Videogame Time!-No Street Fighter.

Perhaps Capcom opts to try the route of Capcom vs "X" earlier instead, in which they'd do rather well.

What this may well mean is that Capcom creates a two player game with Ken and Ryu, with Sagat being the final boss. Perhaps a similar game emerges introducing Guile/Cammy.

There are a lot of good sidescrolling beat um ups at this time period, and I could see Capcom doing well if it opted to try this.

CapCom's roster for its Capcom Versus series probably includes guys like Megaman from the start and becomes more developed. I ultimately see Capcom Versus evolving into a launch point for Capcom to introduce new characters, and depict other series that agree to challenge them.

Ultimate Outcome: Roughly Neutral.
 
Going to be a stark change, at first at least. No Street Fighter means no Mortal Kombat, KOF or various other fighters that populated arcades during the 90's. Without Mortal Kombat, you'd also have a lack of a game that utterly popularised violence and created the backlash it got. You'd probably get a delayed ERSB rating to start with as well as a very different video game landscape with possibly shooters growing even more in popularity.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Why would anyone joke about this?! OP deserves a hadouken, shoryuken and tatsumaki senpuu kyaku to the balls!
 
Street Fighter....
A game that has shaped an entire genre.

Without Street Fighter, as stated above, the fighters we have today like Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat would never exist.

Capcom may not even hop into the Capcom vs. Series, as the idea was more "Street Fighter vs. whomever".....

I could see a bigger emphasis on Mega Man. Perhaps Mega Man would continue as a respected Platformer, and not have games announced, then cancelled a few months from release, like we've been getting.

The Dreamcast (if it still exists) would probably die earlier, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is still considered best on the Dreamcast in a lot of circles, and for a while Capcom was the only major 3rd party developing for SEGA's last hurrah.

Also, Mortal Kombat can be seen as a major turning point in the 16-bit era.

Nintendo censored the first game, SEGA didn't.
Initially this helped SEGA quite a bit, but Nintendo brought it up, and that's how the ESRB formed (in a nutshell).

This established Nintendo as the Child-Friendly console. That made it a lot harder to sell consoles. Back then (as it is kinda of seen today), Kids were the primary audience of games. Parents aren't going to go out and buy the console that will expose them to *gasp* VIOLENCE AND GORE!!

Without MK, Sega may have more leeway, and it may even prevent the hasty planning that was the Sega-CD and 32-X, and the abandonment of the Saturn.

Just the first few thoughts at the top of my head.
 
Going to be a stark change, at first at least. No Street Fighter means no Mortal Kombat, KOF or various other fighters that populated arcades during the 90's. Without Mortal Kombat, you'd also have a lack of a game that utterly popularised violence and created the backlash it got. You'd probably get a delayed ERSB rating to start with as well as a very different video game landscape with possibly shooters growing even more in popularity.

Sorry, but there were other successful fighting games prior to Street Fighter. Karateka was released 3 years before Street Fighter was and was considered a big hit. More than likely Street Fighter built on that legacy. Someone would take the story telling elements and martial arts action of Karatka and marry it with multiple characters and more modern technology of the Street Fighter at some point. It would probably be a hit, too.

Torqumada
 
Sorry, but there were other successful fighting games prior to Street Fighter. Karateka was released 3 years before Street Fighter was and was considered a big hit. More than likely Street Fighter built on that legacy. Someone would take the story telling elements and martial arts action of Karatka and marry it with multiple characters and more modern technology of the Street Fighter at some point. It would probably be a hit, too.

Torqumada

But that game never had the huge fandom and success as Street Fighter did. The lack of a franchise like Street Fighter at the time it came out has a huge impact on later gaming. It wasn't Karateka that made fighting games the most popular ones on the market but Street Fighter II and its add ons and sequels. You'd probably get a game similar to Karateka at some point but it was Street Fighter that really popularised the genre. Without it, gaming itself becomes hugely different.
 
But that game never had the huge fandom and success as Street Fighter did. The lack of a franchise like Street Fighter at the time it came out has a huge impact on later gaming. It wasn't Karateka that made fighting games the most popular ones on the market but Street Fighter II and its add ons and sequels. You'd probably get a game similar to Karateka at some point but it was Street Fighter that really popularised the genre. Without it, gaming itself becomes hugely different.

I don't think you're understanding what I am saying. I am not saying Karateka created the fighting game market, just pointing out that there were fighting games before Street Fighter. Street Fighter more than likely was influenced by Karateka, because the video game industry isn't a series of closed compartments where the creators are ignorant of the rest of the world. It's quite possible some one else would create a successful fighting game ala Street Fighter at about the same point in time.

Torqumada
 
I don't think you're understanding what I am saying. I am not saying Karateka created the fighting game market, just pointing out that there were fighting games before Street Fighter. Street Fighter more than likely was influenced by Karateka, because the video game industry isn't a series of closed compartments where the creators are ignorant of the rest of the world. It's quite possible some one else would create a successful fighting game ala Street Fighter at about the same point in time.

Torqumada

I never said there weren't fighting games before Street Fighter, just that it was the one that made it fantastically popular. You had the original Street Fighter which was a fighting game but failed to popularise the genre until SF2. Without that, then the genre doesn't experience the explosion of popularity that it did because of the game's gameplay and various other parts. You might have another game come around but I doubt it and it seems the more likely option that without SFII, you'll wind up with a very different gaming scene.
 
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