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Street Fighter 2

Posted by NewgroundSage - September 1st, 2012


Previously I've made a celebratory commentation on the first Street Fighter game to have started this Capcom crazed phenomena. Even though the first lacked what the other later entries would introduce to the many fighting gamer fanatics pumping their endless quarters into those classic arcade cabinets there was one title that set the standard and the craze that every gamer has ever known since its release back in 1991. And that game that was known far and wide and even to this modern day is infamously known as Street Fighter 2! The game unlike its predecessor from back in 1987 became a hallmark and contributor to the fighting genre that has graced many pizza parlors, shops, collectors, ect. But it wasn't just that what made it so well known in the start of the 90's it was the fact that it was a fun addicting game that when you throw in those few first quarter you knew that you wouldn't back down from a good old fashioned brawl. The game is as mentioned, is a much better adaption to the first Street Fighter game with crisper graphics, more variety of fighters to choose from (up to eight in the first version of SF2), various signature moves to master, more faster gameplay compared to the first Street Fighter game (Although later adaptions of SF2 in its various editions speed up gaming software and mechanics in later formats) and many memorable soundtracks from the various casts. Street Fighter was a simple tale about two fighters Ryu and Ken partaking and facing various martial artist from around the world in a chance to claim victory against a Mui Tai Kickboxing champion Sagat. In a canonical sense Ryu off faced against his deadly adversary and inflicted a damaging scar across Sagat's chest. Being the champion of the tournament, Ryu went his seperate ways and trained as a lone warrior. Then the story continues in Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior where various fighters from across the globe undertake and compete in a world tournament to try and prove to themselves how capable and masterful they are in the fighting arts and in some of their side quests to accomplish their own hidden agendas after the tournament. The fighter player portrayed until later adaptions are: Ryu, Ken, Zangief, Blanka, Chun-Li, E. Honda, Dhalism and finally Guile. And then the bosses that players faced near the end of the game: Balrog, Vega, Sagat and then the master mind behind the scenes and would be world conqueror M. Bison. In canon Ryu faced off and befriended many of his opponents and faced Bison and his Three Divas. As Ryu defeated Balrog, Vega, his arch nemesis Sagat within Thailand, M. Bison appeared unopposed to the young fighter. In the end with M. Bison defeated and his criminal organization Shadaloo thwarted, Ryu was announced at the championship award ceremony but refused to be seen and accept his medal. He again traveled the world to hone his fighting skills and await more challengers and fighters in an unforeseen future. Street Fighter 2 not only became a critical hit in arcades but also became one out of three important pillars that help maintain and set a hold of Capcom's gaming legacy. It also became a cult classic inside and outside of culture and is referenced very heavily in the gaming community. The success of this arcade gem spawned forth many adaptions and versions of Street Fighter 2. Street Fighter: Champion Edition where you play the whole complete cast of SF characters (both the standard 8 and the 4 bosses). Street Fighter 2: Hyper fighting which was made as a response to illegal upgraded ports for the various arcade cabinets to make the game more efficient with faster gameplay and new signature move sets for the characters. Super Street Fighter 2 which recalibrated the game system as a whole, revamped music and graphics along with an introduction of four new characters (T. Hawk, Cammy, Fei Long and Dee Jay). The final version of an updated SF2 game and the final arcade release of SF2 series is Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo which brings all of the casts from the previous Super SF2 with a final fighter that can only be unlocked or used with a special cheat code....Akuma! Not only did Street Fighter 2 this many ridiculous though pretty cool revisions on an already existing fighting game but many ports back after the initial release of 91' also brought about various home console versions of the arcade port. You have as the following listed: Super NES, Mega Drive, Master System, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PC, Game Boy, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, Apple iOS, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and FINALLY! Java ME. Some of the these ports are good while other lack what the arcade actually had like the SNES version which due to Nintendo at the time being "family-friendly" the game was slightly altered to both fit the limited memory capacity of the cartridge chip and to remove "questionable" content. Street Fighter brought about a simple time...Before retarded people from the senate and government started bitching about the content of video games (and the founding of the ESRB). Street Fighter brought forth a certain nostalgic quality and its one of the few games to have founded video game tournaments where you go "face-to-face" with another fellow gamer/opponent and due battle for supremacy (and of course prizes!). And just when you think that Street Fighter 2 garnered enough fame to be recognized on its own already in the gaming community....merchandise soon followed. You have board games, t-shirts, action figures, busts, pins, hats, comics, mangas and even....some animated television series and live action movie adaptions of the video game as well. Anybody can remember Jean Claude Van Damne portraying himself as Guile in the live action move Street Fighter: The Movie.....Which like Super Mario Bros. The Movie failed to be well perceived. And to make a note, Previously a couple of years ago Street Fighter was re-released on various home consoles (The big current 3 of video game consoles now). Capcom released a Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo in HD to be more visually appealing on modern day television screens along with other features like ranking board and capabilities to challenge someone on online gaming sessions. Yes Street Fighter 2 never gets old in this gamer's heart. And that's it for Street fighter 2 and in due time to celebrate the special release of the Street Fighter the 25th Anniversary game set I'm going to review and reminisce on Street fighter III: The Next Generation and of course Street Fighter IV. And just to strike the nail on the head of this subject I'm going to showcase and review some upcoming collectibles of Street Fighter memorabilia. Until next time everybody. Good day.

Street Fighter 2


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very cool

Why thank you friend. :)