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Watch fish playing Street Fighter II. Do it.

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I don’t know if you were caught up by the frankly stupid craze that saw Twitch commenters playing Pokémon remotely, via a series of keystrokes which was then converted in to inputs in the game. That spawned the even dumber Fish Plays Pokémon. None of that really clicked with me though, as it just wasn’t speaking my language. This, however, has started to consume my free time.

It’s Fish Plays Street Fighter – and some insane human has hooked up his fish tank to a PC running an emulator that’s playing Super Street Fighter II. Two fish are housed in the tank, and depending on where they swim, different inputs are sent through to the game.

It’s just as dumb, but so strangely mesmerising.

“Welcome to my interpretation of the FishPlaysPokemon stream,” it says on the Twitch stream.  “As soon as I saw Grayson swimming around Kanto, I started wondering how the same control scheme would work for a fighting game. As it turns out, I think it’s pretty entertaining!”

Controlling player one is Aquarius, who is apparently “Quick and agile

“Aquarius has an aggressive fighting style which relies on rapid movement and flowing combos. However, his headstrong approach in a match can become his undoing when he finds himself running directly into his opponent’s fist over and over… and over… and over…”

His opponent is Robert the Bruce who is “s much more methodical in his technique, often pausing and waiting to counteract his opponents style, then striking at the most opportune moments.”

It’s nigh impossible for these fish to throw out special moves – but if you keep watching, you’ll see some of the coolest, most elegant Street Fighter combos. It’s dumb, but oddly engaging and  oh god, I just can’t stop watching…

Watch live video from FishPlayStreetFighter on www.twitch.tv

Last Updated: August 20, 2014

17 Comments

  1. Umar Ver 1.OBJECTION

    August 20, 2014 at 13:41

    Imagine….Just imagine….these fish pull off an Hadouken

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  2. Rinceable

    August 20, 2014 at 13:41

    WHY WORLD?! WHY!?

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  3. Hammersteyn

    August 20, 2014 at 13:43

    I guess this counts as work avoidance Wednesday?

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    • Kensei Seraph

      August 20, 2014 at 13:47

      I’m playing http://te4.org/ as for my WABbing.

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      • Hammersteyn

        August 20, 2014 at 13:51

        Who says graphics is everything

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  4. Ryanza

    August 20, 2014 at 13:44

  5. Hammersteyn

    August 20, 2014 at 13:44

    LOL there’s a piece of pipe in the background that the fish can swim behind so that the camera doesn’t pick up any movement

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  6. Hammersteyn

    August 20, 2014 at 13:45

    The fish that picks Dhalsim will always win

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  7. brad coetzee

    August 20, 2014 at 13:47

    15 seconds is all I could handle………..waste of bandwidth.

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  8. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 20, 2014 at 13:51

    They’re just lucky COD fish can’t compete, with his superior AI he’d kicked all their asses.

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    • Hammersteyn

      August 20, 2014 at 13:51

      Won’t he just swim away?

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        August 20, 2014 at 13:52

        To regroup & strike when they least expect it!

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        • Hammersteyn

          August 20, 2014 at 13:52

          Hahaha

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  9. ToshZA

    August 20, 2014 at 14:02

    I bet these are the same people that hate on dota… I couldn’t stand more than 45 seconds of that crap. I need to go to a library to get all this filthy stupid off of me.

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  10. Sk3tz0

    August 20, 2014 at 14:46

    They should of used Siamese Fighting Fish..

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  11. Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

    August 20, 2014 at 15:25

    Anyone else disappointed that this isn’t about Phil FIsh?

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  12. Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

    August 20, 2014 at 15:50

    Those fish would beat Darryn at Street Fighter.

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