Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation (ストリートファイター オンライン マウスジェネレーション) is a fighting game produced by Daletto (a joint venture of Capcom and Games Arena) in association with Revoltech (an action-figure company), released for the PC in 2008. The game uses a PC mouse for combat, and the characters are customizable to some degree. The player chooses between characters which are action-figure versions of Street Fighter characters, licensed characters based on novels, manga and anime such as the characters based on the works by Wuxia novelist Louis Cha, and one real-life person.
While Mouse Generation can arguably be considered a Street Fighter game (as the name would suggest), it is actually a crossover game (like X-Men vs. Street Fighter or Street Fighter X Tekken), and as such it is not canon to the Street Fighter universe.
Gameplay[]
Fighters are controlled by mouse movements, mouse buttons and the scroll wheel. Characters in the game were apparently action-figure versions of the actual characters, using Revoltech's action-figure 3D engine. As such, fighter's body parts could be switched and customized. The character models were designed to look like the action-figure of the characters, with blocky limbs and visible joint screws. While this engine allowed for "maximum flexibility", it made the character models "revolting".[1]
The game was free to play. Daletto's revenue came from micro-transactions, through a store, and through in-game Gashapon dispensers (licensed from Bandai). Players were able to purchase extra body parts and outfits, to further customize their characters. Some purchasable items were fairly abstract, such as squid-shaped hats, as a cross-promotion with pre-existing squid-shaped USB thumb drives.[2][3]
Characters[]
Capcom Characters[]
Original |
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Shin - The game's sole original character. |
Street Fighter |
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Ryu |
Chun-Li |
Zangief |
Guile |
Ken Masters |
Rival Schools |
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Batsu Ichimonji |
Akira Kazama |
Licensed Characters[]
Character | Info |
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Johannes Krauser II | Soichi Negishi's alter-ego from Detroit Metal City |
Gavan | From Space Sheriff Gavan |
Hiko (胡斐, ヒコ) | Hiko or Hico is based on Hu Fei from Louis Cha's Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain novel |
Teiran (テイラン) | Teiran or Taran is based on He Tieshou (何鐵手 Katetsushu) from Louis Cha's Sword Stained with Royal Blood novel |
Baichōfu (梅超風, バイチョウフ) | Baichōfu is based on Mei Chaofeng from Louis Cha's The Legend of the Condor Heroes novel |
Reikochū (令狐沖, レイコチュウ) | Reikochū is based on Linghu Chong from Louis Cha's The Smiling, Proud Wanderer novel |
Shū Hakutsū (周伯通, シュウハクツウ) | Shū Hakutsū is based on Zhou Botong from Louis Cha's The Legend of the Condor Heroes novel |
Cyborg 004 aka Albert Heinrich | From Cyborg 009 |
Cyborg 009 aka Joe Shimamura | From Cyborg 009 |
Cyborg 005 aka Geronimo Jr. | From Cyborg 009 |
Cyborg 006 aka Chang Changku | From Cyborg 009 |
Barack Obama[4] | DLC for Valentine's Day |
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Characters[]
Merchandise[]
Revoltech, an action figure company whose proprietary engine was used for the game, released a line of action figures based on the SFO character treatments.
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