9 Reasons Everybody Loves Street Fighter

1. It Encapsulates Everything We Love About Gaming

Badss characters? Check. East-meets-West ideologies and aestheticdesign? Check. Firework display-combos and special moves that make you feel like all your birthdays have come at once? Quadruple check, and add 'coolest fireballs ever' to the listwhile you're on.

Yes, like 2015's Rocket League or pretty much any Nintendo game that's emerged across their respectable tenure, there's just something about Street Fighter that exudes the most quintessential of gaming's best qualities. It's easy to pick up yet hard to master, awesome to watch in motion yet withholding of another level of detail entirely when you study the backgrounds or character models up close.

Street Fighter just IS gaming on every level, from couch to stadium and back again.

Capcom may have tried all sorts of different experiments with Resident Evil over the years, but when it comes to Street Fighter, there's something so timeless and indescribably enjoyable about playing every instalment, thatchances are SF V is only the beginning.

What do you love about Street Fighter, and can you remember playing it for the first time? Let us know in the comments!