

You can play a stretched version of the 4:3 games, if you're an absolute monster, though it's also possible to strip away the border art and play it with the proportions intact. It does a more effective job than any harsh words online could in proving just how bad The Final Challengers was for around the same price as that game, here you're getting some 12 complete, perfectly ported games culled from the series in its pixel art prime, taking you on a journey from 1987's slightly unconvincing original Street Fighter all the way through to 1999's Street Fighter 3: Third Strike - the end of one particular, fascinating path Capcom elected to take the series, and a high watermark for 2D pixel art as a whole. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection gets that, and gives the series the respect it deserves.

Last May, still uncertain about the prospects of Nintendo's Switch, Capcom tentatively tested the waters with Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers.

Limp and lumpy online isn't quite enough to distract from the brilliantly reverent package curated by Digital Eclipse.
