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Episode 34 - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior


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Nate, Sebastian, and Jordan sit down to discuss STREET FIGHTER II: THE WORLD WARRIOR, the game that started uncountable arcade brawls and heralded the arrival of a new genre: the fighting game. Hear us try to sort through the nine different iterations of the game, find out who's "the Taylor Swift of Street Fighter," and discover which classic combatant Jordan feels comfortable comparing to Eeyore. Then, after you're done listening, go home and be a family man!

SHOW NOTES:

The inspiration for Dhalsim, from "Master of the Flying Guillotine":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGkn8TFaySg

Polygon's excellent oral history of SF2:

https://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history

The final dumb tableau of the Street Fighter live action film:

https://youtu.be/VKsGYhb3g7g?t=1m21s

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