I just got served

So today is apparently Capcom day on the blog which is fine with me as long they keep putting out awesome stuff like this to talk about.

The background in this screenshot shows Metro City, the setting for the Final Fight games making it the most recent addition to Super Street Fighter IV that pays tribute to FF. (Another one of those references being Final Fight character Guy being added to the SFIV roster, also featured in the above screenshot.) If you don't already know, the Final Fight and Street Fighter franchises are already linked. Street Fighter was originally sold to arcades as a the sequel to Final Fight, but some where along the line the game's name was changed from Final Fight II to Street Fighter. Over the years Final Fight characters have made appearances in various Street Fighter games paying homage to the two series' linked roots.

While Street Fighter went on to become one of the most popular franchise's in gaming, Final Fight fell off the map. The only recent addition to the series was a putrid PS2 game released a few years ago. Final Fight may never return to the popularity it once had it's still nice to know Capcom hasn't forgotten about it. If you haven't played Final Fight before I highly suggest you change that, with Virtual Console on the Wii being one of the many legal means of downloading the game.