Sources and Further Reading for Street Fighter Fans
The Miscellany draws on the work of many other people. This page acknowledges them and points to material worth exploring if the trivia leaves you curious.
Acknowledgements
Credit starts with Capcom and everyone who has worked on Street Fighter over the years. A fan-written Street Fighter Plot Guide by Tiamat and Vasili10 rekindled the site author’s interest in the series, particularly its obscure story elements, and both Vasili and Sano answered questions along the way. Several friends and family members offered support, and a number of visitors later contributed corrections and extra details, including notes on a Lexus LS400 and Toyota Celsior reference, on two characters in a Chun-Li training picture, on Honda and Sodom, and on reference art for Final Fight: Streetwise.
Fan sites and online references
The following resources are listed in alphabetical order, with a note on what each was useful for.
Databases and wikis
– Arcade Quartermaster: screenshots and information on classic Capcom titles and more.
– Capcom Database, the Street Fighter Wiki and Strategy Wiki: fan-edited encyclopedias with character bios, game summaries and many images. Strategy Wiki was the source for many of the character renders used on this site.
– Fight-A-Base and Fighters Generation: large databases of fighting-game information.
– Games Database, MAWS and the MAME project: technical details and screenshots for arcade games and ROMs.
– GameFAQs and Giant Bomb: reviews, guides, forums and images.
– The Cutting Room Floor: unused material found in game ROMs, especially for the Street Fighter II scroll test and the prototype Hugo in Street Fighter III.
– Street Fighter Devotion: its definitive game list helped build the timeline and catalogue the cameos.
– Fighting Street: a thoroughly researched fan site, with strong sections on character lookalikes and on Shadaloo and Nazism.
– Rage Quitter 87’s Final Fight Shrine: background and trivia on Final Fight, including censorship in home ports.
– Dark Saviour’s Arena, Sigil of Slateman and Zweifuss: stage backgrounds, sprite sheets and animations.
– Zytor’s Street Fighter Palette Database: colour swaps for every 2D game.
– Capcom Japan’s Super Street Fighter IV profiles and Capcom’s Shadaloo Combat Research Initiative: official character data (though some heights and weights differ between them).
– Arcade Flyers, vgmuseum (especially its arcade endings section), Twin Galaxies (home of high-score records) and Destroy All Monsters (a Capcom arcade chronology).
Articles and interviews
– Chris Kohler’s article on the making of Street Fighter II, based on the 1992 Complete File book.
– Matt Leone’s oral history of Street Fighter II.
– A 1991 interview with Akira Nishitani, translated on Shmuplations, and a Red Bull Music Academy interview with composer Yoko Shimomura.
– Pieces on the making of Street Fighter X Mega Man, on Malibu’s Street Fighter comics, on the 1994 dispute between Capcom and Data East, on glitches in the arcade Street Fighter II, and on the restoration of a Ken Sei Mogura machine from a UK amusement park.
– A collector’s account of hunting for the elusive final sticker in a Warriors’ Dreams album.
Community and art
– SRK and EventHubs for fighting-game news and forums; Capcom Unity for developer articles; Udon Entertainment for its licensed art.
– Fan artists whose work appears on the site: Miles Riley (Street Fighter III-style sprites of Street Fighter V characters), steamboy33 (Arnold Tsang, alternative Street Fighter IV sprites) and the illustrator Mick McGinty, creator of the famous World Warrior home-version cover.
Books and comics
All of these are licensed by Capcom and were essential to the site. Some manga volumes are getting expensive.
- Art books: Udon’s Art of Capcom (2007) and Art of Capcom 2 (2010); SF20: The Art of Street Fighter (2009) and SF25 (2014); Street Fighter x Tekken Artworks (2012); Marvel Vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works (2012).
- Encyclopedias: Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia (2010, expanded 2015).
- Udon comics: collected editions of the first and second series of Street Fighter and Street Fighter II (2010); Street Fighter Legends volumes on Sakura, Chun-Li, Ibuki and Cammy; Street Fighter Origins: Akuma; Street Fighter IV: Wages of Sin; Super Street Fighter volumes one and two; Street Fighter Eternal Challenge; the Street Fighter x Tekken comic; and the Street Fighter II Chun-Li mini-comic.
- Manga: Masahiko Nakahira’s Street Fighter Alpha, Sakura Ganbaru! and Street Fighter III: Ryu Final; Masaomi Kanzaki’s Street Fighter II; Masahiro Itou’s Street Fighter Gaiden; Takayuki Sakai’s Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie; and a Cammy Gaiden volume published by Viz.
- Children’s book: Look and Find: Street Fighter II (1994), the one title here that the author does not recommend.
Films and animation
The three animated movies are worth a look, as is The Ties That Bind packaged with special editions of Street Fighter IV. The live-action 1994 film is a colourful if poor adaptation, yet it comes across as more entertaining than The Legend of Chun-Li.
- City Hunter and Future Cops (both Wong Jing, 1993)
- I Am Street Fighter (Area 5, 2012)
- Street Fighter (Steven E. de Souza, 1994)
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (Gisaburo Sugii, 1994) and Street Fighter II V (Group TAC, 1995)
- Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind (Studio 4C, 2009)
- Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie (1999) and Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (2005)
- Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2009)
- Super Street Fighter IV Juri OVA (Gonzo, 2010)
