Month: March 2017

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“Travelers” goes with everything: The inspiration behind Guile’s iconic Street Fighter II theme

How a 1984 jazz song sets the structure for possibly the most popular piece of Street Fighter music ever.

File this under “you might not have heard yet&#8221$$ however, it has been known for a couple of years now that Guile’s spectacular theme from Street Fighter II wasn’t the first song to go with everything. Japanese jazz-fusion band T-Square (called The Square at the time) released what sounds a lot like–at times, nearly identical to–the Air Slasher’s jam on their album Adventures in 1984. The song is called “Travelers,” composed by Hirotaka Izumi.

In the video below, you can hear a direct section-to-section comparison making clear how much “Travelers” inspired the Street Fighter II theme for Guile–that would be carried forward through different remixes into Street Fighter IV and V, too!

Here’s the full version of “Travelers” by T-Square for your jazz enjoyment:

And here’s the original CPS-1 arcade board version of the Family Man’s music:

Thanks to Jeremy for the tip!

Sources: Flying High; papaleon01; Video Games Music Zone

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A platformer based on Super Smash Bros. Melee’s movement techs, WaveLand launches April 19th on Steam

Platform fighters like Super Smash Bros. and Rivals of Aether obviously owe a lot to platform games. An emphasis on free movement, fast reactions and of course platforms; all of these are integral to making a platform fighter. But, what would happen if you took the movement techs of a game like Melee, and used them to make a platformer?

Well, rologfos’ WaveLand does exactly that. Taking techniques like wavedashing, air dodging, shine stalling and wavelanding, rologfos has created a high speed platformer which requires players to utilize these techs to complete levels. You slowly unlock these techniques as the game progresses, teaching players how to perform each ability before throwing them into a fast-paced gauntlet of lasers, spikes and instant-death pits.

If played with a GameCube controller, WaveLand may be a fantastic way of mastering something like wavedash, outside of boredom of Training Mode. I cannot wait for a Melee speedrunner like Fuzzyness to get their hands on their platform fighter inspired platformer.

WaveLand dashes onto Steam April 19th.

Source: Logan Foster