Real Life Street Fighter II Is The Next Great Performance Art
Brilliance! Absolute nostalgia boner-popping brilliance! Street Fighter II is one of those things that transcends time. Art, music, baseball, and Street Fighter II. Street Fighter II is such a great game that nobody cared that they kept it as Street Fighter II forver and just slapped a bunch of special editions at the end of the name for years. It is also the greatest sequel for a forgotten original. Street Fighter II is to video games what Ignition Remix is to music. People may tell you that Street Fighter I and regular Ignition exist, but I simply refuse to believe them no matter what YouTube says.
Back to the video, if Ninja can get paid millions of dollars a year to play video games, don’t these guys deserve a chance for a Broadway musical? Or at least a spot in the finals of Japan’s Got Talent (which must have a doozy of finalists every year). And if you are a street urchin looking to make a dime performing on subway trains and street corners, you should probably focus on learning some Street Fighter sound effects with your mouth instead of an instrument or a new dance move. The best way to get commuters to stop staring ahead with dead eyes with their headphone volume at 11 is to sprinkle in a few Yoga Flames or Sonic Booms. I know I would give actual paper money if someone broke out an M. Bison vs. Ken fight during my never ending trek to HQ.
Apparently these guys been doing this for a little while with other fighters.
And fucking bonus stages!
Again, tremendous stuff. Once these guys link up with the dude that can make Street Fighter II songs with his mouth, then they can really cook.
I can honestly talk about Street Fighter II all day, from the classic songs to the incredible characters to the sound effects that are so ingrained in my dumb brain that I can watch two random idiots recreate them on YouTube. One of my favorite blogs that I ever wrote for Barstool was an NBA MVP breakdown using Street Fighter II characters, even if it is a painful reminder of what my brain used to be like before kids and age completely ruined it.
Every time I get a new video game console, I inevitably buy Street Fighter II despite having it on every system I own and an actual arcade game, which is pretty much my most treasured possession including my kids. Can kids be considered possessions of their parents? Actually fuck the PC Police. My kids ARE my possessions and I still love this Street Fighter II game more.
KFC and I will be doing a show on Barstool’s Twitch channel where we play old school NES/SNES/Genesis/etc. games and bullshit about them as well as other stuff from back in the day which I hope has a Mailtime feel to it. And I almost think we will need a 3 episode arc just to talk about everything Street Fighter II.