Ryu and crew hit the big screen October 16.
We are one week away from the release of the energetic, highly stylised, and somewhat dubious-looking movie Street Fighter, adapted from Capcom’s legendary fighting game franchise. To promote the film’s October 16 release, producers Paramount and Legendary outfitted New York’s Times Square with a life-size “Street Fighter Arcade”, complete with its own World Warriors.
In video captured by entertained/bewildered onlookers, we can see two performers – portraying SF poster boys Ryu and Ken – throwing down “on-screen”, surrounded by an enormous cabinet mockup complete with a giant-sized control panel. Imagine the bill from Sanwa on that one. The Times Square cabinet only supports two buttons, as opposed to Street Fighter‘s six – so good luck pianoing your Hundred Hand Slap.
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Ryu and crew hit the big screen October 16.
We are one week away from the release of the energetic, highly stylised, and somewhat dubious-looking movie Street Fighter, adapted from Capcom’s legendary fighting game franchise. To promote the film’s October 16 release, producers Paramount and Legendary outfitted New York’s Times Square with a life-size “Street Fighter Arcade”, complete with its own World Warriors.
In video captured by entertained/bewildered onlookers, we can see two performers – portraying SF poster boys Ryu and Ken – throwing down “on-screen”, surrounded by an enormous cabinet mockup complete with a giant-sized control panel. Imagine the bill from Sanwa on that one. The Times Square cabinet only supports two buttons, as opposed to Street Fighter‘s six – so good luck pianoing your Hundred Hand Slap.
Read the full article on timeextension.com