Ep. 93: Street Fighter II: What’s in a Name?
Video Game History Hour
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The Shariqan in Street Fighter
The Shari Yookan is their signature aerial uppercut move and literally translates to rising dragon foot rising dragon fist with Ryu. The two creators of the original Street Fighter, Takashi, Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, use their own names to generate the character's names. Ken's name was originally supposed to be Yu, which is very surprising because the main characters would have been Ryu and Yu - not Kachi in my book.
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