Plus Alpha Iso ((new)) — Street Fighter Ex

In the pantheon of fighting games, few titles straddle the line between "beloved cult classic" and "technical oddity" quite like Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha . Released by Arika in 1997 for the PlayStation (and later arcades), this game represented a seismic shift for the franchise. For the first time, Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li were rendered in full 3D polygonal graphics, albeit fighting on a traditional 2D plane.

For the retro gaming community, the "ISO" is the holy grail of digital preservation. An ISO file is essentially a disk image—an exact sector-by-sector copy of the data on a CD-ROM, DVD, or Blu-ray. street fighter ex plus alpha iso