




Don't ask me how he did it, but Patrick Boivin has made an interactive Street Fighter game using Sota Toys action figures. You can control the game by using the four buttons on the left side of the screen. The hero is some kind of pumped-up bad-ass with a military crew cut. I couldn't find his name, but I know who the three opponents are:
Zangief is a 360-degree fighter whose signature move is called The Spinning Piledriver. Dhalsim is a pacifistic Buddhist guy who's fighting to raise money for his village. You think about all the starving kids you're making go hungry when you send a pummeling roundhouse kick his way. E. Honda's face is painted kabuki-style. His signature move is "Hundred Violent Sumo Hands." Look out!*
I killed a lot of afterschool time back in the day playing this game at the local arcade. This really took me back. You can't do as much here as you could do with a joystick, obviously, but it's still incredibly elaborate and awesome!
*The character descriptions I took from Wikipedia.