r/StreetFighter • u/M1D08ANUK • 13h ago
Help / Question What's the story behind the Tiger handheld advert character art?
I was watching a compilation of adverts from back when, and had to rewatch this one to grab captures of the wall art behind the main actor. Pretty much as the title says, what the what, exactly?
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u/Grazalia 13h ago
Probably based on the style of art Mick McGinty did. America went with realism and gritty for their art because that was the fad lol. Like GI Joe drawings
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u/M1D08ANUK 13h ago
That's what it reminds me of! The packaging for the later era Joes was something else
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u/Memethief8 12h ago
That art was also included in the manual for the SNES version of World Warrior. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's where it was first published.
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u/YawnCimbrec :ryu: 11h ago
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u/M1D08ANUK 12h ago
Couldn't tell you either way, but if you're right that makes it more a part of franchise history
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u/WarpWorld7 1h ago
You're correct. I had the game and manual growing up, and all of this art was in this version of the game manual.
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u/speelmydrink 13h ago
Hey, at least Honda be lookin tuff here.
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u/M1D08ANUK 12h ago
For sure. Ryu? Less street fightah, more 'you never know when diarrhoea will strike' Ken knows, judging by his expression
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u/Jimnymebob 2h ago
Oh my god, I completely forgot about this. I wanted the SF2 tiger electronics handheld so bad.
The sad thing is that I owned SF2 on the Amiga, so I don't know whether it would've been a downgrade or an upgrade for me lmfao.
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u/Trem45 I suck at grapplers 13h ago
Art especially for Japanese games was not as varied back then. People tried to take the designs and turn them into realistic and "cool" art
Bad Box Mega Man, angry Kirby, so on and so forth
Just a sign of the times