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First up, late 80's, you have Street Fighter. Okay, makes enough sense. A few folks beating the shit out of each other in the middle of a road. That's reasonable enough, let's move on.

It didn't do well, but it did well enough that Capcom did what they did best - a sequel - and so begat Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. A decent title for a sequel, where the folks beating the shit out of each other are now from across the world, I think anyone can agree.

It was followed up with Street Fighter II: Champion Edition which, itself, makes some sense - maybe these rough-and-tumble fellows beating the stuffing out of each other on the street got their act together and decided that perhaps they should at least have a championship for it.

Then: Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting. Sorry? Ryu literally hurls balls of directional fucking energy, Blanka has the ability to shoot lighting out of his back. Is there something about the first couple games I missed that doesn't make them hyper enough already?

Then, "Super Street Fighter II". Isn't that a step backwards, Capcom? You're ratcheting the hype to "Hyper", but maybe it's too much. Maybe players' heads were exploding like Scanners in arcades when seeing the marquee of "Hyper Fighting". Okay, fine, let's walk it back a little.

Then, as far as the "II" series goes, there's finally "Super Street Fighter II Turbo" - How exactly do I align these two particular attributes? What part of it is "Super" and what part of it is "Turbo"?

Now we get to 1996, when the already crazy lay of the titular land with Street Fighter ceases to be a car driving down a highway. It instantly veers 90 degrees, crashing through the guard-rail of normality, and starts trundling cross-country through the fields of batfuck.

In 1996, Street Fighter EX, the first properly 3D take on the series. Fair enough, perhaps "Street Fighter 3D" would have been too obvious, or perhaps it would have conveyed some threequel nature of the series that it didn't have at the time.