![]() ![]() So much so that Capcom has produced Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection to celebrate 30 (31 if you want to be truly accurate, but what's a few months between friends?) years since the release of the original arcade game. We've had another numbered sequel since then as well as numerous collections, remasters and updates – the most recent of which being Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers on Switch – and in 2018, the brand is very much alive and well. Street Fighter's fortunes were very much tied to the one-on-one beat 'em up genre it did so much to nurture and popularise, and when 3D visuals started to take over at the end of the decade it slowly but surely slid out of the spotlight, only to be resurrected in 2008 with the sublime Street Fighter IV. In the early '90s, Street Fighter was everywhere at a time before the internet and social media came along, the awareness of this seminal franchise spread like wildfire around amusement arcades and school playgrounds, offices and bars it inspired merchandise, movies, cartoons and comics, and turned Capcom into a globally famous company. Street Fighter may have been surpassed by the likes of Resident Evil and Monster Hunter in Capcom's enviable stable of IP, but for gamers of a certain age, the merest mention of the name itself is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention. ![]()
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