Quote Originally Posted by darkshadow
no he is not, well he is, but not in japan.
M. bison is black, as in mike bison, which is the japanese name for the boxer, but because they wanted to avoid legal issues ( mike tyson ) they changed the names around (jpn to us) :
balrog became vega
m. bison became balrog
and vega became m. bison
HeHe. That makes so much more sense. I remember that when I was a little kid (around 8), I used to collect Street Fighter cards that came out of bubble gum boxes where the characters were either depicted in fight scenes or standing solo with a little caption below for the names of the fighters. And I remember I was very confused between those 3 characters because they were named differently on different cards and I just assumed that they were printed incorrectly. I guess I had a mixture of American and Japanese versions although the cards looked to be of the same type. Eventually I forgot all about it. Brings back memories