that's the one I played alrite. Best.Shoryuken.Ever.

haha!! i hope they can make 10 shoryukens... sure the screen will explode of awesomeness..

Back in 1991, everytime kids bring up the topic of Street Fighter II, the topic of where the characters originated from will come up. It's not like we had much to draw from. Any backstory or motivations behind every Street Fighter is purely based on each character's ending. All 8 of the world warrior's backstory can be pretty much summed up well, but what about the Grand Masters (that's Balrog, Vega, Sagat and M. Bison).

Balrog fought in a casino, so it made sense if he was from USA. Vega's stage has two flamenco dancers in the background, so it made sense if he was from Spain. Same goes for Sagat. But Bison? Most kids (myself included) were perfectly happy to label Bison as a Thai dictator who somehow is evil. Not sure why though. Of course, this was before it was established that Bison leads an organization called Shadowlaw (or Shadowloo/Shadalow/Shadaloo. Hey, even Capcom kept changing it's spelling). And that he has "Psycho Powers". Or that he can teleport and throw fireballs. Sigh. This was establised in the Street Fighter II the Movie (the anime, not that godawful POS starring Jean-Claude Van Damme). This canon is established and used as the backstory for Street Fighter Zero.

Fast forward to Street Fighter II, and it seems Bison landed himself in Thailand. Oh. It seems his base of operation is in Thailand. Bugger. I'd have loved to create fanfic of Bison's daily life on the streets of Thailand. If that's even his real name. Oh, it's not. Back when Capcom Japan released Street Fighter II in Japan, the Grand Masters, except for Sagat, were not known as they are now. The boxer was called M. Bison; the clawed matador was called Balrog, and the final boss was called Vega. It is no secret that the boxer was based on real life boxer Mike Tyson. Even the original portrait of the character looks like Mike Tyson. Fearing legal action, Capcom did a switcheroo for 3 of the characters. The final boss is now M. Bison, the matador became Vega and the boxer has been renamed Balrog. So M. Bison's full name is really Mike Bison. This is still true in Japan. As for the rest of the world, feel free to make up your own name. Capcom has never officially named M. Bison as anything else.

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Added on November 20, 2008, 11:52 amCPS1 and CPS2 were the arcade hardware powering all of Capcom's games from 1988 to 1996. Wikipedia has better a explanation than I can summarize. Nebula is pretty much a flawless representation of CPS1 and CPS2 emulation. MAME still has some problems with a very small percentage of CPS1/CPS2 games. On the other hand, MAME does have much bigger support of arcade hardware.

This post has been edited by tripleB: Nov 20 2008, 11:52 AM

o rly?
i'm playing almost every single cps game flawlessly on my laptop.

maybe your computer just sucks.
mame plays everything that's not 3d flawlessly for me

well,time to go out and buy a street fighter 4 arcade machine to put in my kitchen...

if you guys would like to learn the history of the street fighters, go here...

http://www.gamespot.com/features/vgs/universal/sfhistory/

PSM3 gives Street Fighter IV a 95!

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/psm3-gives-str...113142756340005

I might disagree about this score when I finally get my hands on it, but for now, I'm very excited to get it on console. Will be playing the PS3 version, now that I have one. Hope I won't suck too much when playing online. I'm going to try Crimson Viper as my first character.