Hard Times ('75) & James Coburn Future Street Fighter II Easter Egg In Crime Fighters ('89) Arcade?

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Part 2 - I share some in-game future references / easter eggs to Capcom arcade fighting video game Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) in Konami's 1989 arcade beat 'em up Crime Fighters. You can take a look at the movie adaptions & some associated works & draw further interesting connections.  - Stage 7 of Crime Fighters looks like a prototype for Ken's dockside fighting area in SF2. There is a sunrise or sunset, pier / a harbor / port. A ship can be seen moored up. An enemy fighter in this level wears a red gi (martial arts outfit) similar to Ken's (Ryu wears white). At the end of the level the boss also is reminiscent of Street Fighter's Guile. He wears green pants, white singlet with dog tags and black boots.  - Ken's stage in Street Fighter II was reportedly inspired by some scenes in the 1975 action film Hard Times. The alternative title to this in certain markets was The Streetfighter (or The Street Fighter). Charles Bronson & James Coburn starred in this.  - Some interesting graffiti can be seen in the second stage subway train in Crime Fighters. What appears to be "SHEILA" appears in purple & blue in different parts of the level. James Coburn acted in the 1973 mystery The Last Of Sheila.  - There was some production staff crossovers between Japanese video game heavies Konami & Capcom in the 1980's. Yoshiki Okamoto worked for Konami in the early 80's on such titles as Gyruss & Time Pilot. In '83 he joined Capcom and went on to produce beat 'em up Final Fight (1989) & Street Fighter II.  - If you take a look at the live action Street Fighter in 1994: Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Colonel Guile & was later in cyberpunk action film Cyborg in 1989. Actor Elias Koteas appeared in the sequel opposite Angelina Jolie he he has a connection to the subject of this video in that he played vigilante hero Casey Jones in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in 1990.  Konami's 1989 TMNT arcade cabinet was one of the best sellers of all time.

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00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.

00:05In this video, I'll share what appears to be a future Easter egg to the Capcom fighting arcade game Street

00:14Fighter 2, released in 1991.

00:18And you can see this in the 1989 beat-em-up arcade game Crime Fighters, developed and published by Konami.

00:28And additionally, I'll show how you can take a look at the various movie adaptations of these games and draw

00:37further relationships.

00:39Alright, so to see this, fast forward to stage 7.

00:43And you'll notice that this appears to be down at a port, a harbor.

00:49There's some docks here near the ocean.

00:51There's either a sunset or sunrise.

00:54And additionally, a boat or ship can be seen here.

00:59So one enemy you'll see in this stage wears a red gi or martial arts uniform.

01:06Very similar to what's shown in Ken's stage in the Street Fighter 2 arcade game.

01:14Ken and Ryu, of course, are major characters in this series.

01:18Ken wears the red outfit.

01:21Ryu wears white.

01:22In Ken's stage, the fight takes place on what looks like a pier or a jetty or a causeway.

01:29So back to Crime Fighters.

01:31So at the end of the level, you fight the boss.

01:34I believe this character is called the Army Sergeant.

01:37Not exactly, but maybe similar to Guile in Street Fighter.

01:43Now, interestingly, Ken's dockside fight setting in Street Fighter 2 was reportedly inspired by some scenes in the 1975 action

01:55field Horror Times,

01:57which starred Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, and Strother Martin.

02:03I remembered some graffiti sprayed on the inside of the subway train in the second stage.

02:12And one of these words, I think, reads, Sheila.

02:17S-H-E-I-L-A.

02:20I thought that interesting because James Coburn was in a well-known 1973 mystery film entitled The Last of Sheila.

02:29This cast included Richard Benjamin, Diane Cannon, Jonah Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, and Rackle Welch.

02:39Speaking of fighting, the cover was a good friend and student of martial artist and movie actor Bruce Lee.

02:48My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.

02:50There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.

02:54I analyze these for possible references to future media.

02:57These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.

03:01Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look at the

03:07likenesses of the actors.

03:10And what I found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,

03:16and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities

03:22that may resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.

03:29My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.

03:36Thanks for watching.

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