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Ken vs. Ryu in Street Fighter Alpha
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Capcom
stalled. It released Street Fighter Zero (aka Alpha), originally billed as a game taking
place in between Street Fighter 1 and 2, and then released a semi-sequel, Street Fighter
Zero 2, and finally released a slightly enhanced Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha in Japan
only. By now, Capcom's audience was drifting away, and Japanese game masters were turning
to the 3-D Virtua Fighter and especially Virtua Fighter 2 in droves. Many American players
were playing Mortal Kombat 2 or were getting bored of fighting games.
Akuma vs. Dhalsim in Street Fighter Alpha 2
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A truly awful Street
Fighter movie, a horrid Street Fighter: The Movie home and arcade game, cheesy action
figures, endless SF3 stalls and other generally foolhardy licensing moves had eroded the
natural optimism people had once felt for Capcom products. And the company had to deal
with monumental overstock problems when hundreds of thousands of copies of its fourth SF2
home game, Super SF2 (following SNES SF2, Genesis SF2: Turbo, SNES SF2: Turbo), failed to
sell.
Guile vs. Ryu in Street Fighter: The Movie (Home Game)
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Street Fighter III was finally announced, and it was initially described as a 2-D
sequel using brand new Capcom CPS3 hardware, whereas another title, Street Fighter EX,
would be a 3-D Street Fighter game running on PlayStation-compatible arcade hardware.
Street Fighter EX arrived in arcades first and bombed; it was less a 3-D fighting game
than a 2-D fighting game with 3-D character artwork,
Guile vs. Doctrine Dark in Street Fighter EX
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and its new characters paled in
comparison to the classic fighters readied for Street Fighter II's debut. This was
Capcom's second Street Fighter arcade game bomb, following the disastrous release of
Street Fighter: The Movie, and the company hurried to assure arcade owners and players
that a more complete version - Street Fighter EX Plus - would be released in arcades soon.
Next: More on the History of Street Fighter
Street Fighter, Dark
Stalkers, Final Fight, Star Gladiator, and all related characters and likenesses are TM
& © Capcom Entertainment 1997. All rights reserved. Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men, and all related characters and likenesses are TM & © 1997 Marvel Characters, Inc. All rights reserved.
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