It’s Street Fighter but ANIME | Street Fighter Alpha 1 & 2

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Max continues his journey through all the Street Fighter games! With versions of Street Fighter 2 overly saturating the market, Capcom decided to pivot in a new direction...ANIME! This transition to a more "cartoony" style was initially met with backlash, but would end up becoming one of its most beloved series of games-it's Street Fighter Alpha!
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[@BladedStrider]

Bryan Cranston as Fei-Long in the SF2 Animated movie is still super funny to me.

[@DarkAura19]

God, I hope Sakura can make her way back in 6 somehow. I know 5 felt like it was sort of a coming of age for her, and I know how people feel about "too many shotos" when we already have Akuma coming next year, but Sakura is just such an excellent character for the franchise and one of my favorite in all of gaming. They took a school girl trope and did it RIGHT.

[@joedatius]

Sakura is 100% gonna come back in 6 at some point it will just be a matter of how will she have grown up

[@that_5.7_jonathan99]

She was kinda boring in 5, hope they make her fun like ryu in 6.

[@johnsnider2956]

Love the idea of a grown up Sakura who has fully become her own fighter, and is no longer living in Ryu's shadow.

[@SpikeTheWolf]

She hot

[@bruceleeds7988]

I hope they redesign her dramatically like Jin from Tekken 3 to 4.

[@tobykassulke2385]

Pretty interesting how the movie adaptations of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat shaped the future of their series.

[@DarkOverlord96]

Yeah, but remember, The Last of Us broke the "bad videogame adaptation" curse.

[@tobykassulke2385]

​@DO96 nah according to dwayne "the rock" johnson it was actually Rampage starring him that broke the curse.

[@andiradhit12yearsago]

​@@DarkOverlord96 sonic the movie already a good adaptation

[@joedatius]

lmao now its the mario movie that broke the curse. how many times can this curse be broken?

[@Korvinian4601]

@@joedatius there was never a curse to begin with

[@krushingbro6620]

Alpha 2 is probably the sf game that holds the dearest place in my heart.

[@DuvJones]

You are far from the only one with that sentiment.

[@adambaryliuk3393]

Alpha 2 was the first FG I actually played intensely, and it’s what pulled me into the FG rabbit hole.

Yeah! Street Fighter Alpha 2 absolutely grabbed me immediately.

[@HanDaimond]

I loved Alpha 2, that's where my beloved Sakura was introduced.

[@ps-lover8380]

I like alpha 2 gold

[@OfficialDRELOSKi]

Max you better give the person whos making your legacy intros a bonus.

[@staleeyez]

Whoever makes these thumbnails, too 🔥

[@Yarott75]

And to their parents for both conceiving them, and raising them up to this point.

[@BrandonWhatTheF]

@@Yarott75 and to their grandparents for conceiving their parents.

[@RichSmithson]

Alpha 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. I started High School in 1999 and down the road from school was a Fish and Chip shop that had a Alpha 2 cabinet. After school dozens of us would crowd around and play till the bus came at 4pm. We did that for 2 years everyday but then the cabinet was gone after some drunk lunatic came in and smashed the screen with a baseball bat.

[@Alberts_Stuff]

Cabinet is a cool name, never heard them called that before 👍🏼

[@bsaintnyc]

i was a freshman in 99 as well

[@bobdonda]

@@Alberts_Stuff a lot of people called them arcade cabinets, at least in the US

[@Alberts_Stuff]

@@bobdonda yeah makes more sense 👍🏼

[@venom3421]

I grew up with Alpha 2 on the SNES (Yes. The bad version). Lots of great memories. I remember Ken's ending being my favorite due to the music

[@cybershroom9240]

Alpha 2 SNES may be a bad port by comparison, but it arguably is the best fighter on the SNES cause it was insane the amount of work that went into it

[@venom3421]

@@cybershroom9240 Yeah I agree. I really love it when I was a kid and the 16-bit music is very memorable to me.

[@AVPboy6754]

I personally love it, it's slower, but the Gameplay is as sharp, the timing is great for practice, and yet, the game is as hard in the highest number of Stars! 😅😁

[@Drew_D]

The 3DS rerelease of Alpha 2 was really good.

[@meganinten0078]

​​@@venom3421 Same. There is something charming about 16-bit music. In some cases those can beat the original tracks from the arcade especially when the composers were creative with the chiptune of the home console (SNES, Genesis) Example, Kotaro Fuuma's theme in the SNES port of the original World Heroes in much better than the original arcade version. Believe me 🎼🎵

[@Lunatic89097]

The input for the raging demon was from Morrigan's Darkness Illusion.

[@BknMoonStudios]

Yup. Akuma "stole" it from her. But Akuma's take was definitely the more popular of the two. lol

[@esmooth919]

That command is basically synonymous with those kinds of moves.

[@SpikeTheWolf]

I thought the raging demon was first but the input was second since you couldn't do it in sf2.

[@TheWorldDBZ]

Actually it was first called “Goukiness Illusion” by Japanese fighting game players back then

[@Plasmacat1]

"In 1994 anime wasn't mainstream or well known at all" lol, it's always really funny and a little off putting as someone from México where we had tons of anime up the ass airing at prime time, especially during the 90s. As a kid I got a pirated copy of Alpha from a random street vendor at a corner, I'll never forget that.

[@lutherheggs451]

Anime still isn't mainstream. The anime weeb fans, seem to think that anime or manga are this huge thing in the US, but the reality is THEY ARE NOT....In the US manga makes up 2% of comic sales, comics are still massively ruled by Marvel, DC and Image and anime releases are few and far between....When its something you have to track down from a specialty store its not mainstream.

[@agrippa2012]

Yep, anime was already huge in latin america during the 90's. Pretty much everyone dude i know around my age (30 years old) grew up watching dbz or/and saint seiya 😄

[@KaminariHouse]

It's still not mainstream here in the US, just a helluva lot more popular, tho it's getting there.

[@loonzoldick]

@@lutherheggs451 but we're talking about our country? Mexico has anime being mainstream since the 90s, the sales are insane over here, not only is it available on open networks and cable, there's tons on stores and manga is sold in pretty much every mainstream store in every corner of our country, sad the USA is so behind this according to you, but that's not the reality in the rest of the world

[@abrahammesrajecorrea2349]

​@@agrippa2012don't forget the older people that also watched Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X in here), Trigun and Gundam Wing. And the 2000s were wild for kids in that era. DBZ, Pokémon,, Digimon, Bayblade, Yu Gi Oh and so on were plastered everywhere lol.

[@wuztron]

Alpha 2 for the PSX was one of the first fighting games I ever got REALLY into. The presentation, music, and character designs were so dope at the time. I had the strategy guide and everything.

[@adrianjeager790]

Me to Mr.snipes

[@willh7352]

merging Final Fight with Street Fighter was the greatest gift to me as a fan of beat-em ups and Street Fighter.

[@kadosho02]

Here we are again, many years later. Everything comes full circle. Metro City is a place we can interact with in SF6. It took forever to get here, but at least it finally happened

[@rosstee]

Wish Mike Haggar had made it into the Alpha games as well though, he could have had a cool unique intro vs Zangief or some of the other FF characters.

[@willh7352]

@@kadosho02 I forgot to mention its connected with Rival Schools too, kinda

[@kadosho02]

@@willh7352 yup there have been numerous crossovers. Akira in V, which was overdue. Could show up again in 6.

[@willh7352]

@@kadosho02 Dude if they bring Shoma/Batsu/Hinata I'll goddamn cry. I'm about to buy SF6 right fuckin now

[@Nintality]

This animated movie was amazing, there is also Street Fighter 2 V with some of the same voice actors. The ending of that is awesome to. Super Street Fighter II The Animated Movie was and still is 👌🏼

[@hdelmas1]

I could never get over how SF Alpha felt like living in a middle school era where you have an origin story that had you fighting a rival. I love how every character story expanded before SF2

[@Jerry_SSBB]

I wish they made more Street Fighter games look like Alpha.

[@oliveriii1473]

Same. Ever since they abandoned that style, Street Fighter has never hit as hard for me. Wish they'd give the series the Arc System Works treatment, tbh...

[@johncameron4500]

Big same

[@RaDicAL808]

I remember being blown away by the super combos in X-Men vs Street Fighter. Like Ryu’s hadoken, it became a killer ray of light. Lol

[@prodbyhostile]

When I first saw it at the mall I probably busted in my pants 😂 I didn’t give af about anything else but fighting games back then

[@lonewolffang]

When I saw the supermove pulled off during demo in an arcade when I was younger...🥲beautiful.

[@VampirusX1]

Just like how it was with Cyclops doing a super beam. Its what drew me in.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

And then DBZ gets localized and shows where that and Super Sonic originally came from. And Nintendo joins the party with Pokémon going overseas, and going back to Capcom fighters and Sonic, the Dreamcast creates a nice stir, however brief. Not to mention all the anime-styled ragtag band RPGs spurred on by FFVII. It truly was the weeb--I mean otaku gaming golden age.

[@dominicjacobs5627]

Yeah Xmen Vs SF was revolutionary, the double team supers caught my attention, our local arcade had it running on a projector pointing into a blacked curtained out room EPIC

[@QuickTimeFailure]

Alpha 2 on PS1 was one of the first games I had on Playstation (along with Tomb Raider and MK Trilogy). Ryu's theme in that game (the arranged/SFA2 Gold version) is embedded into my brain. I still listen to that song on loop when I'm working on projects or at work sometimes. Definitely something I hold dearly in my heart, probably until the day I die.

[@WilfredCthulu]

I directly associate the alpha series with the dan legacy now my absolute favorite from this channel. Alpha 2 is absolutely my favorite street fighter in terms of style, aesthetic, and atmosphere I love it. It just feels so much like a young, carefree, optimistic, fun loving summer.

[@ahxkim]

Played Alpha 2 to death when it was released on home consoles. Even my mom knows what Hadouken was, she heard it all the time while I was Playing.

[@moseslalmuanpuia8988]

This is the irony. Street fighter pioneered and paved the way for such archetypes in anime. It's the complete opposite now.

[@wyfy8599]

I absolutely love the artwork that came from this series of games. I just got a poster of the Alpha 1 cover for my wall, and I plan to get one for Alpha 2 pretty soon.

[@CheddarGetter]

I thought the same exact thing when i saw SFA in arcade the first time. I was just like "why is it a cartoon now? That's weird as heck." By the time Alpha 3 hit, i was getting up at 5AM to record DBZ episodes and thought SFA3 looked so awesome. The anime hit me really quick 😅 Also, if anyone reading this hasn't experienced Hyper Street Fighter Alpha, maaaaan. You gotta get your hands on it any way you can.

[@Albert-lj5jb]

Hyper Alpha is crazy fun with all the new ISM's, Capcom need to remaster it, that and Alpha 3 MAX!

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Navy Seals National Service

[@CheddarGetter]

@@NazriB wtf are you talking about?

[@gh0rochi363]

That's crazy to me because to me sf2 looks like a cartoon

[@blizz44]

The Street Fighter Alpha series are such a fun series of games

[@brandonwilliams6119]

I really miss the Dramatic Battle mode

[@blizz44]

@@brandonwilliams6119 me too

[@Kango234]

I really do appreciate this detailed deep dive into what made these games different and what Capcom was thinking at the time these came out. So much of this series just blends together for ke so I like seeing the distinctions between versions and the reaction to them.

[@pablocasas5906]

I wouldn't call SFII realistic, both the original SF and SFII look more like the Japanese interpretation of how American action cartoons like He-Man and G.I. Joe looked. Most Japanese developers tried to appeal to American players by changing their artstyles, but it seems like since the mid 90s all games managed to retain their Japanese looks, just compare the promotional N artwork for Final Fantasy IV to VII or the original Fatal Fury to Garou: MoW PS: I love how on the Japanese version of the Dramatic Battle there's a remix of the vocal theme from the SFII Animated MOVIE

[@HolySok]

But I'd argue that is a relatively "realistic" artstyle compared to Anime. Like of you listen to Miyamoto talking about the original Donkey Kong he tried to make Jump Man as realistic looking as possible. Lile SF6 is the same. It has a realistic flair but you wouldn't actually call Guile or Blanka "realistic" in terms of proportions and design.

[@japroject1]

Street fighter Alpha 1 is one of my favorites. So many days playing this on my computer.

[@supremabraham]

Alpha 3 is etched in my brain, so many memories

[@vollkerball1]

World tour mode was crazy!

[@DuvJones]

Arcade? it was ok. It's fun and man is A3 wild when it is competitive. The Home Port? Looking back, that port is a milestone to every SF game after it. Their is a reason the term "World Tour" appeared again... Capcom has yet to top what they did on the Dreamcast. SF6 seem to looking to try.

[@Viper4ever05]

same bro, remember coming home from school and grinding arcade mode

[@Ser-Smiley]

Alpha 3 is my favorite too. So good

[@marcusaddison1998]

This comment right here. I LOVE the Dreamcast port of Alpha 3

[@runman624]

Kinda of a bummer that this one is shorter than the rest, but I'm glad you tackle the important aspect of of sf movie and how important the aspect of anime has been to series

[@gamedeuschronus8796]

I love the alpha series, and the sprites look beautiful.

[@traviszander]

Alpha 2 Gold was incredible. All the extra selectable characters made it a blast. Shin Akuma, Evil Ryu, Alternate Chun-Li (Street Fighter 2), EX Ryu, EX Ken, EX M. Bison, EX Chun-Li, Alternate Sakura, EX Sagat, EX Zangief, and EX Dhalsim

[@CrossOutBryce]

As a semi-newbie to Street Fighter, starting at the tail end of 4 and on again, off again with SFV, I just found about Alpha a month ago and fell in love with the look and series!!

[@miragebangbravern]

Then you are so going to enjoy the EX series a whole lot

[@FreePlayMode]

Alpha's character design was definitely inspired by Street Fighter II: Movie. The character designs for Vega (Dictator), Sagat, Balrog (Claw), and Bison (Boxer) were lifted directly from the character designs from the movie. Hell, it's the reason why Vega (Dictator) is a shorter stocky muscular character, and Sagat is no longer just a slim muy thai guy like he was in the SF2 games. Even Ken's design in Alpha is taken directly from the flashback scenes in the movie. Come on @Maximilian Dood

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Alpha 2 was my first SF, played on my old XP computer.

[@SP-vl1jh]

I remember when I first saw screenshots of Alpha 2 in an issue of Gamefan magazine and being blown away at how absolutely beautiful it looked. I think it was the april 96 issue.

[@GottaBeFrank]

Alpha 2 Gold is the one I remember playing A LOT in the Alpha Anthology. Never got close to defeating Shin Akuma because he was an absolute monster.

[@GChezlynD]

Hello Childhood.

[@Animaine7030]

My old friend

[@joedatius]

The producer of SF6 Shuhei Matsumoto is a huge fan of Alpha 2, which makes a lot of sense given World Tour coming back as a main feature. even though there is alot of third strike DNA when it comes to SF3's aesthetics and tone, there is alot of what made Alpha 2 so great in SF6, with all that focus on character personality.

[@oshikko3]

any source?

[@joedatius]

@@oshikko3 Street Fighter 6: 118 Rapid-Fire Questions With Nakayama & Matsumoto

[@kingoverseas9052]

Alpha absolutely grabbed me immediately. I didn't realise it was Street Fighter at first, but when I did my heart skipped a beat and my jaw dropped.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Back in 90s, Street Fighter Alpha 2 was a gaming renaissance. At this point Capcom's art direction was beautiful and felt like living art with Bengus,Ikeno, Nishimura and more showcasing their chops! The combo variety was majestic and the sound effects of activating your custom combos did feel like an ' anime' power up!😂 Lets not forget the hidden Evil Ryu would debut as well!! Truly this was a golden era as Alpha 2 Gold would add more to the variety with even more hidden versions of characters with a very sexy addition of Xmen vs Streetfighter Cammy!❤❤❤ Instant Love!!!

[@rchoung34]

Although I didn't get around to Alpha 2 till way later, I do remember as a kid having Alpha 3 on my GBA and how sick that was being able to play that whenever I went out with my parents

[@luna_kits2345]

06:31 This art blown me away when I saw this on a mall.

[@anthonyellis897]

Alpha 3 was my favorite. I still have it

[@derekkeller5160]

These games are legendary. My friends and I played them after school and had some of the best fights. Crazy fun.

[@00Clank]

I find it funny folks would call these anime when it’s been anime the whole time, Alpha is just more stylized or ‘cartoony’.

[@-Fraud]

Alpha 2 my beloved

[@DarkOverlord96]

Good thing no one ever uses "this looks like a cartoon/anime" in a pejorative way nowadays, eh?

[@meganinten0078]

Yep. I prefer cartoony and anime style over boring realistic style

[@thiago.eugenio]

I remember back in 1996 when I first watched people playing Alpha 2 arcade here in Manaus. They've put the arcade volume so high we almost got deaf every time someone activated the custom combo bars. Awesome!

[@charleslinlinker1479]

Nice to see another fellow Manauara here. 😁

[@BBoldGaming]

Alpha has to be my fav sf series hands down.. alpha 3. Visual style I wanted for street fighter as a dragon ball fanatic as a young boy

[@ShinUltima]

The ironic thing is that SF2 was/is ANIME AF - SF2 is basically one big homage/rip off of Hokuto no Ken and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, with some extra references like Gold/Silver from Golgo 13 and Yasunori Kato. SF2 was never *realistic*, it was just shaded differently. SF Alpha series just dialed back the shading to make it more like the SF movie, so it was still anime influenced, just a different anime than SF2 (those Rose = Lisa Lisa). Also, Final Fight was not "brought" into SF with Alpha - Final Fight and SF have always been part of the same canon since the inception of SF2.

[@aznpikachu215]

Alpha 2 was so different, they added custom combo in it. The cover also set up the Alex Valle meme from the Alpha 2 game, forgot the other 2. And I think this was the most balanced of the series. Also, Cammy was speaking fluent English in Alpha 2 Gold, but in Alpha 3, it was Engrish.

[@gogreengameon2146]

Was lucky enough to have my parents buy this for me on the SNES when I was 12 in 1996 in an EXTREMELY rare and chance find. It was insane to play this on the SNES with those Supers.

[@patshowiedoit5340]

Alpha 1-3 is my Jam. I love all the SF:III's and everything but yeah Alpha series has the perfect speed and precision to me, personally.

[@ButtaMilkBiscuitsGaming]

Max it was great times man...we was fortunate to be around and be young during those times. We just didnt think about it at that time.

[@hellblueboy4]

If I remember correctly, the team choose to make a "prequel" because they heard that there were other team(s) working on the sequel (Street Fighter 3) so if they pitched a sequel it unlikely to get approval due to redundant.

[@RocketLuffy64]

sakura being pronounced secura was funny as hell

[@daakrolb]

“Streeeeeeet Fighter Alpha- TWO!”

[@windows98alpha35]

I enjoy alpha 3 a bit more personally. Plus that was the game that introduced Evil Ryu. That alone puts Alph 3 up there as one of the greats

[@reddish776]

Evil Ryu is in Alpha 2 but he's a hidden character

[@shadowragna743]

Alpha 3 always pops up in my head any time I think of street fighter. That and 3rd strike

[@NukNuk013]

6:02 - Street Fighter in general for me lol....

[@andrepakulak2513]

I played alot of street fighter 2 in the arcade. But alpha 2 was my jam! 15 years old getting downright swole from using the arcade stick will always be a great memory for me. I mean my arms were hard after playing that game. My favorite still too this day.

[@dawidstrauss3800]

I would still get hyped for an alpha 4, to rival arcsys in style

[@Ozviewer976]

Alpha 2 was the spotlight when I first played it. Like the artstyle and gameplay as they took the anime direction. The music was amazing including Kens theme was so smooth and jazzy.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

"A CARTOON?!" Yes. A JAPANESE cartoon. Except actually smooth and lively because video game. Seriously, the lineless anime look is a beaut. Timeless. And the different levels of super moves are fun to explore. And TWO CHUN-LI LOOKS. And DAN. OYAJIIIIII

[@RonaldDorsinator]

*Custom combos made me fell in love with SF Alpha 2....they were even better in SFA3....my favorite out the Alpha series*

[@geotcxs1697]

In all my years in this earth, seeing that artwork of Ryu vs Akuma since childhood, I've NEVER NOTICED F-ING SAKURA IN THE BACKGROUND!!!! 😱💀

[@alexrush4140]

Thank you! I've been asking for this in comments lol. My favorite SF series (1 and 2 especially). Spent SOOOOOOO MUCH allowance at the arcade mastering it prior to console releases

[@imaginaryking5276]

"What about alpha 3?" "We don't talk about alpha 3"

[@SeruraRenge11]

Reminder that when it comes to anime adaptations of videogames, the SF2 Animated Movie has still never been topped >the animation >the level of detail in including moves >halfway decent characterization for a fighting game movie, and in many ways defined a lot of the personality of the SF2 cast from then on >The closest thing to a canon story of SF2 prior to Super Turbo coming out and saying that Akuma killed Dictator >Chun-Li's Chun-Lis >origin of Violent Ken >the fact that it actually spawned an entire sub-series of SF games that are also really good fighting games that took a ton of elements from the movie It gave us literally all we could've asked for

[@Deniz_50]

I even liked that movie, and I not even a fan of sf

[@Kango234]

I'm not a SF fan and watched that movie last month with zero nostalgia and it was great! In fact the characters seemed way better than anything I've seen in the games with M. Bison being an instant favorite for me.

[@conradojavier7547]

In the sidenote, KOF's Shingo Yabuki look like a Male Swap Sakura, from the Headband, the Short Hair.

[@CosmoBuggi]

I imagine the reason Alpha didn't copy the artwork over from the animated movie is because they wanted to distinguish its look from SF2 as much as possible. The anime's art style is pretty accurate to the game its based on (fairly rare for an anime adaptation), and thus it would probably just look like a cel shaded version of SF2.

[@apoclypse]

The SFA series is still imo the best SF games of all time. I played those games at my local arcade everyday after school with my friends. When Alpha 3 came out I bought the PS1 version and played the hell out of world tour mode. I always wondered why Capcom never brought that mode back to other Street Fighter games.

[@the-NightStar]

SF Alpha 2 is my favorite fighting game of all time, folowed very closely by Alpha 3. But Alpha 2 was the first fighting game that actually motivated me to legitimately learn a character instead of just mashing buttons or just making random decisions like 'I'm just gonna try mixing up attacks randomly and see where that gets me". Everything about Alpha 2 drew me in from the artstyle to the background to the music to the lore and character interactions. So I actually picked up Sakura and made an actual legitimate attempt to GET GOOD and LEARN a fighting game character for the first time in my life.

[@brandonwilliams6119]

It’s also a Miracle that Dan Hibiki exists, he’s my spirit animal! If it weren’t for Alpha itself and SNK doing what they did to trigger Capcom into creating Dan in retaliation to SNK, I doubt we wouldn’t have the “Loser Ryu” in Dan, their Rivalry was Legendary back then, I was even born the same year that Dan debuted which was 1995!

[@brendaspence1824]

I love that there wasn’t much animosity between creators since many of the workers at snk worked at capcom and were still good friends with dudes over there 😂

[@Zangelin]

You not seeing how Street Fighter 2 was already very anime and calling it "realistic" is a bit silly and has to do a lot with your optics on it growing up. to me it always looked anime even in the early 90s when I didn't know what it was, I just knew it as "the video game style" like all the Zelda and pokemon art had as well.

[@CallMeSugarMilk]

The Alpha series (mainly 3) has always been my favorite. It’s anime like artstyle is definitely one of the main reasons (on top of the soundtrack). Bengus’s art illustrations for the characters and even Capcom’s other fighting games during this era like Vampire Savior, X-Men vs Street Fighter, MVC1-2, Power Stone, etc really just adds to that special “aesthetic” of Capcom’s CPS2-Naomi era of their fighting games if that sounds right/makes any sense

[@planetdee3587]

Till this day I have not beaten Shin Akuma on Alpha 2. I have fought him many times and the best I could do is beat him 1 round. And what was always funny to me was he always fought hard round 1. If he won, he fought a little easier round 2 and if he lost, fought hard again round 3. Always teasing the win for me.

[@anthonyfaggiani3162]

I'll always remember getting the PS1 with a copy of SF Alpha 1 as a gift from my Aunt and Uncle in the Summer of '97. I have Cerebral Palsy and had just went through a rather invasive surgery. Gaming definitely helped me pass time and ease the pain. Now I'm stronger because of it!

[@RyoHazuki224]

Yeah but I also really love Alpha 3 because of its HUGE roster! I'm surprised ya didn't mention that!

[@unkn0wn289]

Last year I got to know the whole series again and when my friend and I got to Alpha I was absolutely delighted, everything that Max said about Alpha 2, despite the fact that I am very bad at fighting in general, I adore the audio-visual part and the direction they are going and I can say that it was insanely refreshing after a million re-releases of part 2 to see, as it were, 3, but as if a spin-off series with new characters, style, such a bright, juicy, cool and stylish game and, in fact, it was Alpha that fixed the fact that SF doesn't need realism, this series is like embracing that style for the whole franchise and never looked back and damn it's amazing and in a way I liked part 2 even more than 3 even though I wouldn't really split the trilogy .. Eh, along with MvC and other arcade games and fighting games, Capcom was just at the top of the food chain at that moment, it was the peak for the genre, for the fans, for Capsule Computers, despite the fact that some parts I missed, I I saw it all and even played it in those days, so it will never compare with anything if you lived in the 90s.

[@ScorpionZX6]

KAINONAUT fucking SLIDING with these thumbnails

[@flyingparkinglot1530]

In terms of storyline: SF Alpha, SF1, SF2, SF4, SF5, SF3 then SF6. Just shows Bison and Sagat have been antagonists for the series for a shit ton of time, rightfully so. This pure evil dictator and this giant massive dood with an eyepatch. I’m glad once SF3 moving on to 6, the series didn’t fall off because there were so many new faces. Yeah we like our Ken’s and Chun’s, but the planet has more fighters interested in this tournament than the ones we already know. Hopefully SF6 besides returning faces, brings in more new ones. Maybe a fighting from Guam or Australia. Would be definitively refreshing. A.K.I. is fascinating, but we already had 3 Chinese fighters being Chun, Fei Long and Gen so, hopefully she’s crazy with those claws. Oh and Yun & Yang…guess now Jamie, too huh

[@cashordeals3672]

Love ken stage in alpha seeing other capcom character's chilling at the party is such a vibe

[@845H1R]

Yes the SF anime was amazing, ironically the SFA movie sucked ballz

[@1MCElias]

Sakura was in the background xD.

[@SamuraiJonez]

I remember getting SFA2 on snes for Christmas. Miracle game indeed 😢

[@ashflowex7777]

Alpha 3 just nails it Man one of the Best

[@xxraverxxonxtacy]

We need an Alpha series reebot as well as Rival Schools.

[@Necromagenvi0n]

The one things that's been permanently embedded into my brain from this age of Capcom's fighting games are the sound effects, especially when the attacks connect. Iconic, if I do say so myself.

[@khalidibrahim7726]

Coming up Street Fighter Alpha 3 in 1998 but anime and japanese hype!

[@FieryAnubis]

"SF but anime" is the same kinda funny as "Zelda but anime". It's been anime since the start. lmao

[@DK-cj1tx]

Alpha takes place a year after Street Fighter and Ryu is actually 24 during Alpha. The only teenagers are Cammy (15) and Sakura (16). Alpha is only 2 years before Street Fighter 2.

[@EvanTomiko]

I didn't play Alpha until Alpha 3 was released on arcades.

[@LightBringer666]

when i first bought my ps2 i bought a couple of games with it, but the first one that i popped into the console and played was the alpha anthology, had so much fun playing those games, and it was the one game where me and all my siblings would play against each other

[@kexis]

6:00 This is Marvel Vs Capcom 3 for me. I've been watching Mvc3 videos for at least 10 years now. I'm so bad at it. I'm relatively okay with other fighting games but I can just not wrap my head around how people play MvC3 so well.

[@happyabbyarts]

Alpha 2 gold, is I think, my first street fighter. So I will always be biased into loving that the most, together with the psp version of alpha 3 that I still desperately want a port off.

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

My first experience with Alpha was Street Fighter Alpha 2 on SNES. Despite the loading screens, which weren't really that long imo, I was very impressed and still am amazed with the quality of the game wishing it could have been ported to the Genesis. I never saw the Alpha games in the arcade so that was my only way to play for a few years until the Playstation Alpha 2 Gold version was released. The Anime look never bothered me as I've always felt like SF had a cartoonish appeal the whole time. 😎

[@tametiahoward186]

Alpha 2 introduced one of my favorite characters Sakura!

[@that_5.7_jonathan99]

Ey fr but I saw her on the fortnite item shop and became my fav character. 😅

[@ScottJay01]

Funny because in Europe I got into anime around 1993 & the fact that I was constantly importing games and seeing various anime in magazines so I had the exact opposite reaction when Street fighter alpha came out, I was blown away. To me the game looked like you could play an anime and it was essentially as if the art in a manual come to life (especially in Japanese sfc games) To this day I wish SF would go back to that over 3D dudes that look like their made out of clay. Alpha was the 2nd most played game on my Saturn when it came out.

[@n64fan60]

Fun Fact: Lore-wise, SFA1 doesn't exist. SFA2 replaced it entirely.

[@HartleySan]

The intro to Alpha 2 is still the greatest ever in a fighting game, I think. The 90s-style midi riff with the visuals is awesome!

[@steelcurtain187]

This was definitely an interesting period for fighting games. I loved the art styles