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Street Fighter Ii | align=center colspan=2| | | lign="center" colspan=2| | | a href="/encyclopedia/Video-game-developer" title="Video game developer">Developer: | Capcom | | a href="/encyclopedia/Video-game-publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher: | Capcom | | elease date: | 1991 | | a href="/encyclopedia/Computer-and-video-game-genres" title="Computer and video game genres">Genre: | Fighting | | ame modes: | Up to 2 players simultaneously | | abinet: | Standard | | ontrols: | Joystick; 6 buttons | | lign="center" colspan=2|System hardware/Arcade system | | olspan=2|This game runs on the Capcom Play System hardware (CPS) {| width="100%" | | width="1%" |CPU: | width="99%" |MC68000 12 Mhz
Z80 4 Mhz (sound) | } | | lign="center" colspan=2|Monitor | | olspan=2| {| width="100%" | | Raster, standard resolution 384 x 224 (Horizontal) Colors 4096 | } | | lign="center" colspan=2|Notes | | olspan=2|Defined its genre and caused a boom of fighting games; The original Street Fighter II had many updates. | Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) was a highly popular and immensely successful fighting game created by Capcom. It centers around two characters, Ryu and Ken (the two main characters from the original Street Fighter), facing the evil villain 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, are 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 fighting game inspired several updates 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. It also was the first fighting game to have same character matches.
- 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 updated 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. Many of these were both arcade and console video game hits. External Links
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