#SNES VERSIONS OF STREET FIGHTER 2 SERIES#
The biggest addition to this new game in the series is the introduction of four new characters, the first new playable fighters since Championship Edition. While everyone was expecting Street Fighter III to make its way to arcades, Capcom instead gave the game a significant overhaul the following year with Super Street Fighter II. In addition, most of the characters were given additional special moves to make them more well-rounded and to introduce more strategic play. Turbo increases the speed of the game, making matches faster and crazier and pulling off moves requires more precision.
To further refine the game, another revision was released in late 1992. Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (1992) Guile fights with slightly different colored versions of each fighter to differentiate.Īdditionally, gameplay tweaks were implemented to better balance the gameplay and small visual upgrades were added as well. Additionally, you can now play 'mirror matches' that allow Ryu vs. You can now choose to play as hulking boxer Balrog, Spanish bullfighter Vega, giant Muay Thai kickboxer Sagat and criminal overlord M. The biggest change to this version is the four boss characters are now playable, bringing the roster up to 12. The first revision of the game arrived the following year to satiate gamers' thirst for more Street Fighter II). Street Fighter II: Championship Edition (1992) Defeating them reveals the ending, which is unique to each of the 8 fighters. You take your chosen fighter through the remaining 7 fighters and must defeat all to unlock the final four 'boss' characters. The roster included the (more or less) clones of Ken and Ryu, nimble Chun-Li, rugged Guile, yoga expert Dhalsim, Russian wrestler Zangief, wild jungle creature Blanka and sumo master E.Honda. Using combinations of joystick movements and button presses, you can pull of special attacks that are unique to each character. The first game in what you could basically call the Street Fighter II series gives you 8 playable characters to pick from, each with a wide range of attacks using 6 buttons, three for varying power and speeds of punches and kicks. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) So let's take a look at each version to see what the differences are and which one you might like best. It became a joke by the mid 90's that we might never see a Street Fighter II.
Over the following years, the game received a dizzying number of upgrades and expanded versions, while always flying under the banner of Street Fighter II. The 1991 sequel took the format that was established in 1987's forward-thinking, but lackluster Street Fighter and polished it so much that it hardly felt like the same game. It's just the game - a game that was shoehorned onto a system where it didn't really belong.Few people would argue that Street Fighter II is the most important and influential fighting game of all time. The game will pause for a good five seconds or so on the pre-battle "Fight!" screen, and you'll think your system has frozen or something.
Load times! On an SNES game! The whole point of Nintendo's strict adherence to cartridge-based media in the '90s was that the company's executives vehemently despised the loading screens associated with running games off a disc, and yet somehow they made it into this release. The amount of secret characters has been sacrificed, as players of other editions could find and face off against such hidden foes as Evil Ryu and EX Zangief - but not here, because there wasn't space for them. The graphics have been squeezed down and compressed from the arcade source in order to run properly on Nintendo's 16-bit hardware, which is noticeable for anyone who's experienced the coin-op cabinet or other, more capable ports on other consoles. The problem here, though, is this particular version - Street Fighter Alpha 2 in the arcade was good, but Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES wasn't so good. There's no denying that Street Fighter Alpha 2 was a strong release in the long-running list of Street Fighter games - the Alpha series was praised by critics and loved by players in the '90s, and still are fondly remembered to this day.