The Street Fighter series will always remind me of different moments of time in my life. I can remember playing (and losing) a lot of games of Street Fighter II: Championship Edition on the Mega Drive as a very young child, improving slightly by the time Street Fighter Alpha 2 arrived on the Saturn and eventually becoming decent after the release of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike on the PlayStation 2. Despite the age of these games, they’ve managed to age so well while maintaining very unique feels to each of the three series (SFII, SFA and SFIII). Capcom released a game that celebrated the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter, but it wasn’t done anything like this.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Capcom has released the Street Fighter Collection – bringing together all twelve of the main games in one package. Spanning from 1987 all the way to 1999, fans can play through the garbage beginnings of Street Fighter 1 to the pinnacle of fighting games that is Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Out of the twelve available games, only four of them are playable online: SFII: Hyper Fighting, SFII: ST, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and SFIII:3S.