Street Fighter The Movie, the Worst Fighting Game? (ft. Maximilian) 

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Somehow "The actor who played T-Hawk just never showed up" to the studio for the motion capture is the funniest part.

What people seem to not realize about the home version is at the time, the ONLY way to play Super Turbo at home was on a 3DO. Most of us didn't have a $700 3DO, so Street Fighter The Movie was basically the only way we could play a facsimile of Super Turbo. My local arcades didn't have Super Turbo, so I couldn't even go to the arcade and play it. It was either Super SF2 on SNES/Genesis, or Street Fighter the Movie on PS1/Saturn. The home port of SF Alpha wasn't out yet, either.

That shot of Sagat (Wes Studi) looking over the guy at the computers shoulder always makes me think of Bret Hart helping the folks at Midway on their wrestling game.

"Don't ask me to be on this again." Definitely looking forward to Max Dood's next TWFG appearance! 👍

7:30 Capcom is still hinting at this even to this day; on the CFN profile of Blade (that makes him canon to the SF main timeline) his height and weight are the same as Gunloc, and they even have the same "favorite food" (Popcorn)

Max being legit pissed at the end of this made it all so worthwhile. That and any chance I have to see Raul Julia's depiction of Bison will always be something I wont pass up

There’s something weirdly fun about the arcade version. It’s super broken but hilarious to play thru. Makes me wish that Ernie Reyes Sr. version of Akuma was actually in the movie 😂😂

Interesting to see Ming Na Wen still doing well even after her casting in this movie. Looking forward in seeing her in future films like John Wick films, A Spin Off of The Expendables featuring older Martial Artists of the past like Robin Shou, and Sleeping Dogs... if it ever gets off the ground.

I love the Maximilian & Skele-Matt artwork, it's bad ass! Edit: top job @DonWoka!🔥🔥

Sadly, that was Raul Julia's final role.....But, he did give us one of the greatest repeatable memes.

I actually found a copy of this game in the wild a few months ago for $50. I bought it without hesitation. I havent played it yet because it's too beautiful to be sullied by actually experiencing it.

I think I am the only person on the planet who was bummed out when I bought the Saturn version and it was re-done into SSF2T, I really wanted the jank arcade version and STILL do to this day. A SF: The Movie Arcade is a cab I want for my collection.

6:27 Considering those were the same Japan-based, English speaking actors Capcom used for the original Resident Evil (Chun-Li was Lynn Harris [Rebecca Chambers], Ken and Guile were the late Scott McCulloch [Chris Redfield]), I'd say you hit the nail on the head with that synopsis.

Guile's Theme really does go with everything.

Man! Thanks for the mention, keep up the good work 😎👍

I still remember spending a weekend with a few friends playing this on Saturn. It was jank, but we still had fun. The new look on the same old engine made it easy for us get into it and start passing back and forth the controllers, arcade style. Winner stays, loser goes back to the end of the line.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Raul Julia as the best part of this movie and game

Games based on movies based on games is a thing I honestly wished happened more often, cause it’s truly a bizarrely humorous idea.

Funny, I had no idea who Maximilian was, but the second his cartoon avatar popped up, my brain immediately said "oooooh, that guy!" I must have seen him on other videos or his own channel at some point, but didn't know him by name. Just funny that the avatar rendition was so good, I was able to tell who he was! 😅

Street Fighter: The Game: The Movie: The Game: The Garbage

So THIS is where guile's handcuffs comes from! When I was a kid, I was talking to one of my friends about street fighter, and he told me guile had a super secret move where he handcuffs his opponent. I thought he was talking about sf2, and I've spent like 25 years teetering back and forth between wondering if it's real, and thinking my friend was lying. What the hell. You just pulled a damn near lifelong splinter out of my brain. You get a follow.

I love that a video game based on a movie based on a video game was an actual thing that existed, and I got to live through the age when such things happened, unironically.

There's something charming about Matt and Max doing these videos together, it makes them more entertaining

OK, this actually kinda made me want to play the Arcade version. Looks like it could be great fun as a drunk game. Also, you should cover Tongue Of The Fatman / Mondu's Fight Palace someday. It's a truly wretched pre-SF2 16-bit fighter.

Not gonna call Sagat's eye laser "Eye of the Tiger"?

I remember BEGGING my mom to get this for me on PS1 as a child. Then I remember getting home and crying because you couldn't return it after you opened it! LOL. Good times.

I remember getting this on the Saturn and being incredibly disappointed. I actually wanted the broken mess that was the arcade version!

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

I remember when this came out and even as children, we knew the game was bad. No internet reviews, just intuition

The Cammy win screen justifies the arcade game's entire existence.

i laughed when Simmons’ version of UNLIMITED POWA was used 😂

My best guess about the "colors" Capcom was impressed with is likely the hardware they used being compatible with their video sprite direction they had for this western appeal title. Thinking they probably saw IT's Golden Tee Golf and thought "These guys can digitize actors, let's contract them". I simply can't believe anyone looked at Time Killers and didn't just leave after seeing that. :|

The arcade version is dumb fun. I love it. The PS version feels like an extra janky version of Super Turbo.

I’m just here for the “Quick, change the channel!” reference.

Maximilian Dood needs to make another vid of this game. His videos of this game was PURE GOLD. So many laughs

shout outs to Akuma

The arcade version is complete jank but it's actually enjoyable jank if that's what you're looking for. Some days it's exactly what you need. I gotta respect IT for trying these crazy ideas on this crazy game.

"This truly was a Real Battle on Film." -- Sawada, probably

I actually enjoyed this game lol. The mod fix feels how it should've been.

I was WAITING for you to cover this travesty in review format! Brilliant!

Been waiting on this one

I was convinced this game was bare bones as hell until the gameplay section came up and now I'm convinced this is the greatest game ever

9:37 Wait, have I gone all this time not realising Kylie Minogue plays CAMMY!?

I read that as worst fighting game movie, an my only thought was how can a man be so foolish and wrong.

0:56 "Combo Breaker." 2:56 A New Challanger Enters the Battle, Maximilian Masters Vs Ryu McMuscles 5:38 Blade, a random bison character than nobody played as. 6:11 "Bad Voice Acting." 7:30 Guile: "Bison, you killed my brother Gunloc. Prepare to die." Bison: "I don't even know him." Guile: "Clearly you never played slammasters." 8:07 "Hyper Combo." 10:46 Unlimitied Power? 11:57 Throw Down Fight, SLAMMASTER!!! 12:51 Matt: "Its Broken as..." M.Bison: "Of Course." 15:14 "SHIN SHUN GOKU SATSU!!" Rock on Matt and Max for doing this review on SF: The movie game. Love your work on Triple KO

Still waiting on Shadow: War of Succession. I'll keep on asking 'till it comes true.

They spoke of it in passing, but I do wish some specific technical achievements were brought up. One of the biggest is color. Those were 256 color sprites (compared to MK's 64) and it shows - just look how perfectly they captured Kylie Minogue's famous gams. When you consider almost everything else right up to and including CVS was still stuck with 16, it's pretty impressive to this day. Even KOF13 sprites only push ~128 colors each. I'm also really surprised nothing was made of the terrible downgrade in animation on the console versions. The arcade had tons and tons of unique frames, as they mentioned sometimes too many. The home ports are a choppy mess with what appears to be four frames max on any given animation and reused sprites all over the place.

I remember my favorite old movie theater, that’s shut down, had this game. Barely anyone played it, but it looked so cool as a kid.

I am amazed you guys didn't talk about Akuma who was not in the movie or in your other video about the game being another secret character and instead only talked abou the bison troopers

This is what happens when you expected to fight a god and face a madman.

What I'm curious about is what led to Kylie Minogue forgoing pants as Cammy for this game when she wore them in the movie? I mean, that is true to Cammy's design in other games. But still...

Bless you Matt, I was hoping you'd cover this lol

9:07 Lmao, that "A" caught me off guard!

Sagat had an eye laser because he has "the eye of the tiger" lol

Had this in an arcade in town... right next to a Killer Instinct, and Primal Rage machine. Surprisingly it was both popular lol.

Super Turbo was released on DOS PC in 1995. It was a very, very good port. And when compared to SSF2 on SNES / Genesis it was the better game too. Better visuals, sounds (maybe not the music) and gameplay than the 16 bit machines. It wasn't arcade perfect by any means, but it was far easier to get hold of over the 3DO version. I also had a 6 button controller to play it with, so control wise, I wasn't saddled with just keyboard controls.

"Endings are a bit of a disappointment..." you say this over a picutre of Kylie Minogue's bottom, which makes me question the sincerity of that statement...

I played this game in the arcades when it came out, and it was truly an insane mess.

Hope for two things: 1. Matt goes back and moves Dual Heroes to “that’ll be just fine” 2. Matt never finds a game worse than Criticom so this series never ends

I just wonder how flattered (and amused) Ed Boon must have felt back then when he saw Street Fighter, the all time Champion of fighting games (on which Mortal Kombat was based on) attempting to copy MK and failing miserably.

So right after Street Fighter 2 Championship was released, multiple bars, video rental stores, mom and pop food places, etc, had a hacked version of Street Fighter 2 CE and it was insane and absolute glitch fest of game. It allowed you to do crazy stuff like what you showed in this video and it was Turbo before I even think Turbo came out. Long story short, this and Turbo had to have been a direct response from Capcom to whomever was selling those hacked SF2 CE arcades in Newark, NJ. And they were EVERYWHERE.

My childhood best friend got this game with his launch PS1 in ‘95 or ‘96 for Xmas. I think we popped it in and played it for like 10 minutes? Then we went back to Battle Arena Toshinden.

Oh god that Sawada super was actually the reason for my username. This game for all its flaws for some reason has a special place in my heart

Here's my pick for this show. Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 2022. Here's 2 reasons 1. Every Energy attack has the same animation. EVERY SINGLE ONE! And 2. The correct title is Ultimate Battle 27. Because there's 5 CHARACTERS YOU NEED A CODE IN THE MANUAL TO GET (One of them being Gogeta who got called Vegito by mistake)

I was (dubiously) 'blessed' to have access to a PS1 copy where the audio would eventually bug out and play wildly different and buggy sounds for voices. After getting absolutely stoned, we'd load this up and laugh our asses off while playing essentially an ST port.

>Arcade Version actually breaks on through to the "good" side of the scale. Damn straight.

Me: A "Worst Fighting Game" for Street Fighter the Movie the Game? Raul: OF COURSE!!

You should look at Sonic the Fighters and Shadow: War of Succession in future episodes.

OOHHHHHHH!!!! It's my birthday today and few people recognized it , that said Matty Muscles drops this gem on this day , and now I can celebrate properly with something excellent , thank you Matty !!👊👊🔥🔥

6:23 I always thought he said, "Tatsumaki Kim Yaku." 😂

Awesome video Matt and Max!

It's nice that McMuscles invited Nickelback guy to help take this on.

I'm pissed you said becoming SLAMMASTER would never factor into a real match. It's real to me, damnit.

So, any plans to cover _Street Combat_ for SNES? Apparently, when it came time to localize _Ranma 1/2: Hard Battle_ for the US market, the publisher threw up their hands and said, "We can't sell this, no one has ever heard of this show!" and decided to make a completely generic set of replacements which had the same fighting moves but no explanations for their quirky fighting styles. Given that the original game was generally considered lackluster, and was only interesting due to the licensed characters, this did not make for a good gaming experience. Apparently, this was compounded with the Australian localization, which kept the original character designs but changed several of the names, and added some bizarre character background material in the manual which was entirely unlike their backgrounds in the series. A more direct localization for the US did eventually come out, but was only marginally popular. It is the _Street Combat_ version which is notoriously bad.

Okay, I wasn't expecting THE TOWN WITH NO NAME in a video about bad fighting games...

6:39 Bonestorm! I remember I got caught trying to steal that game once and got barred from the local Try N Save... it almost ruined Christmas

I don't blame Capcom for trying to make the console version of the game feel more official. There was a brief period where you could honestly justify purchasing this, but then Street Fighter Collection came out and Street Fighter: The Movie became rather redundant. Like Max said, it pretty much is just Super Turbo beaten with the ugly stick. (I do like the J-pop music video at the end, though!)

i'd rather have fun, broken mess than unplayable, broken mess

This was actually my first Street Figher game. My older brothers had the Sega Saturn version.

Missed opportunity to release this on a Tuesday.

4:27 I forgot Ernie Reyes Sr. played Akuma for the game

Have you ever played FX Fighter or FX Fighter Turbo? I played a demo of Turbo back in the '90s and thought it was ... okay. When I recently went to track down the game itself, I found it on "Bad Games" lists, so while It's certainly not the worst, it's likely worth a look.

Precisamos de um vídeo sobre Slaughter Sport , também conhecido como Fatman

The legend of Chung li with Kristy Kruek you all forget that

Love that max doesn't want to come back. A sign he should

personally im a huge fan of how frantic and drugged up the arcade verion is. i like when the outcome of a match can be determined by who has the least brain cells :)

I loved how the Mutagen was so dangerous to touch yet existed safely in a simply plastic bag

LOVEthe Jim Lahey stumbling on the stairs drunk!! Classic!

Max Should be the permanent co-host for this series from now on.

For you...the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Next you need to do a Worst Fighting Game episode on Simpsons Wrestling with Caddicarus as a guest.

People can hate on the movie all they like, I'm just happy it exists because seeing Raul Julia enjoy himself going down on the scenery like that heals my soul

Honestly, I still feel like this is the least bad-looking Intelligent Technologies game. Janky as the digitized actor sprites are, they're still leagues better than the kind of original sprites seen in Time Killers and BloodStorm.

Check out Body Blows (1993) by Team 17 for the Amiga and MS-DOS.

I had an arcade cabinet with this game in it……yeah quickly sold the board and converted it into a Neo geo one slot machine. Still have the awesome Van Damme and Raul Julia marquee on my wall in my game room lol.

I'd still argue that the console versions deserve to be in "That'll be just fine" or "Legit good". If the only thing holding it back is that Super Turbo/Alpha exist, then it's only a matter of context. Then again, Super Turbo was Arcade/3DO only, and Alpha took a year before coming to Saturn & Playstation. In absolutes and in a vacuum, the console versions of Movie make a good fighting game in 1995 with slightly misguided presentation, and seeing it next to Shaq Fu and Ballz 3D is pretty harsh. Someone with Movie as their first Street Fighter game won't be fooled into thinking the rest of the series sucks, because the gameplay is damn near identical with some elements added and others removed from a not very accessible version. I'm living proof of that. It's the only thing I don't agree with though, it was an excellent video otherwise.

This makes me wonder where the different versions of ClayFighter would fall on this scale.

For some reason the "Let's not quibble over definitions" "A" bit made me crack up.

I remember being little and this game was at my parent's friend's house. I watched their son play a few matches and decided to play worms on the pc instead.