The player took control of a lone martial artist named Ryu, who competes in a worldwide martial arts tournament spanning five different countries (United States, Japan, China, England and Thailand) and ten opponents, two per country. Street Fighter made its debut at the arcades in 1987, designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto.

Main article: Street Fighter (video game) The storyline of the Street Fighter EX series takes place in an alternate timeline and is not canon to the main series' timeline.Ī screenshot from the first Street Fighter game. The chronological order of the series' timeline starts with Street Fighter, followed by Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter V and Street Fighter III. The second to join shared canon universe was Rival Schools when some Street Fighter characters appeared in the former’s first game a year after the second Street Fighter Alpha game was released and Rival Schools characters originally made cameo appearances in main Street Fighter games for years until one of them playable for the first time in the last edition of Street Fighter V. The first series to merged with Street Fighter canon was Final Fight series when the Street Fighter Alpha series at the was made, giving many Final Fight characters frequent appearances in the games while some Street Fighter characters appeared in the Final Fight games as well. In 1989, a beat em' up called Final Fight was created by the team who eventually would develop Street Fighter II.Įventually Street Fighter series expanded into a center of the shared universe which shares with some other Capcom titles.

Capcom released the first game in the series in August 1987. Street Fighter II is largely credited with setting the standards for all future games to come and is regarded as a true classic series, (though still not the first game ever released). Street Fighter ( ストリートファイター, Sutorīto Faitā ?), commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of fighting games, developed and published by Capcom, in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with their own special moves, against one another.

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