Street Fighter II

I was about eight years old when the first two arcade game machines were brought into our local shop. One had a racing game on it and the other had Street Fighter II. My two cousins and I, who were of a similar age, were helping out like mad at home to earn some pocket money so we could go and play this game... I remember that I was the best at being Blanka, because I could spam my opponents with the Electric Thunder attack just at the right moment, although unfortunately my opponents then adapted quite quickly and I still remember one of my biggest losses as a kid, when one of my cousins just used Guile to spam attacks from a distance so Blanka could not reach him with his Electric Thunder attack... We had a lot of wonderful experiences during the era of arcade game machines, which actually only lasted only a few months before one of my cousins got an Atari console and the other got an Intel 486 computer, and Street Fighter II was abandoned for Mortal Kombat... When I was older, I discovered there had been a Street Fighter movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme which was so bad I did not get to the end of it, and I decided then to leave that universe behind... Well, I made a mistake, because this anime adaptation is really quite good. It has most of the characters from the game, they have a lot of the major attacks, and even the fight scenes have some spunk and substance. Sure, it is irritating that my favorite character Blanka is only in it for a minute along with Zangief, and Dhalsim is only in it for about five minutes. I could go on, although you have to remember they do have a lot of characters in the game… This anime series is rather average plot-wise, there is nothing too epic, surprising, or challenging going on. But if you have ever played the game, there is a high possibility, that you will enjoy the movie a bit more and because of it give it some extra points... 7/10. (2020.07.11)