It’s fun to think about a mashup of Sesame Street and Street Fighter, with Elmo’s face on M. Bison’s head, but what sort of game would that even be?
Now we know: a typing fighting game. (It was so obvious!) In Sesame Street Fighter, a browser game totally unauthorized by either Capcom or Children’s Television Workshop, the grimacing faces of your favorite educational puppets are slapped onto the bodies of your favorite cartoon martial artists, all in classic pixel art and with a chiptune mashup soundtrack.
You play it by typing the words that appear on screen. Pick a weaker character like Cookie Monster E. Honda and you will only have to type the names of animals, like goat and fish. But you won’t do as much damage as Ernie, who is more powerful because he spells Russian cities like Arkhangelsk and Dzerzhinsk. How good is your touch-typing, anyway?
Destructoid points out that these character combinations are actually from a series of DeviantArt pics from back in 2010. That’s almost a throwback in and of itself.
If Street Fighter isn’t your style and you want to try an actually authorized retro-flavored Sesame Street game, there’s always Flappy Bert.