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An April Fools’ Joke Gone Horribly Right
If you picked up a copy of Electronic Gaming Monthly back in 1992, you might have read that Ryu and Ken’s master, Sheng Long, was a hidden character in the arcade version of Street Fighter II. Well, he wasn’t there. EGM reported he was there again in Street Fighter III… well, he wasn’t there, either. What was really just a prank ‘insider tip’ turned into a fanboy phenomenon and gamers across the country spent hundreds of quarters trying to get a glimpse of this elusive master to no avail. With Street Fighter IV now out in Japan, rumors are again flying around about Sheng Long, but there might be something to them this time around.
