It’s started a long time ago in the gaining history, you can call it a “legend”, it was 26 years ago when he appear in its first game Street Fighter game, a Hero Ryu. In these 26 years its changed a lot, lots of changes in change in graphics and art direction make him look like this.
the best one is from capcom vs snk 2 in terms of looks, he is a badass in that picture
+1 for capcom vs snk 2 version.
They forgot the Capcom Fighting evolution and SNK vs Capcom versions.