

Akira Nishitani, one of the developers who worked on the original Final Fight, believes that Poison's sex is up to the player to decide.Additionally, Ono retracted his previous statement regarding Poison. Capcom would later change these winquotes into something less offensive. As a result, Capcom received angry complaints from a LGBT group accusing them of being transphobic. However, this seemed to have changed when Street Fighter X Tekken made some transgender references regarding Poison in some characters' win quotes. When asked about her, Yoshinori Ono said Capcom doesn't have an official policy to what Poison's sex is, stating that in North America, she is a post-op transsexual, but in Japan, she is a pre-op transsexual/futanari/newhalf who "tucks her business away to look female".Port Overdosed: In close competition with Double Dragon for the title of "most-ported beat 'em up ever." Almost every contemporary home computer and console had a version, and Capcom has frequently re-released it since then, too.It's unknown if that's truly the case, though even if it isn't, it certainly didn't help the studio. Streetwise's poor sales is typically given as the reason Capcom Studio 8 was shut down.Fans reached a general consensus that the first game was inspired by Streets of Fire, given its similar plot and character names, but according to this video the game's producer had never even heard of the movie.Granted, the Street Fighter animated series did end up having a Final Fight episode but still. It's uncertain whether the show never existed, if a Pilot Episode was produced but went into obscurity like Battletoads, or if the series was planned but never materialized. Sites like IMDB even used to have a full voice cast for the show. For years, it was speculated that there was a Final Fight animated series with The Ocean Group doing the voice work much like they did for Mega Man (Ruby-Spears), Street Fighter, and Darkstalkers.as it was in the Serious Sam 3: BFE soundtrack. The Undercode song "Final Fight" is unrelated to this game.

Metro City, which shares its name with the city from.Handsome Bob, with Handsome Bob of Rock N Rolla.Retu shares his name with the Japanese Shaolin monk from the original Street Fighter (although, technically that was Ret su it's really the same name in Japanese, but with different romanizations).Poison shares her name with a disgusting 1200 year old succubus working for Mundus.Life Imitates Art: The game actually came out before Jesse Ventura entered politics.Some of the more popular characters (Guy, Cody, Haggar, Maki, Poison, Rolento, etc.) began making appearances in the Street Fighter series and related titles as early as Street Fighter Alpha, however, ensuring that the series lives on within the greater SF Shared Universe. Franchise Killer: Streetwise sold and was received poorly, spelling an end to Final Fight as a standalone franchise.Follow the Leader: The game has influenced similar games when it was first released like Riot City and D.Direct to Video: Final Fight 2 and Final Fight 3 were made specifically for the SNES without any prior arcade versions at a time Capcom were making most of their belt-scrollers for the arcades.The critical and commercial failure of Streetwise is commonly seen as the reason behind the shutdown of Capcom Production Studio 8 in 2006, and while a likely factor in Studio 8's closing, no official statements on the matter have ever been given by the company or former Studio 8 employees.
