Perhaps the easiest starting point for looking at how old some characters are is Street Fighter 2 and its many updated editions.
Related: Street Fighter 2 Almost Ruined The Video Game Industry The addition of smartphones and modern technology messes up the chronology of the Street Fighter universe even more, blurring the lines of this timeline to the point where it becomes confusing to know when exactly events are meant to take place. After all, most of the cast from the older games would be much older than they appear to be, considering the Street Fighter series celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2022. The timeline also became more complicated, with games no longer taking place during their year of release. Later entries still include each new character's birthday, but without the year, making it impossible to figure out their ages without just blindly guessing. In specific versions of Street Fighter 2, most of the characters were given birthdays, including birth years.