Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

The second Street Fighter tournament is here - the global combat contest where the best fight in informal locations for the title of the world's best by defeating M Bison - the leader of the sinister Shadaloo. This year the competitors all bring their own agenda to the proceedings. Ryu joins for the purity of the fight - for the skill required to win. Ken enters for the same reason but brings more arrogance with him. E Honda is out to prove that sumo is more than just fat men pushing each other around while Zangief is out to prove that Russia is the home of the most powerful fighters. Brazilian monster Blanka is out to discover more about his past while others have more personal agendas. Guile's best friend Charlie was killed by Bison, Chun Li lost her father to Bison and Dhalsim seeks to stop Bison's reign and bring peace to his home country. Round 1 - FIGHT! Back at my parent's home in Northern Ireland they are cursed with a house that is now very empty thanks to their children (myself included) long time having become adults. The curse of this is not only the loss of family (to a point) but the amount of space they have so that my mother, already a hoarder, has suddenly no reason not to keep this and that around the house. So we tend to have lots of stuff from childhood still kicking around the place. Of course some things have fallen casualty to time (specifically a box of about 30 original Transformers toys and another box containing the Transformers comics from issue 40 until it stopped at issue 300-odd ; sadly all gone to charity shops many years before the 2007 film would have made me a nice little summer bonus on eBay). But I digress.

What we do still have are our original NES and SNES with all the games that we once played and when I occasionally do drop home the one I dust off is Street Fighter II on the SNES. My girlfriend recently commented that it looks "knackered" and she is right because the graphics do look busted and totally removed from the looks and sounds of similar modern games. However this is ignoring several things. Firstly, at one point, this was the "big" cutting edge arcade game that everyone wanted and, when I was of the video game age, this was how I saw it and experienced it. Secondly she forgets that I'm playing it now with the element of nostalgia thrown in.

These two things together continue to make the game appeal to me. It is an arcade classic and I love the fact that last week, despite not having played it for over 5 years, I was able to pull off the special moves etc from my youth. The game has a great retro soundtrack and fantastic sound effects – they were great in the day and now they have an extra retro-cool effect, hell I love even hearing them sampled in tracks as they occasionally are. The game-play continues to be good and, although the default level is too easy for me even after all these years, I still get enjoyment and a challenge out of it.

A great game back in its day then but even now it is fun to play. Many sequels and variations followed but for me this is a great game that will only hurt me when my SNES eventually dies.

1992. The year when the Street Fighter saga became very popular before every game there is today such as Turbo/Super/Alpha/Ex etc. I was 6 years old when this great game came out. Me and my siblings used to play it every day all day during the summer when I had my Super NES.

I remember that every time we used Guile because on that time, he was the MAN! Using him every time and kicking some ass with him. No matter what this will be the best Street Fighter game of all time as we die hard fans of this fighting game say.

That year was the beginning of the Street Fighter legacy before Mortal Kombat came and also rose to popularity among fans of fighting genre video games.

To me, Street Fighter owns Mortal Kombat. However in 1994, the darkest moment of Street Fighter II was when the ill fated live-action movie came out.

Street Fighter II is and always will be the absolute best.

I give this game a 10 out of 10

This was the very first videogame I ever played in my entire lifetime, if memory serves me right.

I think I played this even before learning how to learn and write properly, while I was still on kindergarten; I used to play with my mother and my older brother in a place where kids could rent videogames to play them for hours, in a time before MMORPGs went mainstream.

I had my own Blanka toy, which I carried everywhere instead of a teddy bear.

I remember when I was a kid Chun-Li and Vega used to be my favorite characters from the game, though I had no idea about the backstories or any of the actual personalities of the characters.

I even liked that cheesy Jean-Claude Van Damme movie!

While I haven't played any Street Fighter game in a very long time, Street Fighter will always remain a special place in my heart, being the reason of why I was so much into fighting games during the nineties, until Pokemon Red and Blue shifted my interest into RPGs.

I still consider the Street Fighter anime movie a great film, the same goes for the anime series.

The Street Fighter II series is one of the most unique fighting video games! The characters, the action, and the sure thrill of excitement makes this game a fun non-stop playing time! Below is a brief look how I think the game is!

Game Play: The game play is very good. There is really basic controls here and is easy to perform. Novice gamers should have a good time here!

Graphics: The graphics are wonderful especially for the Arcade! The backgrounds are really beautiful!

Difficulty: The game is easy but as it goes on you find out that it will become more difficult!

Music: The music is great! Just fantastic catchy tunes through out the game!

In My opinion its some of the best music ever in a video game!

Sound: The sound is great. Nuff said!

Overall: I have always loved Street Fighter II: The World Warrior! If you like excellent flying adventure up games then I strongly recommend you play this game!

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I remember playing this on the arcade when I was a little kid. And I still love it today. I mean come on Street Fighter II was a great fighting game and it still is. The first Street Fighter was a little you know cheap. But Street Fighter II is fun the graphics are great.

I loved the music because some of there stage background music almost were catchy and I still hum the SF2 themes today. The game play is great and still is today. I loved the special effects also and the new announcer's voice. I loved the opening theme for Street Fighter II.

If you are a Street Fighter newbie play this game first if you want to be a Street Fighter fan.

10/10