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Okay, so this is just awesome. Polygamia sent us this tip yesterday for a video called YouTube Street Fighter. As soon as it loaded up, I groaned, thinking it was another stop-motion animation video. But this is far from that, folks.

You can actually control what’s going on in this faux-game. The video above is one of many you’ll be watching as you “play” YouTube Street Fighter. You play as Guile and first must select whom you fight against between E. Honda, Zangief or Dhalsim. Once you pick your fighter, a new window will pop up with Guile playing whoever you selected.

With the new window, four options appear: A, B, X, and Y. You have to select one of those buttons in order to fight your opponent. When you pick a button, a new window will pop up showing you the move you just used. If you wait too long, your opponent will strike at you and you can’t press any of the buttons until the move is over.

There are a ton of possible combinations here as there are over 100 YouTube videos just for this game. I have to wonder how long it must have taken to get all the filming done and how long it took to set up all the YouTube clips. YouTuber PatrickBoivin did a very impressive job here. Give it a shot and let us know what you think of it!


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garison's Avatar
garison at 01/18/2009 15:06
Really creative! Totally different from anything I have seen on YouTube before.
Rider Chop's Avatar
Rider Chop at 01/18/2009 15:14
holy shit, I never thought someone could actually innovate youtube.
amazing!
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MrSadistic at 01/18/2009 15:16
This is pretty old-school. Sorta reminds me of a modern age version of the "choose your own adventure" books.
WowItzMike's Avatar
WowItzMike at 01/18/2009 15:18
I'm tired of people using Youtube for something it's not meant for.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar
Hamza CTZ Aziz at 01/18/2009 15:19
MrSadistic: Good point. I wonder if people will start doing that in the future now.
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RonBurgandy2010 at 01/18/2009 15:19
HOLY SHIT! That was incredible. I want to see some Dragon's Lair type stuff with this.
grafkhun's Avatar
grafkhun at 01/18/2009 15:21
damn that must of taken a long time to setup, it's pretty damn awesoe as well.
Pushtrak's Avatar
Pushtrak at 01/18/2009 15:21
"I'm tired of people using Youtube for something it's not meant for."

Aww, not a fan of change? Poor you.
Ratcliff's Avatar
Ratcliff at 01/18/2009 15:24
DAMN
Fusiontr's Avatar
Fusiontr at 01/18/2009 15:25
This shit is something special
It just blew my mind like a prostitute of the brain
Teta's Avatar
Teta at 01/18/2009 15:38
Looks like a new trend will be started.
Doesn`t look really hard to do.
Solgrim's Avatar
Solgrim at 01/18/2009 15:44
Well! No reason to fork out the cash for IV now!
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Fleet3000 at 01/18/2009 15:45
saw this in the IRC. really cool stuff. it could open up to a whole bunch of possibilities if you're creative enough.
Riegel88's Avatar
Riegel88 at 01/18/2009 15:49
That was awesome...reminds me of goosebumps books i used to read!
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AlienGuy18 at 01/18/2009 16:00
This was great, but his other films are fantastic.
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Zac Bentz at 01/18/2009 16:00
@MrSadistic: HA! I just said the same thing about it on Digg! Very cool stuff here.
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Paustinj at 01/18/2009 16:05
Very cool
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Magnalon at 01/18/2009 16:14
If he made it so it was like a QTE with precise presses instead of mashing buttons I would have shat myself.

It is damn cool though.
SetoChaos's Avatar
SetoChaos at 01/18/2009 16:42
That is just amazing, wow.
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Amp at 01/18/2009 16:46
Filming obviously didn't take too long, or at least not as long as the number of videos would make it seem.

Looking carefully, all four attacks simply repeat the same footage. Pressing "Y" three times will simply repeat the same throw footage, but after the third one, you get extended footage which turns out to be Guile's win pose.

4 characters times 4 attacks for Guile, with a win pose each = 16 scenes.

Each character has his own moveset as well, but they are a sequence. 4 characters times 3 (three) moves each = 12 scenes.

For a total of 28 scenes filmed.

It's the editing in of the healthbars for every possible combination that makes it require so many videos.
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Amp at 01/18/2009 16:50
Of course, that's not to say it's not a feat, that shit took a lot of work, and it's understandable that those corners were cut considering what he was working with.

Just putting it out there the math involved in his filming process.
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Teen Idol at 01/18/2009 17:57
Youtube is flooded with tons of videos similar to this. I've seen a SSBB one and even Soul Caliber in the past couple of days. Pretty silly if you ask me.
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Halidar at 01/18/2009 18:30
SMP films did something like this, he is also in the middle of making an interactive horror film for youtube.
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downsouthhustla at 01/18/2009 19:42
meh. seems like it should be cool, but just comes off as kinda boring.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 01/18/2009 22:40
That's a neat idea, I can't wait to see what others do with it.
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burgerdog at 01/18/2009 22:42
feels to me like something an ad agency guy would be fellating him self over.

Youtube's really great, but using it to make a semi-flash game promotional thing is like making a house out of brownies and pretzels: you can do it, it is POSSIBLE, but it's not the best medium for the task.
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Katsu at 01/19/2009 09:14
Watch youtube video "S_1_2_B". Honda doing a hurricane kick?? WTF?
Kryptinite's Avatar
Kryptinite at 01/19/2009 12:20
Wow. I just realized what's doing on there. This is pretty amazing yet boring.

Nevertheless, this was pretty awesome that they were able to pull it off.
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CrocBox at 01/19/2009 18:11
Pretty incredible :P
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X-angwin8r at 01/19/2009 21:56
Quite [ossibly the most inventive use of YouTube I've ever seen.
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Thornnn at 01/21/2009 17:46
I sure hope the people over at porno tube use this Idea.
Artemus's Avatar
Artemus at 01/24/2009 22:05
My gawd...
Imagine the work that went into this!
Creative as hell!
Fight!
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