Street Combat is a terrible fighting game, but one
that only gets worse the more you learn about it.
You see, in the 90s Nintendo had this habit of not
trusting the American audience to get
straightforward ports of Japanese games. Street
Combat is a complete total conversion of a Ranma
1/2 fighting game. As anime wasn't where it is
today, and before an internet to find out about
thing, Nintendo decided redo all the levels and
characters to fit a more American tone.
Apparently this tone meant a bunch of stupid
characters that not even your little brother would
like. You played as some Ken looking robot dude
against other, even more ridiculous characters that
lack any sense of style or substance. At least when
it was a Ranma 1/2 game it had a heart and soul,
with an established backstory. I mean, it wasn't a
good game in its original form, but at least fans
would get some fun from it.
As Street Combat the game has nothing of value to
offer fighting game fans, or video game fans in
general. The US crowd simply saw it as a really
crappy Street Fighter 2 knock off with characters
that look liked they were done by a twelve year-old
who forgot to do his project for art class and just
found out it was due tomorrow. The "combat" was
really weak, and the kicker was that you could only
play as one character with the others only able to
be accessed via a debug menu.