Why Did We Break It ? Street fighter 2 Bonus Stage Explained !

[@Goldenbane]

"Ken, it says here in the packet your opponet isn't E. Honda, it's a Honda!!"

[@ntw3002]

E Honda is unlocked after you destroy A through D Honda

[@michaelcraff]

Lol! 😂🤣

[@Channel9001]

I'm fighting a car?!

[@GeorgesStuff-]

"...I'm fighting a car?"

[@naofumiosato3911]

If I remember correctly, during the development stage of Street fighter II, E Honda was called Sumo.

[@excalibur8213]

Simple- The Lexus LS400 / Toyota Celsior is arguably the most indestructible car ever made, built like a bank vault with some over 1 million miles on the original V8 1UZFE engine/transmission. These cars have stood the test of time and to destroy one is a formidable task hence why it was chosen for SF2

[@senorpimps4678]

Best 💡

[@robertdemon3550]

Them Toyota 1UZ-FE engines are strong as fuck, variations of the 1UZ-FE were manufactured for over 20 years. The reason they are so durable is it’s over square bore/stroke ratio allows it to reach high RPM and it has 6-bolt main bearings, it’s basically a racing engine. 20+ years ago I helped my friend put one of these Toyota V8’s in his HiLux, it doesn’t surprise me one bit that people have got a million miles on a stock 1UZ-FE, the con-rods and crank shaft are forged steel and the pistons are hypereutectic. Toyota made some great engines during the 1990’s like this V8, the 2JZ and the 1JZ they were great engines with a turbo or naturally aspirated they were bullet proof.

[@NiteFall7]

😮

[@silentm999]

My 96 Avalon has 240K. Everything still works (except the after market radio, of course).

[@michaellarocca4879]

Or it could be that it was a bonus stage in final fight.

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

I was a teenager when street fighter 2 came out & it was the reason I purchased a SNES. I'm now about to turn 50 years old & this game still has a place in my heart.

[@buddyholleypoint9032]

Were getting old...

[@danfors1333]

I thougt it was to demonstrate how impressivly powerful the character is against a meassurable object. Everyone knows how difficult it would be to completely destroy a car with bare hands in real life.

[@ddespair]

Well the characters can breath fire, defy gravity and throw fireballs so I think we’d have assumed they were immensely strong regardless.

[@robertdemon3550]

That’s what I thought too, or it was Bison’s car 😂

[@DrscammerRacingrush2]

Love these Lexus es300 1990 why hurt them 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@gonzaloaguilera5909]

I thought it was to help someone commit insurance fraud haha

[@ThomasGaitherJr]

😂😂😂

[@MatthewCox-fd3cf]

Makes sense

[@rickyhaggerty6159]

Me too, to fund the tournament!

[@dimitar297]

Medical malpractice when the doctor snips the end off his pecker.

[@LegendStormcrow]

It might be. He likely sends in an insurance claim afterwards. Otherwise, it's a publicity stunt for the company,.because even if 100 people fail, that's only 1k, not enough for a car even in the 90's.

[@naejimba]

That car knows exactly what it did....

[@Gadzooki]

Did you see what it was wearing?

[@TheJurnalyst]

🤭😁😄😆😅🤣😂😭💀☠️

[@TwilightArts]

"You must defeat my car to stand a chance."

[@SimSum2argh]

" Vroom-vroom"

[@michaelcraff]

Lol! 🤣😂

[@chrisstallard2835]

I remember as a kid, I went through a spell of not hitting the car on the bonus stage. I remember explaining to friends that, it was unfair on the person who had parked at the docks and would come back to find his car destroyed...

[@alexojideagu]

Oh My God..................

[@aSome1]

@@chrisstallard2835 final fight was worse...it showed the reaction of the one having his car destroyed...

[@CptJistuce]

Oh my car! ​@@alexojideagu

[@michaelcraff]

Lol! 🤣😂

[@abuhaadiyah9403]

So curious, if you did this as kid, what did you end up pursuing as a career?

[@S.Madman]

I think we need to go back further than Final Fight. The original Street Fighter had bonus stage, that used timing, and strength to give you a final score, they are based on bonus stages from the first arcade 1 v 1 fighting game Karate Champ.

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

I wonder if MK using it has anything to do with it never returning?

[@carlossandoval2974]

Ohhh my car

[@crank7283]

thank you i felt that the SF1 bonus stages were a big omission in this video

[@dinosauriojacinto]

or Art of Fighting

[@Jacovie]

Drop the vid!!!! Jk… unless you gonna do it 👀

[@ChristopherH-c7z]

Back in the 80s and 90s Japanese cars were kicking the American auto industry's ass. This lead to a trend called "Japan bashing," where U.S auto workers would smash up Japanese cars with sledgehammers as a public display of their anger over losing their jobs. I remember this being a recurring news story just shortly before SF2II came out. Though I can't prove it for sure, I always assumed that the Japanese were aware of this and that they were kind of having fun with it by putting it in the game. This theory always seemed to make sense to me given the fact that the car's license plate was "JAPAN," at least in the english language version of the game anyway. It seemed it was really important to the game makers that the players understood that it was specifically a Japanese car that they were smashing. As the narrator of this youtube video points out, you smash up the car in what appears to be Ken's stage, which is, of course, meant to be in the United States; arguably, this further supports my theory this bonus stage is meant to reference the American Japan bashing trend of the early 90s. Within just a few short years of SFII's release, Japan bashing had faded from the public consciousness and people no longer understood the real life reason behind the bonus stage. What do you think, does this sound like a reasonable theory?

[@zachjett7326]

I'm sold seems most legit to me

[@greenneon7314]

You are correct I always believed this was why myself.

[@jonpaul3868]

This "bashing" also happen to Japanese electronics in USA 😂

[@d3vi0uz1]

0:26 without further HADUKEN

[@ZRtheHedgehog77]

I kind of like the car. It's a shame we must destroy it

[@super-retro-gamer]

Well, you don't really have to destroy it. You just won't get extra points. But go ahead and leave it as a statement just to say "screw you, capcom" 😅

[@mirabilis]

You don't have to.

[@alienclay2]

Why. It's a ls400. If it was an Acura/Honda Legend it would be a travesty.

[@tsntana]

A lot of times, we just continued fighting each other.

[@Durkhead]

Be cool if you could hop in and drive away

[@braveinsanity6843]

Tournament Organizer: Every third match you'd like the contestants to destroy a car. Bison: It is a test of strength! Organizer: Yeah, it is cool... Does it have to be, for budgetary reasons, a fully loaded Mercedes S-Class? Bison: Yes! We must have all the additional options! GPS navigation, walnut trim steering wheel, DVD players for the kids! Organizer: Ok, if you wanna destroy a car, why not destroy a used Volvo? Bison: THE CAR EVENT STAYS! Orgainzer: Thank you for hearing me.

[@testshietchannel]

Reminds me of the Pete Holmes skit about M Bison 😅

[@braveinsanity6843]

@@testshietchannel lol. Thats because it is my friend. Verbatim.

[@CharroDavid]

GPS? It was the 90s young thundercat!

[@All5Horizons]

GPS was available for some cars in the 90s. Wasn’t the Middle Ages, bro

[@fortitudevalance8424]

That Lexus is an icon of the game.

[@shnast-tv2]

I think it's a fun and great way to show their strength. This was to show the players HOW STRONG these characters really are. They are super human.

[@spaceracer23]

Okay Ryu, for your next round you'll be fighting E. Honda. Ken, you will be fighting a Honda.

[@Jourdan0311]

There is a haunting hard to pin down beauty to the philosophy and lore in old school street fighter games,anime. Something that i can not easily articulate but feel the loss of as time leaves it behind 😅

[@hanniballecter922]

Car owners proudly thinking- "I'll park in this sensible quiet safe spot as Im a responsible owner with exorbitantly high insurance excess premiums" ....nek minute😅😅😅

[@psyck]

“Test your might!” The bonus stages helped me with the rhythm of the attacks. How soon you could input a new command after the last was finished. Didn’t really get the barrel stage unless I played in the arcade or the Street Fighter collection released way later. Easiest with the car was Ryu or Ken. Low punch Dragon Punches hit twice while the other attacks take longer to recover or only hit once.

[@ddespair]

Well the real reason we have that stage is because sf2 was originally going to be final fight. I assume the car stage was a holdover idea, as it appears in both games, and is basically identical to one another, and both series take place in the same universe.

[@RikiYamada]

Enjoyed this very much!! Some cool addt’l insight, on top of the “Why break the car” part 👍🙏😁 Thank you

[@StrumVogel]

I used to play this game so much growing up in Asia, that I would have reoccurring fever dreams of me being on one side of this stage and Bison on the other side of the car. He would then flip the car over and pinning me underneath the car. This dream would reoccur decades later after I have stopped playing and moved to the U.S.A. Last time I had the dream was in 2017, and the last time I played that game was probably mid 90’s.

[@duffman18]

In that 90s 3D Street Fighter game, I think it's called Street Fighter EX? Well in that they take the car destruction bonus stage and take it to the extreme. Instead of a car, you have to beat up and destroy and frigging SATELLITE in space! Apparently it's a lot of fun, that game, but it doesn't play anything like normal Street Fighter. It's a real shame it's not included in any Street Fighter game collections. Because game preservation is incredibly important.

[@negativeindustrial]

“Game preservation” is not “extremely important” at all. They’re called “games” for a reason.

[@ubernerrd]

@@negativeindustrial They are still part of our history and culture. Imagine if games like chess were lost to time because it was no longer profitable to publish them.

[@dinosauriojacinto]

its because it was programed by Arika, probably because they were more experienced in 3D games than Capcom at that time and Capcom needed something to fight tekken, virtual fighter, Soul edge/calibur, etc. Legal agreement is that Arika can use SF name and characters just for that saga for a fixed period. So Arika cant remake that game because they dont own SF characters or name. Capcom cant release that because all game, code mechanics and EX original characters belong to Arika.

[@dinosauriojacinto]

Arika released 2 modern EX games (without any capcom stuff) for PS4 and Switch

[@SenecaRaccoon]

I was there at the arcade in CA where combos were 'discovered' a literal week before the first international Tournament, EVER. They were terrified because we had also discovered 'RE-DIZZYS' You could basically stun-lock your opponenet, EVERY time. impromptu rules had to be made after the first round of the tournament when they noticed we were all using REDIZZYS. It would become grounds for disqualification form round 2 on.

[@TheFighterVerse]

Wow! What a story. Those were some crazy times!

[@grennbalze]

I like how it shows us how strong the fighters are. The car is kind of an anchor/baseline for powerschaling

[@malant2719]

Oh my god.........snes version edit oh my car......lol

[@mikewebb7807]

Same in snes final fight

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

I always wondered about the bonus stages myself. But I guess its mainly to add more points to your overall score. But now I know the in depth reason behind them. Thanks for the explanation! 👍👍

[@alexspyro563]

You can say for the players point of view that is a mini game too

[@joezar33]

No 1 feels bad for Bred in Final Fight ? Pretty sure that his car 🚗

[@russwaddel08]

4:25 - the "Oh, my car" line comes from the US SNES Final Fight. In the Arcade and Japan Super FC releases, Brett says, "Oh, my God." So, thank Nintendo of America, and Howard Lincoln.

[@gerardoloeza8748]

So many memories ❤ I love this channel. Great work

[@TheFighterVerse]

Thank you so much!

[@defAngel]

This particular YT channel won’t ever run out of content. lol I never even considered this subject before. I just smashed the car.

[@Militarize]

Super Nintendo was so much fun playing. Kids today really should try out the old Gen systems and games especially if their parents have those still. I still got all of my systems

[@MaineOnMMA]

Damn I haven’t thought about this part of the game since the 90s but I clicked immediately

[@MillywiggZ]

It was M. Bison’s car. Spent too much money on costumes had to buy a reasonable car you know?

[@senorpimps4678]

More sagat than bison 😊

[@spiker.ortmann]

You THINK it's Bison's car... Bison can't drive, never saw the appeal since he can kinda fly... but some poor guy parked in Bison's spot and everyone assumed it was his car... 😂

[@naofumiosato3911]

The show version of Final fight was called Street Fighter 89. Capcom America wanted Capcom Japan to make Street fighter part 2 so they made Final fight but it was not something Capcom America expected so they made it Street fighter II instead. So besically, Final fight was meant to be a part of Steeet fighter series, which is probably why it has the car bonus stage.

[@Vistico93]

I wished the final boss that you knock out the highrise window in Final Fight would've landed on another car for that guy to get upset about. "Oh... Not again!"

[@mikeydluffy2718]

The bonus stage reminds me of straightaways in motor racing, whereby the straight road gives a brief respite from the myriad corners of the racing circuit.

[@terakhanthis]

Legend has it, that the guy who made Bruce Lee's personal training equipment was starting to out-source to junkyards for materials, because Bruce was too hard on weaker fare.

[@kyleharrison713]

Who was best at the car stage, Chung Li or E Honda? lol

[@thetylife]

I think Honda...since he's named after a car brand 🤔😊😊

[@CitiusVanen]

Blanka was really good

[@Shady_Fungus]

Blanka was legit too.

[@woovs101]

Blanka

[@HattoriZero]

Blanka

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

Just found your channel - Excellent Content - Another sub for you!

[@TheFighterVerse]

Thanks and welcome

[@noeldivad]

"Do you see what happens, Larry? Do you see what happens when YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS???!??!?"

[@Sapioso]

Beating up a Toyota is peak Alpha

[@MightyMurloc]

I've grown to think it's a Yujiro Hanma-esque show of strength, there's no benefit to destroying objects, save the knowledge that even the strength of something considered Strong is breakable under your might.

[@SmoMo_]

Nice video, thanks for making it. There’s also a destroy the car stage in Namco’s Point Blank 2 ( ガンバリ in Japan) The car is falling towards you in front of some buildings that are reminiscent of the buildings in the SFII intro I wonder if that was put in as an intentional homage to Capcom.

[@toycoma98]

I like to do a save state on these bonus stages so i can play them anytime i want.

[@mrmacross]

Bonus stages were such a nice respite for players that arcade operators hated them and Capcom removed them for Super Turbo. Gotta keep the flow of quarters coming into the machines, and bonus stages slowed the process.

[@TheFighterVerse]

It’s true, those bonus stages were short and sweet but too easy to clear!

[@713AMC]

Dam i completely forgot about the Final Fight bonus and the Gary crying about his car 🤣🤣

[@magnusdiridian]

that car is a national menace and it must be destroyed at all costs

[@calidingoVIII]

I'm actually really surprised the "beating up a car" didn't make some kind of cameo or appearance in the Street Fighter movie...

[@neogeo7861]

This started in Final Fight. "Oh my GOD" became "Oh my CAR" when they were worried about 'offending' people

[@Trollyaccount]

I thought it was a sponsorship from Lexus Toyota 😂

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

The casket bonus stage never was too hard to me, but it always played the same, strong kick to one side, then strong kick to the other side, repeat until all caskets are destroyed, always when the timer reaches 0.

[@chivo_gaming]

I'm just here to tell you all that Ken and Akuma are the best characters in street fighter!💯😤

[@Nekotamer]

the real reason: wouldnt it be cool if our fighters could destroy a car just by punching it?

[@RealLaone]

Used to love this, but was too young to play so I could just watch hoping ONE DAY

[@ekathe85]

Oh my god there are documentaries about everything And I'm watching them all

[@Shez-dc3fn]

i didnt realise it was a mystery until this video :p

[@scottandrewhutchins]

I always thought it was funny to play "Oh! My car!" repeatedly in the Final Fighty sound test.

[@mg19cal]

You can literally go from punching and kicking E. Honda to punching and kicking A. Lexus😎

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool, it's a nice bonus. God bless Street Fighter's father.

[@TheFighterVerse]

Sure is!

[@DarknessXxMaster]

At least for those people that don't have a car yet can experience the stress relief of destroying a car over the costs and repairs and responsibilities of actually owning a car. Only on Fighter Verse!

[@2cleeng]

I used the love that little break down the car thing lol

[@MRSTU1210]

Cool subbed

[@lastsipahi]

I never had and may never have a Lexus in my life. But I enjoyed breaking it many many times.

[@TommioRS]

In car terms, Lexus didn’t exist before 1990 in the North America. So this is one of the 1st games with there only car in it. It’s automotive product placement possibly.

[@Idk436-o3j]

The fighter verse: why did we break the car in the bonus stage Me: f u n

[@Mattball82]

I always took pride in breaking it fully 😁

[@STELLARMIGHTY]

If it was a Mustang - I would’ve understood as child - but a Lexus always felt bad.

[@Ash-gtr32]

E Honda smashing a rival brand car makes sense.

[@FnRenner]

'Member back in the day when used car lots and radio stations would team up and hold events where the last person touching a car would win it?....oh. Yeah, me neither!

[@jessicaregina1956]

Its still a thing in some parts of asia.

[@masamunemanga]

They should create a character whose sole purpose is to get revenge on those who destroyed his car.

[@spiker.ortmann]

Wait! Are you telling me that wasn't why Guy was created? 😂

[@michaelcraff]

Lol! Bred, oh my car! And he cries like a baby! 😂🤣

[@555-Reign]

The iron pipe weapon in Final Fight's bonus stage is here for Haggar who is the slowest character and permits him to challenge with faster Cody and Guy.

[@ResurrectedElvenMonk]

Bred: "Oh my car..." *Sobs*

[@marlborosilver]

Ive always enjoyed smashing final fights car . . It was reasonable, understandable, even civilized.... but SF2 Lexus....Ive always had a problem wrecking that car without a reasonable cause.

[@ShowTheReal]

It was so fun just like breaking the bricks in Mortal Kombat

[@spiker.ortmann]

I loved that MK had hardest things the longer you went... you had to be doing versus to see them since the arcade mode only gave us 2 or 3 chances, but if you were continually doing versus there was diamond, ruby and others I can't recall now... ❤

[@curtis.e_flush]

I got a car insurance ad before this video.

[@deadsharkisart]

I always thought it was a Legend, but turns out that was in-Acura-te. thank you.

[@paulyboy29]

i think it was the appeal of "destroying" a "virtual" car in the late 80's early 90's

[@Anonyhouse]

I felt like the "Car Stage" is a CAPCOM trademark, and they should have included it into more games as easter eggs.

[@abominablesnowman64]

The bonus stages were always my favorite. The barrel stage is by the most fun stage.

[@user-uk9er5vw4c]

"I'm so badass and strong I can break the World! Look at this car!!!"

[@FuzzyPyrate]

My Theory: All the bonus rounds are designed to piss off M. Bison The Toyota is M. Bison's car The barels are from M. Bison's personal winery The oil barrels are from one of M. Bison's refineries The brick pyramid is a mordern art sculpture M. Bison created

[@Laceon1]

It was cool. I put on sunglasses and cargo shorts every time I have to beat the crap out of a car. I basically learned all my mechanic skills from this game. If I grew up at all, I would know for a fact that the only way to truly clean a car is by removing it with my fists. If there has been a more gravitas experience I would say that destroying those cars was the only thing worth my time. Limitless power, its amazing what you find entertaining.

[@PigeonLaughter01]

The barrel stage was NOT a safe space.😅

[@cdcdrr]

"You must defeat my Toyota to stand a chance!" "Here comes a new Lexus!" "What are you?" "I'm Toyota made Hilux. Fell how weak you truly are!"

[@DJA-BOMB]

I like the music!

[@Bigfhoot]

We must destroy the car. In destroying the car we practice our level of skill and training discipline. If we do not destroy the car.. we ultimately destroy ourselves.

[@DatDudeDope]

Final Fight was a classic especially w/Haggar!

[@TKnightcrawler]

Bonus stages used to be quite common, especially in arcade games.

[@LEGIOXIIIG]

It just comes off as a way to explain away the most likely and plausible reason which is that this is simple product placement. It's also likely that Toyota Executives knew that this was going to be a car sold in America soon (1997 is when Lexus came to America) and it could have been just a way to get people to see it for the first time.

[@waziammm]

Everyone has been playing it wrong all this time, the car was never meant to be destroyed! This was included in the game to give the player an opportunity to admire a nice car, that it will break when you hit it is only to add realism as cars break when you hit them in real life. But you wouldn't instinctively hit a nice car, you would actually admire it for a few seconds. This is the intended gameplay!

[@iNsOmNiAcAnDrEw]

It's a nice theory but then why does attacking the car not subtract points from your score? Was it an unintended glitch?

[@DexMaster881]

Lexus was specifically made to sell Luxury models of Toyota in the US. US people were very prejudiced against cars made in Japan(as many still are today) because, among other things Racism, they beat Japan in WWII. So How can they make good stuff? They are good for Cheap stuff. They are lower level people... Toyota actually sometimes had better Trim options on Corresponding Japanese models of Toyota than Lexus ever got. But quite a few Japanese were offended and felt betrayed for having to Cater to the West in such ways to be given a chance to show they can make great quality Luxury cars...

[@warlock253]

I liked 'em. they're fun & more engaging than the MK1 "test of strength".

[@tetsuoshima2314]

It also started with Street Fighter 1 which had bonus stages.

[@senorpimps4678]

I always wonder why those characters didn’t pan out for 2 or later games

[@metamorphicorder]

I work on a specific brand line of a oem certified transmission rebuilder. We work for multiple oem companies. My lines core breakdown section is crazy. Its a 3rd world country compared to other lines. I always joke that other lines look like a laboratory and our line looks like this stage from street fighter where we are just beating a car into pieces.

[@JaeAR20]

Amazing how I recently asked this and now a video exists

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

I like The Punisher bonus stage, you shoot barrels that fall.

[@hdofu]

I remember in college one frat I was friends with would annually have a car smash where you paid a few bucks to take a sledgehammer to a junked car

[@RikiYamada]

Ha! This ought to be good! Back then, I never wondered such a question 😂 I’d use Guile & always attempted to time a sonic boom, right out the gate. This car always reminded me of the Lexus Sc400 or 300 aka the Toyota Soarer Thank you for this vid!

[@OscarMaris]

The way she says sedan is amazing