DOS

Street Fighter II

Description

The original Street Fighter II is a famous fighting game. Players select from one of eight characters: Ryu, Ken, Blanka, E. Honda, Zangief, Chun Li, Guile and Dhalsim to do battle with. They must then use their combat strengths to defeat the other seven fighters followed by four boss characters: M. Bison, Vega, Sagat and Balrog. Each character represents a certain country and has their own reasons for wanting to win against the others.

Each character contains his own selection of basic fighting techniques based on three styles of punches and three styles of kicks. The effect of each of these changes depending on the characters orientation (ducking, airborne or standing still). Street Fighter 2 made famous the "button combination" style of gameplay used to unleash powerful moves specific to each character. These include the ability to project fireballs, channel electricity or capture the opponent in a tight suplex.

Street Fighter 2 is one of the most cloned fighting games and its effects on gameplay and fighting games specifically can not be understated. Street Fighter 2 is responsible for making popular several different elements.

Alternate Titles

• "Sutorīto Faitā Tsū" -- Japanese Title
• "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" -- Arcade/SNES Title
• "SF 2" -- informal abbreviation
• "ストリートファイターⅡ" -- Japanese Spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Games made into movies
• Games referenced in film
• Street Fighter series

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User Reviews

Serious candidate for the worst port ever made of any game.	Zovni (8824)
Dragon Punch me into the gutter!	Fake Spam (93)

The Press Says

PC Gamer UK

Jun, 1994

38 out of 100

38

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Trivia

Since the (US Gold) DOS version release was rather late, some PC enthusiasts 'released' a home-made clone of the game in the meantime. Though not being an exact 1:1 copy, the project (referred to as SFLIU, more details on http://syste.ms/sfliu.html) features the basic fighters' moves and specials and even allows for the specific arcade sound effects (like Ryu screaming out "Hadoken!") to be played via PC speaker, a feature not implemented in the 'official' US Gold release. Unfortunately, the SFLIU graphics and gameplay are poor compared to the real thing, but some hacks and patches that came later on provided some new innovating moves not found in the original Street Fighter game.