The Total Recall DUD OF THE MONTH
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FIGHTING STREET
(Hudson Soft/Alfa
Systems/Capcom, 1987, 1989)
*TurboGrafx-16 CD game
Notice the Section Z cameo in spray paint? If only I was playing that
instead.
If you're thinking about investing in this rare Turbo Grafx-16 CD-ROM
title then maybe you're a curious Street Fighter fan who never played
the original and exclusive 'One' or maybe you're a hardcore turbo fan who
wants to own the first ever CD video game? That's right! The first
ever North American CD console game is also Capcom's infamous Street Fighter
'1' but with the words reversed for whatever reason. Who doesn't want to play
the first ever Street Fighter especially since Street Fighter II was
such a massive in the early 90's, uh? Be warned however,
Fighting Street
may sound like a cool fighting game at
first but wait till you play it.
Some fighter's from Fighting Street have appeared in other Capcom games but
not all of them. Anyone remember Geki?
The story is about Ryu and or Ken's journey to fight the best warriors in
order to become the world's top fighter. One of them must defeat 10 different
men from five different countries and it won't be easy because you must fight
tough guys like the giant 6.5ft Birdie (who is a white guy here by the way
even though he's a black guy in the Street Fighter Alpha series), Mike
a deadly US boxer, Adon the lightning quick sentry of the champion, and many
more odd ball character from around the world. Some of these guys even carry
weapons like ninja stars and sticks to their fights! You must defeat them
all if you wish to become the Street Fighter champion, but current top seed
Sagat will not go down easy.
Here Ryu helps Birdie work on
his tan.
If you want to be successful on your fights here, it's the best of
2 out of 3 falls and once you beat all eight unique fighters in China, United States, Japan, and England, you then take you the final trip to Thailand where you compete against your last two
tough opponents. Sounds like an interesting fighter's story so far, uh? It
is, but Fighting
Street falls apart after that.
The main problem with this FS here is the very unresponsive controls. I don't
really mind the two button control set up here if it is done right (which
it isn't) but I do mind the very awkward jumping system and the long delay
before a move is actually performed. Fighting Street has one of the worst
fighting engines for a one on one beat them up that I ever played. You can
still do Ryu and Ken's trade mark special moves: the Fireball, the Dragon
Punch, and the Hurricane Kick but the programmers did such a lousy done here
too that it makes difficult execute any of the three. Just try to do a fireball
when you want to, it's nearly impossible on the standard Turbo pad.
There are two different bonus rounds types here.
In the screen shots the game didn't look too bad, eh? You have many scenic
but static backgrounds like Mount Rushmore, the Great Wall, and many others from all five of the beautiful
countries here. If only the animation was has good. Fighting Street may have
been the first CD video game and you would think the sound quality would be
vastly superior to the regular card games for the second rate Turbo Grafx-16
sound chips. Unfortunately for a game on a compact disc there are some REALLY
bad voice samples for some reason. It's so bad that I swear all the characters
voices were all done by the same guy and if that wasn't but enough the dialogue
is super cheesy as well. Want an example; you'll hear lame victory statements
like: "He he I'm strong", "Go to heaven", or "I'm
No. 1."
The graphics and sounds are even more important for a something like this
since FS was suppose to be the first ever launch game that sells the system.
The Turbo Grafx-16 CD was targeted to be a Trojan horse that would give NEC
a much needed edge over the competition. The Turbo CD add on boasted back
up memory storage, over 4,000 megs of power, plus don't forget about that
CD quality sound of course. Imagine a player's disappointment if they buy
a super expensive and the only game you can find for it is this lousy Fighting
Street game? You need to have a strong game that would show off the new powers
of the pricey Turbo CD and with these low quality looks and sounds no one was rushing to the store to get it because there was nothing special about the game. Bottomline:
Fighting Street could have easily been a regular card instead. It wasn't till
Y's book I & II
came on the Turbo CD in the fall of 1990 where people finally started to notice
the CD add on but by that time is was too late.
He's saying: "What Strength! But don't forget there are many guys
like you all over the world." Sadly, most of them say this poorly voiced
statement after you beat them.
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Not only is this game not much to look at but it's also very difficult to
control and therefore it's very difficult to pick up a win. It only takes
a few hits for a match to end and the computer will use their super powerful
special moves at will while you struggle with your moves like a Hurricane
Kick. There is a little tactic that can really help you though. If you a Turbo
controller with a Slow Motion feature, use it and the enemies will barely
ever attack you. How lame is that? Normally I would not mention a cheat in
a review but this game is so cheap and poorly made that I thought I would
point that out so you can breeze through this awful game quickly.
The saddest thing about Fighting Street CD isn't that's it's the only Street
Fighting One released on a home console but it's an absolutely horrible translation
of a rather average arcade fighting game. This is the only edition of the
legendary Street Fighter 1 we have here at the moment and all we get is this
lousy game with poor hit detection, weak sound effects, and ugly animation.
OK, maybe the arcade game wasn't all that great either but all the Street
Fighter fans around the globe deserve better then this and we NEED Capcom
themselves to do it right! If the game does have any good qualities besides
its rarity is that that
Fighting Street does have some decent background music
but that alone can't save this game from mediocrity. Fighting Street is for serious game collectors only. |
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