Street Fighter Everything
Street Fighter’s become one of those things that never really left. It’s everywhere, on everything, constantly remixed.
A design studio in Germany—Nerdy Terdy Gang—worked with illustrator Mykola Dosenko on t-shirts that do the expected thing: Street Fighter mixed in with Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, Back to the Future. The mashup idea isn’t new. But this execution is clean enough that I’d actually wear it.
What’s strange is how much sense it makes. These are completely unrelated things—different franchises, different decades, nothing in common. But they occupy the same space in your head. Same flavor from the same narrow window of time. Basically what retro
has become. Everything from that era just lives together in memory now because it always lived together in memory.
The wave is still happening. SNES Classics, synth soundtracks, people treating vintage hardware like artifacts. It was detached irony five years ago and now it’s just legitimate. Street Fighter as the center makes sense. It’s got enough weight to hold everything.