The Street Fighter: The Complete History book is now available in stores, or you can pick it up on Amazon.com for about $13.Street Fighter took the video gaming world by storm in the mid-1980s; more than 127 million copies and hundreds of imitators later, the series continues to be one of the most beloved and successful video game franchises of all time.
In this official history, legendary game developer Capcom opens its vault to tell the complete story of Street Fighter. Original text and interviews with the developers and animators present the franchise’s impact on gaming culture, while more than 200 pieces of artwork reveal the care that went into designing the button-mashing classic. Featuring a slick flexi cover, this collection will be indispensable to the millions of ardent fans worldwide.
If you get a chance to thumb through this, please leave a comment with your thoughts on the quality of the book.
anyone know if amazon delivery is accurate? they said its been dispatched and estimated arrival march 31st... bit long isn't it :s
@Tango_Sucka
If you went with Budget Shipping, it really depends on where you live. I live fairly close to their main shipping center, so it only takes a couple days to receive things, though the estimated can be up to 2 weeks.
"Street Fighter took the video gaming world by storm in the mid-1980s"
No.
No, it didn't.
SF2 was a phenomenon. The original Street Fighter didn't get much love at all. While the original machines were an interesting novelty, it was SF2 that wrangled everyone's immediate attention.
There's a lot of fabricated nostalgia surrounding the alleged 'popularity' of the original Street Fighter which is really grabbing at straws.
@Gamogo
They're just hyping up the book. I'm sure its innards are awesome :-D
bought the book getting it the 31 st @tango_sucka yeah there accurate i bought 2 fightstick from them one day shipping both got here on time last thing i bought was the super street fighter type s stick got here fast.. i feel bad bought the book with my grandma credit card and she doesnt know =[ i
Actually @11/Gamogo
It was the first fighting game to have a light/mid/heavy button for kicks and punches(though they original had a revolutionary sensor buttons for punches and kicks and how hard you pressed them would translate to light/mid/heavy until the replaced with the light/mid/heavy buttons) and one of the first with hidden special moves(The Hadouken and Shoryuken was hard to do then) so yes in a way it did take arcades by storms just not in America and it was popular enough to make a sequel.
@Q
SF2 before turnies 7-11/Quarter Arcade/Laundry play was button mashing
Got mine last night. It's very nice looking, it's the glossy softcover so it's a bit thicker than your average book of this size, and the artwork direction is beautiful. It's pretty much a collection of art pieces / concept sketches (which all look great on the glossy photo paper), and snippets from Capcom people and other sources on the game's history, psyche, and overall appeal.
It reminds me of Power Up (If anyone read that); not a lot of new stuff here you wouldn't find anywhere else, but there's a lot of good stuff for a new fan or someone who just likes having these history sort of things in a book form. I like it because it's got almost as much art as the Tribute books, and just as many snippets, but for a lot cheaper (albeit on smaller pages, but the art still looks great. There's a lot of pieces ranging from Akiman to Ikeno)
@NobleEskimo
Isn't the main shipping centre in milton keynes?
@Guile_Makoto
Poor grandma... least the bank will see she has purchased a street fighter book and think shes some kinda hardcore brawler
@tango_sucka shes hardcore from time to time do u play xbox 360 or ps3
lol thanx. I have a 360 elite version, but no TE stick for it. Dread to think of playing with the xbox controller :| especially doing the trials again with the d pad!!
Hey man if u have xbl let me get ur gamertag I did the trials with the 360 controller then I got a te stick and then I got the super street fighter stick but at the moment I don't have a xbox my father damaged it but I do play with my cuzins xbox
xbox live... lol oh man I haven't even switched my xbox on since last year. your cousin doesnt have a ps3 aswell does he? man i was pretty handy with cammy and sakura. For my 360 unfortunately I havent got SF4 or live lol. If u ever get onto a ps3 add me deffo. We'll have to send it through email though.I played this youtuber and the idiot put the videos up and loads of ppl got my PS3 ID, so i ended up getting loads of fight requests and stuff. not because i was wikid or anything, just randoms i suppose. Im sure your granny wont notice a ps3 being purchased with her credit card :p
@Tango:
Hey, it'd be sweet if we could get some matches.
Heck, to anyone if they want to, my PSN is: SaitoKojima
If anyone's got match-recording stuff, it'd be sweet if we could get that done, too.
sure thing saito... who do u main? I havent been online since a marathon gow3 platinum session and im very rusty with sf4 but nevertheless... we shall fight! I'll add u when i go online next possibly tomorrow
@tango-sucka i was thinking about but she might kill me if i do... one of my cuzins have a ps3 but they stingy with it so im not even gonna bother with that
@guile_makoto
Yeah the older they get, the harder the sucker punches!! well we'll keep posting on here and if i do get live... we'll mix it up!!
I main my loyal soldier cammmy! and then sakura as a little mess about. I'm useless with anyone else though. what about you?
Im part of the air force guile looking revenge for charlie but sadly enough im moving on to makoto
Im part of the air force guile looking revenge for charlie but sadly enough im moving on to makoto... I got the book it has nice art work in it
I'm still going to be primarily with delta red... but inside me theres two different types of school girls that are bursting to come out and whoop some ass. Yeah its gonna be the terrible trio cammy, sakura and ibuki for super i think. maybe even throw makoto in there, make it a four way gang bang!
Lmaoooo wow nah makoto guile are gunna fly solo from super and on guile gunna be riding in the passanger seat and maybe dudley the only thing is I don't like seeing a lot of the character I use because it annyoing and some ppl make the character look bad thats
Wait and maybe cody unless he gets used a lot cuz makoto likes white jail birds hey do u have aim
lol man i have a huge list of people too... havent played sf4 since january i think, but i think i've grasped cammy (firmly ;p) so - so with sakura, might quick tym try and learn chun, but when super drops, man i wanted to learn adon, deejay, guy, cody, dudly makoto ibuki, juri, basically everyone but t hawk and hakan. but i've narrowed it down to dudley and ibuki. Juri is looking sweet though. Might create a team of femme fetales. sorry what is aim?
Aol instant messgener me I never been a big fan of mains but when I saw guile there was something that drew me to him but I started using him like 5 months ago and I could pull of wins and do sonic boom to super then ultra so I guess im pretty good with him and I rush down with him
yeah guile is pretty sik... bad matchup for my cammy though. I've beaten a few good guiles though by baiting their flash kicks. But some guiles are insane, turtle in a corner but when i get near they kick it up a notch. instant messengers died a long time ago for me mate. Cause nothing but trouble over here in uk. same with gaybook
Oo alright.. Ok yeah when I play other guiles I lose mainly becuz they turtle and I hate playing the turtle game. Are u going to get super street fighter 4 for the xbox or ps3
ps3 of course... gotta see what the bonus is for keeping old disc. plus my xbox account is all ugly and messy, only 1 or 2 games have 1000 gamerscore whereas nearly all my ps3 ones have the platinum. plus i've got a TE stick for my ps3, might get the new one soon. im a sucker for street fighter merchandise :( plus i dont like charge characters in SF4, but in HD Remix I do. Dunno why. Even though guile is a hard fight for cammy, he's better than that silly little bastard balrog! I hate balrog and honda with a passion.
Lol I hate honda his normals are take to much damage balrog he just intimadates me but I could beat them I gotta zone em out and anti air heavy punch... I hopes makotos fukiage aka dragon punch as hi prioty knock ppl out of air and I hopes guiles flash kick has more prioty it gets beat by normals
i think guiles flash kick has deffo been changed. cant remember if it was nerfed or not. But apparently dudley is a balrog killer, so cant wait to go and smash him up i hate balrog so bad. Not just fighting him, its his character altogether. cant wait to give him the rollingggggg thunder!
yeah hes annoying with the headbutt to ultra,, dudley is gunna kill him with ease czu dudley is not charge
Neat.