Street Fighter II is a 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 his or her own reasons for wanting to win against the others.

Each character has his or her own selection of basic fighting techniques based on three styles of punches and three styles of kicks. The effect of each of these changes depends on the characters orientation (ducking, airborne or standing still). Street Fighter II has a "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.

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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

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User Reviews

The legendary fighting game may be old, but never dated.	Mumm-Ra (385)
At a time when people thought the S in SNES meant "slowdown", Capcom stepped to the plate.	DarkBubble (369)
The best arcade conversion to Super NES	Depth Lord (949)
All killer, no filler	Chris Wright (99)
Arcade Classic which still pulls the punches!	Big C (49)	unrated
A great game, too bad I suck at it.	Pixelspeech (678)

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The Press Says

Mean Machines	Jul, 1992	98 out of 100	98
Freak	Oct, 1992	98 out of 100	98
GameCola.net	Feb 04, 2006	9.4 out of 10	94
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Dec 10, 2003	9 out of 10	90
All Game Guide	1992		90
Jeuxvideo.com	Jan 20, 2010	18 out of 20	90
Power Play	Aug, 1992	89 out of 100	89
Lens of Truth	Feb 12, 2009	8 out of 10	80
The Video Game Critic	Sep 29, 1999	B	75

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Trivia

One interesting quirk about the Commodore 64 version of the game is that the special moves printed in the manual for each character were just plain wrong.

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This entry was contributed by Richard Firth (6), Corn Popper (69145), WildKard (12203), Martin Smith (63357) and Alexander Schaefer (2342)