Capcom Shows SF's Ken as African American; Honestly Admits Fan Contest 'Was a Terrible Idea'

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Publisher Capcom has released new screenshots from We Love Golf! (Wii), which it claims to show the "first African-American incarnation of [Street Fighter's] Ken Masters."

The outfit comes out of contest in which Capcom asked fans to pick alternate costumes for new characters in the Camelot-developed title. As a result, Mark can mirror Ken's look and Stephanie can be made up to resemble Darkstalkers' Morrigan.

"Everybody at Capcom had lots of extremely good reasons why this was a terrible idea," the company said of letting fans select alternate outfits. "But then we did it anyway!"

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 16, 2008 9:13 AM

    that's "African American?"

    Looks more like an over-tanned white dude

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      May 16, 2008 9:23 AM

      isn't that what "African American" mean?

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        May 16, 2008 9:28 AM

        no, AA's are born dark. white dudes get dark with bronzer and tanning booths

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