Defined its genre and caused a boom of fighting games; The original Street Fighter II had many variants.
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) was a highly popular and immensely successful arcade game created by the Japan-based company Capcom. It centers around two characters, Ryu and Ken (the two main characters from the original Street Fighter), facing the evilvillain M. Bison (Vega in the Japanese version).
Today, Street Fighter II is routinely listed as one of the greatest video games of all time. It is widely considered to be the "Grandfather" of the fighting game genre, and is still considered by many purists to be the finest example of the genre, relying more on control and playability than graphics and flash, like its fighting counterparts Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct.
Karate Champ and Street Fighter were two one-on-one fighting games which preceded Street Fighter II, now largely forgotten.
The game featured a line up of 8 characters which a player could choose from to battle from all the other fighters around the world. Once the other characters had been defeated, four 'boss' characters could be battled, finishing off with M. Bison.
Legacy
This popular video game inspired several 'spin-off' versions of the game which are not thought of as 'true sequels':
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition - this version allowed the four boss characters to be selectable by the player.
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting - Turbo was released in response to modified bootlegs of Champion Edition. It speeded up the game, as well as included some new fighting moves for the characters.
Super Street Fighter II - this introduced four new characters, and updated the sound and graphics.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo - a slightly modifed version of Super Street Fighter II. It featured enhanced speed and difficulty, while still applying the gameplay and characters from Super Street Fighter II. It was also the first game in the series to have super combos & introduced Akuma.
Capcom also created some new series of games which were based on (and included characters from) the Street Fighter series:
Capcom received much criticism from fans for continually releasing yet another re-hash of a Street Fighter II. In 1997, a true sequel was released in the form of Street Fighter III.
StreetFighter or commonly abbreviated as SF, (ストリートファイター in Japan) is a popular series of fighting video games in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with his or her own special moves, against one another.
StreetFighter II, released on Capcom's CPS-1 arcade board in 1991, was one of the most popular games of the early 1990s, shaping the direction of arcade games for nearly a decade to follow.
StreetFighter III was not ported to a home system until December 1999 in Japan and early 2000 in the U.S. when it was released in a double pack with its follow-up SFIII: 2nd Impact for the Dreamcast.
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