Street Chaves

Street Chaves is 2003 fighting game developed for Windows. It is an unofficial game based on the 70s Mexican series El Chavo del Ocho satirizing popular old school fighting games like Street Fighter. The game was developed by the independent Brazilian developer CyberGamba from São Paulo.[1][2]

Street Chaves
Title screen, showing a reference to Street Fighter II.
Developer(s)CyberGamba
Publisher(s)CyberGamba
SeriesEl Chavo del Ocho and Street Fighter (unofficially)
Platform(s)Windows
Release2003
Genre(s)Fighting

Development and Gameplay

The game is noted for using digitized sprites using photographs of characters, texts in Comic Sans and backgrounds from the live-action series in a similar way to Mortal Kombat.[3] The game was developed by Cybergamba and its team, without exposing his identity to avoid copyright issues.[4] The game's gameplay mostly references several 90s fighting games with mechanics that consist of the player controlling the character and attacking the opponent with punches, kicks and special attacks until ending the opponent's life bar. Regardless of the character chosen, the player will face 8 fights with random characters, at the end of the game there is a cutscene that varies between each character, showing them facing their rival usually based on specific episode events of the live-action series. The game also includes songs from the Brazilian LP released in 1989 as part of the soundtrack.

Playable characters

The game features 15 playable characters, each with their own combat abilities. Each character has a moveset inspired by characters from classic fighting games like Street Fighter, Art of Fighting, Darkstalkers and The King of Fighters, from companies like Capcom and SNK.[3]

Reception

The game is known for being a cult classic among the El Chavo del Ocho fandom during the 2000s.[3] Street Chaves was well publicized at the time of its release, being on the cover of game magazines and newspapers. Because the game is free, it was made available for download on the developer's website or on many other websites related to the Mexican series. The game's success led to CyberGamba creating more games inspired by El Chavo del Ocho satirizing other classic games.[4][5]

In 2022 an unofficial port of the game for Sega Genesis was made by a different programmer under the title Street Chaves II, including new content like El Chapulin Colorado as one of the new fighters.[6][7]

References
  1. "Relembre games de Chaves e Chapolin Colorado". Terra. March 8, 2023.
  2. "Jogos Do Chaves E Chapolim Colorado? Conheça Os Jogos Baseados Nos Famosos Seriados". Portal do Gamer. March 18, 2023.
  3. "Já faz dez anos que jogamos Street Chaves, o "melhor" jogo do Chaves de todos os tempos!". RetroArkade. June 8, 2014.
  4. "Street Chaves". Revista Trip. August 17, 2004.
  5. "Chaves também vira herói em game Street Fighter". R7.com. December 7, 2014.
  6. Candido, Junior (May 8, 2022). "Street Chaves II está ganhando uma versão para o Mega Drive".
  7. Candido, Junior (June 21, 2022). "Chapolin está chegando ao Street Chaves II de Mega Drive: veja a atualização do projeto".
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