Lost In Translation/Street Smart

About The Game
Street Smart is an horizontally scrolling arcade video game beat-em-up.

You begin by choosing one of 2 fighters (either a blond guy, or a dark haired guy in karate gear). Then you are whisked away to one of many cities on the map to have a battle. The opponents are tough, but simple. This game has no special moves (and has only punch, kick, and jump buttons), and all characters have insanely high energy. So you pretty much just wail away at each other with punches and kicks until someone falls down. An ambulance will show up to haul away your defeated opponent, and a girl in the audience will come out to congratulate you.

Trivia
Released in August 1989.

Street Smart was SNK's answer to the original "Street Fighter" game made by Capcom.

This game could have been a hit (there were almost no fighting games on the market at the time), but they made one fatal mistake. That mistake was making the game co-operative in 2-Player mode. Instead of battling each other, a second enemy would spawn, and the players would work together against both of them. That completely took all the fun and excitement out of playing this game in 2-Player mode. "Street Fighter II - The World Warrior" was released about a year later, and most Street Smart games were quickly converted into them.

Some gamers think that the Player 1 character looks like a young Takuma Sakazaki, who'd later be seen in the "Art of Fighting" and "King of Fighters" series. So far, SNK has never officially confirmed if this is so.

The music of the first stage of Street Smart was recycled later in "Fatal Fury - King of Fighters" in a 2-Player battle.

Updates
The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

Staff

 * Boss:
 * Eikichi Kawasaki


 * Boss 2:
 * Mr. Hasegawa


 * Programmers:
 * Konny
 * Fujimoto


 * Sound:
 * Tarkun


 * Producer:
 * Akira. G


 * Head Designer:
 * Isuka Michi


 * Designers:
 * Kamada
 * Ishimoto
 * Tomoni. M
 * Sick Of
 * Mitsuzo
 * Miyoshi
 * Asako


 * Hardware:
 * Koike

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Mega Drive (1991)