That makes sense. M. Bison really does fit the dictator.
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Mike Tyson Says He Just Learned About Balrog/Mike Bison In Street Fighter II
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Or Howard Stern... >_>
Because Japan doesn't care, it would really have only been a real problem to care about in the Western regions. they base all sorts of characters in games off of all sorts of people, sometimes subtlely, sometimes overtly. There are two renditions of a character named Ryoko based on Judo champion Ryoko Tani: Ryoko Izumo (World Heroes 2/2 Jet/Perfect) and Ryoko Kano (Fighter's History and FH Dynamite).
Your lack of question marks when asking a question.
But really, him being Balrog to us didn't make it a similarity at all, so it's totally normal.
Oh absolutely.
There's practically a Bruce Lee clone-type character in almost every fighting game out there.
I know OP said 'living', but in response to this quote, there was a 1984 Bruce Lee game for 8-bit computers (Apple II, C64, etc) that was pretty well regarded. And as others have suggested, his influence on this era of games is probably unmatched.
Is it still like this in Street Fighter V or have they switched it so the characters have the same name globally?
ST could be 'Street Fighter' (what many people called SFII in the 90s) or 'Super Turbo'. Just an FYI. ;-P
Nah, the original Metal Gear games just made liberal use of actor likenesses for the character art. Metal Gear 2 used Mel Gibson for Snake's codec portrait for example.Isn't Snake based on Michael Biehn?
It is still like this and likely always will be. The names are too entrenched in each version to change them, now, and there's no way in heck they'd change the JP ones to begin with.
It's also super weird when you get, say, animation and have voices in Japanese but the subs are on and they didn't bother to make subs that match that track. You hear Vega, read Bison and then kind of sigh a little.
Isn't Snake based on Michael Biehn?
That image there is def Biehn, but I'm full certain Kojima is on record as saying Snake Plissken was a massive influence on MGS and even Snakes voice has the same gruff kinda tones as Plissken in Escape from New York, he even has the eye patch.
https://www.polygon.com/2015/10/28/...e-from-new-york-lawsuit-kojima-john-carpenter
The original in game art looked so much like young Mike Tyson lol. They changed it later in Hyper Fighting I think
You have a phaLanx avatar pic and didn't know Balrog's original winning pose (I'm only teasing) it was the same on the original SNES release, but your right about it changing for the champion edition and the Genesis' port.Huh, I looked it up now, I think it's only in Vanilla. Even in CE they had already changed it a bit:
I've never played a lot of street fighter. I had no idea M. Bison was short for Mike Bison, or that any name switch had occurred.
Interesting. I would have guessed that at some point they unified things worldwide similar to how Final Fantasy 7 unified the naming convention/number for all FF games going forward.
I wish they had, bt then we'd be having similar issues to how some people still insist on calling 6 & 4 III & II, or the ever-present "Aerith" debate.
M Bison sounds much more menacing as the big bad. The switching of Balrog, M Bison, and Vega was all for the best
Balrog is a better name for a bull fighter than a boxer though.
He's definitely based on Andre the Giant the way Balrog is based Mike Tyson and Fei Long is based on Bruce Lee. Hugo's special intro with Alex references Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant.
I think the only global name resync that has ever happened in Street Fighter is Charlie reverting to Nash in SFV. Every other name change (Bison, Balrog, Vega, and Gouki/Akuma) has persisted.
They need to resync Lei-Lei. The change to Hsien-ko was baffling.
Wait, he called them that in April, before this event. Why did he call them that?
No one on my side of the world ever abbreviated Street Fighter II as "ST". It's always been ST means Super Turbo.
_None_ of the name changes in Vampire/Darkstalkers were needed or made any sense, really.
Nobody who abbreviates them in that manner uses them that way.
SFII == WW
SFIICE/Dash == CE
SFIITurbo/Dash Turbo == HF
Super SFII = Super or SSF2
Super Turbo/X == ST
That is the nomenclature that anyone who bothers to USE the nomenclature uses.
Nah, it's definitely a jacked Philip Glass...
I should have probably put an /s after my original post tbh. Philip Glas/s
Close. It was a triple change, actually.
Our Vega (claws/mask) was Balrog in Japan.
Our M. Bison (Shadaloo leader) was Vega in Japan.
Our Balrog (boxer) was M. Bison in Japan.
Wow, I'm surprised how many people on here didn't know this!
I feel like this is justice for Tyson, in some weird way... that he has his likeness used and it screwed out of royalities. Good!
I feel like this is justice for Tyson, in some weird way... that he has his likeness used and it screwed out of royalities. Good!
James Cameron. Aliens gave us the entire videogame manual on Space Marines.
Pity there was never a Street Fighter character based on the philosopher AJ Ayer politely telling him off.
(In academic circles it's a somewhat famous exchange surrounding an incident where Tyson was harassing the young Naomi Campbell, and it went like this. Tyson: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world." Ayer: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest we talk about this like rational men.")
(In academic circles it's a somewhat famous exchange surrounding an incident where Tyson was harassing the young Naomi Campbell, and it went like this. Tyson: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world." Ayer: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest we talk about this like rational men.")
The late 80s.
The original Madden Football was an Apple II/DOS/Commodore game
While Capcom later tended to reuse art as much as possible, they actually touched up quite a lot for Champion Edition and Super. CE got minor portrait changes but they drew the new anime styled ones for Super. All new sprites also used a style closer to Alpha rather than SF2.
ST = Super Turbo.
I've seen this abbreviation many times. Probably just cuz I used to frequent shoryuken.com though.
I don't know where you guys are from, but in Florida up until somewhere between ps1 and ps2 era, gaming was never "everywhere" except maybe when mortal kombat released and there was all the media attention about violence. It was a niche thing and you were labelled a nerd (which at the time was a negative thing) for it.
I'm from Ohio.
Street Fighter was everywhere when 2 came out-- even before home console releases.
Nah, it's definitely a jacked Philip Glass...
I should have probably put an /s after my original post tbh. Philip Glas/s
He's like Philip Glass' second or third form. Hard to play piano with those ham hands though.