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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 - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:06
garison
Really creative! Totally different from anything I have seen on YouTube before.
Rider Chop's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:14
Rider Chop
holy shit, I never thought someone could actually innovate youtube.
amazing!
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:16
MrSadistic
This is pretty old-school. Sorta reminds me of a modern age version of the "choose your own adventure" books.
WowItzMike's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:18
WowItzMike
I'm tired of people using Youtube for something it's not meant for.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:19
Hamza CTZ Aziz
MrSadistic: Good point. I wonder if people will start doing that in the future now.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:19
RonBurgandy2010
HOLY SHIT! That was incredible. I want to see some Dragon's Lair type stuff with this.
grafkhun's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:21
grafkhun
damn that must of taken a long time to setup, it's pretty damn awesoe as well.
Pushtrak's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:21
Pushtrak
"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 - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:24
Ratcliff
DAMN
Fusiontr's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:25
Fusiontr
This shit is something special
It just blew my mind like a prostitute of the brain
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:38
Teta
Looks like a new trend will be started.
Doesn`t look really hard to do.
Solgrim's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:44
Solgrim
Well! No reason to fork out the cash for IV now!
Fleet3000's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:45
Fleet3000
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 - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 15:49
Riegel88
That was awesome...reminds me of goosebumps books i used to read!
AlienGuy18's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:00
AlienGuy18
This was great, but his other films are fantastic.
Zac Bentz's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:00
Zac Bentz
@MrSadistic: HA! I just said the same thing about it on Digg! Very cool stuff here.
Paustinj's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:05
Paustinj
Very cool
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:14
Magnalon
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 - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:42
SetoChaos
That is just amazing, wow.
Amp's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:46
Amp
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.
Amp's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 16:50
Amp
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.
Teen Idol's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 17:57
Teen Idol
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.
Halidar's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 18:30
Halidar
SMP films did something like this, he is also in the middle of making an interactive horror film for youtube.
downsouthhustla's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 19:42
downsouthhustla
meh. seems like it should be cool, but just comes off as kinda boring.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 22:40
Mxyzptlk
That's a neat idea, I can't wait to see what others do with it.
burgerdog's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/18/2009 22:42
burgerdog
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.
Katsu's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2009 09:14
Katsu
Watch youtube video "S_1_2_B". Honda doing a hurricane kick?? WTF?
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2009 12:20
Kryptinite
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.
CrocBox's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2009 18:11
CrocBox
Pretty incredible :P
X-angwin8r's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2009 21:56
X-angwin8r
Quite [ossibly the most inventive use of YouTube I've ever seen.
Thornnn's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/21/2009 17:46
Thornnn
I sure hope the people over at porno tube use this Idea.
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2009 22:05
Artemus
My gawd...
Imagine the work that went into this!
Creative as hell!
Fight!
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