@GMC: Yeah, those are some big sprites for a NES game. Nice!

L_K_M

That looks pretty badass for a pirated game.

Mico Mico Nurse

Is the statue in the background of the Chunfo match masturbating?

Taco Bell™

I love how all ten characters consist of the same 5 face structures with different faces. xD

Dudemeister

@DaiMacculate:
They do exist, in fact, I have this rom.

lucasreis

@lucasreis: Mario Fighter was the shit... or at least... was shit. Okay, it sucked, but it was the ultimate in pre-Smash Bros. Mario fighting games... for the NES.

rentahero1

I played this on NES back in the day and I also played mario Fighter! Funny shit! :D

lucasreis

I think this is awesome, I don't know why, it's just so funny...

RonJeremy4Pres

By the way, there's a second video at:
[www.youtube.com]
With this one, you get to see the wonderous adventures of Rober, Ramboo (another Rambo ripoff, obviously), Conbon and the credits which are actually of pro quality!

rentahero1

Is it me, or should Moon and Chunfo go out on a double date with Bunny and Tracy?
This is seriously about 100x better than most bootleg originals.

rentahero1

Cliff does a bad-ass moon-walk at 0:48 seconds.

thelken

BLOCK Cliff, BLOCK!!!!!!!

aphexacid

Ah, the Dragoncharles review is so much better.

JackTretton

I'm pretty sure that first fight was an average Street Fighter II match.

Roflgoat

Lol, I love how he hadoukens through the whole video. Damn good strategy!

MrSatan

I would buy that

Ruisu

I wish there was a chance of a Virtual Console release.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

guys this has been posted in the street fighter blog a day before kotaku, yet kotaku is getting the credit. At least put the source Brian.

[streetfighterblog.blogspot.com]

strugler

If this doesn't come to the VC, I'm going to SOOOOOOO illegally download this.

Sailorcancer

dude those graphics got SFIV3D by the BALLS!

King Seafoam

Poor Bunny ;_____________________;

RIP

DELICIOUS BUNNY

Me likies...
Looks like a great game for NES at least... has far less bugs than your average NES fighting game.

And the 8-bit music... kinda reminds me of Double Dragon 2. Nostalgic...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

looks pretty cool. Would have definitely bought this for NES!

toneroni

Go Go "Musashi" and "Stalong". Best parody of Stallone ever.

Fyren

That looks great for an NES release. I would have bought this in a heartbeat!

yashichi8bit

If this was a legitimate release when I was a kid, I would have been ALL over this. I think its pretty bad ass for a NES game, frankly.

Robotube

Was i the only one who kept flashing back to Trojan for some reason?
(The game... not the Contra-septive. Hah, see what i did there? I made a videogame reference during a talk about a condom. I rule.)

Maybe its the music, or the way the guy keeps getting hit over and over and over again like i do against some of the bosses. Either way all i could think of was that old Capcom game.

WildWon

@Elixir: Don't you still take damage even when you block them?

@Mageme: No kidding; the real street fighter isn't much different.

Petezah

1st - This game looks pretty amazing for an NES title I remember all fighting games being really crappy on the NES.

2nd - Look at all the cool moves this game has like walk forward, jump and fireball!

GrooveChampion

A lot of these characters seem to be modelled after true characters, aside from the obvious Ryu. The vegas showgirls act alot like Cammy, while Pasta appears to be Dan, and Stallong IS Guile. I wonder if Capcom made the guys who made this game 'disappear'.

tripl333

Half of those characters were clones.

Plan303e

painful to watch..

Nest

Hadouken is a legitimate strategy.

MasterSauce

@kevinski: No no no, Ryu didn't change his name, Goho is their SON.

brent_w

This is surprisingly detailed for an NES fighter.

I can't believe some of the stuff they pulled off with the level backgrounds.

I didn't know you could do that, or at least create the illusion of doing it, with an NES.

brent_w

What I really want to know is how (and why) they managed to make the music so freakin' out of tune. Did Gouder Co. embrace a return to mean-tone tuning or something? Perhaps that was their secret agenda.

SirCletus

@jayntampa: Quite right.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

Yo, I think it actually looks pretty sweet. I want a copy of that rom!

ShizzleBeef

Did this have chip damage? I did not notice. There was not enough blocking.

z357x

Damn.. even in crappy NES rip-offs.. fireball spamming is cheaper than ever!

Project Thanatos

Yeah I have Street Fighter III for Gameboy. I guess this was the sequel.

StrikeGunner

STOP RUNNING INTO THE FUCKING HADOUKENS. BLOCK ALREADY.

Someone teach the second player how to play Street Fighter IV NES please.

Elixir

Haha... Stalong...

Blah8

he even says shoruken when he does his uppercut punch. Sounds like a pirated sound bite.

MonkeyBiz

Im changing my name to Pasta.

Basscadet

You said bad music? Hmm, some of the levels had some pretty good samples, im pretty sure you could get some good Cheetahmen style remixes...

ghostfacelz

Stalong ftw! Surprisingly good graphics for the NES...

Dukeman330

@Asbestos_Underwear: interesting point...

z357x

Well Stalong is clearly Stalone...Rambo.

CaptainMurphy

Pasta has the wave beam!

z357x

Man, that game has strangely smooth parallax

Sunjammer

I wanna be called spaghetti.

JamieA

Goho Li has to be the cheapest player out there. I'm not really that great at fighters (except Street Fighter II: The World Warriors, Battle Arena Toshinden, and Soul Calibur II) and I always hated it when my little brother would use the same move over and over and kick my ass. Seeing this makes me want to punch him, but alas, I am now living at the other side of the country.

ZENimilian

"OHHHHH But Bunny I loved you!"

Don't all versions of Street Fighter give points?

kidnicky

Pasta ftw

Angrypasta

That clip gave me the chills, too many memories of hours wasted playing terrible NES games came rushing back to me.

kurtcdavidson

Thanks to the lack of flicker, I especially like the large sprites.

CZroe

No flickering and complex moving backgrounds? I like!

It's really more of a trade-mark violation than a pirate.

CZroe

This game looks really good for a homebrew thing. The sound does suck.

Nickatiah

@Datalock: Nah, don't mention it. Enlightening the uncouth and unlettered is its own reward. You should see me in my day job as modern prophet.

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Wow, so it's confirmed that Ryu married Chun Li...but he changed his name to Goho and took the Li part of her name, apparently. So many SF fans will be overjoyed to hear of this!

kevinski

Stalong for Stallone ... so awesome!

jayntampa

Pasta? lol

Cannedpasta

Yeah! Arbitrary points rule. The clock may have stopped but the pointes keep counting.
:)
Awesome!

Mr. Garcia

I gotta say for the NES that's a pretty impressive looking game, especially if it was developed by pirates. Large sprites, detailed (for the NES) backgrounds and sampled voices make it a pretty impressive technical feat, even if the AI is so shit you can kill it by spamming hadokens.

photoboy

That actually looks pretty decent for a NES fighter.

chopchopmasteronion

That is awesome. Love the turrets.

Badmofo

Ah 8bit gaming with it's arbitrary point giving. I miss those days.

halo00to14

@All About Lily Chou-Chou:

well thank you so much for commenting. We've ALL been waiting for your incredibly valuable insight. You truly are the king of kings

Datalock

funny how pirated games are more valueable now to collectors.

as one i would like to have this in my collection.

i wonder if they made a NTSC version lol.

Dakobah

This isn't a pirated game! It may flirt with copyright infringement due to its gameplay and selection of characters, but the underlying code is original.

It's more accurate to classify games like this and Kart Fighter as HK (Hong Kong) releases. Having copyrighted characters alone isn't enough to call a game a pirate... you've got to take the code from another copyrighted game and sell it as your own.

ManekiNeko

that odd, why would it be called street fighter iv in 1993 when street fighter III wasn't even out at all.

Mr.DuckSauce

I'd be willing to bet this company dissected the actual SF code a bit. Besides the frames of animation being the same, the hit detection looks very much the same as well. And for an 8-bit game, that "shoryuken" is impressive. Sounds only slightly worse than the laryngitis stricken Ryu from the Genesis versions.

Karlott

Do they make NES flash carts? I really want to play this game, at least once, on the "authentic" hardware.

This is assuming ROM dumps exist ;)

DaiMacculate

It sure plays like street fighter... =P

And let it be said now, bunny >>>>> crimson viper

Thrillhaus

@Asbestos_Underwear: They likely made a pirated SF3 and this is the sequel.

I have but one question: why does the circus consist of nothing but a neon sign and a bunch of Volkswagens?

Nobuyuki

looks like Bad Dudes.

Ixero

It's 2D and so the "true" SF would stick with it...

entres

To Capcom:

This company made Street Fighter IV before you. So you are cloning it.

Regards,

me.

Mr. I Want an Xbox 360 but only have a Wii

Street Fighter, Intravenous Edition

frostcircus

fireballs are cheap, cheap I tell you!!!

zerokoolpsx

Why do I even click on these things? I mean, I know it's going to be terrible, induce a girly giggle fit possibly followed by gagging, AND to top it off, I'll feel compelled to comment extensively on it.

And yet, here I click. And giggle. And gag. And comment.

So, yes, Evil Jim's right, Goho Li is a cheap whore (no offense to actual whores, who hopefully have more tricks than Goho).

Gotta say I love Chunfo's secret technique of stopping fireballs with his face. Powerful shit.

Oh, and naming the Rambo wannabe "Stalong": how witty and spirited and rip-roaringly hilarious is that? Yeah, I know...

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Actually.. this is pretty good for a NES game.. I've seen worse stuff on SNES! -_-'

Great AI! You can beat the whole game just with hadouken!

CockroachMan

something weird about this game. It says copyright 1993, yet SF3 wasn't even released then. Why name it 4 then? Wouldn't 3 be enough? Was this game tampered with to increase its novelty factor?

Asbestos_Underwear

Haha, hadoken spamming even included

Xanto5824

They turned Guile into a playboy bunny?

aelfin

You know, those graphics are pretty damn rockin' for a NES game. Of course, the AI doesn't seem to be all that much... Which is probably the main reason why there were no proper one-on-one fighting games for the NES. You can't have great graphics AND complicated patterns.

MrPerson

@Insomnia Bob:
Yep, yep, I so agree.

Brian Ashcraft

Goho Li was always the cheapest character.

Evil Jim

Oh shoot, I think I played this when I was a kid. Back in my country, bootleg NES consoles and games were pretty common. Bootleg Street Fighter games were pretty common too (one memorable one had Super Mario as a character). For this particular title, I remember the stage of the ship with gun turrets.

I also recall it was a crappy game too.

FatCatLim

Pft! Typical Ryu.. I mean Goho Li hadouken-fest tactics. That's so cheap!!!

Mageme

Yet another fighting game that is better than SHAQ FU...

grtkev

@Strangelove: Amen! To think that I actually played Urban Champion.

MrHorseflesh

CHUNFO..I love that name its so Asian.

jackal888

I find this game's lack of "The Cheetamen" music COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.

Insomnia Bob

@BD: 'Burn it. Burn it with FIRE'

I do concur. This witch trial won't end well for the software, not well at all.

magically_delicious

@Strangelove: Too true. The sound clips were good, too.

Cheers!

Deth

Compared with other fighting/wrestling games on the NES, it's actually kind of impressive. If this was 1988, I'd be all over it.

Strangelove

thats a pretty cool for a nes game. Obviously i would never play it.
Am i dreaming or was there parallax scrolling in that clip?

GMC

Who the hell says you need a next gen system to play SF4?

So will we see this game on Polystation 3 soon?

Keanu

Burn it. Burn it with FIRE

BD