![]() ![]() Supposedly taking place 25 years after Ken gave up his street fighting ways, Ken now works as a scientist. In the Japanese release, the plot of Street Fighter 2010 really is completely disconnected from the original, but the English localization at least tried to make it take place in the same universe by taking its cybernetic hero Kevin and renaming him Ken to match the second player character from Street Fighter. It’s not likely a company could get away with such barefaced manipulation of its audience now, but while this certainly wasn’t the fighting game or brawler people were hoping to play, Capcom thankfully wasn’t trying to sneak a stinker into people’s gaming libraries. Taking an entirely unrelated sci-fi action platformer and slapping the Street Fighter brand on it, Capcom aimed to deceive players into buying their new NES title that had nothing to do with the original game at all, and to further exploit one of their popular franchises, the United States release of the game expanded the title to include a nod to the arcade beat ’em up Final Fight. Its sequel would end up codifying many of the fighting game systems we still see today, but that game needed time to develop and Capcom wanted to capitalize on the hype surrounding the first game. While it’s not looked back on too favorably these days, Capcom’s original Street Fighter fighting game was a big hit. ![]()
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