We both had legitimate reasons, but then we came to an agreement to not make it shorter." "You know how each character has a life bar? At one point, I wanted to make the power gauge for Chun-Li shorter than for the other characters because women are not as strong. We were coming to this realization two decades too late: Street Fighter II was racist as hell. Vega, a ponytailed Spanish fighter, was so vain he wore a mask to cover his face. Guile, the blonde-haired, camo-clad American soldier, fought on a military base in front of fighter jets. Zangief, a musclebound Russian, had scars from fighting bears.īlanka, who was from the Brazilian rainforest, was a beast-man who growled and grunted. He was fond of shouting "Yoga flame!" as he spat a fireball. You fought with Dhalsim in a temple as elephants watched. His fighting stage was a bathhouse.ĭhalsim, a skinny Indian fighter with shrunken skulls around his neck, could stretch his limbs really far to punch or kick, because his fighting style was based on yoga. Polygon's piece got us talking about the Street Fighter characters that we preferred to play with (As I said before, I was a Ryu guy). I rarely had money left over for lunch, but I was nice with Ryu, so it was basically a wash. The grocery store across the street from my middle school had a Street Fighter console, and all the other boys and I would play it before the school day began.
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