Play Street Fighter in YouTube

Feb 13, 2008
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Play Street Fighter in YouTube

Street Fighter II meets Dragon's Lair courtesy of YouTube.


Depending on your age, you may remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_your_own_adventure] books, "Fighting Fantasy" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy] saga or other books where you turned to page XX to "climb the rope to kill the Goblin King."

These progressed to Dragon's Lair, where instead of reading pages, you were treated to a cartoon where you had to make the choices in a limited time.

Now, with the introduction of hyperlinks into YouTube videos, Patrick Boivin [http://uk.youtube.com/user/PatrickBoivin] has created a game of Street Fighter II with action figures.

The "game" itself pits you as Guile versus Zangief, Dhalsim or E.Honda, and every time A, B, X, or Y flashes, clicking it quickly enough will allow you to attack your opponent. React too slowly, and you'll take a hit.

Using stop-frame animation, the figures go through all the moves you'd normally associate with the characters (Guile even combs his hair at the end of a round) but it's far more an interactive movie than an actual game. Still, the sheer amount of work it must have taken to set up all these shots is quite impressive.

Source: Destructoid.com [http://www.destructoid.com/play-street-fighter-ii-by-using-youtube-118412.phtml]

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zoozilla

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The quality of that stop-motion animation is actually pretty impressive.

Lots of work there.
 

Aptspire

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Anybody else remembers that other youtubers such as "Pogobat" Dan Brown have made the same kinda thing before???
 

TheBluesader

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Only complaint is that the whole page has to upload through the link, not just in the video shell. But maybe there's no way around that? I don't know my YouTube.

Cool overall. And like everyone's saying, great stop-motion. That and claymation are become lost arts. It's a shame, really.