Shoooryuken!
If you’re into anime, then chances are you can remember the first movie or TV show that got you hooked on the medium; your “gateway drug”, if you will. For some, it might be TV shows like DragonBall Z or One Piece, others perhaps a specific movie like Ghost in the Shell or Akira (indeed, I had to really go back through the memory archives to determine whether Akira was the first one for me; it was definitely incredibly early in my life). For me, however, the very earliest memory I have of watching anime was the incredible video game adaptation, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, released in 1994.
I’ll admit, I wasn’t super into the Street Fighter series when I was young. In fact, it probably wasn’t until Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike that I really started to take notice. I did, however, dabble in Street Fighter II’: Special Champion Edition on the Mega Drive. I was terrible at it, naturally, since I was still in single figures at the time, but I really enjoyed playing as Ryu or Ken and just spamming the ‘Hadoken’ move non-stop (which still wasn’t quite enough to win most of the time, granted).
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