Of course a Street Fighter fan would dig this up and like it…. Well, shortly after the arcade game’s release, hoards of adolescence’s majority dropped billions of quarters in to play the game. Sure, I waited till it hit the Sega Genesis—and Super Street Fighter II—but the spirit of gaming was still there. I played the game for minutes at a time, bought into the whole franchise. Lunchboxes, posters, action figures—they weren’t for me. But I did see the travesty of the movie, written and directed by Bucks County, PA’s very own Steven E. de Souza. And I did collect the entire “Street Fighter Alpha” series. And I did own two versions of the anime cartoon—one in a yelow box and another in the red box that had more blood and Chun-Li in a shower scene! (oh those Japanese people, thinking drawings of women are worth putting in showers in every single goddamn cartoon—one of many reasons I stopped watching anime, but I digress…)

“Street Fighter: The Later Years,” created by CollegeHumor director-man Sam Reich, regarded the original combatants from the hit Capcom game “Street Fighter II.” The story, told in nine parts, turns the game’s storyline upside down and gets everyone together for some good ole past time fun.

Over fifteen years after the arcade release of “Street Fighter II,” we find most of the fighters in dead-end jobs. Zangief is a janitor. Dhalsim, a taxi cab driver. They find each other by happenstance and decide to hold just one more tournament. For old time’s sake. They enlist the help of a retired, wheelchair-bound M. Bison for training. Sagat has gone crazy, and lives with Bison.

E. Honda is dead. Guile vends hot dogs from a cart. Ken works at a video game company. Balrog does building security. Chun Li, of course, runs a dry cleaning shop, and Blanka joined the union to become an electrical worker. Vega is a soap opera actor. Ryu is the only one who seems to have found relative success, selling instructional videotapes on how to hadouken.

And yet, despite the death of Honda, they all gather together for one final fight.

While it seems rather odd and coincidental that everyone happens to live in NYC (even Capcom corporate offices); and while the comedy sometimes falls flat, and the melodrama too thin—it still does the trick that nostalgia does to older people. Remembering old days, when you used to sit in your room with your friends, playing Super Street Fighter II, and saying, “If you pause it right there, you could see her underwear.”