Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie manages to take every single fighter from the game and make them look completely badass. It’s a pretty light-hearted game with limited scope for a compelling narrative, so you’d be forgiven for thinking the movie adaptation would follow in its footsteps and be a bit silly itself. Looking at the character sprites in the fighter select screen now and comparing them to how they look in later games like Street Fighter V and the recently announced Street Fighter 6, some of them look seriously weird (and don’t even get me started on the bloodied versions of the characters on the post-match screens). I think most people now would probably agree, however, that Street Fighter II - particularly the earlier iterations - was a little bit goofy at times. The Animated Movie manages to take every single fighter from the game and make them look completely badass. I was terrible at it, naturally, since I was still in single figures at the time, but I really enjoyed playing as Ryu or Ken and just spamming the ‘Hadoken’ move non-stop (which still wasn’t quite enough to win most of the time, granted). I did, however, dabble in Street Fighter II’: Special Champion Edition on the Mega Drive. In fact, it probably wasn’t until Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike that I really started to take notice. I’ll admit, I wasn’t super into the Street Fighter series when I was young. For me, however, the very earliest memory I have of watching anime was the incredible video game adaptation, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, released in 1994. For some, it might be TV shows like DragonBall Z or One Piece, others perhaps a specific movie like Ghost in the Shell or Akira (indeed, I had to really go back through the memory archives to determine whether Akira was the first one for me it was definitely incredibly early in my life). If you’re into anime, then chances are you can remember the first movie or TV show that got you hooked on the medium your “gateway drug”, if you will.
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