10 Video Games That Are Barely Recognisable Today

6. Street Fighter 1 - Street Fighter 5

When Street Fighter 5 was announced I, alongside so many other thumb smashing, bonus car-bashing fans, was sent into a meltdown of hype. Street Fighter 4 had dominated my life for a long, while and each expansion to that core game has added in balancing, new characters and more salt than I would ever need to season my food.

And yet, when Street Fighter 5 actually released I was certainly smashing cars but not in the good way as there was no single player, a barebones multiplayer offering and a condensed character roster that seemed totally angled at DLC packs rather than satisfying the rabid playerbase.

Luckily, this was all fixed down the line, but then came the ads, plastered all over the fighters themselves. One had to ask:

What the hell happened to this series?

Originally this was THE ONLY way to settle a score in the arcade. Someone dissed your sweet mullet and Bret "The Hitman" Hart lunchbox, so teach them a lesson in pain as Chun-Li.

However for a long old while, Street Fighter 5 seemed to be the drunken uncle of the family, lurching off from the road of made of goodwill and vomiting aggressive ad deals into the gutter.