PEOPLE: - Yoshiki Okamoto, age 52. General Producer of Oracle of Ages & Oracle of Seasons. Producer of Street Fighter, Final Fight, and Street Fighter II. QUOTE: Okamoto: We made Final Fight. Then Capcom told us, "You have to call that 'Street Fighter.'" We had it at a convention and we were showing it to people, but Street Fighter's reputation was really bad. So we thought, if the reputation's that bad, we're not going to name it Street Fighter. We're just going to call it Final Fight. ... If Final Fight didn't sell well, Capcom might have been in danger of going under. ... But it actually sold more than Capcom executives expected it to, so after it took off, they told me to create Final Fight 2. I'm not the type of person to do what I'm told, though. So I said, "Well, I don't want to do that." And then I decided to make Street Fighter 2.
Okamoto on swapping Final Fight and Street Fighter, 2014.
Source: Polygon
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![PEOPLE:
- Yoshiki Okamoto, age 52. General Producer of Oracle of Ages & Seasons. Producer of Street Fighter II.
- Yoko Shimomura, age 46. Composer for Street Fighter II.
- Akira Nishitani, age 46. Planner (Game Designer) for Street Fighter II.
QUOTE:
Okamoto: You know how each character has a life bar? At one point, I wanted to make the power gauge for Chun-Li [in Street Fighter II] shorter than for the other characters because women are not as strong. But Nishitani didn't want to do that. We both had legitimate reasons, but then we came to an agreement to not make it shorter.
Shimomura: I had no idea [Mr. Okamoto suggested that]. I think that since women live longer maybe their life bars should be longer. [Laughs]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiav4oarrcyndbyj7nfx27hsfdcg7sykymhlsu5q3o5pvgtt72q3u4)