>>The control system's been pretty consistent throughout the series
Yes, that's the problem: I never learnt the old ones as a kid, instead my first beat-em-up that I really got to grips with was Tekken on the PS (used to be arcade/PS exclusive, but it's on Xbox now too), which has a different combo/block paradigm. Never could get my head round the SF system after that.
I did use to love the SF animated movies, though :$
Right you are.
The SFII Animated Movie was pretty good. It did its best at tying together a main storyline and cameo appearances from non-top tier characters, some were obviously shoe horned in, but it kept itself honest to the games.
I've never seen the cartoon series they did though. Have you; was it any good?!
I honestly can't remember. Think I may have seen some of it and not been impressed.
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Coincidentally I was watching a YT vid last night about the weirdest endings in fighting games. Tekken featured quite heavily.
I quite like the one where your main evil chap straps a load of other characters to a rocket and sends them into space.
There's an ending to these games? Who knew?
I'll warrant the producers don't know about them. Or quality testers. Or Gorbachev.
I reckon they must be for winners.
I know nothing about that :'-(