No recent wiki edits to this page.   Street Fighter is a 2D
arcade fighting game developed and released by Capcom in 1987.
While it did not achieve the same popularity as its sequels
(particularly Street Fighter II), it introduced many elements to
the then-bare fighting game genre. The game introduced memorable
characters Ryu, Ken, and Sagat, as well as characters who would
return in the Street Fighter Alpha series among other fighting
games ( Gen, Birdie, Adon, and Eagle). Some of its innovations
include a six-button attack system and special command based
techniques. The game follows Ryu or Ken as they participate in a
worldwide martial arts tournament. Two arcade cabinets were sold
for this game: regular and deluxe. The regular version (which
was sold as a tabletop cabinet in Japan and an upright cabinet
overseas) featured the same six-button configuration (three for
punches and three for kicks) used in most of Capcom's later
fighting games. The deluxe version featured two pressure-
sensitive pads (one for