Pointless Fighting Game Triva

Fighting Game Anniversaries in 2022: Capcom Games

Note: All dates are going after their first known release date

35 Years (1987):

Street Fighter/ Fighting Street (August 12, 1987)

30 Years (1992):

Street Fighter II’: Championship Edition (March 1992)

Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (December 1992)

25 Years (1997):

Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (June 25th, 1997)

Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (September 4th, 1997)

Street Fighter III: New Generation (February 1997)

Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact GIANT ATTACK (October 1997)

Vampire Savior (May 1997)

Street Fighter Collection NOT PICTURED (September 18th, 1997)

Rival Schools: United By Fate/Shiritsu Justice Gakuen: Legion of Heroes (November 1997)

20 Years (2002):

N/A

15 Years (2007):

Sengoku Basara X (Arc System Works/Capcom, 2007)

History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi (Eighting/Capcom, March 2007)

10 Years (2012):

Street Fighter X Tekken (March 6th, 2012)

5 Years (2017):

Fighting Game Anniversaries in 2022: 3D Fighters

Note: All dates are going after their first known release date

25 Years (1997):

Virtua Fighter 3tb (Sega/Sega AM2- September 1997)

Bloody Roar/Beastorizer (Eighting/Raizing- July 7th, 1997)

Tekken 3 (Namco- March 20th,1997)

Mortal Kombat 4 (Midway/Netherrelm Studios- October 15th, 1997)

20 Years (2002):

Mortal Kombat V:Deadly Alliance (Midway/Netherrelm Studios- November 16th, 2002)

Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (Hudson Soft/Eighting- March 18th, 2002)

Soul Calibur II (Namco/Project Soul- July 5, 2002)

15 Years (2007):

Tekken 6 (Namco/Tekken Team- November 26th, 2007)

10 Years (2012):

Soul Calibur V (Namco/Project Soul- January 31st, 2012)

Dead or Alive 5 (Koei Temco/Team Ninja- September 25th, 2012)

5 Years (2017):

Fighting Game Anniversaries in 2022: Other 2D Fighters

Note: All dates are going after their first known release date

30 Years (1992):

Mortal Kombat (October 8th, 1992)

25 Years (1997):

N/A

20 Years (2002):

Guilty Gear XX/Guilty Gear X2 (Arc System Works- May 23, 2002)

Melty Blood (French Bread/Ecole- December 2002)

15 Years (2007):

Battle Fantasia (Arc System Works- April 26, 2007)

10 Years (2012):

Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma (Arc System Works- November 21st, 2012)

Persona 4: Arena (Arc Systems Work/Atlus- March 1st, 2012)

Skullgirls (Hidden Variable/Autumn Games- April 10th, 2012)

Under Night In-Birth (French Bread/Ecole- September 20, 2012)

5 Years (2017)

Injustice 2 (Netherrealms Studios/WB Games, May 13, 2017)

Contrary to what Capcom says, Juri is not the first Korean fighter and Taekwondo practitioner in Street Fighter. That actually goes to Shin from Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation in 2008. Capcom probably doesn’t acknowledge this fact due to poor reception of the game.

For a very brief time after her initial reveal, the Super Street Fighter IV Japanese website listed one Juri’s likes as “large breasts”. This was quickly edited out and you can no longer find it.

It should also be noted that Juri shares her fictional birthday with Fatal Fury’s Mai Shiranui. Whether or not that is another one of the Capcom’s multiple jokes in SF4 at SNK’s is unclear but….

Its also worth noting that Juri’s evil-aligned design is stark contrast the majority of SNK’s taekwondo fighters who are usually good.

Juri’s design continues Capcom’s design fetish tradition of Street Fighter characters being inspired by Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. In Juri’s case, its Part 6′s protagonist Jolyne Kujo.

Another tiny detail about this connection can be seen in Juri’s first character art for Super Street Fighter IV. Juri can be seen cutting a butterfly with her kick and butterflies are associated with Joyline.

Ironically, in the recent Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure game, All Star Battle, Jolyne Kujo was voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro, who voices Cammy in the SF4 series, and who Juri despises. Its also worth noting that Juri’s voice actress, Eri Kitamura, is also in the game but as a NPC, Yasuho Hirose.

Juri’s alternate costume, the nurse outfit, in Street Fighter X Tekken bares a similarity to The Rumble Fish’s Garnet. The Rumble Fish was developed by Dimps, the co-producers of the Street Fighter 4 series including Street Fighter X Tekken. Both characters also are character who use kicks in there moves.

Juri has had the most appearances of any of the new characters in the Street Fighter IV series.

Juri is also the favorite character of Udon Artist Omar-Dogan.

Juri is the only female character in Street Fighter who is evil by choice.

Although she does help in the SFV story mode against Bison. That might be due to her parents being killed by him.

Juri’s default costume in SFV was changed slightly from its first appearance in Cammy’s prologue story mode. However, due to the rushed nature of SFV, its unknown whether it was intentional or finalization of her actual design was still being worked on.

In the new KOF XIV, a new female taekwondo practitioner, Luong, bears similarities to Juri.

Its ironic to note that considering Juri seems to share a lot with SNK’s plethora of taekwondo practitioners.

Beta Images/Concept Art For Street Fighter 4 From Dimps 1, Taken from GameWatch

Probably one of the most important details frequently overlooked about the SF4 series is the fact that it wasn’t completely developed internally by Capcom. Much of the bulk of the development was done in conjunction with Dimps, a Japanese developer made up from former employees of Capcom and SNK, headed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, creators of Street Fighter 1/Fighting Street and Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu. These images, taken from Japanese gaming site GameWatch which were released by Dimps after they won the CEDEC AWARD in 2011, are a collection of prototype images and 3D renders of the process building up the SF 4 we know today. Street Fighter 4 went through a lot of visual changes, much of which resemble the visual look of Street Fighter III series. That’s due to the lead artist on Street Fighter III series, Daigo Ikeno, being the lead on SF 4 as well. You can really see much of his SF III influence in the character portraits which are similar to SF III’s character and portrait art. Much of the beta images for the game include features that wouldn’t make it to the final build including, a meter system with multiple levels. The final image in this set is the closest to what would eventually be in actual game including things like a single, multi-sectioned meter system, a meter on the side which would become the rage meter for Ultra combos, and the semi-cel shaded art style.

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