Editing Hadoken

Hadoken, sometimes spelled as "Hadouken" and colloquially called a "fireball", is a special move available to several characters such as Ryu and Ken in the {{uv|Street Fighter}} series. It involves the user thrusting their palms forward to fire a blue surge (yellow in the original ''Street Fighter'') of spirit energy, or Ki. It is most commonly performed by the player moving the joystick or D-pad a quarter circle forward towards the opponent from the down position, then pressing a punch button, with the projectile's speed and distance varying depending on the specific button pressed. In a majority of games, users of this technique will have an image of their palms grafted onto the projectile itself when one looks at the projectile itself closely. The creator of ''Street Fighter'', Takashi Nishiyama, credits the 1970s anime ''{{s|wikipedia|Space Battleship Yamato}}'' as the inspiration of Hadoken, based off of a weapon called ''Hadōhō'' (波動砲, lit. ''Wave Motion Gun/Surge Cannon''). An oddity involving the Hadoken in early versions of ''Street Fighter II'' is that there was a 1/512 chance a regular input would perform a Hadoken instead. This was done to slowly introduce beginners to more advanced mechanics. However, it perplexed those that witnessed it, who believed it was a glitch for many years until dataminers discovered it was an intentional mechanic.