Did you know that if developer Capcom’s Street Fighter series of fighting games were a person, it could legally rent a car now? That frightens us, actually — we’ve seen what they do to cars in those bonus levels.
To celebrate the Silver Anniversary, Capcom released a massive, fun-filled collector’s edition. Area 5 produced the feature-length documentary included in that set, and this episode, we sit down with three of the guys who made the retrospective. The video-production house’s Cesar Quintero, Ryan O’Donnell, and Jason Bertrand join GamesBeat editor-in-chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu to try to fit a quarter-century of Hadoukens into an hour. They almost make it.
This episode’s topics:
- Japanese vs. U.S. arcade culture
- Area 5’s favorite interviews from its Street Fighter documentary
- Interesting stories that didn’t quite make it into Area 5’s movie
If you haven’t seen it, here is the incredible “Daigo parry” video the guys mention during the show.
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