The ’80s and ’90s were truly a different time in terms of getting wacky licensed Western cartoons for video games, and that included a number of fighting games as well, which are often overlooked for a variety of reasons.
Discotek Media, however, are looking to bring back the campy Street Fighter: The Animated Series and Darkstalkers cartoons with some bonus features aimed directly at the fighting game community.
The company is looking to release both complete series on SD Blu-rays with some extra goodies, especially for Street Fighter.
All 26 episodes of the cartoon that began airing in 1995 on the USA Network on a single disc with cover art that’s really pushing the nostalgia factor.
One side looks like an old beat up VHS or DVD box while the reverse cover parodies the Super Nintendo game box.
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The Blu-Ray itself also carries on that motif with Street Fighter: The Animated Series covers created for SNES and Super Famicom cartridges too.
And then there’s also the bonus features.
Street Fighter!
The classic toon that’s a sequel to the live action movie!
Extras are intro storyboards, a gallery, a meme compilation, &
Commentaries for EVERY episode w/ @mattmcmuscles & @BradyHartel, @maximilian_, @JWonggg, @egoraptor, @AleksLeVO, @Lythero, & @GuileWinQuote pic.twitter.com/cUO7AO89iU— Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) January 21, 2025
The biggest extras are new commentary tracks for each episode hosted by content creator Matt McMuscles featuring familiar faces / voices in the FGC like Maximilian Dood, Justin Wong, Luke voice actor Aleks Le, Lythero, GuileWinQuote and Arin “Egoraptor” Hanson.
If that wasn’t enough, they’re also including an art gallery with the cartoons original storyboards and artworks as well as a memes compilation video made up of many of the infamous moments of the show.
A look at the storyboards.
They were scanned, and are included as part of the gallery, plus also synced to the intro audio & video.
The PowerPoint auto alt-text was… interesting. pic.twitter.com/qBWtaqfO8o
— Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) January 21, 2025
As for Darkstalkers, Discotek is also set to release the weird American cartoon too, which is different than the Japanese OVA that the company already did previously.
We know it includes all 13 episodes, however, there’s no details on what sort of extras and features it’ll come packing as well compared to Street Fighter.
Previews of brand new Darkstalkers cartoon art for the set, which fans might recognize the references in them. pic.twitter.com/YUnGy0xmbY
— Discotek Media (@discotekmedia) January 21, 2025
Unfortunately, there’s no pricing information for either of these series at the moment either.
All we really know is that both are planned to come some time in 2025, so Discotek should hopefully be revealing more details in the near future for fans to plan accordingly.
Source: Event Hubs
