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Capcom Announces Hyper Street Fighter II X

Posted by simoniker on from the turbo-alpha-plus-rainbow-versus dept.

Thanks to ShackNews for pointing out Capcom's announcement of Hyper Street Fighter II X for PlayStation 2, which is due out this December in Japan, and will be properly showcased at the Tokyo Game Show later this month. Since Capcom are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, it's likely the game will sport a best-of character roster - although, as ShackNews notes, "...you gotta admire Capcom's ability to create ever-more-ridiculous Street Fighter names (although personally, my favorite is still Street Fighter EX 2 + Alpha)." While awaiting the official unveiling, you can check out the original series via classic RePlay arcade magazine scans from SNK-Capcom.com.

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  1. Favorite SF Name by Mitaphane · · Score: 5, Funny

    My personal favorite name was "Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game." As a game it was horrible but the there was something so funny about it's genesis: They took a good fighting game, turned it into a shitty movie, then turned it into a more shitty game based on said movie about game.

    It amazing how ludricious CAPCOM has gotten with all it's incarnations of Street Fighter. I tried searching gamefaqs.com for "street fighter" to see how many games there have been but there were over 50 hits. Does anyone know how many has there been?

    And of course the oblibligatory crazy amalgamation of the street fighter games:

    *deep breath*

    Super Street Fighter EX Zero II Alpha Upper-Turbo-Gold Plus: Special Hyper-Rainbow-Dash Championship Edition X: W Double-3rd Strike Impact: The Movie Vs. X-Men Vs. Marvel Super Heroes

    *whew*

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    1. Re:Favorite SF Name by Luigi30 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Is that on the X-Cube PlayTendo GameBox?

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  2. Street Fighter Zero by cloudless.net · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...you gotta admire Capcom's ability to create ever-more-ridiculous Street Fighter names (although personally, my favorite is still Street Fighter EX 2 + Alpha)."

    In Japan it is even worst, because the "Alpha" series is called the "Zero" series. For example the "Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper".

  3. Triple Paul Newman finish by cL0h · · Score: 4, Funny

    When SFII first came out in my town someone decided that when Ryu or Ken do a dragon punch, the "sho-ryu-ken" sounds like "Paul Newman".
    So everyone started calling dragon punches Paul-Newmans to this day.

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  4. Capcom can count... by Kyouryuu · · Score: 2, Funny

    The really goofy part about the whole thing is that, as we saw with the Mega Man games in particular, Capcom can count beyond 2. At this point, I have to suspect they realize it's silly to keep it at 2 and do it as an ongoing joke. ^_^

  5. Hyper Street Fighter II X? Pffft... by borg1238 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I'm still waiting for Super Hyper Street Fighter Alpha Beta Zero Turbo X III.