Dev tells all: Street Fighter The Movie (The Game)

by James Ransom-Wiley { Jan 31st 2007 at 4:27AM }

Over on the Shoryuken forums, Alan Noon, who contributed various elements to Street Fighter: The Movie (the arcade game), has been posting an entertaining tell-all about the ill-fated project, while graciously fielding any and all questions. He writes, "It's true. I am certainly not proud of this fact, but I am one of the people responsible for one of the most loathed games in fighting game history. I apologize."

Noon's recollections of the forgettable fighter offer a little seen glimpse into game development and reveal some titillating insider lore: "We were to pull out all of the stops and make the greatest Street Fighter ever. More characters! Digitized graphics! New combo system! The works! We set about writing up all kinds of great stuff to include in the final product. One of those things was even Sheng Long." Indeed, the infamous EGM creation was to appear in SF:TM. Noon even helped to digitize and design the character's animations, which are supposedly floating around on a misplaced CD...

[Via Press The Buttons]

Tags: Capcom, SFTM, Street Fighter, StreetFighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

monkey3 @ Jan 31st 2007 5:12AM

well i think that any game staring Jean Claude Van Dame would be the best game ever! the only way to make it better would be to somehow include Dolph Lundgren!

MoonfirePewPEwPEw @ Jan 31st 2007 5:14AM

His punishment for such a unspeakable thing is to watch the Dead or Alive movie.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2688291777806876849&hl=en

Phil @ Jan 31st 2007 8:25AM

As awful as this game is, at least you get to play as hot ass Kyle Minogue.

SSBR @ Jan 31st 2007 9:44AM

Street Fighter the movie (and arcade game) is one of the worst moments in video game history. As a Street Fighter 2 veteran (Anything after SF2:Turbo sucked) I can say I am ashamed and embarrassed. I wish we had canning laws like they do in Malaysia, because this guy gets my vote.
http://www.rolesor.com

Quetzalcoatl @ Jan 31st 2007 9:54AM

SF:TM was a great game, awesome kitsch fun.

HappyJack @ Jan 31st 2007 10:30AM

Yeah! Put him in a can!

PacoDG @ Jan 31st 2007 10:44AM

This is making for an excellent read, not even done yet, had to thank you for posting this, makes me pity the guy when reading stuff like "Nobody loved Street Fighter more than me, and there I was: partly responsible for one of the most reviled games in history. I'm not proud of the game by any means, and the wasted opportunity truly does haunt me to this day."

(Put this up on digg. http://digg.com/gaming_news/Dev_tells_all_Street_Fighter_The_Movie_The_Game Also, in a similar vein, a Nintendo employee did a tell all type forum that is worth reading http://digg.com/gaming_news/Inside_the_Mushroom_Kingdom_Stories_from_Nintendo )

Norm @ Jan 31st 2007 11:44AM

Wow, I have been following this since his first post. I was even going to write about it in my blog and in my column, but you guys beat me to it! Alan is a really cool guy though, he had some really great ideas that unfortunately didn't work out. Good to see some SRKers on the 'stiq.

Norm @ Jan 31st 2007 11:51AM

Also, poster #4, I wouldn't call you a veteran, I'd call you a dinosaur. But kudos for you for keeping that Turbo scene alive, how 'bout we have some money matches!

Triplesixer @ Jan 31st 2007 1:20PM

I kinda liked this game for a while, when I used to go to the arcade which is long ass time ago, I remember some tricks with this game like strobe lights hehe it would flash like crazy on the big screen and I think I fubbared the arcade hehe.

mko @ Jan 31st 2007 1:40PM

WOW! It was awesome to read that thread, Alan Noon is my new hero! I thought the part about how they supposedly were buying the same video capture card as Midway, but they couldn't get good frames into the computer unless the actors moved in slow motion was interesting and explains a lot of the jerkyness compared to MKII.

P.S. Don't be a hater on this dude until you read what he actually says about making the game.