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Street Fighter 1 had no impact whatsoever, and I could never understand street Fighter 2's popularity.
by adamlovesgin 9y ago
Street Fighter 1 had no impact whatsoever, and I could never understand street Fighter 2's popularity.
- emodendroket 9y agoWell, it invented the genre of the fighting game, which is basically endlessly complex
- adamlovesgin 9y agoThe fighting game genre was invented years before Street Fighter 1. Like I say they were underwhelming.
- emodendroket 9y agoThere's a world of difference between SFII and its successors on one hand and all the efforts that came before on the other.
- adamlovesgin 9y agoI agree, but SFII was incremental improvement. It wasn't like it created the fighter genre. There were load of fighting games around before and during SFII hit the scene. Of course it was the most popular but the point i'm making is that, historically, it was nothing new.
- emodendroket 9y agoBut... it was. It's like trying to argue that Super Mario Brothers was nothing special because there were already a bunch of games where you controlled a guy and jumped on enemies. While it may have been derivative in some sense it was such a huge leap in sophistication that it turned a marginal genre into a huge craze.
- adamlovesgin 9y agoI felt the same about Super Mario Bros. At the time it was just nothing new.
- emodendroket 9y agoWell I don't know what to tell you man. No work of art is entirely original.