

You immediately get entered to play in the Street Fighter III: 3 rd Strike tournament but you literally just learned the “Hadoken” from the original Street Fighter. You tell the organizers of the tournament your story that you travelled a long way and that you are the best Street Fighter player circa 1987. You then immediately jump into a time machine and arrive at an EVO fighting tournament in the early 2000s. You are undefeated and undeniably the greatest of all time. You are the best player in the world in the original Street Fighter arcade game back in 1987. The buttons were strange and the inputs were choppy but man has the Street Fighter series evolved since then. Street Fighter the arcade game was released in 1987 and kids around the world have been yelling “ Hadoken!” during fits of rage ever since. The First Trilogy: Street Fighter 1-3 (1987-1999)

This article is part one of a two-part series that will attempt to briefly capture memorable moments within the history and evolution of Street Fighter as it leads up to the highly anticipated - Street Fighter VI. This article will not be focusing on Street Fighter spin-offs such as the Alpha or EX series.

Tagline: The parry mechanic forces amateur players into hiding… Tagline: In a galaxy far, far, away…There were combos Street Fighter, much like the original Star Wars franchise, could be thought of as trilogies.
