Street Fighter Retrospective - Part 5 - A New Era Begins
The Street Fighter Retrospective Returns, and today we're talking about... well, Street Fighter Returning.
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Videos I referenced during the video
Battle Fantasia by GuileWinQuote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbXkcEZhflA&t=425s
Fighting Game Spinoffs by Baberuthless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp8xf5t8cXc&t=3529s
History of Street Fighter X Tekken by StumbleBee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-LaOLzj7WI
Wha Happun? Street Fighter X Tekken by Matt McMuscles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lsM_5wF7M&t=941s
Articles I got my info from -
A Brief History of Street Fighter 4 by Eurogamer - https://www.eurogamer.net/street-fighter-anniversary-edition
The Rise and Collapse of Yoshinori Ono by Eurogamer - https://www.eurogamer.net/the-rise-and-collapse-of-yoshinori-ono
Returning to Round One by GameInformer - https://www.gameinformer.com/feature/2022/12/27/returning-to-round-one-the-history-of-street-fighter
EventHubs 15th Anniversary and a Look Back at how Street Fighter 4 reshaped the Community - https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2022/feb/15/eventhubs-15-year-anniversary/
The Dimps and Capcom Connection by Silconera - https://www.siliconera.com/the-dimps-and-capcom-connection-discussed-in-our-street-fighter-iv-interview/
Street Fighter 4's Japan Location Test by Wired - https://www.wired.com/2008/06/street-fighte-3/
EGX 2019 Yoshinori Ono Interview - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/497126943
The Making of Street Fighter 4 by Gamespot - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/capcom-the-making-of-street-fighter-iv/1100-6234588/
Street Fighter 4 Flashback from Unseen64 - https://www.unseen64.net/2009/02/09/street-fighter-iv-flashback-x360ps3-concept/
Looking Back at Prototype and Prerelease Builds of Street Fighter 4 - https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2014/dec/27/looking-back-prototype-and-pre-release-builds-street-fighter-4/
0:00 - Intro
3:35 - What were "The Dark Age" of Fighting Games?
19:05 - The Making of Street Fighter 4
37:00 - Street Fighter 4 Arrives
50:00 - New Characters and a New Story
1:10:00 - SF4's Reception
1:21:08 - The 09er Generation and Online Play
1:29:50 - A New Wave of Games
1:35:04 - Super Street Fighter 4
1:49:09 - Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition
1:52:12 - Street Fighter Spin-Offs
1:59:30 - Street Fighter X Tekken
2:24:30 - Ultra Street Fighter 4
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