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Why Terry Bogard (& SNK) is in Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Boy, Masahiro Sakurai sure does love SNK games. He even particularly loves Fatal Fury, or The King of Fighters, or whatever you want to call the series. Terry Bogard's arrival in Super Smash Bros Ultimate is entirely logical, considering just how much time Sakurai has spent mastering these classic fighting games. We had been working on two different videos today. BretonStripes recorded some stuff in advance for the coming week before leaving on a business trip. Then, Masahiro's 45 minute Smash presentation dropped, in which he gushed endlessly about SNK games, and we knew we needed to address this topic instead, as soon as possible. Because BretonStripes was basically already on the road by this point, there was merely time for a quick discussion of the video before she had to drive off to a business trip. It was left to Kotor to make this video, so apologies for that. Initially, we were honestly wondering if we could simple make a thirty second video entitled "Why Mai Shiranui isn't in Smash Bros?". We thought it'd be cute and silly. Then we started pondering the issue more. On the one hand, we totally agree with the notion that Mai's design is symptomatic of a games industry, run mostly by men, who create female characters to appeal to their own personal fantasies. On the other hand, this is a game series about extreme physical violence, but this is apparently fine for "good boys and girls of all ages", but a bit of female skin is apparently somehow is inappropriate for younger audiences. Anyway, we ultimately decided to address this whole issue very quickly and in perhaps the stupidest, meme-driven way possible. Sorry about that, no doubt this video will age poorly once everyone gets sick of "ok boomer"! Anyway, it's 1am here and time for us to take our own advice and get some rest. Love you! BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics) Sources: https://www.sourcegaming.info/2015/06/22/vol71/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnRTtA6S1Pk