Street Fighter: The Movie

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Street Fighter: The Movie
Street Fighter: The Movie arcade flyer.
Developer(s) Incredible Technologies (arcade)
Capcom (home versions)
Publisher(s) Capcom (Japan)
Acclaim (outside of Japan)
Platform(s) Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release date June 1995
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Up to 2 players simultaneously
Rating(s) ESRB: Teen
Input methods 8-way Joystick, 6 Buttons
Cabinet Upright
Display Raster, 384 x 256 pixels (Horizontal), 32768 colors
This article is about the video game. For the film, see Street Fighter (film).

Street Fighter: The Movie is a 1995 fighting game based on the 1994 movie based on the hugely popular Street Fighter fighting game series by Capcom. The game used realistic, digitized graphics, similar to that of Mortal Kombat. The original arcade version of Street Fighter: The Movie was developed by Incredible Technologies. A drastically different home version was developed in-house by Capcom and published by Acclaim outside Japan.

The game was retitled Street Fighter: Real Battle on Film for its Japanese console release. Presumably this was done to disambiguate it from the similarly titled Street Fighter II: Movie console game in Japan based on the animated movie.

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[edit] Gameplay

The game came in two forms, the arcade version and the home version released for the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation. Both games used digitized graphics, a bulk of the same characters and many of the special moves from Street Fighter II. The similarities would end there.

[edit] Arcade version

While Capcom put their name on the cabinet, they had virtually nothing to do with creation of this game. Incredible Technologies designed all the animation and stages and created all the music and sounds. Controls for special moves are modeled after both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. For example some moves are used by doing down, down/forward and forward (D, DF, F) and punch or kick on the control stick. Other moves are done by just doing forward and forward (F, F) on the control stick as done in Mortal Kombat. The special moves and super moves are added to familiar characters with the MK style of activation. Some of the moves involve characters using weapons that were not featured in the movies or original games. There are also three types of super moves, Blue Super Combos which are the original super moves, Red Super Combos, more damaging moves that usually are activated with Mortal Kombat style moments on the control stick and finally ReGen, a move that recharges the player's life bar. This was the first Street Fighter game to have more than one super combo. The game's cast is Ryu, Vega, Guile, Sagat, Ken, E. Honda, Chun-Li, Cammy, Sawada, Balrog, Blade, Bison, Akuma and Zangief. Arkane, F7 and Khyber appear as secret characters. Super Bison is also a secret character, but cannot be selected without modifying the game's code in some way.

[edit] Home version

Capcom developed the PlayStation and Saturn versions internally, drastically changing the game from what it appeared as in its arcade counterpart, including music and stages. They also used Japanese voice actors that sounded like the voices of the original characters. Capcom also reprogrammed the game engine making it very similar to Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The home versions were published in North America and Europe by Acclaim.

Differences in the character roster include:

  • Blade and the palette-swap Bison troopers are gone.
  • Akuma is now a hidden character.
  • Blanka and Dee Jay are added.

[edit] Exclusive Characters

[edit] Sawada

Main article: Sawada

[edit] Blade

Blade is a character from Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter: The Movie. He and his "clones" were the only characters besides Sawada included in the roster that were not in any way shape or form based on an existing Street Fighter II character.

Blade was a trooper working under the dictator M. Bison (rightly named a Bison Trooper). He was one of four Bison Troopers to be experimented and turned into cyborgs. Their mission is to eliminate Guile and his forces. In actuality, Blade is actually Gunloc, Guile's brother and was on an undercover mission for Guile to find out more about Shadaloo. In battle, Blade uses attacks that involves knives and a tazer. Though Bison Troopers were in the actual Street Fighter movie, Blade and the other cyborgs themselves were not seen or mentioned.

His appearance, and backstory, should be noted to not be part of Street Fighter canon (more important to note is that Gunloc in the official Japanese canon "is not" related to Guile in any way, shape, or form.)

Blade and his alternate versions have many times been compared to several characters in the Mortal Kombat game series.[citation needed] Because of Blade's knife-based special moves, he was blasted as being a cheap knock off of Kano.[citation needed] The cyborgs as a whole were similar in appearance but had color coded uniforms (basically, palette swaps of each other with little difference in moves), causing many[weasel words] to see them as poor impersonations of the ninja characters (Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile etc.) from Mortal Kombat.[citation needed] When Capcom redid Street Fighter: The Movie for the home consoles, the cyborgs were omitted.

Due to all of these factors, fans of the Street Fighter series have panned Blade himself, with many labeling him the absolute worst character in Street Fighter history.[citation needed]

[edit] Other cyborgs / character variants

Aside from Blade, who wore a red uniform like most other Bison Troopers, there also was:

  • Arkane — The cyborg with a blue uniform that uses electrical attacks and stretching limbs in battle.
  • Khyber — The cyborg with a yellow uniform that breathes fire.
  • F7 - The cyborg with a black uniform that has all of Blade, Arkane and Khyber's moves.

[edit] Characters

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