Akuma...What Happened To You?! Akuma Legacy SF Movie and EX+ Alpha 

This is when Akuma's diet is just fruit. Good thing he realized that you need meat to build muscle and he dropped the fruit then decided to sell it instead.

In the events of Street Fighter EX, Akuma scars Kairi's eye, and later faces Garuda. But the reason he never appears for the rest of the trilogy is that Garuda defeated him. Garuda gets stronger the more dark hadou is present, so every time akuma tried to use more of his power, Garuda would grow even stronger. In the end, Akuma, believe it or not, had to retreat, with brutal wounds from the battle. Garuda would then begin searching for Kairi.

Love that Akuma's SF6 burnout pose is the movie game's neutral pose lol

That time we have "Akuma at home" 🤌

My older brothers trained in West Coast World Martial Arts (one of Ernie Reyes Sr. schools) since they were kids in the late 80s and I joined a bit later in the mid 90s. Ever since the Street Fighter: The Movie game came out, we like to believe we learned martial arts from Akuma lol

I mean, you gotta admit that adding a live-action Akuma in the game based on the Street Fighter movie even though he wasn't in the movie so you could argue it's like its own spin on him being a "secret character" is pretty inspired.

EX + Alpha was my first fighting game alongside X-Men vs Street Fighter. That Bison kick laugh used to make me so unbelievably angry

The *actual* roflcopter sounds lol.

M. Bison as a guest character for Tekken 8!!!! When he died he woke up with Law finding him say "uhm.. you ok?" And thinking " this guy looks really rich". Lol

My Tatsucopter goes SOISOISOISOISOISOI

Imagine the sf6 devs actually make that a costume for him 🤣 I'm for it

Never played SF The Movie The Game in arcades, but I did play it on my Saturn back in the day

IIRC, other official sources by ARIKA state that Akuma tried to face Garuda. But since Garuda is an amalgame of souls lost to the Dark Hadou, he gets stronger the more Akuma taps into the dark hadou. So, Akuma realizes he can't beat Garuda in any way, so he retreats into the shadows.

EX + A was the only SF l was good at 😂

i used to love playing SF: The Movie game!!! It was so janky af. Crazy combos! And loved the mesh of the "realistic" look from MK put into a SF game. This game is a guilty pleasure of mine

God, this unlocked a core memory lol. EX Plus Alpha was my very first SF game, because a neighbor had it on their Playstation...it was also the first instance where I'd ever broken a controller XD

I remember trying a few times to play the street fighter movie game at my local arcades when I was younger. It reminded me of the first Mortal Kombat. At the time, it wasn’t too weird because the movie had come out but if you were a street fighter fan, you’d just play 1 game and just give up, even if you won the match, you were good already lol.

Akuma: master of the fist and master shapeshifter! He can be a polygonal warrior, a super deformed warrior, a giant mech, and Ernie Reyes Sr.

EX2 plus is still my all time favorite SF game

I don’t know about you but growing up we played the shit out of Street Fighter the Movie at the Burke Bowl America in Burke, VA

raul julia’s underrated masterpiece

Whenever I hear Street Fighter EX music that Antonio Banderas meme of something just being unbearably good and you're just savoring the flavor of it ... yea that comes to mind, man those where good times just flat out dead ass fun.

@0:15 BEST.GAME.EVER!!!!! 😂

First ex plus alpha is my favorite SF game.

You gotta admit though that Zangief and Vega both look great in The Movie game.

This episodes are pretty damn good

In street fighter the movie the game, boxer has a v trigger of reflecting projectiles if blocking

Tophatgamingman does a really good job at telling the histories of these 2 games and many more but max is one of my favorites youtubers that I can always here the history again lol

EX Plus Alpha deserved its own video... The EX series is criminally underrated.

EX 2+ was some crazy shit. It was also my introduction to combo trials. Chun-Li, Blanka and Dhalsim had some seriously grueling ones, it was also my first time getting blistered fingers!!! Fav. character: Doctrine Dark, because that was the closest I could get to Omega Red. P. S: I don't know what pocket fighter is, but it looks DOPE!

Here in Kuwait our then local fighting arcade spot had one (as far as I can remember) Street The Movie arcade cabinet and people played that a lot except me I think I played it twice and then just said nope and never touched it again. I remember getting to play as Akuma was the big draw for playing it.

Akuma's teleports look so sick in EX 🥶 ..& the music slaps!! 🔥

I grew up in the 90's, and had no idea SFTMTG existed until a few years ago, mostly due to this channel lol. But I do remember renting SFEX+A, and loving it.

SF Ex plus Alpha's combo trials were i think the first time they did those and god damn it started my hatred for the idea given how hard those ones were back then. glad most these days are much easier leaving out ones like kof13's lol

EX plus Bison was different bro

I really loved the EX series , and akuma was always fun to play in the PS1 version.... I guess I forgot that they left him out of ex 2/3 ... Fascinating stuff... Nice job as always Max

SFTMTG, with its biblically accurate Akuma, is one of the few games I've seen with a cheat code to break the Geneva Convention. Level 3 for s into throw is some Dan energy and I love it I never played EX but now I can see why SvC Shin Gouki is an overwhelming glass combo monster now. I'm pretty sure I've done one of those Expert combos by accident

The arika ex series is amazing. I don’t care if it looks chunky and polygonal

Akuma!?!?!

i loved Ex+Alpha i wish they would put Garuda and skullomania in modern street fighter to give the roster more diversity than just being a bunch of regular dudes in shorts ad gloves

Strange sunset is the best song on ex plus alpha , probably all time favorite song from a game

Oh boy. Street fighter the movie the game. This is one weird detour for Akuma (and everyone), like what the hell.. On the plus side, EX-Plus Alpha is quite a underrated gem that does need some love, the music is awesome.

Bison lookin like Dr Zoidberg when he's out of his exoskeleton, it all makes sense now

ex plus alpha was the goat of street fighter games for me when i was in high school.

My favorite thing about ex is when you beat the game you get to fight during the end credits

That Bison laugh was the best of all the games

Street fighter the movie arcade, I watched videos from Mikado Game Center, and they enjoyed the shenanigans, even somebody had performed Boxer's long combos. But after November 2021, they dropped it.

This has to be in SF 6 as a costume now. Like they have to look like the human version as much as possible for these costumes.

Used to LOVE EX+Alpha, one of my first real fighting games I'd play on a PSX at a babysitter's house with their kids. We had no idea how to play but it was fun as shit.

Ex + Alpha is the first Street Fighter I ever played! Loved playing it on PS1 back in the day!

7:12 My favorite part of the video 😆 Credits to Akuma in Street Fighter The Movie The Game (Arcade), he invented the tatsu with flames 🔥 Something that Ken will do in later games. Speaking of the arcade version, I like many of the original special and Supers Moves (the red ones). Ken's throw Super is amazing, it should return! Chun's phoenix projectile Super will later return in Power Ranger Battle for the Grid. The OCs of Street Fighter The Movie The Game [Arcade], (Blade, Arkane, Khyber, F7) will become canon in the mainline series. I like how Capcom made official new artworks for them. Blade looks amazing! Speaking of Blade, I like how Capcom made canon the fact that he is actually Gunloc from Saturday Night SlamMasters Edit: Akuma's theme in SF The Movie The Game (Sega Saturn port) is VERY underrated

I rented EX plus Alpha from Blockbuster and lost my mind. That game was SO fun

Thanks for bringing back the memories, man. This was actually the SF game that *taught me how to combo*, Expert mode made me so f*cking aware, I literally beat Expert Mode and then revisited older version of Streetfighter with new knowledge, and suddenly became so much better at everything. And yeah, that AI was definitely programmed to escape Demon no matter what, it was a little hard to catch anyone with it in this game- but correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't it about 75-80% damage? Demon was insane in this game if you landed it.

That “2 hit combo” @5:24 made me do a double take. Thought it said something completely different.

Live action Akuma is a vital part of the legacy.

I saw Street Fighter: The Movie arcade cabinets in more places than I saw Street Fighter 3 cabinets. That’s not even to say I saw many machines for The Movie, that’s just how little I saw SF3. Weird movie punk Akuma needs to come back as a costume in Street Fighter 6.

You can actually land the Shungokusatsu/Raging Demon quite easily in this game by doing a projectile zone trap, pretty much what you do for a guaranteed Dragon Punch. All you need to do is space your character a bit farther from the DP distance and fire away until the CPU jumps forward. Time the SGS/RD command as the CPU descends so that the Level 3 starts up when the CPU is halfway between the jump apex and the ground and you'll catch them as they land, guaranteed. The only characters that have very specific timings, heights, and distances for this to work are Hokuto, Chun-Li, and Guile. The rest are all easy-peasy. This method works with all characters that are capable of doing the projectile-DP trap and has SGS/RD-type moves (EX/+ Kairi, EX/+ Gouki/Akuma, EX2 Kairi, EX+/EX3 Evil Ryu).

They had both of these games at my local arcade at the time and no, I never saw anyone play SF the movie.

6 days before Akuma's return

Speaking on SF EX… I FUCKING LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE those games. And casually, in the groups I hung around, they also LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this games. So, let’s set the stage for when it was released. Arcades… uh, never saw one. Not ONCE. (Okay I did but it was in like 2017 or something so that doesn’t count). Granted this is a small sample size of family members in Detroit, their friends, people I knew from the local arcades in Ohio, and the perennial Cedar Point arcade friends we ran into and planned trips to cedar point with (one year during the SF2 Championship Edition days our parents met each other looking for us playing the SF2 CE games waiting in line and realized all their kids were playing the same game together AND after this happening a few more times, realized they also had season passes and their kids could be low effort supervised by significantly less adults while playing fighting games in the arcade while the adults did adult things like grab drinks, flirt, or looks at the “time” on their wrist and yell “OH MY GOOD LOOK AT THE TIME!!” And run off somewhere. BONUS!!! Some of the adults liked fighting games and played them with the kids. Sooooo… I don’t recall seeing anything in the Cedar Point Arcades for EX. But I do remember my parents and aunts and uncles planning play dates with the kids from the cedar point arcades (probably so they could fuck off and do something else while everyone’s kids were watched by a a responsible adult. Who picked fucking Garuda… fuck you Jerry… ). And everyone I know who’s played EX plus alpha fucking LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED it. But only really played it on PSX. The top games we played back then were…. SF EX+ alpha MK trilogy MK64 (Mario Kart) Golden eye SFA3 And ping pong. We had a table, it was as hyper aggressive and competitive as all of the above which is tk say A FUCKING LOT. Occasionally basketball or football. Mission mode directly lead me on the path to doing tournaments. 1. I see people with much better execution making very difficult missions look easy. 2. I play matches and win matches against these people 3. I learn VERY early on the purpose of tech, combos, strategy, consistency, and the difference between tech to show off and tech that’s applicable with full resistance. This status with me my entire life honestly. So…. UMvC3 mission mode (or whatever it’s called) and other fighting game mission modes seem to generally have 2 main things going for them. 1. The skeleton of how a combo with this character should work 2. A flex of your execution ability to a certain degree (low or high depending on games mission mode). Ex+alpha is one of the best for what it provides. 1. Skeleton of what combos with that character are. One can implement off this to find better combos 2. Shit that’s a straight flex you can even do it in the first place (for the time at least). Like one character has a trial to stay in the air for a set amount of time given infinite meter. Is this practical to do in a match? No, cause you only have 3 bars of meter in a match at most and can’t gain more doing this, so you’d never be able to actually do it in a match. Why is this one of the best trials of all time? Fundamentals for the game itself. Also training. The character (who I can’t entirely remember, but kinda Ryu clone) has a trial where you do (air super fireball, air super dive kick, lather, rinse, repeat.) which would be (236236P, 246246K, lather, rinse, repeat). With infinite super meter you can stall completely protected forever. Not viable in a match. Buuuuuuuuuut anything worth practicing is worth practicing to the point you can do it 10 times without fail. So…. Hadoukens. In competitive Stre… fighting games doing 236+Attack is now the bare minimum you need to be able to play competently in most games. Also being able to alternate between attacks like punch and kick, or slash and dust or whatever is pretty useful. If you can alternate between (236 x 2) + p and (236 x 2) + k long enough to keep this character in the air for 10 seconds you will have the ability to do qcf (236) with little effort and have no problem with those commands.

Ex plus Alpha was my very first Street fighter and I LOVE that game. My favourite character will always be Garuda

When Akuma can throw 2 air fireballs

I still have this for the Playstation. It was... a weird purchase.

Guile's theme in EX Plus Alpha is completely different, but it's still amazing.

Sonic Ku-bewm~!!

I remember buying ex plus alpha on a whim back in the day just because it was a 3D street fighter. How times have changed.

I can't wait for Max to get to one of the Akuma Legacy episodes where he plays Mega Man X Street Fighter. Seeing the Akuma fight in it will be amazing for him to take on. I hope he's not too rusty with his classic Mega Man gameplay.

They made a game out of that live action SF movie… huh.. also OH that’s where that music comes from Street fighter EX+Alpha. Learning some real interesting stuff in this Akuma Legacy

The EX Series needs more Love ❤❤❤

I'll add If Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and Pit Fighter had a baby. And the poor baby is looking for a home. Retro looking cool character 🤩

ps1 controller and 100% those trials in exa was so hard

Outside of that teleport.....".its gross."

Minute marker 8:40. Which fight stick is that? Loving the Akuma legacy vids!

The only "Akuma" you are going to get in EX3 is doing some mission to unlock evil ryu

I wish we had the gameplay of the home console version with the look of the arcade. I absolutely love the tatsus in the EX series.

I loved Capcom and Arika's " Street Fighter EX " series and Capcom and Acclaim's " Street Fighter:The Movie video game series.

OMG YES WE GET THE MOVIE VERSION!!!!!!!!!!!!

boy those classic mortal kombat games were inspiring huh 😂😂

EX is my favorite SF... always love when it gets attention. Soundtrack might still be my favorite. Arika cooked hard on that game.

ngl having this play in the background and just hearing the fuckin Microsoft Sam SOI sound effect when Akuma spin kicks in the Movie game genuinely jumpscared me

SF6 WEEK OF 🤞🏾 sup max

Have you ever played Fighter Maker? I'd love to see that and what you'd do with it!

Akums very important in Street Fighter

They were trying to make akuma look edgy with spiked gauntlets

If I remembered correctly, it's much easier to execute Raging Demon in EX series than Alpha/Zero, so many good memories with Street Fighter EX

Street Fighter the Movie the arcade made Akuma such a beast if you master the mechanics.

i still remember passing by this machine at putt-putt when it came out. It wasn't where the hot machines were at, like where the MK3 cabinets were at. It was around the corner off to the side where the 8 daytona USA's were, as I recall. No one played it and I looked at it and walked away. I thought MK style live action was cool, but even at age 8, 9 or 10 I thought games copying that style was lame.

The only sf ex Akuma is in they use Kairi ever since 👍🏻.

Stronger was my song in es +a

Loved the ex series...

As a kid I thought Bison was saying something about moldy bologna 🤣

Megaballs, that's a lot of balls.

0:10 Street Fighter: The Movie- The Game 7:31 Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha

If I remember correctly, Akuma isn't even in the actual movie, they just added him to the game version

I loved Ex, skullimania was my dude, I told myself I'd main him in every street fighter game that he was in. And I never played sf again 😔

street fighter EX characters were some of the absolute best wish they could be brought back. Skolo Garuda

I still play the movie and ex because it was a good time.😮😮😮😮

It is kind of crazy to think that Arika first started out developing the SF EX games and would eventually go on to co develop Tekken 8. I forgot about SF EX so I had to look up who made it.

i miss SF EX so much. half the game is the godlike ost

I so wanted the Akuma in Resident Evil 2 rumor to be true lol. I tried unlocking it back then multiple times and it wasn’t a quick process either 😂