Key facts
- Genre
- Fighting game
- Developers
- Capcom (main series and spin-offs; 1987–present), Dimps (main series; 2008–2016), Arika ( Street Fighter EX series)
- Publisher
- Capcom
- Creators
- Takashi Nishiyama , Hiroshi Matsumoto
- First release
- Street Fighter , August 30, 1987 ; 38 years ago ( August 30, 1987 )
- Latest release
- Street Fighter 6 , June 2, 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
Street Fighter is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by the other six main games in the series, various spin-offs and crossovers, and numerous appearances in other media. Its best-selling 1991 release, Street Fighter II, established many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre.
Street Fighter is one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time and one of Capcom's flagship series, with total sales of 59 million units worldwide as of May 2026. It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises and is the longest-running fighting game franchise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Street Fighter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.