Some Street Smart videos
Thursday, October 25, 2007
One could say that Street Smart was a precursor to the fighting games that SNK made during the 1990s, though it was pretty simple when it was first made. Here's a 2-part recording of this early fighting game they designed in 1989, when the genre was just getting started:
Street Smart may not have been a big success when it first premiered, since people didn't find the approach used here satisfying enough: when two people are playing, two opponents appear, and each player can combat each one featured, rather than fight each other. However, to be fair, SNK's designers were going by an approach used in most beat-em-up games in the Double Dragon/Final Fight vein, meaning that, you get 2-3 turns here, and when your turns are used up, you can continue right from where you left off. Still, it may have since gained some cult status, and it's noteworthy for at least three things: 1]the music used on the first/last stage was later reused in Fatal Fury, used in the mode where two players battle against each other (and possibly on Michael Max's beach scene), 2]the player one character looks very much like a young Takuma Sakazaki, the father of Ryo and Yuri* Sakazaki in Art of Fighting, which is set in Southtown several years before Fatal Fury takes place, and 3]this may have been what inspired Atari to design Pit Fighter a year afterwards.
Also, similar to Double Dragon, if two people are playing, they can fight against each other in the final stage!
Now, with that told, here's an interesting question: which one of the hot babes who congratulates the players at the end of the rounds did Takuma end up marrying, and bearing Ryo and Yuri with, and which of them did the player two character end up marrying as well?
* The name comes from the Japanese girl's name, Sayuri, and is not the same as the Russian man's name Yuri at all. In fact, while we're on the subject, there's a Japanese resturant that's supposed to open downtown called "Sayuri's Katana". Maybe they'll serve chicken in sweet sauce, a special dish in many Chinese and Japanese communities!
Trackposted to: Outside the Beltway, Point Five, Samantha Burns.
Labels: action, fighting, SNK-Playmore
posted by Avi Green @ 9:01 AM,
