Trivia

 There are some lore facts and development facts that Behind The Scenes info does not cover. Here it is, listed below.

• Kurt and Min-Jun were originally made for a side-scrolling beat 'em up known as "Union's Fury". This was inspired by Data East's "Bad Dudes". 

• Street Wise's story was inspired by a game known as World Heroes™ by Alpha Denshi Korp™. It is also inspired by the gods and goddesses of Shinto mythology, aka kami.

• Originally, Shelby was meant to be stoic, composed, and calm. He was also meant to be a junior police officer and a boxer. Now, he is happy, hyperactive, and fiery, along with being a teenage delinquent. 

• Kurt was originally a teenager in Unions Fury who was cold and stony. Now, he is older and more fatherly and expressive. 

• Adam Perry, CEO of A.A.P. Game Studio and director of Street Wise, added so many stages for fighters to fight in simply because he enjoys landscapes and such.

• Street Wise and most other A.A.P. games are heavily inspired by Japanese media, specifically the work of SNK™. Many people believe that Capcom played a part in the inspiration for Street Wise, but Adam really doesn't care about Capcom™; it is a situation where he respects them and knows they are a better company, but their work simply doesn't phase Adam.

• An achievement where the player must find a secret Fabrizio head to unlock it was added in Street Wise 3: Crimson Fury as a teaser for the upcoming addition of Fabrizio to the roster.

• In Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials, Yasakani has a pet rhinoceros beetle named "Taro-Kun" who is visible on his stage.

• Kurt has forty-five metric tons of muscle power. Shelby has 40 metric tons.

• Shelby is from Scranton, Pennsylvania. 

• Deus literally translates to "God". This was unintended, and A.A.P. found this out months after the release of Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials.

• In Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials, there is a stage in 2P mode known as the "Izanagi Stage". It is a legitimate tribute to the kami Izanagi in Shinto.

• Shelby is significantly stronger than Min-Jun due to his speed and agility, which overlap with Min-Jun's training.

• Pressing P+C on the mode select screen in Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials allows you to see the hitboxes in battle.

• Fabrizio was based on Fabrizio DeRossi from James Cameron's Titanic™.

• Before Union's Fury came a book series called Fight Night Fever. There are no remaining copies of it. All we know is there was a character named Cerberus who is very similar to the modern-day teenage delinquent we all know and love, Shelby Feilds.

• Street Wise was originally called Time Travel Warriors, and the name was changed to Street Wise due to the original game being heavily based on SNK™'s Street Smart™, along with the fact that the name had a deep meaning. 

• The name for the game, Street Wise, is not meant to be urban or anything. Given the story and the characters, the name “Street Wise” carries the meaning of wisdom earned through the road of life itself — the path every mortal walks, through war, loss, labor, and survival across every era and culture. Not the streets of a city, but the long, winding road of human experience. To be Street Wise is to be someone who has been tested by life in its rawest form and came out understanding something true about themselves and the world — the kind of knowledge that can’t be taught, only lived. Kurt embodies this perfectly: not a god, not chosen by fate, just a man who walked a harder road than anyone else and never broke.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ It was not a mindless attempt to make an urban-sounding title; it was a thought-out name for the lore.

• Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials is 210 megabytes, meaning on the Neo Geo MVS™, it would be 1680 megabits, or "megs".

• The "Wash Away Car Wash" Stage in Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials is a real place in Scranton, PA.

• Adam Perry has stated that the Japanese version of all Street Wise games (Save for Roar of the Celestials, as it was a USA exclusive) was bad because of emulation issues and poor translation. It is a one-man team for everything, and he expected it to fail in the land of the rising sun due to Western designs. The changes are documented on character pages.

• "November 25th 2025 Movement and Attacking Test" suggests that Street Wise: Roar of the Celestials was in development for 7 months.

• The Raukuyomi fight is uncanon, hence why it is not in the Strongcold Chronicles.