Street Fighter II

And this time, the Ramblers, George and I, are Hadouken-ing back to 1994.

It is the Street Fighter, the Street Fighter movie, um, that we wanted probably 12 months before this came out.

Um, I don't know what else to say about this.

This, this is probably not to be celebrated as a movie.

I'm very confused.

I'm really confused

... you, you, you read in the, the trade press, or you see on Barry Norman or whatever, Movies, Movies, Movies, or even GamesMaster, they announce they're making a Street Fighter movie, the game that you've been playing loads.

It's from the guy who wrote Commando and Die Hard, and it's starring-

Why does the computer voice that tells Bison his radar stations are offline sound like it's from Hull? Why? This is before Sophie Willan's career took off and yet they seem to have programmed her as the celebrity voice on their sat-nav.

Oh man, if she's not in Street Fighter 2026, we riot.

Yes!

yeah have her take time off from the Great British Sewing Bee to do the computer voice

It's also remarkable to think about where we are in Street Fighter history.

Street Fighter II celebrated its 35th anniversary this year.

Street Fighter Alpha 2 celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the original Street Fighter.

To be honest, it was a fairly underwhelming experience.

You could see flashes of greatness, but it wasn't quite there yet.

Then Street Fighter II arrived, and suddenly Street Fighter was everywhere.

Street Fighter II became the undisputed king of the arcade.

I loved it a hell of a lot.

I haven't loved a Street Fighter that much, honestly, for me, probably since like Street Fighter 3 on the PS1, like the first ones that I got, like playing Street Fighter 2 in the arcade.

And then I bought Street Fighter 3.

It was whatever that super hyper deluxe turbo one was called.