The mystery behind the bonus stages has finally been revealed

Feb 25, 2014 07:58 GMT  ·  By

If you ever wondered what the point of the bonus stages in Street Fighter II where you pummeled a poor innocent car into oblivion was, the answer has finally emerged: to sell insurance.

A Turkish insurance company warns that, even if you think you won't need car insurance the same way you don't need insurance against a flower pot falling over and hitting you in the head, you never know when a famous martial artist will decide to snag a few bonus points off your vehicle.

This isn't the first time the popular fighting game has been used in commercials, as the Hadouken Cabs PS4 commercial can attest to, and the game has even inspired a rock opera, as GameInformer reports.

The fact that even superstars like Ryu are forced to get jobs doing commercials in order to get by is a telltale sign of a bad economy.