Fighting Street
ストリートファイター1988Fighting Street
ストリートファイターAn arcade fighter brought to CD, with button-hold attacks.
This is the PC Engine CD version of Capcom's 1987 arcade fighter, Street Fighter. North America knew it as Fighting Street, and the game came out in Japan in 1988. It was made for the CD-ROM² add-on, and it is one of the early games for that format.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 1988 |
|---|---|
| NORTH AMERICA | 1989, as a TurboGrafx-CD title |
| DEVELOPER | Alfa System |
| PUBLISHER | Hudson Soft in Japan, NEC Avenue in North America |
| ARCADE ORIGINAL | Capcom's Street Fighter, 1987 |
The arcade game introduced special moves and a six-button layout, and it set the pattern for later fighters. The original dates from 1987, one year before this CD version. The CD version has no six-button pad. Instead, attack strength depends on how long you hold the button, as on the arcade's deluxe cabinet.
In the arcade, the single-player mode fights ten opponents from five countries, one after another.
The game has the arcade's tournament setting, and you fight your way through the countries one after another. Mount Rushmore appears as a backdrop in the game, and it also sits on the CD cover art.
Takashi Nishiyama directed the arcade game, and he based its boss fights on Kung-Fu Master. The CD version has a remastered soundtrack.
The arcade game was a commercial success, and it set standards for later fighters. Later Capcom fighting games followed the arcade formula. The game returned on the Wii Virtual Console in 2009, in Japan, North America and PAL regions.
It is an early CD-ROM² game, and it shows the add-on carrying a well-known arcade title. That is a good way to show what the add-on could do.
- The arcade deluxe cabinet used pneumatic pads.
- Mount Rushmore also appears on the CD cover art.
- Nishiyama based the boss fights on Kung-Fu Master.
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