Street Fighter Alpha: An oral history

In the early ’90s, Capcom was starting to develop a reputation. In a world before games became services, the company had a thing for incremental upgrades. It started small, with Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition. The idea that designed itself. Millions of fans wanted to play as the bosses, and Street Fighter 2 had been […]

Street Fighter 1: An oral history

In February 2021, Street Fighter 2, the best game ever made, turns 30. We decided to start celebrating early. For the past year, Polygon has been putting together one of its biggest projects to date: a series of deeply researched, recklessly extravagant oral histories looking back at Street Fighter’s past. Back in 2014, we dug […]