The History of Street Fighter - arcade console documentary 

Your style of video game histories are both addictive and endearing. Well done sir.

Nice to hear that Slopes cameo. Keep on growing the channel, Patman!

A few fun facts: Ryu's SF1 costume is dlc for Marvel vs Capcom 3 & its updated game Joe is based on kickboxer Joe Lewis Balrog has a Mike dlc costume is SF5 Lee is the uncle to Yun & Yang from the SF3 series Geki is in Vega's SF5 ending Eagle is a selectable character in Capcom vs SNK 2 & SF Alpha 3 Max Sagat has his SF1 costume as dlc in SF5

The thing about the special moves is that the game doesn't track the timing of the button press like in future games, but rather the timing of the button being released. That's why it's easier to hold down the button and release it after you do the special move motion.

You have to do the special moves really fast to make them work, but you can spam them mercilessly once you get the timing and they are soooooo powerful. The game goes from nearly impossible to pretty easy.

That outrun cabinet though 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This video brings back some great memories for me. This was one of the first arcade games I ever played. It was at the convenience store my mom worked at. My dad and I waited on her to finish her shift so I would try to figure out how to get a game or two in. It is not the most polished game but I do love that it is the first in a long line of great Street Fighter games. So I do have a fondness for this game in all honesty.

Man, the nostalgia, I was so in to this game, love the sound effects, the graphics, even though it was hard to play I was at the arcades two or three days a week, thank you for another great video!

The USA C64 version looks like it uses one of my favourite tricks for nicer sprites - use a low res multicolour sprite for the overall fill, and overlay a high-res black outline sprite for the details. On a real C64 with a proper CRT monitor this always had a nice refined look.

I was actually thinking about you tonight and wondering if you've ever considered doing a history of the original Street Fighter. I must be psychic!

This one as many others you do bring back memories. I had the turbo graphics Cd version and always wondered about the name change.

I'm watching this while playing Mortal Kombat. 😅

30+ years later and I still hear the announcer say "MICHAEL!" at the start of each round.

Best game ever, I played it for years in arcades in Hong Kong. Great memories 😊. Thank you so much.

Another amazing video! Love the nod to Way of the Exploding Fist. I remember the first time I ever loaded it up on my C-64, the volume was high on my tv and the initial "Hiyaaaaa" sound was super loud and definitely a surprise!

Released in the mid-70s? So was I! I actually remember watching my older brother play Heavyweight Champ at the State Fair.

When I was a kid, my local arcade, TILT, had the Deluxe cabinet. The one with the pressurized buttons. The manager got tired of repairing those things and installed an SFII kit complete with redoing the button panel with the 6-button layout. Obviously, the installation of the kit paid off in spades.

I wish arcades would make a true comeback. I want to show my daughter how rad I was at SF2 and TMNT when she's older.

Another fun game that came out in 1980 and for it's time was very fun to play was Wizard Of War, a video on that arcade would be very cool! Lots of good memories with that arcade.

If you are not going to do a StreetFighter2 video for the reasons given then I guess I have to tell you a funny SF2 story. January 1992 my best friend at our high school Winterfest dance used the following pick up line “Hey dolls, either of you want to dance? I’ll tell you how to make Ryu throw a red fireball on StreetFighter 2!” He said with a sincere and eager smile like he REALLY thought it would work. The two girls looked at my friend looked at each other and then sorta melted into the mass of people there.

During the late 90s our Arcade crashed & my cousin and me went halfs on Street Fighter 2. We were too late, so I was out, but my cousin with his half had enough to get Street Fighter! I helped him transport it to his house & believe it or not that was the 1st time I ever played the original game! Glade I did & it looked great in his house! Then in the early 2000s a new Arcade opened up & bought his Street Fighter as they needed one more space at there Arcade. However, it didn't last long & not sure what happened to that Street Fighter Arcade after that.

Thank you about to watch and go to bed!!!

*PatmanQC* You finally did it, you covered one of my all-time favorite fighting games in your legendary video game documentary series! Thank you and well done sir.

the best video-game history channel on youtube 🙂

Lol I love how in the Commodore 64 version, Bill Cravens is reduced to just a face, no name, and he's been transformed into Barry White

Playing this game and trying to do the moves will give you arthritis. Glad the sequels made it easier to do.

After this video dropped, I went to my favorite vintage arcade in Tokyo, saw this game, dropped in a coin and blew chunks. Sf 2 has so many more coats of polish on it.

I remember finishing this game in the Street Fighter Anniversary collection by just spamming the special move motions and hoping they worked.

Great review of one my all time childhood favorites in the arcade! Thanks for the chuckle too! When you were explaining the title screen cameos you called Section Z, "Section 8" LMAO! Also we always believed that Joe from the US stage was the guy that punched through the brick wall! Keep em coming!

THAT HAS ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS IN THE ARCADE

Imagine buying the Amiga version. This is an actual, retail product that costs money. Unbelievable.

It's kind of sad that some of these characters never come back for the sequel.

I remember a discussion the kids in my neighborhood had about the existence of this game. None of us had ever seen it and it was pre-internet, so out conclusion was that there was no Street Fighter 1 (as we called it). Instead, Street Fighter 2 was the first game and they jumped straight to 2 because it was so good.

I used to play this game in the late 80's at the Warner Robins, Ga movie theater on Russel Prkway

One of the OG franchises that still relevant today.

While most of the time, I hear this original wasn't very popular, it was quite popular at my local arcade back in the day. But it got really tough later in the game. No one ever saw Sagat. No one could get past Adon.

Excellent work, Patman! You make the most entertaining and interesting videos on the RU-vids. You’re my favorite, Dude!

This original version was huge back then in NYC. We loved it. Quarters were lined up to play. This version also made a cameo in the movie "Juice" which starred the rapper Tupac.

Wow! I thought you already have! I was like why is he re-uploading this? Awesome! Patman!

Wow!! Very very impressive video, I don't think I've ever seen a video covering the original Street Fighter as in depth as this one. You even mentioned the "Fire Kick" and Terry Bogard 👍. I wracked my brain to think of something you didn't mention. One thing besides the manga Karate Baka Ichidai influencing the first game it was also very influenced by one of the manga's sequel series called "The Square Jungle" by the same author Ikki Kajiwara who's Martial arts manga in the 1970's influenced a tone of Japanese fighting games in the subsequent decades. Also the original Street Fighter had a manga adaptation that only lasted a single issue in Gamest magazine. It's only like two pages though. But I'm kinda just nit picking now. Impressive, most impressive.

Great video as always. Looking forward to the SF2 series of videos.

I was one of the many who never actually saw this in an arcade. This makes your figure of it selling less than 10k make sense. That would. Make there pretty rare. It's shown being played in a scene of the movie "Juice"

I honestly assumed that the character seen breaking through the brick wall on the game's title screen was actually Joe, since it looks exactly like him while wearing a leather jacket.

I still have Kung-Fu Masters music running through my head decades later.

15:00 I always thought that was US Fighter, Joe breaking through the wall during the title screen. Great insight into the beginnings of one of the most popular series of all time.

You'd be surprised how many people are 100% certain that SF1's pressure-sensitive button cabinet never made it to the US. Meanwhile, my child self has vivid memories of playing on such a cabinet in the dead center of the continent, and only seeing the 6-button configuration way later-long after SF2 had hit arcades, in fact.

Always glad to see your videos!!

History always has something valuable to teach us. Thank you for sharing this informative video!

The pressure button version of this game was almost always broken when I would see it around. Cool gimmick that didn't pan out. Thanks for another great video!

Amazing video !!!

Everyone speculated that Mike and M. Bison/Balrog were the same character, but Capcom insisted that they’re not, and finally confirmed it by giving them different bios on the Shadaloo Database website in 2016.

Patman going against the grain with the original. This is why we love you sir

So glad you covered this ,I loved the pressure pad version.way more immersive than anything out at the time.

Excellent video as always !

Nice to see the first Street Fighter getting some attention.

I haven't played Street Fighter 1 until owning the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. It was great to have some closure of this piece of History of the early years of fighting games, although I felt the game controls were quite stiff, and it was harder to pull off the special moves and time certain moves, so I tried to do some noob tactics such as button mashing, but that would go so far. Back in 1993, my first fighting game was Street Fighter II the World Warrior and got that along the Super NES as a Christmas gift. That game was addictive, but it was difficult and I spent hours getting better at it. The Street Fighter franchise set the standard of many other fighting games both 2D and 3D.

Thanks for all the great content!

Awesome video. First time I ever played this was on the SF Anniversary collection a couple of years ago. Managed to beat it, but man was it tough as hell. Honestly didn't know the game existed until I saw AVGN talk about it in his SF 2010 video lol.

Talk about the original getting overshadowed by the sequel. Street Fighter II machines, and all their variations, have been inescapable fixtures of almost every arcade or pizza place or just generally where arcade games reside, but I have only once saw the Street Fighter cabinet. I barely remember if I played it or not. In fact, I always wondered why it was called Street Fighter II when I never even heard of the first one's existence as a kid during it's heyday. Not exactly a bad game, but I can see why it'd be completely forgotten had it not been for the internet making info about it more accessible.

Fascinating Game Series! Totally awesome history lesson video!

Fun fact i learned from Larry Bundy's videos, Tiertex made an unofficial sequel to the PC/home comp ports of SF1 in 89 called Human Killing Machine. I remember seeing the game in shareware mags back in the day.

I still remember playing the arcade version of Street Fighter for the first time. I never did see it at any arcades in the Quad Cities, but I did encounter it at the downtown bus station in Cincinnati OH in June 1991. I was travelling from Chapel Hill, NC back to the Quad Cities via Greyhound Bus then. During a stop at the bus station in downtown Cincinnati in the middle of the night I played Street Fighter for 10-15 minutes. I thought it was pretty neat but not terribly fun. I managed to play SF II for the first time a month or two later at Aladdin's Castle in Northpark Mall and was blown away at the time on what a massive upgrade it was to the original game!

What a video!! But don't forget there are many youtubers like you all over the world

Another good one I can't wait to watch this tomorrow.

Awesome video. I know a lot of others have covered SFII already but we would still love to see you cover it!

Excellent Video for one of my favorite arcade games as a kid ! I hope you decide to create content for the History of Street Fighter 2!

I always forget how many characters were actually in the original Street Fighter....that, or I'm thinking of a different game!

I thought Capcom confirmed that Mike the boxer is not the same character as Balrog/M. Bison?

The music on the Turbo Graphics 16 does sound good for what it is. This game waaay passed overdue for an official remake. Capcom should hire the studio that made the SF2HD remakes to get on it!

Very interesting to see all of the history in deeper context.

Another fine episode my friend. Those early Street Fighter on the C64 in the UK had me rolling 🤣

I play the first street fighter game at the arcade it's excellent also Ryu and Ken are the best characters in the game of all time. 😀👍🎮

Great vid and thanks for the shoutout!

Great video, I actually love this game, I remember when it came out, there are 2 things, first on the street fighter screen it doesn’t say section 8 it says section z, second you didn’t mention how the attack buttons are reversed on this that they are on street fighter 2, the heavy kick is closer to the joystick and in street fighter 2 it’s on the opposite side.

10:08 It was a TRADEMARK issue, not copyright. Names CANNOT be copyrighted! Trademark and copyright are not the same thing. The issue stemmed from having a doll (i.e. action figure) named Ken from the Street Fighter IP when there already is a doll named Ken from the Barbie IP.

Dude ! Yes -this brings back memories right here ! Thanks for making this video man, I enjoyed it . First time I ever played this in the arcade I was like 7 in Panama City Florida , and got my arse handed to me by a rando the moves were so hard to get to work . 😂

"For you, the day Street Fighter graced your arcade was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

Another great video Pat, Right up to the part where slops starts his bit about the arcade cabinets and thats where i turned it off.

Awesome as always!!

The wall also has "Wings" graffiti on it too. As a nod to Legendary Wings.

I played this in elementary school. The controls were terrible then and they are terrible now! I remember when the fireball randomly came out for the first time and everybody went crazy 💪 great video Patman

The controls for the special moves work the same way as in the sequels. The only difference is that they work when they feel like it.

Make a video about the Andore family!!! Especially Hugo Andore. Really cool history 😎

Nice video of this origin SF game, Patman. I was not able to advance past the first enemy, having trouble getting used to the much different style of this game compared to the classic SF2 series. This does remind me of the classic Yie Ar Kung Fu a little bit. Nice Port coverage! Thanks Patman!

I think the Street Fighter name came from the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times. Hard Times was called Street Fighter in Japan, and the Sonny Chiba movie was not. (These movies were involved in various regional name swaps, much like the boss characters in Street Fighter II.) Also, several of the locations from Hard Times (released in 1975) look exactly like stages in Street Fighter II. I think it was Ken's stage (with the tugboat, etc.) that can be seen in the trailer for Hard Times on IMDb.

Excellent work, thanks. I remember the pneumatic version at my local Arcade in Bristol, England.

Fist of the north star 2pac played this in the movie juice🤣💯 Great video my guy

When Mr. Nishiyama started talking in a British accent, I started choking on my food 💀6:00

Great video. I actually only saw SFI, twice out in the wild.

Hell yeah pat,more of your style street fighter videos !! And yes I am aware of the internet has no shortage of Street fighter videos but they don't do it like you my friend 🤘😎

Happy little fighters. Love your videos and appreciate what you do. On another note...I absolutely loved Kung Fu Master when I was a kid. Used to play it every weekend at the local skating rink. I was so happy when I recently found it on an emulator

Great video! Like most people I started on SFII and was quite good at it in the arcade and on home consoles. In late 1992 I went to an arcade in Los Angeles and got to play the original Street Fighter which I'd never seen before. I found it clunky and hard as hell to control and just couldn't get into it. A few years later a friend let me play the PC-Engine version and after a ton of practice I was able to beat Sagat but it was not easy. This game is certainly an oddity and I consider it the Star Trek Motion Picture of the franchise. It may not be very good, but the rest of greatness that followed would not exist without it.

I had the MS-DOS port back in the day. Ryu looks like he's wearing a terry cloth robe and one of those poker dealer visors.

Awesome documentary!!!

I remember 10 year old putting my quarter in thinking I was gonna play Street fighter II for the first time... Boy was I disappointed

I think Disney should seriously consider doing a long term collaboration with Capcom to make a proper Hero's/Princesses vs Villians game. It could be right up there with their SF franchise if done right, and could be one of those $120-$150 (not including cosmetics) games just like had been SFV. There is so much IP there and we only get so see what these characters are capable of for a few seconds in each film.

I can’t think of another sequel completely overshadowing the original the way SF2 did to this one. Growing up I never even saw a SF1 machine. I remember kids spreading rumors that there was no such thing as SF1 and the series just starts with SF2.

12:28 actually no, they had made it clear that SF 1 Mike and SF 2 Balrog (know in Japan as Mike Bison), are 2 separate characters.

6:09 nice you got dj slope and he had you on his last video cool crossover !

I remember making it all the way to Sagat. Got defeated by him. I wanted another shot, but we were late for class, so my friends had to literally drag me out of the store before we get in trouble! 🤣🤣