Hey guys: What if I told you the inspiration for Blanka’s theme in  Street Fighter II came from a paper bag? Oh, you’d say I’m full of it? Well, what if  Street Fighter II  composer Yoko Shimomura told you? Now who’s full of it? 

The Red Bull Music Academy is now three episodes deep in their beautifully filmed game music docu-series, “Diggin’ in the Carts,”  and Episode 3 – The Dawn of a New Era includes a terrific segment on Capcom and Street Fighter. Skip to 7:34 for that segment, but the whole video, and indeed the whole series, is terrific!