Happy 20th Birthday to the most influential and beloved fighting game of all time - Street Fighter II: World Warrior (released March 1991)!
Without a doubt, Street Fighter II defined the fighting game genre and created a legion of unparalleled fighting game fans. To celebrate, please share how Street Fighter has affected your life, and how you first came into contact with the legacy that started it all!
I started playing Street Fighter in 1987; while waiting for my parents to complete their grocery shopping in Chinatown, I would be hanging at this local candy shop called Sam's candy.
I was watching these guys play and they were doing dragon punches and killing off the cpu and whoever challenged them. Then I asked how they did it and they taught me in full detail on how to do this special attack. Back then; in that ver, it was almost impossible to pull it off and there was no command list to fallow. I learned it after an hour and soon later, I had the itch to play it again, so I decided to head to Chinatown from North York ... by myself at the age of 10. After that, I played it all the time when I was near the arcade @ Yonge and Dundas and to my surprise, I was the little kid who can barely see the screen was taking out all the teenagers and adults during each day I played. I once did the 100% dragon punch kill on this older dude, he just walked away without even looking back.
Fast forward to 1991, my buddy in school told me there was a Street Fighter 2 @ Becker's and my life was over at this point. Learned the game there first and soon later I found out the best competition was at this Arcade called Studio 81, where the best of the best of all North York players played. After spending my allowance every day; I soon made friends with the top guys (they were a lot older then me of course) and slowly made friends with them, indeed they were light years a head of me. There was this Taiwanese guy named David, this dude was simply the best I've ever seen. Totally unbeatable, did the hardest combos (the ones that take ultra perfect timing or else it would shutdown the game with Guile), invented a lot of combos and did all the diff glitches within a combo on command.
Example: Jump HP, stand LP, stand HP 2in1 Blade kick "wtf' .... dizzy, invisable throw 2x ... "still dizzy" & death.
Off to play SF2 right now ....
(04.21.11)
Made a little video tonight, it's been 10 years since I've touched this game and please don't mind the rusty'ness :(
E2EK1EL
ChemEnhanced
Think I'll play this tonight.
kotsy
My memory is fuzzy but I'm pretty sure Street Fighter II is what got me into video games (especially arcade games). Used to blow so many quarters on The Champion Edition and now have the actual arcade machine in my house. Street Fighter lead to the Mortal Kombat series which lead to Killer Instinct :D
chinamon
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Originally posted by kotsy
Street Fighter lead to the Mortal Kombat series which lead to Killer Instinct :D
street fighter > *
i never liked any of the other combat style games.
Adamo
street fighter 2 on SNES, loved every single second.
Tunnel Rat
As good as SF 2 was, this was the best fighter game made....
Jeff Button
Street Fighter doesn't even come close to this.....
(or it's soundtrack.....which is out of this world)
Yohan
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Originally posted by Tunnel Rat
As good as SF 2 was, this was the best fighter game made....
I dunno. I think SF3 is best balanced of all SF series. 50hit combo got too gimmicky for me.
I didn't play SF2 until it got released on SNES, but I remember following my step bro to arcades cuz I had no money lol. One day, my step bro was randomly playing w/ Zangief and he learned to how to do the spinning pile driver. Went back to the arcade closer to our home at the time and people were mocking him bc he picked Zangief. Then he pwned all their asses for like 5 hrs until the arcade closed and they didn't laugh at him anymore.
jon jon
lol, that double dragon vid brought me wayyyyy back
chinamon
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Originally posted by Yohan
One day, my step bro was randomly playing w/ Zangief
zangief kinda looks like he would swing that way
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Originally posted by Yohan
Then he pwned all their asses for like 5 hrs until the arcade closed and they didn't laugh at him anymore.
he probably cheesed his way through every match. constantly pile-driving everyone.
E2EK1EL
The hardest, most tech and deepest SFs series would be ...
