Hadoken: The story behind Street Fighter's most iconic move

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Hadoken: The story behind Street Fighter's most iconic move

Added: 19.08.2015 20:18 | 5 views | 0 comments

GR: "A few years ago, just after Street Fighter celebrated it's 25th anniversary, a photographic meme spread across Japan.The first participant in the picture would be seen leaning forward in a deep lunge, the leading leg bent heavily, the trailing leg extended behind their torso, straight and purposeful. Their head would be slightly lowered, and the subjects hands would be angled with fingers cupped, ready to catch (or, more accurately, deliver) a sizeable ball. The second participant, positioned a few feet from the first, would leap into the air at the very moment the photograph was taken, perhaps cradling their stomach as if having received a terrible blow. The caption would read: Hadoken!"