Fighting Street (TurboGrafx CD) OLD

A playthrough of NEC's 1990 fighting game for the TurboGrafx CD, Fighting Street.

Fighting Street is a port of Capcom's original Street Fighter arcade game, and was a North America launch title for the $400 TurboGrafx CD add-on released in 1990. If you haven't seen this game before, you wouldn't be alone. Street Fighter wasn't a particularly huge success when it was first released, despite the incredible success seen by its direct sequel, the smash-hit Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.

Whatever you might think of the gameplay, there's no denying that this was a great looking game when it first showed up in 1987, and the TurboCD port, developed by Alfa Systems, still looked great over two years later (the Japanese version was released in 1988 alongside the first model of the PC Engine CDROM system). The graphics were simplified a bit (mainly details cut from the background graphics and sky animations), but was quite faithful. The soundtrack, now taking advantage of the CD format, is an excellent upgrade, and most of the tunes sound far better than their tinny, somewhat unremarkable versions in the coin-op. The synthesized voice is also pretty good for a laugh.

However, if you're familiar with this particular game, you know that it isn't all happiness and rainbows. Fighting Street starts to show some significant cracks when you sit down to play it. The control scheme adaptation bridged the two arcade cabinet configurations: since the Turbo's pad only had two action buttons, the length of time that you hold down the punch or the kick button determines the strength of the hit. It's quite similar in practice to many NeoGeo fighters that used similar control schemes. There is a huge delay, however, between when you hit the button and when your character acts on the command. The jumping is also super-stiff and extremely hard to gauge distance, often causing you to jump straight over an opponent, or even sometimes landing *on* them, making it impossible to hit them until you move. It can be quite frustrating at times.

Fighting Street / Street Fighter is pretty notorious for the seemingly impossible to pull off special move commands, but I have to say they really aren't anywhere near as difficult to pull off as people say. No matter what you do, you won't pull them off 100% of the time, but if you are tearing your hair out trying to figure out ANY sort of consistency, here's the secret:

They don't work like they do in Street Fighter II. The directional inputs are similar, but the standard QCF+Punch fireball motion will only cause you to punch thin air. The trick here is to hold down the action button, perform the directional command, and let go of the action button as you finish the directionals.

For example:
SF2 Hadouken: D, DF, F+Punch
SF1 Hadouken: [Hold Punch] D, DF, F and release punch

It's an important distinction, and once you try that, you'll likely be able to pull the moves off far more easily than mashing buttons until something happens. Being able to do these moves does make the game much easier and more fun (even if there is a secret code that allows you access to instant special moves), and feel a bit less broken.

Fighting Street was a fairly decent fighting game by mid/late-80s standards, but that's also its biggest handicap. It plays like a pre-SF2 title, which means that it feels positively ancient in comparison to its sequel. I can get some enjoyment out of this one still, but I'd be totally lying if I said that I didn't prefer SF2 in every possible way. Still, FS is an amusing time capsule, both as the forgotten predecessor to one of gaming's hugest successes, and as one of the earliest titles that could be bought on the first CD console ever released in the US.

It's just too bad that the fantastic Turbo port of SF2 never made it to the west!

*Side note: I did upload a video of this game before, but I wanted to replace that one with this one for the better gameplay and higher quality video.*
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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