Speaker 1: Yea, hello, welcome to Nottificent. We're done with spooked Ober.
Speaker 1: It's always spooking in my heart and it's always spooking
Speaker 1: in your heart. I'm haunted. Oh yeah, you you. You
Speaker 1: keep saying that and I'm like, oh, you know, you
Speaker 1: should come hang out with me after hours because I
Speaker 1: don't want that. I was like, m m yeah, very haunted.
Speaker 1: Um today, Oh I'm Danny Fernandez. Sitting across from me,
Speaker 1: is iffy. Why what are we culture kings waiting into?
Speaker 1: Like three hours into the episode before we introduce her.
Speaker 1: Right by the way, I forgot. We're covering the Premier
Speaker 1: Fighting Game. Yeah, the Ultimate Fighting Game, the premier Fighting game,
Speaker 1: not the Ultimate Fighter Championship. I guess that's what UFC
Speaker 1: stands for. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Yeah. Uh, the Ultimate Fighting Game,
Speaker 1: the game that is basically the staple. To be honest,
Speaker 1: it's pretty exciting to talk about. We're talking about street
Speaker 1: Fighter street Fighter. That's actually the crossfire. Definitely wasn't street Fighter.
Speaker 1: You'll get caught up in the Street Fighter. Yeah, street
Speaker 1: Fighter it should be, though it should be commercial had
Speaker 1: way too much soul, way too much soul. If he
Speaker 1: did you know that our good friend Kyle A. Bear
Speaker 1: is the voice of re You. Yeah, yeah, he said
Speaker 1: it on the episode he was here. So if you
Speaker 1: didn't know that, and did you know that it's pronounced
Speaker 1: re you, it is. And yeah, remember that long run
Speaker 1: about how I was the elitist weep? Yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: it was you. Yeah. Um we call it and die
Speaker 1: where we're from? Wow wow if um, do you remember
Speaker 1: the first time you played street Fighter? Oh? Man, I do.
Speaker 1: I think the first time has to be uh So
Speaker 1: my uncle, which in true Nigerian fashion means one of
Speaker 1: my dad's friends who was really close with uh I
Speaker 1: would go over his house and he had three sons
Speaker 1: and they had street Fighter on the Sega Genesis and
Speaker 1: they had one joystick and then the rest was the
Speaker 1: Genesis controller, which, if you remember, the Genesis controller had
Speaker 1: a directional pad, start select, and like three buttons and
Speaker 1: then um, if you had the joystick, it had way
Speaker 1: more than that. So the trick was with the with
Speaker 1: the deep pad, you had to like hit the I
Speaker 1: think it had bumpers on it and you had to
Speaker 1: hit the bumpers and hit the buttons for other buttons
Speaker 1: to trigger. Basically what I'm trying to say is uh.
Speaker 1: It was way harder to use the controller than the joystick,
Speaker 1: and we were constantly fighting over who gets to use one.
Speaker 1: But that was my earliest experience with street Fighter. I
Speaker 1: think my earliest experience was actually playing street Fighter too,
Speaker 1: which is most people's are not most people, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it's pretty yeah. I mean, street Fighter one
Speaker 1: is like a good memory when when you say street
Speaker 1: Fire you are pretty much talking about two so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. No one's ever liked, let's pop in
Speaker 1: that first one. I mean, I bet there are some
Speaker 1: street Fighter one heads. Those people are insane people. If
Speaker 1: anyone ever retrovinted I like the original. If anyone says that,
Speaker 1: they will be laughed out of the arcade. So where
Speaker 1: did street Fighter come from? That's a very good question. Well,
Speaker 1: street Fire came from a Takashi nishi Yama, not Takashi
Speaker 1: six nine. I wonder if he had any reference to this.
Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't think he's that cultured at all.
Speaker 1: But he's sometimes credited as Piston Takashi and is. He's
Speaker 1: a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer, and he
Speaker 1: worked for irim, Capcom and S and K before he
Speaker 1: ended up finding his own company, Dimps, which that's actually
Speaker 1: a name I've heard before. He started his career at
Speaker 1: I RIM, where he developed early arcade games such as
Speaker 1: like Moon Patrol and Beat him Up in Kung Fu Master,
Speaker 1: which is a great entry because then at Capcom he
Speaker 1: ended up making Street Fighter, the fighting game, and he
Speaker 1: also worked at S and K where he created Fatal
Speaker 1: Fury and he worked on the Art of Fighting and
Speaker 1: King of Fighters as well as the running gun shooter
Speaker 1: Metal sluv All games. I really loved. That's super exciting,
Speaker 1: and it is interesting that he went on to from
Speaker 1: Street Fight to Fatal Fury because they have similar systems,
Speaker 1: but now they kind of separate there there they went
Speaker 1: their own way. That's so cool. Yeah. I actually I'm
Speaker 1: working on a video game that's similar to those where
Speaker 1: I got to create my own character, and uh, that'll
Speaker 1: come out in so excited. Yeah, I've got some more
Speaker 1: goodies to spill throughout this, but yeah. So Street Fighter
Speaker 1: is a fighting video game franchise developed and published by
Speaker 1: Capcom and serves as a company's flagships series. The first
Speaker 1: game in the series was released in nineteen seven. Since then,
Speaker 1: five Other Man, that was your chance if that was
Speaker 1: a year before we were born, you're not going to
Speaker 1: oh no, did people give you two? Okay, okay, if
Speaker 1: we I'll just look over at you and wink and
Speaker 1: you'll know. Since then, five other main series games, as
Speaker 1: well as various spinoffs and crossovers, so many something that
Speaker 1: didn't even look like there was like a Jeweled one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that one, but it
Speaker 1: didn't even have the same animation or style at all.
Speaker 1: So Street Fighter two is credited with establishing many of
Speaker 1: the conventions of the one on one fighting genre. The
Speaker 1: game's playable characters originate from different countries around the world,
Speaker 1: each with a unique fighting style. Yeah. Uh, and and
Speaker 1: that is true. I mean many fighting games. When you
Speaker 1: remember growing up, when you play games like Fatal Fury
Speaker 1: or Mortal Kombat, if you wanted to do a technique,
Speaker 1: people would go, oh, just do the how do you can?
Speaker 1: Just do the how do can? Because you knew it
Speaker 1: was a quarter circle turned forward plus a or B
Speaker 1: or whatever button. It just became commonplace. And that's how
Speaker 1: you know something has been made a staple, just kind
Speaker 1: of how like every petroleum jelly is called vassoline, or
Speaker 1: every bandage is called band aid. Like you you've become
Speaker 1: the golden standard of the fighting game and uh it.
Speaker 1: But before that, it all started with Street Fighter, which
Speaker 1: was which debuted in arcades and have been one year
Speaker 1: before we were born. In this game, the player takes
Speaker 1: control of the martial artists Reu, who competes in a
Speaker 1: worldwide martial arts tournament spanning five countries and ten opponents,
Speaker 1: and a second player can join in at any time
Speaker 1: and take control of Reuse American rival Ken, like the
Speaker 1: most American. I love it Ken, But what was crazy
Speaker 1: was it wasn't as dynamic as Street Fighter two. It
Speaker 1: was very basic, very dumbed down. It really if you
Speaker 1: look at one, you'd be surprised that it has anything
Speaker 1: to do with Street Fighter two. It would. They did
Speaker 1: a huge overhaul for the next game. Yeah, So he
Speaker 1: had three special attacks. The player can perform three types
Speaker 1: of punch and kick attacks, each variant speed and strength. Haducan,
Speaker 1: which you said probably most popular, yea. Also the shore
Speaker 1: you can and then the this one. I'm not as
Speaker 1: familiar with Skimpyaku or the helicopter kick. The helicopter kick
Speaker 1: no one in the history of people I've played Street
Speaker 1: Fight with is called it the tatsu maki simpayaku. They
Speaker 1: always say, I'll do the helicopter kick, and the haw
Speaker 1: ducan is the fireball that everyone knows. The shore you
Speaker 1: can is the flaming upper cut or regular right sometimes,
Speaker 1: And like I said, the helicopter kick, which if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, how ducan is the quarter to circle forward
Speaker 1: plus punch. The tatsumaku simpaku is the quarter circle back
Speaker 1: and the kick, and the shore you can is almost
Speaker 1: a Z motion like a forward down in the corner
Speaker 1: down back corner. It basically you make a Z motion
Speaker 1: with your joystick and hit punch. Yeah. So, Street Fighter
Speaker 1: has remained Capcom's second biggest franchise behind Resident Evil, and
Speaker 1: it's currently Capcom's third best selling software franchise behind Resident
Speaker 1: Evil and Monster Hunter. It's another one that you like
Speaker 1: like Monster is my favorite game franchise. Which is funny
Speaker 1: because before we even get into this, these three games
Speaker 1: that were mentioned all fall victim to why there's thirty
Speaker 1: different Street Fighter games but only five main arc games
Speaker 1: Capcom is. I feel like their company motto is if
Speaker 1: it ain't broke, don't fix it, Just add some stuff
Speaker 1: to it because a lot of their games will have
Speaker 1: multiple versions, like what Nintendo is two consoles, Capcom is
Speaker 1: to video games. Uh And if you're unaware, Nintendo likes
Speaker 1: to make new, flashy versions of their consoles that would
Speaker 1: make you feel dumb for purchasing the previous version when
Speaker 1: they dropped the DS or over even before that. So
Speaker 1: you had the game Boy, then you had the game
Speaker 1: Boy Pocket, which was a beautiful change because the game
Speaker 1: Boy was a giant brick. And then you had the
Speaker 1: game Boy Pocket. Then they had the Game Boy Color,
Speaker 1: but that one was an actual minor advancement because you
Speaker 1: were able to get color in your games with different cartridges,
Speaker 1: but they still able to play the older games and
Speaker 1: from the game Boy Color, if I remember correctly, we
Speaker 1: eventually led to the Gameway Advance, and the Game Boy
Speaker 1: Advance was this nice shape, um like, it was like
Speaker 1: almost like a smiley face. But I like the aesthetic
Speaker 1: look of the game Boy Advance, but it didn't have
Speaker 1: backlight and such. So then that eventually led to the
Speaker 1: Game Boy sp which would flip and then also had
Speaker 1: a light, but the light honestly was trash. Then when
Speaker 1: you had the uh S piece somewhere along there there
Speaker 1: was the Gameway Advance Mini, and then we had the DS,
Speaker 1: then the d S had the d S, I had
Speaker 1: the d S x L, and you can see and
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Capcom is the same, and
Speaker 1: you will see after the launch of Street Fighter two
Speaker 1: when they picked that up. But I wanted to kick
Speaker 1: that off early because you mentioned Monster Hunter, and Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter has had multiple iterations, and if you're following the series,
Speaker 1: you know when you're being served the same dish, because,
Speaker 1: for example, the Switch just got Monster Hunter. I think
Speaker 1: it's Generations Ultimate, which was actually Monster Hunters Double Cross,
Speaker 1: which was released in Japan, which was Monster Hunters Generation,
Speaker 1: which were released in on the three D S. So
Speaker 1: it's really just a part of a three D S
Speaker 1: game with a new fancy name that makes you forget
Speaker 1: that fact. That's how I feel about Apple Products. If yeah,
Speaker 1: remember how for the past few weeks we brought in
Speaker 1: all these experts and we're like, well, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: guess guess who's going to talk way too much about this.
Speaker 1: This is one of my one of the things that
Speaker 1: I am a super fan boy about. Um Street Fighters
Speaker 1: one of those games we're all talking about Street Fight
Speaker 1: before even going into it. But Street Fighters one of
Speaker 1: those games that I wish I could be good at,
Speaker 1: Like I wish I was that dude. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of these fighting games are set
Speaker 1: up so that beginner or you know, more novice players
Speaker 1: can play. Oh yeah, but a lot of the fighting moves,
Speaker 1: they make it easier. And I feel like when dragon
Speaker 1: Ball Fights came out, because it's I mean basically the
Speaker 1: same thing. It's largely based off of this fighting style.
Speaker 1: They've made it so that you can compete. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously when you see professional level players, it's different, but
Speaker 1: they have made these games easier for more novice or
Speaker 1: casual players. Oh yeah, I feel like, uh like it.
Speaker 1: That cliff though, from like when you're playing with your
Speaker 1: homies to stepping anywhere near a tournament is so you
Speaker 1: want to be in a tournament. I've competed in two tournaments.
Speaker 1: Uh one. I compete at one in a game stop
Speaker 1: local tournament when Street Fighter four came out, and uh,
Speaker 1: I remember using I brought my game stick. I was
Speaker 1: so amped up on my business the year. Is that normal?
Speaker 1: Do you bring your bring your own game stick? Because
Speaker 1: because some people will build custom one. So I come in.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'm amped up, I'm ready to go. I
Speaker 1: progressed the first round and then I get bodied second
Speaker 1: boom on. So that's the second. And then the second
Speaker 1: time I did a fighting game tournament was at E
Speaker 1: three at this marijuana after party, and then they had
Speaker 1: the stone Gamer street Fighter Tournament, and I took that
Speaker 1: to mean that it was like you you had to
Speaker 1: be stoned, you're a stoned gamer. Uh fighting tournament. So
Speaker 1: I went and they had like these like five dollar dabs,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, cool, let me play
Speaker 1: by the tournament's rules. Get two blitz. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a cheater. You know what they meant is
Speaker 1: stone Gamer is the brand, and this is a very
Speaker 1: real fighting tournament. Still progressed to the first round, which
Speaker 1: if I was inebriated and still got it. But then
Speaker 1: it was a close second match, but he barely beat
Speaker 1: me out. But they were playing uh street Fighter two
Speaker 1: tournament edition. They weren't playing like the newest street Fighter. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I competed in the Dragon Ball
Speaker 1: Fighters tournament for with l a Gaming Society, which Chris
Speaker 1: for Smith Bryan and Cann's backman came on to talk
Speaker 1: about in our lgbt Q episode, and Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: beat the first round because I'm a casual gamer, I
Speaker 1: would say, and I advanced to the second round and
Speaker 1: then and then lost. I will say, Uh, dragonball fighters,
Speaker 1: these controls are way more intuitive than street fighters because
Speaker 1: their controls that you're able to do special abilities right.
Speaker 1: But for sure fighters, you're doing just finger gymnastics. And
Speaker 1: that's why I think I'll never be good at it
Speaker 1: because I got dumb fingers. I can't play the guitar
Speaker 1: dumb fingers. That's why I stick to FPS s because
Speaker 1: at least I can kind of my wrist is strong.
Speaker 1: I've trained it very well. If I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: speaking of getting high, I don't know if you knew,
Speaker 1: but l A comic con was this past weekend and
Speaker 1: I was a little bit stressed out and Eric Vale,
Speaker 1: who's a voice of Future Trunks uh and dragon ball
Speaker 1: Z gave me an edible and he is he is
Speaker 1: bigger than me. Um, and I didn't look at it
Speaker 1: and I got way too high and it ruined my life.
Speaker 1: For two or four hours. I lost track of time.
Speaker 1: But let's be like you. You were lucky you didn't
Speaker 1: get a call from me, because Danielle Radford did, and
Speaker 1: so did like three other comedians who I needed to
Speaker 1: talk to to call me down because it was it
Speaker 1: was too scary. Um gosh. Check, Hey, this is the
Speaker 1: p s A. When you get an edible, check what
Speaker 1: dosage it is. Don't be dumb like me and just
Speaker 1: put it under the tongue that if anything, you know,
Speaker 1: November six is literally today. Uh, you know, lots of
Speaker 1: legislation is rolling out to legalize marijuana and your respective states.
Speaker 1: We can give you us the the weed vets in California,
Speaker 1: can give you any piece of advice. Uh check that
Speaker 1: you don't want to ruin your life for two to
Speaker 1: four hours. Uh well, technically I was high. The next
Speaker 1: day I had to work out with my personal trainer,
Speaker 1: and I'm just proud of myself for going in anyway.
Speaker 1: Street Fighter to the World Warrior was released in It
Speaker 1: was the first true sequel to the original Street Fighter.
Speaker 1: It was one of the earliest arcade games from Capcom
Speaker 1: CP system hardware, which was designed by a. Kira Nishitani
Speaker 1: and Akira Yasuda, who were also responsible for Final Fight
Speaker 1: and Forgotten Worlds to other games. Street Fighter two is
Speaker 1: the first one on one fighting game to give players
Speaker 1: a choice from a variety of player characters with different moves.
Speaker 1: Kind of fascinating that that is so common nowadays, but
Speaker 1: they were the first ones to do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really was ahead of its time because while it
Speaker 1: looked kind of broke down when I when I was roasting,
Speaker 1: it did have pretty intuitive controls, but it really was
Speaker 1: and they definitely a lot of things that kind of
Speaker 1: changed the game, like, for example, so one of the
Speaker 1: cool things which Street Fighter two was actually it was
Speaker 1: kind of the I wouldn't say the origin of the
Speaker 1: combo but definitely the origin of the modern combo use
Speaker 1: because uh, in Street Fighter two, players eventually learned that
Speaker 1: they could combine several attacks that left no time for
Speaker 1: the computer to actually recover if they time them correctly.
Speaker 1: And it actually was an accident, it wasn't an intended Actually,
Speaker 1: lead producer Nori taka Funa Mesu actually noticed that extra
Speaker 1: strikes were possible during a bug check on the car
Speaker 1: smashing bonus stage, which, if you didn't know, Street Fire
Speaker 1: two had a bonus stage where you just got to
Speaker 1: beat up a car, which was really tight, but he
Speaker 1: thought that the timing required was way too difficult to
Speaker 1: make it a useful game feature, so he left it
Speaker 1: in as a hidden one, which might make this the
Speaker 1: origin of It's not a bug, It's a feature the
Speaker 1: earliest renditions of that UM which, once again, since we're
Speaker 1: trying to loop everyone in, if you're unaware of game memes,
Speaker 1: it's not a bug as a feature is a kind
Speaker 1: of meme that you make for uh A, usually a
Speaker 1: game past that has way too many bugs and and
Speaker 1: and you're like, why why I paid for this um?
Speaker 1: If he I was thinking that we could get into
Speaker 1: some of the big key fighters right after the break. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do that, and we're back and we're going to
Speaker 1: start it off with the main man. Yeah o g
Speaker 1: the one and only you. Yeah you is is fun,
Speaker 1: mostly because he is a He is probably one of
Speaker 1: the strongest well balanced characters in the game. Let me
Speaker 1: see what his current tier is. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: have to explain tearless to some people. I wanted to
Speaker 1: say that he's often compared like, you know, I was
Speaker 1: looking up his character as far as his personality, and
Speaker 1: he is compared to your other favorite dude, Goku as
Speaker 1: well as Luke be from One Piece um as far
Speaker 1: as they're like personalities slash like, yeah, especially Goku being
Speaker 1: the main protagonists. Yeah. So what I meant by tier
Speaker 1: list is fighting games will always have a tier list,
Speaker 1: which is a list that of the strongest characters to
Speaker 1: the week this and sometimes they'll even be broken up
Speaker 1: into S tier, A tier, B tier tier. I can't
Speaker 1: say that that's my first time here as my first
Speaker 1: time actually slipping up on the cast. You, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, oh, I often. But basically right now, first
Speaker 1: Street Fighter five O this is new U is currently
Speaker 1: ranked thirty, which would make no, this isn't ranked, this
Speaker 1: isn't ranked. Well, while you do that, I'm going to
Speaker 1: explain for you a little bit. Uh so. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: he premiered in in the original Street Fighter. He is
Speaker 1: the lead character of the game, I would say, along
Speaker 1: with his best friend Ken Masters uh and for other
Speaker 1: games seem to show him highly focused on his training,
Speaker 1: aiming to become the strongest he can. However, his powers
Speaker 1: also attract several criminals who want to use him for
Speaker 1: their plans, such as m Bison, who's another character will
Speaker 1: get into UH in some games have an alternative evil
Speaker 1: reu form UH. And that was in a Street Fighter
Speaker 1: Alpha three. Okay, so I did a lot of search. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this because I'm gonna explain
Speaker 1: to your list. I'm gonna explain the problems I had,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna explain what happened. So tier lists are
Speaker 1: usually in fighting games. They'll rank the characters from S
Speaker 1: all the way down to see as to just who
Speaker 1: is the best in the game. That tends to be controversial,
Speaker 1: reasoning being because in the right hands, if a Nube
Speaker 1: is using an S tire and someone like Sonic Fox,
Speaker 1: who is like the best player in the world, is
Speaker 1: using a C tier, they're probably going to beat the
Speaker 1: S tier player. It'll be harder, but it's good. So
Speaker 1: the new chart they have is like a freaking um
Speaker 1: what what is it called? Would be called an X
Speaker 1: graph I never did well in Man where it's like,
Speaker 1: yeah that you do an x Y graph where on
Speaker 1: the farthest uh left is has fault on, the farthest
Speaker 1: right is well rounded, the bottom is low tier, the
Speaker 1: top is top tier. So so like it's like really
Speaker 1: hard to look at, but I did find the letter
Speaker 1: grade and currently based on this, uh we have Yeah,
Speaker 1: re You is bat here, which is I mean, that's
Speaker 1: usually his tear. I'm not mad at b Tire because
Speaker 1: he's a well rounded character who everyone's kind of can
Speaker 1: get pretty far with him. But I imagine as you
Speaker 1: progress and get deeper into the game and fighting like
Speaker 1: stronger players, a lot of the tricks that you would
Speaker 1: use to be good with re you are Are wouldn't work. No. Currently,
Speaker 1: re You was at the bottom of the teer list,
Speaker 1: so interesting. Yeah, but I digress. I've spent more. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you explained. I'm glad that you explained the tear
Speaker 1: list to everyone. I did want to say that he
Speaker 1: re You also appears in a lot of the crossover
Speaker 1: games that Capcom has done, such as Marvel Versus Capcom,
Speaker 1: which is like this huge game, um Project x Zone,
Speaker 1: and Super Smash Brothers. You never really picked him though,
Speaker 1: I have. Oh yeah, I am sorry. I was going
Speaker 1: to say, I'm a Kirby person through and through. You know, Kirby,
Speaker 1: you can suck them up and you can take on there. No, listen,
Speaker 1: you can everyone fights with me. You can suck up
Speaker 1: that person take on their powers. You can take on
Speaker 1: anyone's powers, and if you're an awful person, you can
Speaker 1: suck them up and walk walk off the cliff, which
Speaker 1: is what I love. I mean, if you have more
Speaker 1: stock than him, that's like the baller move to do um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: re you. What was unique about his entry into Smash Bros.
Speaker 1: Is uh, normally because Smash Bro spans mini games, even
Speaker 1: Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy set, the top tier Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy was was put into the game. And usually you
Speaker 1: have the Smash controls, which is, you know, your smash
Speaker 1: button and the other one is just attack. Right looking
Speaker 1: at Dan who knows spans the buttons and smash. One
Speaker 1: is smash and the other is attack. Yes, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a basic attack of a smash take Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so Texically there's two buttons for smash. You can either
Speaker 1: be direction or see stick in a direction. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: no one's doing all that. Okay whatever. You might be good,
Speaker 1: I'm not. But so you have your smashing, your basic attack.
Speaker 1: Where were you? Though? He kept his traditional street fighter
Speaker 1: controls in Smash so so your hot dukin would be
Speaker 1: your quarter circle turn. He would do the sin pop
Speaker 1: the Helicopter Kick and this Your You Can, which was
Speaker 1: crazy when that was announced in the Nintendo direct every
Speaker 1: like it was just like you know that meme where
Speaker 1: it's from the Predator where they're doing the handshake. That
Speaker 1: was like the Smashing street Fighter community coming together, because
Speaker 1: I feel like Street Fighter players were like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can jump into Smash and use REU, but you can't
Speaker 1: talk about REU. You can't talk about the top tier,
Speaker 1: the top tier good folks in Street Fighter without bringing
Speaker 1: up chun Lee now popularized by Nicki Minajah. But we'll
Speaker 1: get into that, will Yeah, Because she said I'm the
Speaker 1: bad guy chun Ley, and chun Ley is not. Chun
Speaker 1: Ley is twelve. Shenley is the cops. She is a cop.
Speaker 1: That is her whole every story she's chasing down. Maybe
Speaker 1: in the first one she was to watch, she's definitely
Speaker 1: an adult and some of the other ones. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: she's definitely adult because she's like a cop and she's
Speaker 1: the one hunting down and Bison, so like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I guess in the first one she was twelve. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So she was the first female fighter of any fighting
Speaker 1: game franchise. That's super dope. Yeah, that's super dope. I
Speaker 1: I like seeing the cause play of her at the
Speaker 1: cons we go to a lot. If he calmed down,
Speaker 1: and well, that's what I was gonna say you, I
Speaker 1: don't know if she's twelve. She's heavily sexualized in many
Speaker 1: of the her iterations, like her boobs got bigger and
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. No, I'm just saying like, I'm not
Speaker 1: complaining about it, and my girl got curves, like like
Speaker 1: the the age has never stopped anime from something. I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying, but I think, but I do.
Speaker 1: In defense of Street Fighter, she wasn't sexualized until she
Speaker 1: kind of got into that more cop role. But um,
Speaker 1: let me double check by looking at Street Fighters. Two
Speaker 1: concept are Yeah. So she made her first appearance in
Speaker 1: Street Fighter to the World Warrior. In the series, she's
Speaker 1: an expert martial art this and also an officer who
Speaker 1: restlessly seeks revenge for the death of her father at
Speaker 1: the hands of the nefarious m Bison, leader of the
Speaker 1: Shadowaloo crime Syndicate. Yes, yeah, and she's become a mainstay
Speaker 1: of the franchise, one of the most popular figures. And
Speaker 1: I know, and that's so interesting because like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: that that story seems like it kind of didn't carry
Speaker 1: over because like that's why she became a cop, and
Speaker 1: that's why she's like hunging down the Shadowloo so hard
Speaker 1: is because they killed her father. Um. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: do get to a lot of you do get to
Speaker 1: see more of their personal stories in the comics because
Speaker 1: there's a street Fighter comic, um, several of them actually
Speaker 1: where they had to kind of pick and choose which
Speaker 1: characters they were going to focus on for their storylines. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the early Chunley artwork wasn't as like thick, like you know,
Speaker 1: like like I'm looking at her thighs in the early
Speaker 1: artwork and I'm like, yeah, this is a much different
Speaker 1: Chunley because like this is Chunley. Back in the day.
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, those those are just like muscular thighs.
Speaker 1: Now they're like, okay, these are Instagram model thighs. Now,
Speaker 1: she can beat you up. You know what, she can
Speaker 1: squ you Have you seen those YouTube videos where they
Speaker 1: smash a watermelon with their thighs. Oh yeah that's um
Speaker 1: Courtney Olsen. She's a body lifter. She's very uh, she's
Speaker 1: like a feminist kind of public speaker. Now, I've I've
Speaker 1: followed her from when I first saw that meme go viral,
Speaker 1: and that's her thing. Like she'll do public speaking and
Speaker 1: then she'll train a whole bunch of women to crush watermelon.
Speaker 1: Yeah I think I could. Um. Yeah, she has a
Speaker 1: whole clothing line now it's called like Girl but spelled
Speaker 1: like Girl Girl Power. Like she she's actually very positive
Speaker 1: on the and she's like her own CEO, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, I follow her and she gets me pumped
Speaker 1: for the gym. So so yeah, definitely check out Courtney
Speaker 1: Olson if you were enamored by the watermelon smashing videos. Um.
Speaker 1: But then we have kind masters, uh, which you know
Speaker 1: he was. He's the number one TRIPLEO g Yu's wing
Speaker 1: man from the beginning, but Ken is the best friend
Speaker 1: and rival to Ryu, who has also appeared in All
Speaker 1: the Street Fighter James. Ken's goal is to test his
Speaker 1: power against many different fighters and strives to become stronger.
Speaker 1: I'd say Ken is Goku's vegeta where like they're always
Speaker 1: you know, fighting each other, and like when you get
Speaker 1: into the movies and get those cool moments where Ryu
Speaker 1: turns evil, it's Ken who's like trying to kick his
Speaker 1: button take him back down to Peckot. Next up, we
Speaker 1: have Sigot, who is also really popular. He was once
Speaker 1: an unplayable boss, he later become a playable character. Um
Speaker 1: He's depicted as a well renowned movie tie expert, known
Speaker 1: for his incredible power and height. He is taller than lanky.
Speaker 1: His signature moves is a tiger knee. He's often called
Speaker 1: the Emperor of movie tie in his home country. Um
Speaker 1: Got is very cool because the the fabled story because
Speaker 1: he's always had a scar on his chest and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, dang, what's that scar from? In the scar
Speaker 1: comes from a how ducan from reu So he's like
Speaker 1: whenever use like big boss rivals, but he technically is
Speaker 1: now a shadow Loo Lackey. Also what's interesting is it's
Speaker 1: always cool looking at the Street Fighter too artwork and
Speaker 1: the artwork we've gotten into as recently and like Street
Speaker 1: Fighter three, because Sgott was actually a pretty traditional looking
Speaker 1: movie tie fighter who was kind of like he was
Speaker 1: a thinner character. He had like long legs and now
Speaker 1: Segott looks like the rock is playing. Really Yeah, he
Speaker 1: always used to be a lanky Yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: lanky and that's your typical movie type because it's a
Speaker 1: lot of like kicking knees, so you're you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: flailing your your extremities about so you need to be
Speaker 1: a little more quicker with it. But now Segott is
Speaker 1: a straight monster and that's the sgot I ride for.
Speaker 1: Is thicks a god? But yeah, speaking of thick players,
Speaker 1: super thick. Yeah, we have Zang often called the red
Speaker 1: cyclone or Daddy to something God. I do want to say.
Speaker 1: Um so he appeared in wreck itt Ralph along with
Speaker 1: ryu who so Kyle got to voice that and Rich
Speaker 1: Moore who's the director of wreck itt Ralph voice dand
Speaker 1: Gefe in that, and I think that they might one
Speaker 1: or two of them might be coming back. Yeah you
Speaker 1: heard it first. And uh, I am also in that movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've said that yet on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have every time. I haven't actually
Speaker 1: said it at all. I haven't said it at all
Speaker 1: every time, wearing a shirt every character myself. Um no,
Speaker 1: if he this will have dropped. So this is November
Speaker 1: six if he came to the premiere with me, But
Speaker 1: Ralph breaks the Internet premieres, I knew surrounded myself with Danny,
Speaker 1: I'd be able to ride her coach greatness and that's
Speaker 1: paying off every day. I wanted to say. I talked
Speaker 1: to Rich and he said that people will send people
Speaker 1: will make like an appropriate ZANGI like art of of
Speaker 1: Ralph and Zany right, I know. Yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: some of the artwork of like you said, Daddy, they're
Speaker 1: very um. You don't put a thick furryman like you know,
Speaker 1: and good because if it was only Childley, I'd be
Speaker 1: like come on, but right, I mean Ralph. Also, I'm
Speaker 1: like that he definitely looks like a dream Daddy character. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was one point. He's thick. He's thick. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So he's considered to be the first fighting game character
Speaker 1: whose move set is centered on grappling. That's pretty cool. Um.
Speaker 1: And he made his first appearance in Street Fighter two
Speaker 1: the World Warrior Um. In the series, he's a professional
Speaker 1: wrestler that fights to prove Russia's superiority over the nation's fighters.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he had a lot of ussr That's that's
Speaker 1: where he was fighting out of in there in the
Speaker 1: Street Fighter two he was fighting out of out of
Speaker 1: Soviet Russia. And then uh then that fell. Um, So,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think they just say regular Russia now,
Speaker 1: but that's that's where you would fly to to fight
Speaker 1: him in the original Street Fighters too. Uh And he
Speaker 1: eventually kind of as the story got more developed in
Speaker 1: the game progress, he also got turned into one of
Speaker 1: em Bison's kind of like lieutenants for the Shadowloo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and actually his name comes from professional wrestler Victor Zangiev. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of names coming from where, the next two people
Speaker 1: we were going to talk about is Embison and bow Rong.
Speaker 1: But for those of you who don't know, many people
Speaker 1: know in Bison has seen in Bisons, but some people
Speaker 1: might not know that em Bison actually was originally bow
Speaker 1: Rong and bow Rog was originally Imbison because im Bison
Speaker 1: stands for Mike Bison and if you look at bow
Speaker 1: Rog you might see why they chose to call him
Speaker 1: Mike Bison. And when the game had to come out
Speaker 1: to America, they realized that, uh that that won't fly.
Speaker 1: There's there's certain laws in place that will prevent you
Speaker 1: from using the likeness of known celebrities and putting them
Speaker 1: in the game. Uh So, when so they switched the
Speaker 1: names when it came to America and Mike Bison was
Speaker 1: now bow Rog and boot Rog was now in Bison.
Speaker 1: I messed up the name mix up in Bison, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but his character was Vega, and then I think Vega
Speaker 1: was bow Rog and then bow Rocks, which the bow
Speaker 1: Rog Mike Bison was. But so it was that even
Speaker 1: bigger mix mix up, and I just looked that up,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't just Bison. They also felt the name
Speaker 1: Vega wasn't scary enough, so that's why they gave so
Speaker 1: so they gave Vega to Vega, which was which they
Speaker 1: felt was more like because they felt it was more
Speaker 1: suitable for that Spanish cage fighter. And then Mike Bison
Speaker 1: and they were like, all right, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. You gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: So the mic uh, So that's what happened. Sorry for
Speaker 1: those who have been screaming or who have already tweeted
Speaker 1: at us, we made a fatal mistake and we have
Speaker 1: just corrected it in time. So we'll start with boot Rock.
Speaker 1: Bout Rock is a disgrace boxer who also turned out
Speaker 1: ends up being member of the Shadowoo as well, working
Speaker 1: for M Bison and M Bison is the leader of
Speaker 1: the Shadow Loop. Uh and he's a world dictator and
Speaker 1: megalomaniac and it really um uses a lot of psycho powers.
Speaker 1: That's his moves, like the psycho crusher and he and
Speaker 1: it was it had a cool effect because I have
Speaker 1: like a rainbow flame when he would use it. I
Speaker 1: wanted to say, when you're going back and forth of
Speaker 1: Boo rog is actually m Bison and and Bison is
Speaker 1: actually I want to be Finkle is iron Horn, iron
Speaker 1: Horn is Fink you know what? Cool? Little No, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's what it reminded me of a little
Speaker 1: a spinter action there. Um sorry, please continue. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was me pretty much wrapping up. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna touch on E Bison as we
Speaker 1: get into some of the lower stuff with the the
Speaker 1: light touching on the movies and other stuff around it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Ebising is kind of the big bad in
Speaker 1: the Street Fighter universe. Everyone's kind of ganging up to
Speaker 1: take this dude down because he wants to take over
Speaker 1: the world using his evil psycho energy and and thus
Speaker 1: brings I don't know why he ended up recruiting batties
Speaker 1: from all over the world because bow Rocks from America,
Speaker 1: you got uh, you got you got Sagott from Thailand,
Speaker 1: and then you got Vega from Spain. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: can that's some crazy outsourcing. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: under that dictatorship outsource and all of that work. Um,
Speaker 1: but we can't talk about Street Fighter without talking about
Speaker 1: its role in the sports. And we can't talk about
Speaker 1: fighting game E sports without talking about EVO, which is
Speaker 1: the Evolution Championship Series, which is basically not even over exaggerating,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl of fighting games. All fighting games lead
Speaker 1: to this, and there's so much buzzing around it because
Speaker 1: they always have one game that is voted on by
Speaker 1: the community that will be used in the Fighting Championship.
Speaker 1: So it gets crazy and it has a dope beautiful history.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about all of that after this break
Speaker 1: and we are back. And if you were telling these
Speaker 1: good people about EVO, yes, yes, Evil. The Championship Series
Speaker 1: is the super Bowl of games, like I said, and
Speaker 1: it was founded by Tom Cannon, who is known for
Speaker 1: his work on or uken dot Com, which was the
Speaker 1: premiere probably still is the premier website for the fighting
Speaker 1: game community. You would go there for the newest and
Speaker 1: up to date strats on different characters and combos. When
Speaker 1: I really got like that moment when I said I
Speaker 1: really got in a Street Fighter, I was maining Cody. UM.
Speaker 1: So in gaming, when there is a game that allows
Speaker 1: you to choose between different characters, your main is the
Speaker 1: person that you're the best with, or the person you're
Speaker 1: training with, the person you use the most, so that's
Speaker 1: usually your main. So, especially like a game like Street Fighter,
Speaker 1: you'll have a main a game like League of Legends,
Speaker 1: you'll usually have a main sometimes even just a main role. UM.
Speaker 1: Cody was a character who actually comes from the Final
Speaker 1: the Fatal Fury franchise, actually not Fatal Fury, uh Final
Speaker 1: Fight franchise, UM, which was a side scroller beat him
Speaker 1: up game, and he um Him, Haggard, Hugo, Poison Guy,
Speaker 1: and Cody all ended up in Street Fighter. And I
Speaker 1: also can't forget Uh Sodom and Rolento as well. So
Speaker 1: Cody was super cool to me just because he would
Speaker 1: always wear like this jail get up and he one
Speaker 1: of his moves as he'll pick up a knife and
Speaker 1: stab you with it, and I thought that was cool.
Speaker 1: But when I was trying to learn and master this character.
Speaker 1: Sure you can. Dot Com is where I went. I
Speaker 1: went online, and that's where I learned about tier list
Speaker 1: and how Cody was a low tier character. I would
Speaker 1: probably find a new main. Yeah, And as much as
Speaker 1: I bucked again, so I was like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: good with Cody. I'm gonna sit here, I'm gonna practice
Speaker 1: the move. I was just getting walloped online just because
Speaker 1: he he was indeed a low tier character and I
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough to carry him and be better with him,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's where characters at well rounded characters
Speaker 1: like Ru and other high tier characters will come in handy.
Speaker 1: Is if you're just learning the game and you're trying
Speaker 1: to get good with them, you're you're better off because
Speaker 1: you know, the margin of error is going to be
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot larger for you. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: EVO tournaments started as Battle by the Bay, that was
Speaker 1: what they were called, which was a forty man Super
Speaker 1: street Fighter to Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha two tournament
Speaker 1: in and Sunnyvale, California, eventually moving to its recurring venue
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. The event changed its name to Evolution
Speaker 1: Championship Series or EVO for short in two thousand two
Speaker 1: and then this past year they had around ten thousand people.
Speaker 1: And I think one thing I want to point out
Speaker 1: that's cool about EVO that's different than most major e
Speaker 1: sports tournament is it is an open entry. If you
Speaker 1: got good enough today, next summer, I'm going to do it,
Speaker 1: you can compete and become the champion of EVO. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't work like that for other games. And other
Speaker 1: games you have to find an organization. Your organization has
Speaker 1: to be popular enough, get good enough, and work your
Speaker 1: way up. Different I mean, there are cracks here and there,
Speaker 1: like I think right now and Heroes are the Storm.
Speaker 1: There's a team called the Leftovers, which you know, I
Speaker 1: think they just got knocked out, but that was kind
Speaker 1: of a rag tag team of like people who were
Speaker 1: on so, I mean, the whole team itself didn't even
Speaker 1: have a sponsor. So there are games that allow you
Speaker 1: to do that. I believe the League of Legends they
Speaker 1: have a league that allows you to work your way up.
Speaker 1: But I think you're still not going to be in
Speaker 1: the n A LCS. You you're not gonna be there yet,
Speaker 1: but you know that one is has a closer kind
Speaker 1: of like AM two pro route. So that's what's cool
Speaker 1: about EVO. It really does feel like almost a Fighting
Speaker 1: of eight. I want to say fighting game movie, but
Speaker 1: I guess a boxing movie where it's like this kid,
Speaker 1: you know, he has some telling and he goes down
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas and you know, his coach was like, hey,
Speaker 1: get in there, you know, grab the joystick and fighting
Speaker 1: the game to an amitt. I don't know what accident was.
Speaker 1: I think it was like kind of New York people
Speaker 1: are going, right, that's what you all sound like. I'm sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were born and raised in l a M. I
Speaker 1: do want to point out that if you want to
Speaker 1: get caught up more on the sports, we talked extensively
Speaker 1: about it on our E Sports episode and it kind
Speaker 1: of talked about the what if he is talking about
Speaker 1: as far as being a professional player, the how young
Speaker 1: a lot of these players are, a lot of the
Speaker 1: controversies that that come around with the sports in general
Speaker 1: and doping and like, we covered a ton of stuff.
Speaker 1: So if you're if you want to look into that,
Speaker 1: we have a great E Sports episode and that we
Speaker 1: had it was with Malik Forte, who I bumped into
Speaker 1: at Twitch Con and who also that's kind of where
Speaker 1: he does a lot of shout casting and where he
Speaker 1: used to do a lot of work in he he
Speaker 1: actually would play some fighting games. But what's interesting is
Speaker 1: the average age for fighting game tournaments is actually a
Speaker 1: lot higher is for your typical like mobile And I
Speaker 1: think it's because we've had it longer. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to say it's because
Speaker 1: as of like you know better you know, hand eye
Speaker 1: coordination or anything like that. I just think is you
Speaker 1: have like you know, I've played against like uncles who
Speaker 1: have been playing street Fighters since back in the day,
Speaker 1: and they can still do work. You know. Um, But
Speaker 1: if we're going to touch on EVO and talk about
Speaker 1: Street Fight, we're gonna have to talk about a very
Speaker 1: special EVO moment which I feel like if you are
Speaker 1: tapped in on video game memes and moments at any time,
Speaker 1: then you've seen this clip or heard of this. But
Speaker 1: it happened between two of shoot when I was in it,
Speaker 1: they were still the best finding game players, justin Wong
Speaker 1: and die Go Omahara, and what what happened in this moment.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna definitely post the video with this
Speaker 1: because you need to watch it, but you also need
Speaker 1: me to explain what is going on here because it
Speaker 1: is actually very specific to UM. It will be in
Speaker 1: the footnotes, Producer Dan just uh drop that tizzy in there,
Speaker 1: but it is very specific to Street Fighter three third Strike.
Speaker 1: And the reason it's specific to it is because Street
Speaker 1: Fighter UM three third Strike has a perry option where
Speaker 1: if because in street Fire you can block, but you'll
Speaker 1: take what is known as chip damage, and that will
Speaker 1: be a little bit of damage that breaks through the block.
Speaker 1: So if you have like a sliver of health and
Speaker 1: you're blocking, you can still lose because you're gonna take
Speaker 1: chip damage. But in Street Fighter three third Strike, if
Speaker 1: you move your stick in the enemy's direction, you end
Speaker 1: up pairing it and take no damage. So so you
Speaker 1: you might see where this is going now. So in
Speaker 1: this and by the way, at this point you know this, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a rivalry between Justin wantet Digo, so there's
Speaker 1: already that heat behind it. But what ends up happening
Speaker 1: is um chun Ley does her super move, which I
Speaker 1: think we didn't really touch on too much, but along
Speaker 1: with their special attacks, they have super moves which are
Speaker 1: superpowered version of the moves that does way more damage,
Speaker 1: which will always break through in a chip usually will
Speaker 1: win the match. But her super move is she does
Speaker 1: multiple kicks. And Uh, basically what happened is um Diego
Speaker 1: was playing as Kin and he was facing off against
Speaker 1: Justin Wong who was playing as chun Lee, and Kin
Speaker 1: had literally one blocked punch would have taken Kin out
Speaker 1: and he was up against the ropes and everyone screamed
Speaker 1: because the super animation begins for chun Ley, and everyone's
Speaker 1: like it's over, but it wasn't because Diego parried each
Speaker 1: in every one of those kicks, which in the foot No,
Speaker 1: let's just go watch it. You'll see how quick it
Speaker 1: is and how well you'd have to time that. And
Speaker 1: I know those poems are sweaty mom spaghetti. In that situation, Uh,
Speaker 1: it is like one of the top gaming moments of
Speaker 1: all time. Uh. And that's kind of just really made
Speaker 1: the solidified the Wong Diego beef. Uh. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: in a in two thousand four, actually all the way
Speaker 1: back in two thousand four at Cow State Poly and
Speaker 1: the beef was going on till about like two thousand,
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, two eight we'll clip it, we'll tweet
Speaker 1: the videos so that everyone can take a look at it.
Speaker 1: But that's just street Fighter. And I mean we didn't
Speaker 1: even really go down the laundry list of games because
Speaker 1: there's just so many, because you know, you have street Fighter.
Speaker 1: So Street Fighter two had Street Fire two, Turbo Super
Speaker 1: street Fighters, Super street Fighter two Turbo street Super street
Speaker 1: Fighter Arcade additions Super street Fighter Tournament Edition. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I was mentoring mentioning earlier about Capcom's
Speaker 1: if it ain't broke, don't fix it mentality is a
Speaker 1: lot of these games got just like rebranded with new
Speaker 1: costumes and characters at it. Like I think the Tournament
Speaker 1: Edition all it did was add new costumes to the game.
Speaker 1: But Street Fighter just didn't stop at a video game.
Speaker 1: Street Fighter has blown off I wanted to say the page,
Speaker 1: but I'd say blown out of the arcade cabinets. People
Speaker 1: are aware of Street Fighter. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: when people see any fighting game, they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: is that like street Fighter, which made sense because it
Speaker 1: went ahead and it had like a live action movie,
Speaker 1: which is one of those movies that are so bad
Speaker 1: at Ninja Turtles and yeah, yeah, It is very much
Speaker 1: of that time, and I mean it tells you it
Speaker 1: came in a time before the internet because they messed
Speaker 1: those characters up so bad and no one was able
Speaker 1: to go online and be like what they were just
Speaker 1: throwing throwing in characters like they had DJ in there,
Speaker 1: who was the uh the Jamaican guy who does capawera.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I was like, out of all the
Speaker 1: characters that were left out, DJ made it in. It's wild. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's so fun because who was playing DJ. It was?
Speaker 1: It was the same actor. Uh. I will say that.
Speaker 1: It came out in and starring John claud Van Dam Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: miguel A Nunez Jr. I don't know. Kylie Minogue was
Speaker 1: in it as Cammy. Oh yeah, oh yeah no. This
Speaker 1: had a lot of it. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: knew this in. The film also inspired an American produced
Speaker 1: animated TV series Street Fighter, which lasted two seasons thirteen
Speaker 1: episodes from Wow. Yeah that was great. So the main
Speaker 1: character is so funny because the main character in this movie,
Speaker 1: this is just such a Hollywood thing to do, and
Speaker 1: they still messed that up. So the main character in
Speaker 1: the movie was Guile, which Gyle is one the major
Speaker 1: protagonists of the game, but ru is the vocal point
Speaker 1: of the game. But for some reason, it focused on Guile,
Speaker 1: who is the super American guy with this like just
Speaker 1: the super mega flat top and he wears this like
Speaker 1: green tank top and he has the American flag tattered
Speaker 1: on him like just super dude, bro American and he
Speaker 1: was played by John Claude. Then damn, it's like the
Speaker 1: most American man with the thickest Russian accent. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: what a metaphor have you seen. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that some of their characters were like the stereotypical American
Speaker 1: UM character. I don't know if you've watched any of
Speaker 1: My Hair Academia with All Might. Yeah, I love All
Speaker 1: Might because it was just their version of being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the most American, Like this is how Americans look,
Speaker 1: and this is how they're superheroes look. It's basically just yeah,
Speaker 1: Captain America. UM. I think a funny I guess not funny,
Speaker 1: but a fun fun fact about the movie is it
Speaker 1: was one of ral Julia's last movies, and they gave
Speaker 1: him a dedication at the end of Street Fighter, And
Speaker 1: I always was like, maybe not this is the one
Speaker 1: that can be his like send off movie, good nug
Speaker 1: because he has a great acting career. Um, but as
Speaker 1: much smack as I want to talk. The budget was
Speaker 1: thirty five million and they made nine million, four hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three thousand and five in the box office.
Speaker 1: It is a really beloved game, so I can imagine.
Speaker 1: And like you said, it was before the internet had
Speaker 1: really taken off, so people aren't gonna you know, you
Speaker 1: can't see the reviews necessarily, like from everyone talking about
Speaker 1: on social media, social media taking it down. It was
Speaker 1: before we were burned too, so we weren't burned as much.
Speaker 1: So we we were hopeful, you know we I don't
Speaker 1: think we had Super Mario yet. Let me see, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed Super Mario and I will always fight for Super Mario.
Speaker 1: Everything not fully awake. Everything that makes the Super super
Speaker 1: Mario bad good is the same thing that makes the
Speaker 1: Street Fired movies bad good. It's like it's so far
Speaker 1: from the source material that it's like what is even happening?
Speaker 1: So it were there other Street Fighter movies. There were
Speaker 1: tons of animated ones, so actually no h just to
Speaker 1: correct myself, super Mario Bros. Came out before Street Far
Speaker 1: So we've just been burned. That's all right, Street's promising. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there were tons of animated street fights. When did
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat come out? Oh my gosh, yeah, we did
Speaker 1: have a string. Yeah, what is you know? All of
Speaker 1: these I I watched with an air of nostalgia. I
Speaker 1: was like five and thought it was the coolest thing.
Speaker 1: So they came out a year apart from each other.
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat was August eighteen, Super Mario Brothers and uh
Speaker 1: the Street Fighter Movie was They were really capitalizing video games. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel like this was a boom in video games
Speaker 1: at the time. Like we're talking about, right, which of
Speaker 1: these movies came out? The SCS was released in Uh,
Speaker 1: so we just released the nes It's probably exploding off
Speaker 1: the shelves by so yeah, of course they're like, let's
Speaker 1: make some video game movies. It all kind of adds
Speaker 1: up when you look back. I didn't know this, but
Speaker 1: there was another street fighter film that came out in
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, the Legend of Chun Lee Dan. I
Speaker 1: don't talk about that one. That one was the dragon
Speaker 1: Ball Evolution of Street Fighter movies. It was so horribly bad.
Speaker 1: I had an X who forced me to watch it,
Speaker 1: so she she said, so I can know the pain
Speaker 1: of how bad it was, and she was correct. I
Speaker 1: never forgave her for making me sit through that movie,
Speaker 1: because you would think that after Street Fighter people would realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got it wrong, but we're definitely going to get
Speaker 1: it right this time. But go look up, Um, you've
Speaker 1: seen pictures of em Bison, right, Danny, don't look up
Speaker 1: Legion of chun Lee and Bison and just take a
Speaker 1: look at what that person looks like. Wait, what do
Speaker 1: you mean the em Bison from the Legend of chun Lee.
Speaker 1: Just look at that guy. Look a look, that's Neil
Speaker 1: p mcdonoho. Yeah, he's in a bunch of stuff. Oh yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm but do you see his face? Does he look
Speaker 1: anything like a yeah you mean in the film? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pictures you're looking at her basically what he looks
Speaker 1: like in the film. He just the whitest in bison. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but m Bison is in the in a lot of iterations.
Speaker 1: He's technically tied. And I will say because he was
Speaker 1: originally supposed to be from Thailand, but when they switched
Speaker 1: up the in Bison, he was so that's why he's
Speaker 1: always been darker skinned, because he's because he is tie.
Speaker 1: And I was going to say in some of the
Speaker 1: iterations of him, he because they make him come from
Speaker 1: like this fictional place. Um, but he originally was from Thailand.
Speaker 1: That's why he had darker skin. Um. And he was like,
Speaker 1: uh so, so I that's that's one of those push
Speaker 1: up my glasses uh um actually moments, whereas like I
Speaker 1: know he um, but yeah, because they in the movie, sorry,
Speaker 1: in both the movies. Uh he was so in movie
Speaker 1: his birthplace was supposed to be United Kingdom and in
Speaker 1: the the Legend of Chunley it was Ireland. But it
Speaker 1: also had a lot of animation. Like we said that,
Speaker 1: it had an animated TV series. The first animation actually
Speaker 1: based on the Street Fighter franchise was an unofficial animation
Speaker 1: that was released in South Korea two and that was
Speaker 1: just simply titled street Fighter. And it also was a
Speaker 1: comics series manga that was super popular. Um. Street Fighter
Speaker 1: to manga was one of the few Street Fighter manga
Speaker 1: titles to be translated into English. Um. Yeah, so there
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different There was also, like I said,
Speaker 1: the Street Fighter comic book that was from Malibu Comics
Speaker 1: and that was launched in nine, but Capcom did not
Speaker 1: like that adaptation and the series was canceled after only
Speaker 1: three issues. Interesting. Um, you also had street Fighter characters
Speaker 1: appear in the Archie Comics published sonic the Hedgehog MegaMan
Speaker 1: crossover event World's Unite that was the name of it,
Speaker 1: which also involved other characters from Sega and Capcom Games.
Speaker 1: And then there was another crossover. I think I DW
Speaker 1: Publishing had a street Fighter G I Joe crossover. Wow.
Speaker 1: Another episode we did iffy. Yeah, oh, but you know
Speaker 1: if we wanted to happ in a one more episode.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about when actor and filmmaker Showy On co
Speaker 1: directed Owen Trevor's two thousand ten live action short street
Speaker 1: Fighter Legacy, which was starring John fuez Ryu and Christian
Speaker 1: Howard as Kin who co wrote it with Ansa, and
Speaker 1: the film blew up online because it was basically it's
Speaker 1: a fan film. They it was a fan It blew
Speaker 1: up and it was so big that Capcom's vice president
Speaker 1: of Strategic Planning and Business Development uh confirmed that there
Speaker 1: would be more street Fighter films in development. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's how much hype. It is when the big dogs
Speaker 1: are like, look, we're gonna have to keep this going.
Speaker 1: A lot of those fan films have launched stuff like
Speaker 1: that before. Yeah, because that ended up turned into Street
Speaker 1: Fighters Assassin's Fist, which was released on Mashinima, and that
Speaker 1: was just yeah. And then a second season titled street
Speaker 1: Fighter World war was announced for two thousand seventeen released date,
Speaker 1: but uh in two thousand eighteen, Entertainment One and Mark
Speaker 1: Gordon closed the deal to develop, produce, and finance a
Speaker 1: small screen adaptation of Street Fighter with the same creative
Speaker 1: team behind the Street Fighter Assassin's Fifth So also street
Speaker 1: Fighter web mini series titled street Fighter Resurrection aired on
Speaker 1: Mishinima and Go ninety in March. Is Go nineties still
Speaker 1: a thing? Our friends still has died officially? Oh yeah
Speaker 1: it did back in July. Yeah, I had. That was
Speaker 1: an abrupt dealing. I've had people who literally, we're writing
Speaker 1: for a Go nineties show. Um went home and got
Speaker 1: a call like, don't come in tomorrow. That's how quick
Speaker 1: it was. Then they made Resurrection on Mishinima, and I
Speaker 1: think that's why because World Warrior was announced, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily released, so I think they put that on
Speaker 1: pause to work on this next show that was just announced.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what they did, because they
Speaker 1: did good work. It was it actually looked very good
Speaker 1: for you know. I feel like at this point it's
Speaker 1: hard to say the term very good for a fan
Speaker 1: film because so many fan films have been coming out
Speaker 1: with such high quality that I think the Barneys is
Speaker 1: just officially raised. It's not very good for a fan film.
Speaker 1: That's just the new standard. I did want to say
Speaker 1: so the latest edition street Fighter five Arcade Edition has
Speaker 1: been nominated for E Sports Game of the Year by
Speaker 1: Golden Joysticks Awards UM and that I believe they're announcing
Speaker 1: on November. But let me drop some drama. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: get on our heads because we don't talk about the
Speaker 1: drama that happened. Tree Fire five when it dropped did
Speaker 1: have some drama because it was debatably but kind of
Speaker 1: on paper really uh in complete. They were trying to
Speaker 1: rush the game's completion because it was happening to be
Speaker 1: released right next to EVO, and so they wanted the
Speaker 1: game to be available so that people can use in
Speaker 1: the tournament. But what that led to was basically the
Speaker 1: release of a incomplete game. Like they were like, you
Speaker 1: play the game, you buy the game. Now you get
Speaker 1: some of the characters, and then we're going to drop
Speaker 1: the rest of the characters later. And so that was
Speaker 1: like a whole hubbub that that kind of start with
Speaker 1: that came with Street Fighter five. You gave them some tea.
Speaker 1: That's the t, that's the t you wanted if people
Speaker 1: wanted to be Yeah, So when five came out, there
Speaker 1: was this is I'm just reading an article just to
Speaker 1: give you a taste of the time. The headline is
Speaker 1: gamers warn PC players not to buy incomplete street Fighter five.
Speaker 1: Absolutely awful would be an understatement when it comes to
Speaker 1: the PC version of Street Fighter five. When I first
Speaker 1: heard the PC crowd was piste over servers being down
Speaker 1: since launched. I'm thinking, okay, so we're writing in first person,
Speaker 1: typical PC master Race, always complaining. Then I found out
Speaker 1: there's no story mode and many other key components that
Speaker 1: have been stables in the series. So that's that was
Speaker 1: the drums that happened, and they told everyone to not
Speaker 1: buy it on piece. I didn't know a drop three
Speaker 1: years ago. Why is it nominated for Awards because they
Speaker 1: think they just announced the Arcade edition, which oh sorry, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: Arcade edition. Yeah. Yeah, Remember how I said if it
Speaker 1: ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, So, let us know
Speaker 1: your favorite Street Fighter characters and your earliest memories or
Speaker 1: if you're still playing it or any of the iterations
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, and let me know who you mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me know who. You may tweet that out of us. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now that's that's pretty much. You know. I
Speaker 1: think we really tackled it. Say, and if you've read
Speaker 1: some of the manga's I really would like to jump
Speaker 1: into it. I know Udon did a run uh that
Speaker 1: that I had like a free comic book Davi and
Speaker 1: four that seemed pretty tight. Um. But if you have
Speaker 1: a favorite Street Fighter comic or anything, just yeah, tweet
Speaker 1: at us. Let us know. There's gonna be this is
Speaker 1: a listener exclusive. I haven't a fully alerted everyone, but
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a huge change um on the discord. Uh,
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of you've been asking for
Speaker 1: the discord and my current discord situation. This is a
Speaker 1: quick sideboard that Danny has to sit through. But the
Speaker 1: current discord I've combined it with my friend lois' is
Speaker 1: and we're in the brotherhood. But uh, it's starting mid November.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to my original Salt Squad discord
Speaker 1: and we will have a full Nerdificent tab with special Nerdificent,
Speaker 1: multiple Nerdificent um uh different chat rooms that because with
Speaker 1: my own discord, I'll have more freedom to give you
Speaker 1: more space to talk, so we'll have weekly episode discussions,
Speaker 1: will have specific you know, basicly basic chat rooms for
Speaker 1: everything you may need that will make it easier to
Speaker 1: navigate and so you can say what you want, where
Speaker 1: you want, when you want, and how you want on
Speaker 1: the discord. It's hard to do it when you're sharing
Speaker 1: a discord because you're not trying to have too many
Speaker 1: tabs in This discord in itself has a billion tabs,
Speaker 1: so prepare for that. Buckle up. It'll be fun. Actually
Speaker 1: you won't probably notice the thing. But also because I
Speaker 1: have my own discord and it's partnered, it literally is
Speaker 1: just going to be a a simple link that's easy
Speaker 1: to follow instead of me having to tweet one out.
Speaker 1: So I'll give y'all ahead start. It's not gonna go
Speaker 1: live until mid November, but for those of you froth
Speaker 1: and at the mouth and who just wants to be
Speaker 1: there ready when it comes out. Just know that the
Speaker 1: Discord is Discord dot gg forward slash Salt Squad. Once again,
Speaker 1: Discord dot gg forward slash Salt Squad. Be there and
Speaker 1: be happy to chat me and Nappy Nappy is Danny.
Speaker 1: It's me all right. I guess this is where we
Speaker 1: drop our socials and tell people where to find us.
Speaker 1: What you got any shows coming up? This past weekend,
Speaker 1: I did the I moderated the Ralph Breaks Internet Press junket,
Speaker 1: and yesterday if he went to the premiere with me,
Speaker 1: I'm just catch me and Ralph Breaks the Internet dropping
Speaker 1: a November one. I have a cameo in it, playing myself.
Speaker 1: I played Danny Fernandez big baller move, which then brings
Speaker 1: me into the Ralph universe, because if Danny exists, then
Speaker 1: so do I. Um so, anyways, follow me at miss
Speaker 1: Danny Fernandez all right and me if you wy the way,
Speaker 1: I f y n w A d I w E
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram, and if d's on Twitch, I
Speaker 1: f d e e z. There are some of the
Speaker 1: nerd fam hit me up, tell them about I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to find your twitch. I guess
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you you all the time. I talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time, but thank you for being interested.
Speaker 1: Come in. At this point, the rebrand is done. I
Speaker 1: have a fresh new look. Shout out to Roll Coom,
Speaker 1: who will be on our Vanity uh Figures episode uh
Speaker 1: talking and you will hear the man behind the new
Speaker 1: clean look to everything I have on my stream. Longtime friend.
Speaker 1: He also wraps uh, but I just wanted to shout
Speaker 1: him out. And you know, just check my socials for
Speaker 1: all shows because shows literally pop up out of nowhere
Speaker 1: on the day. So um as always stayed near to y'all.