Super Nintendo: Street Fighter 2
January 14, 2009 - 1:40 pm - Posted by Sean R.
Street Fighter 2 revolutionized fighting video games when it hit the scene back in the early 1990’s.
As a matter of fact, this was the main reason that so many people, including myself, ran out and purchased a Super Nintendo console.
Since this cartridge was nearly arcade-perfect and only available for the SNES, it spelled the beginning of the end of Sega’s console dominance.
The game’s eight diverse fighters hail from all over the world, and each has their own distinctive fighting style.
Easy to learn but difficult to master, Street Fighter 2’s basic gameplay and control scheme became the fighting game standard, copied by endless clones.
Harder kicks and punches inflict more damage, but are tougher to land. With numerous special attacks and the ability to block (by holding the joystick away from your opponent), the gameplay is remarkably deep.
The meticulously detailed backgrounds are fascinating, and the theme songs are some of the best ever composed for a video game.
This cartridge also provides the ability to customize your control scheme, and it annoyed me to no end how each of my friends always had to modify their settings before every bout.
Street Fighter 2 stands out as one of the all-time classics, right up there with Pac-Man and Space Invaders.
It led to many sequels, each of which offered minor enhancements but no significant changes to the gameplay itself.
10 Responses to “Super Nintendo: Street Fighter 2”
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I spent so much money playing Street Fighter 2 in the arcades as a kid. We use to have local competitions. So much fun. I completely agree, the SNES port is spot on.
Street Fighter 2 is defiantly in my top 10 Super Nintendo games. Now that you’ve got me thinking about it, maybe I should play a few rounds…
@Retro Rob: Like you, I was also in many Street Fighter competitions. I recall something like $5.00 USD to enter the contest and you got to play for free until you were beat, then the winner would move on and play someone else. The winner got some cash as a prize. The owner of the arcade would give the winner like half the entry cash from what I remember which was a around a hundred dollars and back in the early 1990’s, that was a big deal.
@Billy The Kid: Agreed, Street Fighter 2 is a worthy game to play even by today’s gaming standards. Classic gaming is awesome, and yes, you should go play the game right now and kick some major butt
The big argument on the school bus was always Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter II. I liked both but SF2 was definitely better. The hardcore gamers usually agreed, but the Fatality factor was strong when we were all 11 years old.
I have to say the Genesis version of SF2 was very worthy, too. Took longer to come out, I guess, but was just as popular.
This game is probably one of the best in the Street Fighter series ever.
Hell yeah. Street Fighter II rules, even by today’s standards. You know what was started to get annoying though? The numerous sequels that weren’t actually sequels.
Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting; Street Fighter II Championship Edition; Super Street Fighter II Turbo; Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and god knows how many others.
I swear that there’s a committee at Capcom where they try to elongate the title of the next Street Fighter II video game. I’ve just thought one: Super Street Fighter Hyper Turbo Black Belt Edition HD Remix OMG!
Oh yeah. This is annoying as well:
“You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.”
Gargh! He doesn’t even exist!
@Pwn Greenland: I agree with you 100%.
The only sequel to Street Fighter 2 I personally like is the “turbo” version, only because you can play as one of the four “boss” characters, including Vega, Bison, Sagat, and Balrog. Basically this brings the character selection to twelve which is pretty cool.
There are also numerous speed settings, allowing for faster and more exciting matches, otherwise as mentioned, this is basically the same game.
Yeah, that aspect was cool. After that though, every remake was practically the same. It was cool when they brought back Birdie, Adon and Gen. But that Ex Plus Alpha series almost ruined the Street Fighter experience.
Hopefully Street Fighter IV will be far superior compared to the numerous remakes and spin offs out there. I’m getting my PS3 next month as well so that’s one title I’ll totally be looking forward to.