#STREET FIGHTER EX ARRANGE SOUND TRAX SERIES#
This game is unique among Street Fighter titles, as it’s perhaps the most major entry in the series that was handled by a Western developer. In the end, this game feels like something of a fever dream, even when experiencing it: I swear I saw this game in a random arcade at some point in my life between the ages of 7 and 10, but all things considered, that might just be a memory of a dream.īut before we get into the how and why (and especially the what) of SF:TM, let’s delve into the who. Every “original” aspect of this game appears to be an attempt at aping Mortal Kombat, aside from that franchise’s trademark gore, trying to maintain the relative family-friendliness of the SF brand. Every time I look at the game, I know on a visceral level that it should not exist. Released in June 1995 – roughly half a year after the film managed a healthy box office (but flopped critically) in theatres – it’s an ultimate exercise in the concepts of recursion and diminishing returns.
#STREET FIGHTER EX ARRANGE SOUND TRAX MOVIE#
Street Fighter: The MovieĮven though I’ve already done an article dedicated to this game a couple years back, there’s still a lot to unpack with Street Fighter: The Movie …The Game. But I’ve clearly gotten off-track, let’s talk about some games. If you could think of it, Capcom was more than willing to slap Ryu, Ken, Guile, Chun-Li and M. Even discounting obvious stuff like the two movies and the two animated series, you had weird things like a pinball machine, whack-a-mole, Tiger Electronics handhelds, various toy lines (including a take on Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots), a truly bizarre comic book from Malibu Comics, several manga in Japan, valentines and even a simulator ride. Of course, the games I will be discussing in this retrospective don’t even scratch the surface of the weird licensed material Capcom stuck their fingers into during Street Fighter II’s heyday.
Games that Capcom outright acknowledged were farmed out to other developers with vastly different results, both mechanically and in their overall reception. Of course, you’d think I’d have gotten my fill with the first Street Fighter retrospective article – I covered Final Fight, Street Fighter 2010 and even Avenger, an arcade game that predated the original Street Fighter – but there were a couple of games that have still managed to pop into my mind. However, even when I was outlining this project from the get-go, I knew that I wanted to explore some of the more obscure titles in the Street Fighter franchise.
With every game in the recent Street Fighter 30 th Anniversary Collection covered in this series of retrospectives, the obvious route for continuing it would be to go straight into the modern releases.
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