The CRAZY Story of Street Fighter Alpha & its SURPRISING 8-bit Port!

The CRAZY Story of Street Fighter Alpha & its SURPRISING 8-bit Port! - RARE GAMING HISTORY

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Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Street Fighter Alpha and its bizarre 8 bit port.
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A man in a top hat, with a dashing moustache or a highly distinguished beard, reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life! Top Hat Gaming Man travels around the globe, playing the best games for the handhelds around the world. The best games are like fine wines and only get better with age.
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@TopHatGamingManChannel 4 жыл бұрын

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@hdofu 4 жыл бұрын

Also Street Fighter Alpha 3 for the GBA being based off the naomi/dreamcast version

@gameboi20 3 жыл бұрын

and PSP

@BainesMkII 4 жыл бұрын

Street Fighter Alpha has its own weird development history, which isn't reflected in the Wikipedia article. Alpha started development as a CPS1 title; its reason for existing was quite literally to use up some of Capcom's excess stock of CPS1 hardware. A SNES port was also planned from the start. In an interview posted at Capcom's website, Takayuki Nakayama said the project was referred to as "Street Fighter Classic" when he was tapped to join as designer.

@johnnyestrada6993 4 жыл бұрын

BainesMkII that’s very interesting. I’ve always wanted to know the backstory of the development of SF Alpha. Why they went from all those SF2 rehashes and out of nowhere came Alpha

@seanmyster6 4 жыл бұрын

That name, "Street Fighter Classic", makes me think that the original idea may have been to create a reimagining of the original Street Fighter. Which would be a perfect explanation for why the final product ended up being a midquel.

@Kumimono 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not too well versed on GBC games, but that looks quite impressive, fluid and such, quite important for the genre.

@thefrankiepalmeri 4 жыл бұрын

Was going to say the same thing.

@nickbond6447 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah! It looks pretty cool for GBC

@johnaziz4464 4 жыл бұрын

that feel when you were hoping for a Brazilian Master System port and you get a British GBC port. :-(

@SAM-ru4vx 4 жыл бұрын

i was expecting chinese nes bootleg

@barkstamassi 4 жыл бұрын

John Aziz Don’t worry tec toy will be releasing the sms version next year..... 😂

@baalfgames5318 4 жыл бұрын

FeelING, not "feel."

@BMoser-bv6kn 4 жыл бұрын

That feel when a guy doesn't know what it's like to have feels

@worldofretrogameplay6963 4 жыл бұрын

The word ‘Alpha’ translates to, ‘The beginning...’ or ‘The start of..’. I wanted to throw that out there for people who may not know. ☺️

@TopHatGamingManChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Or simply put, the first letter of the Greek ALPHAbet!

@SAM-ru4vx 4 жыл бұрын

it was called street fighter ZERO.

@TopHatGamingManChannel 4 жыл бұрын

@@SAM-ru4vx Actually the 8 bit version was called Street Fighter Alpha in Japan as well. Guess I probably should have mentioned that factoid!

@prophetofrage3099 4 жыл бұрын

...I swear, some of the things crapcom does makes no sense to me at all.

@bluekinopio9390 4 жыл бұрын

I love factoids!!!

@AcornElectron 4 жыл бұрын

This channel deserves waaay more subs. Keep up the brilliant work fella!

@TopHatGamingManChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir!

@jerricabenton842 4 жыл бұрын

yeah, this is the best quality retro channel, i think. breadth and depth of content, and entertaining presentations

@billcook4768 4 жыл бұрын

Minor nitpick to otherwise great video: The Super Street Fighter 2 games came out o CPS-2 hardware long before SFA/0

@javiceres 3 жыл бұрын

That’s quite important IMO

@vyperii 4 жыл бұрын

TBF, the Gameboy colour version looks amazing!

@JoeyJ0J0 4 жыл бұрын

Alpha was great for a Game Boy Color port, Alpha 2 had a fantastic SNES port

@JoeyJ0J0 4 жыл бұрын

@Justin A that it does, even added new characters

@alonofisrael4802 4 жыл бұрын

8:13 is why your here

@bluecollargamer7071 4 жыл бұрын

I love this game on sega saturn. Still playing it in 2019, it never gets old.

@esmooth919 2 жыл бұрын

I had both Alpha 1 and 2 on the Saturn...but i got rid of my saturn due to hard drive failure. Now I have the Alpha Anthology on PS2 as well as the SF anniversary collection on Switch.

@Asobitech 4 жыл бұрын

I really love this version of Street Fighter Alpha. It's incredible they managed to capture the look and feel of the CPS2 arcade game on the little 8Bit system. You can perform special moves and combos like a pro. The only other handheld fighting games on the Gameboy that feel as good are the Nettou series - King of Fighters, Fatal Fury and World Heroes. All using the same engine it seems. There's also the excellent Sunsoft Robot fighter Power Quest, which has a solid combo system as well.

@tonywong8134 4 жыл бұрын

Crawfish actually did pretty well with this, but more impressively was their port of sfa3. Granted some stages and sound and music were removed but they actually had 3 extra characters from the dc and psx version and managed to leave some of the gameplay modes intact. I owned the game and was incredibly impressed with it given how limited the gba was.

@Azwel 4 жыл бұрын

Its actually very good. Plays very well...unlike the master system sf

@mrpepperami01 4 жыл бұрын

Agree. This was a miraculous port and played excellently.

@danielhudson5424 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome Game But I Found It Hard to Pull off Some of The Special Moves in The Game

@Azwel 4 жыл бұрын

@@danielhudson5424 Throwing a hadoken is very easy. . On master system its nearly impossible.

@freddiejohnson6137 4 жыл бұрын

I agree I have played both and still actually have the GBC game and it is far more playable. I found the Master System version borderline unplayable and pulling off precise moves far harder due to how sluggish the game was and it's worse when using the sponge of a dpad on the official controller. I always found the games that started coming out on the GBC to be remarkable at the time because there were loads that really pushed what the hardware should have be capable of but because of the success of Pokémon anything and everything was coming out for it.

@dallas2314 4 жыл бұрын

I still can't believe that Top Hat Gaming Man defended the SMS port and in some ways preferred it over this GBC port of Alpha. The Master System port is complete trash and is a poor representation of the SMS's capabilities. Sega's 8-Bit hardware can and has already done the fighting game genre justice. Take a look at Fatal Fury Special on the Game Gear. The Game Gear's core hardware is identical to the SMS with the only real differences being a lower resolution screen, stereo PSG instead of mono PSG, a higher color palette, and a start button that functions differently than the pause button on the SMS (in other words, games on the GG are SMS quality, but at a lower resolution and sometimes take advantage of the extra colors and stereo sound.) Fatal Fury Special GG has fantastic music (much better than those weird half complete songs in SF2 on SMS), very impressive graphics that look just like the arcade, but scaled down to a smaller screen, excellent controls for a two-button fighter (combos are limited, but the controls are very responsive), and while the game only has 9 out of 16 characters from the Neo Geo, there's still a lot of content for an 8-Bit fighting game. It's basically Fatal Fury Special Mini whereas SF2 on SMS feels like a bootleg. Fatal Fury Special on the Game Gear supports the link cable and since I have that and two working Game Gears, I plan on buying two copies of FFS soon. I wish Street Fighter 2 had been ported to the SMS and GG back in the day by Capcom themselves. We could've had a truly amazing portable fighting game experience and a quality 8-Bit home conversion. Street Fighter 2 is my favorite fighting game and the SMS is my favorite home console and the Game Gear is my favorite handheld so this would've been a dream come true for me.

@sabin1981 4 жыл бұрын

Personally, I always loved the visuals in SFA on the GBC :) The framerate was smooth, the animations were incredibly fluid for a handheld fighting game, and the strange mannequin-esque characters were reminiscent of the Neo Geo Pocket :D Fast, fluid, all the characters, all the special moves, near flawlessly responsive controls -- a genuinely impressive port that was mightily fun to play :)

@DrGamelove 4 жыл бұрын

I think it looks great for the hardware. Looks like it plays pretty good too. I’m hoping to start collecting GBC stuff and I would pick this up in a heartbeat.

@Flafex Жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing, you deserve much more views! Thanks for the vid

@EvilStewy 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed with others in the comments, Crawfish did an amazing job on Alpha 3 on GBA!

@MrPoestyle 4 жыл бұрын

Great video again . Always looking forward to your videos and learning something that I never knew before .

@stanettiels7367 4 жыл бұрын

Street Fighter 2 was the very first game I saved for and bought with my own pocket money, in the Commodore 64. I loved it and the booklet that came with it, showing character bios and everything. Ahhhhhh memories.

@nostalgiacollector4716 4 жыл бұрын

Great video Top Notch!!!

@trebienparker5349 3 жыл бұрын

Top Hat I really love your content you are awesome man please keep doing what you love to do.

@DowntheRabbitHole0 4 жыл бұрын

I could stare at these thumbnails all day long, nevermind the great video you provide to accompany them. Big thumbs up from me

@venom5610 4 жыл бұрын

Love the vids man

@Maxx_XIII 4 жыл бұрын

The Alpha port on the Game Boy Color was very impressive. My only gripe about it was the how loud and sudden the title theme played after start-up. Only possible on the Game Boy Color too, the game needed the extra processing power the GBC had over the black and white Game Boy (which is why the port of Street Fighter II ran so slowly).

@SAsaiyajin 4 жыл бұрын

Street fighter Alpha on GBC was a terrific port, the fluidity really made up for the visuals and even the visuals weren't that bad for what it was.

@ssj_roger 3 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack stays stuck in my head, to this day.

@kimonomywasabi 4 жыл бұрын

The backgrounds are super impressive. Way more than the Master System SF2.

@robdigital1383 4 жыл бұрын

More great content from a quality channel ! 👍👍👍 keep up the good work mr hat 👍👍👍

@raymxslappedyall3660 4 жыл бұрын

wow gotta love those 8 bit backrounds

@rossbarr-scragg4076 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason I was expecting to see Alpha on the Master System or NES here...

@niespeludo 4 жыл бұрын

You should talk about Capcom vs SNK on the Neo Geo pocket (actually the best in the series) and the Game Boy (yes, not GBC, but GB) port of King of Fighters. Love your content man! Keep it up.

@CookiesNCreme-ty6wz 4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah there was also a bootleg NES release of Street Fighter Alpha as well, graphically it is better than this, but gameplaywise this is better(as well as music wise)

@StarDragonJP 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone is going to mistake Shantae for being a GBA game. And while the characters themselves lack details, those backgrounds look amazing for a GBC game.

@Loader2K1 4 жыл бұрын

I never knew about these obscure ports. Nice video.

@SHINBAXTER 4 жыл бұрын

SF2 AMIGA VERSION!!! THE TRUTH OF THAT DISASTER MUST BE TOLD =)

@VERMISIMILITUDE 4 жыл бұрын

That’s actually amazing!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@mortenera2294 4 жыл бұрын

I liked this port quite a lot back in the day since there aren't any SF games on Nintendo 64 (and I owned that console when I was a teen lol), but in 2007 I finally bought Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max for my PSP, and damn what a title. The definitive edition of a great trilogy

@gustopheles 4 жыл бұрын

we must have been around 10 when Alpha came out. I was so amazed by the character design, the refreshed manga style, and the glamorous new character Rose. I'm pretty sure Rose turned me gay.

@Neonmirrorblack 4 жыл бұрын

Funny how back in the mid 90s when everyone was going crazy over "3D" graphics, and Sony had its "no 2D" dogma in play, Capcom was still busy doing Capcom, and those games still hold up extremely well in aesthetics, while almost none of the polygon based games look remotely good today. I think the Alpha games still look better than something like Street Fighter V too.

@songoku9348 4 жыл бұрын

Your games collection rivals James Rolfe’s. Jesus you have far more games than I have.

@ERMediaOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Chiptune is a musical genre my friend. If you are into it, there are many great tracks to enjoy :)

@Kusanagikaiser999 4 жыл бұрын

I played the hell out of SF Alpha 2 on SNES, yes it was a bit slow and loading times was a bit weird in SNES, but the game was surprisingly good, probably the best looking SF game in SNES, having all the mechanics, supers, alpha counters and even cinematics like intros, rivals intros, and artwork......that was mind blowing to me, only weird was why they didn't better port SF Alpha 1, with less characters and mechanics they could have done a more effective work, still that port is very underrated if you ask me.

@SomeOrangeCat 4 жыл бұрын

I had this one back in the day. Amazing port.

@markwhatever256 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video mate, love seeing what they tried to squeeze from the 8 bits. Surprised the SNES version lacks parallax on the ground.

@irregularmana6216 4 жыл бұрын

I remember unlocking akuma, he was a monster to try to beat at the time

@ikuzoburandeon 4 жыл бұрын

Alpha on SNES is beautiful. :)

@AntManJack0 4 жыл бұрын

The first time I played Alpha 2 was on the SNES and that struggled with loading times you could make a coffee in. Thanks for your I had this on GBC and was better than the Mortal Kombat ports we saw

@Jay-ct6wu 4 жыл бұрын

The loading times on SNES were nothing compared to the PS1 version.

@eduardosanchezbarrios5810 4 жыл бұрын

Crawfish mske an awesome with the GBA port of Street Figther Alpha 3 too!. nice video btw xD!

@BigCrockDawg 4 жыл бұрын

That animation is actually so impressive....I love it!

@krzbrew 4 жыл бұрын

It was also 'kinda' (because via an emulator) ported on the TecToy's Zeebo. And this was not released ultimately, but was hidden in one of the emulator's versions bundled with the other, released, emulated games on the Zeebo.

@4713Caine 3 жыл бұрын

very impressive. Now I'm just waiting for the master system port of Marvel vs Capcom 2. Complete with all 56 characters and 3 vs 3 matchups of course.

@animagi6844 3 жыл бұрын

the port to the gameboy is pretty impressive, I expected it to look much worse, but the animation quality and frame rate minus the details are pretty spot on. definitely one of the best I've ever seen.

@larrytaylor2692 4 жыл бұрын

It's pretty impressive for a game boy game man it was very playable and the animation was amazing

@BlackCloudBoss 4 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for the music choice alone

@Vamptonius 4 жыл бұрын

Nice touch with the jar.

@Butterworthy 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a little surprised this didn't wind up on the Master System in Brazil.

@DeathDealA 4 жыл бұрын

You sir, are awesome. The Robin Leech of classic video game consoles my man haha

@Downtime24 4 жыл бұрын

Street fighter alpha was actually my first gbc game. Controls were maddening

@pnsmexico 4 жыл бұрын

Top Hat Gaming "History" Man!!!

@hzafary 4 жыл бұрын

thank you, creepy damon albarn! I loved this game when I was a kid!

@maxwelsh6121 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool and informative video, it looks a lot better than King of Fighters on original Gameboy and I think it looks pretty darn good really, enjoyed the video , cheers

@jaymzx2587 4 жыл бұрын

Animation is amazing on the GBC!!

@FoxUnitNell 4 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the port of street fighter 2 for the C64 which also had reduced sprites and a boxed in playing field - at least one of the ports to the c64 line of systems.

@Briangibson7825 4 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a Vic 20 version!

@rikikunio 4 жыл бұрын

PSP Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max is a great port

@stalkerstomper3304 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid... horrific gameplay tho LOL... I kept watching all of the sweet extended combos you could've done, yet lacked the skill to show off what the game engine can potentially accomplish with insane extended combos.

@dallas2314 4 жыл бұрын

Most reviews of classic fighting games are done by people who are just casual players. We need more reviews from the pros! :D

@TheBLBShow 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly this looks so much better than the master system SF2 They changed the style to be more simplistic with is totally fine imo. It's fluid and the animation is still smooth which cant be said for the SMS game

@hzafary Жыл бұрын

This game is perfectly streamlined for Color. I have a ton of great memories with this game!

@searchwwwmckayenginecom1190 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh at 3:36 where ryu is fighting rose thats the exact place where bruce lee fought chuck norris in one of his movies....crazy how they added this easteregg

@pinkfoxboi1331 3 жыл бұрын

Well this was interesting I didn't know a street fighter was on gbc

@NewportBox100s 4 жыл бұрын

Such an epic and rare game! 🦄🦄🦄

@ottosantiagolassus 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not ashamed to admit, the thumbnail had me starring

@piratesephiroth 4 жыл бұрын

>the only snes game you've played to feature load times Haven't you ever played Mickey Mania? or Batman Forever?

@dallas2314 4 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of Mickey Mania when he mentioned the load times. Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES appears to have very slight load times as well when compared to the Mega Drive port, although it's very minor.

@MrChadsimoneaux 4 жыл бұрын

Captain America and The Avengers had a really long load time.

@wagnermanin 4 жыл бұрын

Impressive port!!!

@hiddenportals6634 4 жыл бұрын

Neo Geo pocket was released around this time. I wonder if the SD look would have been better for the GBC

@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939 4 жыл бұрын

How 'bout a video on the unofficial _Street Fighter 2_ for the Amiga (released before the official game was released on _any_ platform) where you can fight a dog..?! o_O

@paulgillie5868 4 жыл бұрын

I have that game. It was given away free on a magazine but it's the full game. Need to look it out.

@MarcusAlbers 4 жыл бұрын

I think you should definitely give the GBA port of Street Fighter Alpha 3 some love. It's possibly an even better port from its source material than the SNES version of SFA2 is. And, it's also by Crawfish Interactive.

@guardianofthebeast1014 4 жыл бұрын

Whats the song starting at 7:33

@Brew1dCity 4 жыл бұрын

@8:12 is the TITLE CONTENT

@manu_funk461 4 жыл бұрын

wow, the 8 bit version has on ryu & ken the sprites of sf3 , have you noticed that?

@Mito383 4 жыл бұрын

Man, that GBC Street Fighter Alpha looks excellent for the hardware. It looks like a legit fighting game for the GBC, which is impressive.

@HolyHadou 4 жыл бұрын

I heard that Capcom kinda gave Crawfish Interactive a raw deal when it came to porting it over and kinda screwed them over to the point the studio closed. I think I heard the story from Stop Skeletons From Fighting But I think the GBC version of Alpha looks kinda badass. It reminds me of NEOGEO.

@megagrey 4 жыл бұрын

Climax was a great dev team. I loved Sudeki and Silent Hill Origins.

@jerricabenton842 4 жыл бұрын

you totally intended that pun. you can't fool me

@AllieRX 4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't really call the Game Boy Color version a "port" per se, but rather just a different version. Yes it's based on Street Fighter Alpha, but I think it's different enough to be considered its own game. Street Fight Alpha 2 on SNES is still a very impressive port!

@coyoteartist 4 жыл бұрын

Super Street Fighter II, I recently read, was considered the first fighting game to be intentionally released with an advanced combo system after the popularity of the ider rose from Street Fighter II's unintended system.

@rossvegas7 4 жыл бұрын

More street fighter 2!! YEAHHHH!!!

@andrewquick4176 3 жыл бұрын

I always felt they did SF Alpha based on the flash back from the Street Fighter 2 animated movie

@RetroWolf13 4 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn’t know this hahaha

@GetLostGames1 4 жыл бұрын

How did robowarrior become blaster master jr and then bomber man?

@diegoaccord 4 жыл бұрын

This version you can pretty much do everything that you can do in the arcade, minus things that require medium attacks. You can do the chains, even some things like Ryu close s.HK into special, and Rose c.HK into throw super, actually work. They got the feel of A1 down 100%. The GBA Alpha 3 port, as many are saying, is even better, I found that even Zangier V ism ghost SPD's work. LOL.

@vaiyt 4 жыл бұрын

"only snes game to feature load times" I see you are fortunate enough to not know about Batman Forever..."

@TyranniRed Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say graphical fidelity was sacrificed. There weren't enough pixels on the screen to make it more detailed.

@yamazaky96 3 жыл бұрын

can you make a video about KOF R2 on Neogeo pocket?

@ynnh1694 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah.....subscribing.

@Koboldoss 4 жыл бұрын

Is there a version for Zeebo?

@MattCassCook 4 жыл бұрын

Chun-li was so hot in Alpha 🥵🤣

@FreddPhucks 4 жыл бұрын

I have this game. Its very tight on controls and its runs well! Also akuma and dan. Nuff said 😎🔥💯 its a great port

@TexasHollowEarth 4 жыл бұрын

No M. Bison?

@FreddPhucks 4 жыл бұрын

@@TexasHollowEarth He's there, he's the final boss. He can be unlocked too like akuma and dan.

@TexasHollowEarth 4 жыл бұрын

@@FreddPhucks - Impressive GBC port, then! All 13 characters intact. I'll be sure to play this one. Thanks for the reply.

@FreddPhucks 4 жыл бұрын

@@TexasHollowEarthNo problem, you're welcome. Mame or an original copy. Time definitely well spent. U will enjoy this port.

@gaeljehnno 4 жыл бұрын

Crawfish was the team, sf alpha 3 on gba is pretty good too (always in my micro).