Capcom Classics Collection Revisits #9
When Capcom Classics Collection hit the scene on PS2 a lot of us saw the three versions of Street Fighter II on there, and asked "why isn't Street Fighter 1 here?" None of us played it, but we were always curious about this piece of history to this world famous video game franchise that just suddenly started at "II". It's gotta be great right?
How naive.
Fighting Street's entire feel is shit, the characters don't move around in any smooth capacity, and just shimmy all over the place like crabs. Hits have zero impact with garbage sound effects vaguely sounding like someone dropping their rubber ducky in the bathtub. Next to no hitstun means constant button mashing, and hoping that Gen doesn't divekick you four times in a row for your whole lifebar, unless you know the special moves, which you probably do since you weren't born yesterday. Best of luck getting a hadoken or shoryuken out consistently, because it's really strict and is based on button release rather than button press. They were originally intended as hidden secret moves of sorts, which explains why one dp or tatsu can potentially kill a man in one hit.
Capcom decided to try voices with this one, but unfortunately the one guy they got to do the voices just couldn't stop munching on toffee that morning apparently.
"WHAT STWENGTH BUTDONTFOWGETDEWAFBFBFBF ALL OVAH DA WOWLD"
Probably the same one they got to play Dr. Light in MM8.
The characters for the most part are horrifically stock and stereotypical. How many people can you find who are clamoring for the return of fucking Joe the homeless guy from SF1? How about the amazing English representation in the form of the mohawked punk and the stuffy aristocrat? What about bushy eyebrows man from Japan or THE NINJA GUY? Unfortunately, I've actually seen people online who want Retsu back without any memes attached. Dorks.
It took me a while, but I beat this piece of shit after spamming DP against Sagat and managed to oneshot him two rounds in a row, lucky me. Goddamned great music here by the way, sounds like an infant Sega Genesis with whooping cough. It's kind of sad that my only reasoning for not giving this a lower score is because of reasons like "I've played worse", or that it's at least hilarious for how much of a low point it is for the series. If I played the version with the stupid pressure-sensitive buttons I'd probably rate it lower after breaking my wrist and splitting my knuckles on the cabinet controls.
I think my favorite trivia is that Capcom still tries to pull the wool over our eyes by declaring that Mike (SF1) and Balrog are different characters, because they're still afraid of Mike Tyson swimming across the pacific and beating the shit out of them for parodying him like everyone else during the late 80s/90s.
When Capcom Classics Collection hit the scene on PS2 a lot of us saw the three versions of Street Fighter II on there, and asked "why isn't Street Fighter 1 here?" None of us played it, but we were always curious about this piece of history to this world famous video game franchise that just suddenly started at "II". It's gotta be great right?
How naive.
Fighting Street's entire feel is shit, the characters don't move around in any smooth capacity, and just shimmy all over the place like crabs. Hits have zero impact with garbage sound effects vaguely sounding like someone dropping their rubber ducky in the bathtub. Next to no hitstun means constant button mashing, and hoping that Gen doesn't divekick you four times in a row for your whole lifebar, unless you know the special moves, which you probably do since you weren't born yesterday. Best of luck getting a hadoken or shoryuken out consistently, because it's really strict and is based on button release rather than button press. They were originally intended as hidden secret moves of sorts, which explains why one dp or tatsu can potentially kill a man in one hit.
Capcom decided to try voices with this one, but unfortunately the one guy they got to do the voices just couldn't stop munching on toffee that morning apparently.
"WHAT STWENGTH BUTDONTFOWGETDEWAFBFBFBF ALL OVAH DA WOWLD"
Probably the same one they got to play Dr. Light in MM8.
The characters for the most part are horrifically stock and stereotypical. How many people can you find who are clamoring for the return of fucking Joe the homeless guy from SF1? How about the amazing English representation in the form of the mohawked punk and the stuffy aristocrat? What about bushy eyebrows man from Japan or THE NINJA GUY? Unfortunately, I've actually seen people online who want Retsu back without any memes attached. Dorks.
It took me a while, but I beat this piece of shit after spamming DP against Sagat and managed to oneshot him two rounds in a row, lucky me. Goddamned great music here by the way, sounds like an infant Sega Genesis with whooping cough. It's kind of sad that my only reasoning for not giving this a lower score is because of reasons like "I've played worse", or that it's at least hilarious for how much of a low point it is for the series. If I played the version with the stupid pressure-sensitive buttons I'd probably rate it lower after breaking my wrist and splitting my knuckles on the cabinet controls.
I think my favorite trivia is that Capcom still tries to pull the wool over our eyes by declaring that Mike (SF1) and Balrog are different characters, because they're still afraid of Mike Tyson swimming across the pacific and beating the shit out of them for parodying him like everyone else during the late 80s/90s.
6 Comments
To be fair almost every SF EX theme is a glowup, amazing ost.
nah sf1 sagat theme washes unironically
not related to your review at all but based cartoon Dakstalkers Lord Raptor profile pic
the pc engine version of this game has a couple good tracks especially Eagle's theme
MagneticBurn
1 year ago
Also the Sagat theme glowup in every future SF game is insane https://youtu.be/fLvQ8fKDdT4