Reviving Street Fighter's Pneumatic Arcade Controls

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Reviving Street Fighter's Pneumatic Arcade Controls
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Vincent Pureza has recreated the pneumatic controls of the original Street Fighter arcade game, which were replaced due to being unplayable. The controls required a specific PCB with nozzles for connecting silicon tubes, and air pressure would travel through these tubes to the PCB, interpreting the signal as an attack. The controls were well-conceived, requiring physical articulation with the moves, and the timings were extremely tight. The software side of these insane, abandoned hardware controls remained to become a hallmark of the series and fighting games in general.

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