Street Fighter (1987): Original Arcade Game Details
The first Street Fighter was released in arcades on 30 August 1987. The notes below summarise what it offered.
Facts and figures
- Hardware: a Motorola 6800 and Zilog Z80 pair, with a Yamaha YM2151 and an OKI MSM5205 for sound. No separate named board system applies.
- Playable characters (2): Ryu, and Ken, who can only be used by the second player in two-player matches.
- Opponents (10): Retsu, Geki, Joe, Mike, Birdie, Eagle, Lee, Gen, Adon and Sagat.
- Colours: a single scheme for each character.
- Stages (10): two each in Japan (Retsu, Geki), the U.S.A. (Joe, Mike), England (Birdie, Eagle), China (Lee, Gen) and Thailand (Adon, Sagat).
- Bonus rounds (4): Nine Tiles, Three Boards, Three Cinder Blocks and Four Boards.
Credits
Takashi Nishiyama, credited as “Piston Takash”, was the director. Hiroshi Matsumoto appears as “Finish Hiroshi” for planning, and Hiroshi Koike, as “FZ 2151”, handled programming. The mechanical side is credited to Strong Take and Radish Kamin, and the special thanks list includes Short Arm Seigo (Seigo Ito), Melanin Kazu, Puttun Midori, James Nyama and Seinto Sinn.
Home versions
The game was converted for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, NEC TurboGrafx-CD (as Fighting Street), PC (MS-DOS) and Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
