With all the hoo-ha over the new Super Smash Bros. Brawl spoilers (warning: spoiler link contains spoilers) I got nostalgic about classic fighting game spoilers. You know, as happens in this little corner of the website. I love fighting game spoilers. I love spoilers in general, preferring the buildup of anticipation to a "surprise" to the actual feeling of surprise, but fighting game spoilers are especially delightful, for the simple reason that nothing in a fighting game's storyline matters. Also, fighting game storylines are usually incredibly hilarious, whether this is intentional or not.
Street Fighter II is the canonical fighting game, and appropriately has the best goofy ending animations in the genre. If you haven't played this seventeen-year-old game, you should be warned: the above YouTube link contains spoilers that will blow the whole game wide open. If you are sensitive about such things, you should go through the game yourself to learn the motivations that drew eight people to fly around the world and punch each other in one-minute intervals.
But if you live in 2008 and have already finished Street Fighter II, then revel in some ending videos with us! Now it's time to celebrate in our appropriate fashion.
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1-30-2008 @ 9:37PM
Tesche said...
That's awesome....
I had forgotten about Gobechov dancing with Zangief....hilarious!
Also, I think that is the first time I've ever actually seen Dalsihm's ending....wasn't very good with him and I don't think I'd ever beat Bison with him.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane!
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1-30-2008 @ 10:38PM
Waffala said...
Chun-Li's ending is ultimate win.
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1-30-2008 @ 11:43PM
jax sedrin said...
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh man, Blanka's ending is hilarious.
"Wait... that anklet!"
"What, this?" WHOOOOOSH!
lmao.
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1-31-2008 @ 4:58PM
Prof_Chaos said...
"JIMMY?"
"ARE YOU MY LONG LOST SON?"
lol Gold.
1-31-2008 @ 12:00AM
xeleion said...
Ah, the great Street Fighter II. I remember Blanka's ending and later being confused when it was found out that he was really Charlie.
I had never seen Zangief's ending, but now that I have seen it my life has been fulfilled. That should be his ending in every Street Fighter game.
One thing's been bugging me though: how come E. Honda wasn't in more of the other SF games (aside from the SFII remakes and SFA3)? I always thought of him as an archetype just like Ryu, Ken, and Chun Li. :(
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1-31-2008 @ 9:09AM
Haohmaru said...
Let the confusion end. Blanka was Charlie only in that horrible Jean Claude Van Damme Street Fighter movie. He is, and always has been, that unnamed woman's "Little Jimmy." ;)
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1-31-2008 @ 3:17PM
CJLopez said...
Ryu's, Ken and Chun-Li ending are the only serious one's, the rest, just lol!!!!!
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