STREET FIGHTER II - THE WORLD WARRIOR
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ストリートファイターII
©Capcom 1991,1992
Release: 1992-06-10 (¥9800)
Cartridge SHVC-S2
Fighting game
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Released in America as
STREET FIGHTER II
( SNS-S2-USA )
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Released in Europe as
STREET FIGHTER II
( SNSP-S2-XXX )
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Do we still need to present Street Fighter II ? the game that
started the fighting-hype in the 90s ? A world martial art tournament
is organized by Sagat to find the strongest fighter who ever walked
on the surface of this Earth. Unlike the original Street Fighter,
where only two characters were playable (Ryu and Ken), this
second episode features not less than eight fighters.
And unlike other games of the genre back then, those characters have completely
different features and fighting techniques : from the cute Chun-Li
from China to the wild Blanka beast from Brazil, or Guile the
US Army soldier to the stretchy Dhalism from India. Each
character comes with three different punches and kicks (low, medium and high)
and at least two special moves, usually triggered by the now popular
button combinations on the control pad. Each fight follows the now
traditional best 2 out of 3 rounds system. The single story
mode gets the player to face up all the rest of the playable fighters,
and then affront the four bosses: Mike Bison the boxer, the
agile and fence climbing Balrog, Sagat the one-eyed
kick boxer and finally, the powerful and evil Vega
(these are the Japanese names, read the info section
for more details). As a side note, all four boss characters are sadly not playable in
this conversion.
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Street Fighter II The World Warrior came out in the arcades in 1991.
The prolific game designer Yoshiki Okamoto is the mind behind the
Street Fighter series and Final Final
was interestingly also produced by him. Although it was released
before Street Fighter II, in 1989, both games definitively share a lot
in common. Some sources even believe that Final Fight was originally
supposed to be the sequel to the first Street Fighter, but the side-scrolling nature of
Final Fight may have confused players, so they decided instead
to spin-off a new game series.
As a side note, the four bosses from Street Fighter II
had their names changed outside of Japan :
Balrog's original name was M. Bison, Vega's was
Balrog and M.Bison's was Vega.
Only Sagat stayed unchanged (see
Street Fighter II Turbo).
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Capcom also released a special wireless arcade like controller
for the Super Famicom. The Capcom Power Stick Fighter
had a 'arcade-type' joystick, six action buttons and a turbo switch (pictured on the right).
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Japanese Book
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American Guide Book
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This Super Famicom port of this all time classic is superb
and the gameplay is simply arcade perfect. Some players even argue
that the game alone pumped-up the Super Nintendo sales in Europe
(which is probably not far from the truth, everybody I knew back then had
a Street Fighter II cartridge in their stash).
Everything in Street Fighter II screams perfection - incredibly detailed graphics,
smooth animation, great controls and excellent soundtrack. Some fighters are
however stronger than others and I would personally recommend the
Turbo version for this reason (it also offers more features).
Street Fighter II is Capcom at its very best. Ho-Yu-Ken !
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