The Skyscraper Under Construction stage in Super Street Fighter 4 is my favorite not only because it’s cool to fight high up on a skyscraper being worked on, but the music is awesome with the guitars driving the fight.
Based on Final Fight and set in Metro City, you can see a Mike Hagger statue in the background and Hugo (Andore) carrying a huge beam while cheering with the other workers on another platform. The stage has some humor to it too, as the fight begins a man is about to take a bite out of his sandwich when he looks up surprised to see two fighters about to go at it, looks back and forth, and runs over to the cable to hold on while spectating and calling to his friends behind him.
If you look carefully at this man you can see that he’s wearing a red hard hat while everyone else is wearing a yellow one, and has big black eyebrows and a bushy mustache, resembling a certain plumber who began his video game career as a carpenter scaling red steel girders in Donkey Kong.
During the fight this Mario look alike calls to his friends behind him and if you look closely, one of them is wearing blue overalls and a green shirt resembling Luigi, while the guy next to him is wearing yellow maybe representing Wario. These references are just subtle enough that you can miss them if you didn’t take a good look at them, and are unexpected in a Street Fighter game. I always love finding little references like this in video games.
(Donkey Kong screenshot from vgmuseum.com.)
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