Year: 1987 (started)
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Designer: Takashia Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto
Country: Japan
Genre: Fighting
Platform: Various

Characters in Street Fighter 2 Image credit: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/StreetFighterII
The Street Fighter series began in 1987, and includes eight sub-series adding up to a a huge number of total Street Fighter games and cross-over games. There are currently 89 characters in the series, including characters brought in from other series like Final Fight.
LGBTQ references in this game series:
Street Fighter (1987): Eagle
Street Fighter II (1991): The World Warrior: Zangief
Street Fighter IV (2008): Poison (originally from Final Fight); Abel; Juri Han
Citations:
- Characters: Street Fighter II. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/StreetFighterII
- List of Street Fighter Characters. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Street_Fighter_characters
- List of Street Fighter Games. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Street_Fighter_video_games
- Street Fighter. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter