Your style of video game histories are both addictive and endearing. Well done sir.

A youtuber figured out the trick of the special moves, they use a weird negative edge, which means the game executes the command when you release the button, however here you must press the button, the motion while having holding the attack button, release the button and you will get the special move, which is of course a pain in the ass to execute.

10:08 It was a TRADEMARK issue, not copyright. Names CANNOT be copyrighted! Trademark and copyright are not the same thing. The issue stemmed from having a doll (i.e. action figure) named Ken from the Street Fighter IP when there already is a doll named Ken from the Barbie IP.

Nice to hear that Slopes cameo. Keep on growing the channel, Patman!

This original version was huge back then in NYC.  We loved it. Quarters were lined up to play.  This version also made a cameo in the movie "Juice" which starred the rapper Tupac.

If you are not going to do a StreetFighter2 video for the reasons given then I guess I have to tell you a funny SF2 story.

January 1992 my best friend at our high school Winterfest dance used the following pick up line

“Hey dolls, either of you want to dance?  I’ll tell you how to make Ryu throw a red fireball on StreetFighter 2!” He said with a sincere and eager smile like he REALLY thought it would work.

The two girls looked at my friend looked at each other and then sorta melted into the mass of people there.

I still remember playing the arcade version of Street Fighter for the first time. I never did see it at any arcades in the Quad Cities, but I did encounter it at the downtown bus station in Cincinnati OH in June 1991. I was travelling from Chapel Hill, NC back to the Quad Cities via Greyhound Bus then. During a stop at the bus station in downtown Cincinnati in the middle of the night I played Street Fighter for 10-15 minutes. I thought it was pretty neat but not terribly fun.
I managed to play SF II for the first time a month or two later at Aladdin's Castle in Northpark Mall and was blown away at the time on what a massive upgrade it was to the original game!

Fun fact i learned from Larry Bundy's videos, Tiertex made an unofficial sequel to the PC/home comp ports of SF1 in 89 called Human Killing Machine. I remember seeing the game in shareware mags back in the day.

I think the Street Fighter name came from the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times. Hard Times was called Street Fighter in Japan, and the Sonny Chiba movie was not. (These movies were involved in various regional name swaps, much like the boss characters in Street Fighter II.) Also, several of the locations from Hard Times (released in 1975) look exactly like stages in Street Fighter II. I think it was Ken's stage (with the tugboat, etc.) that can be seen in the trailer for Hard Times on IMDb.

I honestly assumed that the character seen breaking through the brick wall on the game's title screen was actually Joe, since it looks exactly like him while wearing a leather jacket.

When I was a kid, my local arcade, TILT, had the Deluxe cabinet.  The one with the pressurized buttons.  The manager got tired of repairing those things and installed an SFII kit complete with redoing the button panel with the 6-button layout.  Obviously, the installation of the kit paid off in spades.

You have to do the special moves really fast to make them work, but you can spam them mercilessly once you get the timing and they are soooooo powerful.  The game goes from nearly impossible to pretty easy.

THAT HAS ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS IN THE ARCADE

Lol I love how in the Commodore 64 version, Bill Cravens is reduced to just a face, no name, and he's been transformed into Barry White

One of the OG franchises that still relevant today.

I still have Kung-Fu Masters music running through my head decades later.

A few fun facts:
Ryu's SF1 costume is dlc for Marvel vs Capcom 3 & its updated game
Joe is based on kickboxer Joe Lewis
Balrog has a Mike dlc costume is SF5
Lee is the uncle to Yun & Yang from the SF3 series
Geki is in Vega's SF5 ending
Eagle is a selectable character in Capcom vs SNK 2 & SF Alpha 3 Max
Sagat has his SF1 costume as dlc in SF5

The thing about the special moves is that the game doesn't track the timing of the button press like in future games, but rather the timing of the button being released.  That's why it's easier to hold down the button and release it after you do the special move motion.

I remember 10 year old putting my quarter in thinking I was gonna play Street fighter II for the first time... Boy was I disappointed

I was one of the many who never actually saw this in an arcade. This makes your figure of it selling less than 10k make sense. That would. Make there pretty rare.

It's shown being played in a scene of the movie "Juice"