Palette Swappin’: Street Fighter Rejects Edition

the -minus world on May 16th, 2008

It’s an age old tradition in the world of video games: create a character, change his head or the color of his clothes ever so slightly, and voila! You’ve got two characters. Double the fun with only half the art assets! Sure, it’s a cheap trick, but it’s a staple in the history of character design that’s helped spawn everything from multiracial koopas to half the pets in World of Warcraft. That doesn’t mean it’s a guaranteed success story, though; there’s plenty of things that can go wrong in the process. That’s why today we bring to you the rejected palette swapped characters of Street Fighter 2…

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