Street Fighter

I am hereby awarding Street Fighter the Cultural Icon of the year award, simply because it serves as a complete symbol of our multi-media generation. Nowadays icons have to push through tons of media avenues just to get through to ears and eyes connected umbilically through the Internet, print, and television so as a franchise, I believe Street Fighter did it right. Starting with the idea of an arcade fighting game, who’d a thunk that a crazy idea like turning your joystick in circles twice (the infamous double fireball) and a pushing the punch button could magically result in the emotional equivalent that could only be attained by yelling “HADOOOOOKENNN” loudly would be soo satisfying? It’s like the metaphor of a fireball emitting from our humble hands is what the human race yearned for this whole time…

For Street Fighter, it’s all about tradition, and given the popularity of Street Fiytah 4, it’s ’bout to stay that way. I’m not going to even mention the movie that came out this year, that doesn’t count. Have they lost their mind? No, only their balls. Good thing they make up for it with good looking SF4 fireballs.

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