just isn't the same. Don't think it needs to be everywhere and used by every fighting game though. Like Tekken which is probably my all time favorite series doesn't use projectiles and it doesn't need to. Also think projectiles really work well for 2D games but for 3D games I think the concept just starts to fall apart.
I like how you say realistic while showing two boxers with a proportion where either the small one is 2 ft tall or the larger is 14 ft tall.
Dude, I've been trying to find out the name of Yie Ar Kung-Fu for like 15 years. God bless this channel
The hadouken's iconography is solidified for all eternity i'll always remember the tatsumaki senpukyaku more cuz my brother always thought they were saying "chop chop barookin" when were kids.
I always thought it was just like huh huh hadouken lol
in another part of the world we used to call it "Cat Cat" and/or "Tak Tak" because it sounded like "Cat Cat Cat Booooo Gut", More interestingly those sounds became words for my generation : we came to associate the joystick movement with the special move sound i.e : in future games if you wanted to teach someone how to do a special move you would say for example : 2 Cat Cats, or 2 Hadoukens (this was for non SF games like KOF and co) to reference the 2 quart circles back or 2 quart circles forward.
I was there when Street Fighter 2 dropped, I was 6yrs old summer 1991
hadouken sounds like : I do~~~ get! in sf2, part of my childhood memory! thank you!
Would their be a history on Terry Bogard's Power Wave move?
Admittedly it does look like a kamehameha except it ends in a ball and not a beam
Projectiles are too difficult to deal with. They had become so powerful that the only character I could actually play was Rose, because she could turn fireballs back. Even then, it was at best 50/50.
Excellent video. Just had a minor issue with Jonah doing the VO(pronunciation errors). Firstly, though it's spelled "ha-dou-ken" it's pronounced "ha-do-ken." Also, for the English spelling of Japanese words, typically when "ts" is proceeded by a vowel(a, e, i, o or u), the "t" isn't pronounced(i.e. tsa = "Sah," tse = "Seh/See," tsi = "See/Sih," tso = "Soh" & tsu = "Sue/Shoe"). A small nitpick, but just something to better help those of whom don't regularly hear such spoken regards become more familiar with such.
SF 1 you almost had to press punch first before you performed move with stick. I've mastered it now, but i remember when i could only accidently make it happen.
Brotha came in full Street Fighter mode : HADOUKEN ⚡️🥊
As someone who sided with Tekken over street fighter at the age of 5 I don't feel projectiles to be completely necessary in fighting games. But a lot of games would be made worse if you remove them and I do love the rock/paper/scissors of reactions to a projectile.
@3:00 anyone who has played Street Fighter 1 knows that quarter-circle forward punch DOES NOT give you the Hadouken. That game had broken as inputs
There is nothing bigger in gaming than the Hadouken, as it has also infiltrated real life.
1:53
*cries in tekken*
Can’t want until you guys find out about Gundam EXVS.
When I'm pissed in a club I have to do the hadouken pose ,it's a signature " he's drunk " for me .
Hadouken + chip damage made your opponent the incentive to offense., they have to jump or stay close to avoid being spammed. Imagine SF2 launching with no fireballs.
E.Honda vs Blanka, Zangief vs Chun Li... i'd imagine many turtleing and time outs. I would think it wouldn't made it as popular as it is today. it was the most genius game design IMO
Haduoken is BroKen
I know we all know this so there was no sense in making it but this video should exist 4all the new people and thanks 4 making this. This is a true corner stone of our 🌎world.
Hadouken!💨🔵
I think this is a good video and I am glad I took a dive into gaming's past. Thank you and here's to the next video. (:
That's not the way we said it back then U.S.
Fun fact when I saw ryu's fire ball I think its kamehame ha
i played street fighter 2 so much that i grew a blister on my thumb. had to sit it down for a week.
I always hear Ally-ookin. Then the helicopter kick was “the-flex-ta-kill-yah”.
I always thought the Hadoken was a tribute to Son Gokus iconic Kame Hame Ha attack from Dragon Ball
It’s also in the movie Ready Player One.
Imagine watching this as a tekken player lol. Like I love Akuma and Geese and I was originally a street fighter casual till a couple years ago when I found Tekken but projectiles are something that adds to the game for me, not an essential component.
Tekken didnt have any proyectiles until recently. And it worked just fine
"Fireballs"
(pftt) Mario's been throwing fireballs since 1985.
I couldn’t even tell you how many drawings I’ve done of hadoukens. Most were done in class lol
"Karate Champ" is still Fun, even today. It´s a good game .
As a kid, I always thought he was saying Ryu-Ken! - referencing the 2 characters that could use the move.
The Kamehameha & Hadouken will always be the most legendary moves in media.
Kamehamehadoken
-TVtropes
Except from the Wave Motion Gun itself
@@SnakeInTheRain exactly
@@SnakeInTheRain I came here looking for this comment. I was asking which came first.
Surprisingly, most Japanese know of the Kamehameha and not the Hadouken. Source = Someone whos been living in Japan for many years.