A Study in Fail: OG Street Fighter II Toys

Wow. Just… wow. I think the guy cosplaying Guile is the same guy they got to do M. Bison. I did like it when the live action Honda stomps Guile.

Free shirt to anyone who can send me in a picture with them and the Street Fighter vehicles (two shirts for the “Beast Blaster”!).

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Hey, Hey Street Fighter!

I think it’s unfair that Kotaku has people sending them tips for cool news, but we don’t. That’s how they can have awesomely cool posts such as the following Street Fighter music mash-up video.

Created by Hyadain, it’s an awesome Street Fighter theme song remixed with tons of actual Street Fighter sound effects. Actually, I don’t know if it’s a theme song, because it’s mostly in Japanese, but they do say “Street Fighter” a lot in the lyrics. In any other circumstance, this would be horrible tacky and bad, but as always is the case with things like this, it’s another case of it’s-so-bad-it’s-awesome!

It is now my mission to find the MP3 of this.

Via Kotaku.

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Hammer + Deion + Jean-Claude = Win

It is time to think about Deion Sanders again. “Straight To My Feet” brings you a train-wreck collision of 1994’s most quickly fading b-listers with the cast (can’t properly call them “stars”) of Street Fighter: The Movie.

The concept: take the performers, then sort of randomly mash them in with the actors. Also we’ll have have surprising cuts to unrelated scenes from the movie. You know, to tie it in. Rather than be clever, we’ll just throw them all into a night club. The night club has really bad bouncers that somehow didn’t catch the giant set of knives sticking off Vega’s hand when they patted him down. Also the night club has a sumo ring.

Hm. Now I feel like I kind of want to go to this club, which is in my face since I started out intending to make fun of it.

Gotta say, while Hammer was never shy about lending himself to various commercial interests (and is currently into trading hair-care tips with gadabout venture capitalists), the man was one hell of a performer. Don’t miss the cameo from everyone’s favorite, Captain Sawada.

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Ride the Lightning, Bison

As anyone alive during the 90s knew, all things “Virtual” are awesome.

Behold… the Street Fighter Virtual Reality Ride! Apparently this attrocity actually haunted Universal Citywalk about 10 years ago.

Remember: when the chips are down, double fireball to the groin is a pretty solid strategy. Thanks Jared!

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From the Department of Bad Ideas: DIY Fireballs

Not quite as impressive as “Hadoken Pete,” but maybe just the ticket for that Ryu and Ken costume that’s just not cutting it.

Though the video is fine, shooting fireballs is probably not safe for work or home, unless your job is crushing fools in martial arts tournaments.

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More Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li casting news (Van Damme not included)

News from Hollyweird: several more actors have been cast for the 2009 movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li that Capcom is producing with Hyde Park for Fox. Filming has also begun, so pop the champagne!

Smallville mega-hottie Kristin Kreuk will be playing Chunster, and will be the main character in the movie. Who knew Kreuk was of Chinese descent? Plus Dutch and Canadian. She’s a veritable smörgåsbord of hotness. Umlaut!

Michael Clarke Duncan from The Green Mile and Sin City will be Balrog. Look at those guns!

Taboo out of Black Eyed Peas will be Vega. Hopefully, backflips are a big part his on-stage dance moves.

Neal McDonough will be donning the peaked cap and flappy cape of Bison, everyone’s favorite crime lord/would-be dictator. McDonough has been in a ton of movies and TV shows you’ve seen, including Band of Brothers and Minority Report.

Chris Klein’s role as Charlie Nash was announced a few weeks back. His on screen name is cool, as it actually incorporates the two different names this character is known by. For some reason that even I can’t remember (and I’m old and know lots of odd Capcom secrets and weirdnesses), the character of “Nash” in Japan became “Charlie” in the US. Justin Marks, the screen writer cleverly slammed both names together — an idea borrowed from the comics, evidently — which should make people happy regardless of country of origin.

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Commemorating Street Fighter throwdowns via hipster t-shirt

Meat Bun is a new online store thingee that sells some fairly rad secret gamer t-shirts. These are the kind of t-shirts that you could wear out to the opening of an off-the-chain underground ultralounge/dance club/opium den* and not, immediately, turn off the ladies. Or dudes, depending on gender/orientation. Instead of freaking out hotties in “da club,” you’d look at least partially hip (+6 to all Save vs. Outright Rejection rolls), while getting that in-the-know-nod from other suaved-up gamer dorks in disguise. I dig this creative, license-skirting, potentially bootleg t-shirt, simply entitled “Fight Night.” I also really, really like the Shigeru&Gunpei&Satoru&Hiroshi shirt, ’cause it’s like an old school East Coast hip hop shout-out, but directed at the Kings of 8-bit instead of the Kings of Rock.

*Note: wearing a one of these shirts does not mean that you will start getting invited to attend such things.

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Top 7 weirdest Street Fighter insults from Games Radar

Over on their side of the tubes, Games Radar is celebrating a week of Street Fighter. They plan on bringing you character bios, charting the evolution of the art and style of the game and (perhaps) even playing a little bit of SFIV. To get things rolling, they’ve decided to highlight some of the weirdest slams of the series. Who could forget those awesome, ire-inducing screens that pop up after you lose a match. Being spoken smack to by an arcade machine (or Super Nintendo cart) is a guaranteed way to make the average gamer’s brain explode with great violence and furious anger, innit? Bump over to the Radar and relive those controller-chucking moments of your youth.

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Yoga Yoga Yoga

And amidst this maelstrom of actual information about games, let’s take time out for a moment of nonsense.

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“5 Important Lessons Learned from Street Fighter II”

Cracked.com puts the screws to SF2 in their article “5 Important Lessons Learned from Street Fighter II.” For the delicate flowers among you, the story is not quite NSFW, though in typical Cracked fashion, it errs safely on the side of poor taste.

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