Pro-tip: get a turbo controller and hold fierce punch while spamming fireball and dp motions, to cheese this jank game.
Street Fighter 1987 is purely for those who are curious about where the iconic Capcom Arcade Fighter began, and holy moly it did not aged as gracefully as it's sequels.
Gameplay is very, very choppy, but to be fair, it is after all the first technical Arcade Fighter that has that full fighting experience of going 1-on-1 with a player opponent and the victor is determined by KO or Time Out with more health points compared to his/her/their opponents' health.
That being said, it's still shit. Your lights do jack-all damage (ie 1 pixel hit-confirm and 0 to chip damage) but they're quicker, with your mids do better damage but are slower than lights, and your heavies deal the most damage but have a HUGE time to respond. But need not worry players! There is a way to circumvent this abysmal DPS: Special Moves! Yes SF1 has specials! It has only Hados, Shoryus and Tatsus! And they're broken AF like does 80% with your heavy broken! They're so broken in fact that you need frame 1 perfect input to activate them.... yes frame 1 inputs, 1 FRAME!!!
Basically the main game plan is to mash piano inputs and wiggle your hado, dp, tatsu motions to victory. Have fun!
Sound and music is pretty bad for a 1987 arcade game, this was a year when Bionic Commando, from Capcom themselves, Fantasy Zone II and After Burner, from Sega, is released for context. The voice is mostly awful, like Charlie Brown adults speaking level of incomprehension, the only voices, you can at least comprehend are, of course, the player's grunts and shouting : "DwaGon Paunch" (weird that in SF2, they translated Shoryuken into Sheng Long in Ryu's win quote, but here in SF1, Ryu/Ken straight-up shouts Dragon Punch. For a lack of better word, it seems Capcom Japan and Capcom USA were lost in translation. Ah the times before internet where mere bulletin boards forums for computer magazines).
Street Fighter 1987 is more a footnote to the more grandeur sequel.
Totally not recommended to general on lookers, it's more for fans of Street Fighter, but it's at least available in Street Fighter's 30th Anniversary Collection for current gen consoles and PC.
Street Fighter 1987 is purely for those who are curious about where the iconic Capcom Arcade Fighter began, and holy moly it did not aged as gracefully as it's sequels.
Gameplay is very, very choppy, but to be fair, it is after all the first technical Arcade Fighter that has that full fighting experience of going 1-on-1 with a player opponent and the victor is determined by KO or Time Out with more health points compared to his/her/their opponents' health.
That being said, it's still shit. Your lights do jack-all damage (ie 1 pixel hit-confirm and 0 to chip damage) but they're quicker, with your mids do better damage but are slower than lights, and your heavies deal the most damage but have a HUGE time to respond. But need not worry players! There is a way to circumvent this abysmal DPS: Special Moves! Yes SF1 has specials! It has only Hados, Shoryus and Tatsus! And they're broken AF like does 80% with your heavy broken! They're so broken in fact that you need frame 1 perfect input to activate them.... yes frame 1 inputs, 1 FRAME!!!
Basically the main game plan is to mash piano inputs and wiggle your hado, dp, tatsu motions to victory. Have fun!
Sound and music is pretty bad for a 1987 arcade game, this was a year when Bionic Commando, from Capcom themselves, Fantasy Zone II and After Burner, from Sega, is released for context. The voice is mostly awful, like Charlie Brown adults speaking level of incomprehension, the only voices, you can at least comprehend are, of course, the player's grunts and shouting : "DwaGon Paunch" (weird that in SF2, they translated Shoryuken into Sheng Long in Ryu's win quote, but here in SF1, Ryu/Ken straight-up shouts Dragon Punch. For a lack of better word, it seems Capcom Japan and Capcom USA were lost in translation. Ah the times before internet where mere bulletin boards forums for computer magazines).
Street Fighter 1987 is more a footnote to the more grandeur sequel.
Totally not recommended to general on lookers, it's more for fans of Street Fighter, but it's at least available in Street Fighter's 30th Anniversary Collection for current gen consoles and PC.