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85-448: Capcom Fighting Evolution features characters all taken from the rosters of Street Fighter II , Street Fighter Alpha 3 , Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike , Darkstalkers 3 , as well as the single game Red Earth . There are four selectable characters representing each series, excluding original character Ingrid and the boss characters Pyron and Shin Akuma . Each character uses

170-933: A Taiwanese firm produced 20,000 copied arcade units in 1991; in Taiwan, up to 150,000 clone units were manufactured by 1992. Many counterfeit units were in South Korea , such as a trader selling about 100 Street Fighter II PCBs by 1992. Seven different versions of the game claimed to be sequels in 1992, mostly from Hong Kong, and one named Champion of Champion Editions reportedly was in British arcades. Capcom and its partners took legal action against counterfeit arcade units in regions such as Southeast Asia , North America , South Korea, and Puerto Rico . The numerous home conversions of Street Fighter II are listed among Capcom's Platinum-class games, with more than one million units sold worldwide. In Japan, 1 million copies of

255-484: A Mystic Break (their super moves). The Red Earth characters have a blocking technique called the "Ultimate Guard", which allows them to block all attacks (except throws) without consuming energy. They can also follow an Ultimate Guard with an "Ultimate Counter". The characters from Street Fighter III have a two-level Super Art gauge. Unlike in Street Fighter III , the characters in this game cannot select

340-407: A Super Art before battle, but they have access to more than one Super Art (much like their Street Fighter II counterparts) as well as EX Moves, powered-up versions of their regular Special Moves. Players can also "parry" an opponent's attacks, which allows them to nullify one hit of an attack and usually slow down the attacker enough to allow the defender to make a quick counterattack. Ingrid makes

425-510: A Super Combo at MAX level. They cannot air block nor dash like other characters, but can stand up quickly when they fall to the ground. Unlike Super Turbo , each character has two Super Combo moves. Despite representing Street Fighter II , the graphics for Ryu and Bison are actually from their Capcom vs. SNK incarnation, while Guile is from Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Zangief received a new sprite (edited from his Street Fighter Alpha one) just for this game. The Darkstalkers characters have

510-401: A fighting system from the game which determines the techniques they can use and their super move gauge. Ingrid uses her unique fighting style with her own techniques, for a total of six fighting styles. The game consists of two-on-two endurance-style matches similar to that of Rival Schools: United By Fate . The player selects a pair of character and then begins a match with one character. In

595-578: A game had such longevity". In 1991, 50,000 arcade units were sold worldwide, including 17,000 units in Japan, with Capcom reporting continued production of arcade units due to repeat orders. In the United Kingdom, Your Commodore reported in July 1991 that spectators were betting on players at London West End arcades. Between early 1991 and early 1993, Street Fighter II had captured about 60% of

680-576: A popular two-player mode that obligates direct, human-to-human competitive play, inspiring grassroots tournament events, culminating in Evolution Championship Series (EVO). Street Fighter II shifted the arcade competitive dynamic from achieving personal-best high scores to head-to-head competition, including large groups. Street Fighter II became the best-selling game since the golden age of arcade video games . By 1994, it had been played by an estimated 25 million people in

765-598: A return appearance in Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX for the PlayStation Portable ; in that game, she is a time traveller trying to retrieve her power from M. Bison , who stole it and named it Psycho Power. Capcom Fighting Jam: Original Soundtrack , an officially licensed soundtrack of the game, was released on December 12, 2004, in Japan only. This album features the original music found in

850-479: A roster of eight playable characters. This includes Ryu and Ken—the main protagonists from Street Fighter —plus six new international newcomers. In the single-player tournament, the player fights the other seven main fighters, then the final opponents—a group of four CPU -only opponents known as the Grand Masters, which includes Sagat from Street Fighter . Playable characters: CPU-exclusive characters, in

935-489: A selective game speed, introduces powered-up special moves called Super Combos, and adds a new hidden character. All arcade Street Fighter II games have been ported to various platforms, as individual releases and in compilations. In 1995, Capcom released a prequel successor, Street Fighter Alpha , and then a full sequel in 1997, Street Fighter III . Despite this, Street Fighter II continued to be popular and Capcom has released further home versions revising or expanding

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1020-522: A sequel. Capcom began to make fighting games a priority after Final Fight was commercially successful in the United States. Yoshiki Okamoto recounted: "The basic idea at Capcom was to revive Street Fighter , a good game concept, to make it a better-playing arcade game." Development of Street Fighter II took about two years and about 35 to 40 people, with Noritaka Funamizu as a producer, and Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda in charge of

1105-504: A series of revisions, each refining the play mechanics, graphics, character roster, and other aspects of the game. The first update was Street Fighter II: Champion Edition , released in arcades in March 1992. It rebalances characters' power levels, allows both players in two-player matches to select the same character (distinguished by alternate costume colors) and allows players to choose the four previously computer-only boss characters. It

1190-410: A series of timed one-on-one, close-quarters combat matches. In order to win a round, the player must either completely drain the opponent's health bar by landing attacks, or have more health left than the opponent when the timer runs out. Neither fighter wins the round if they have equal health when time expires or if they simultaneously knock each other out. The first fighter to win two rounds is declared

1275-400: A specific Super Combo or a Custom Combo when the gauge is 50% full. Does more damage at MAX level. They can also air block and perform Alpha Counters or recovering rolls. The characters from Red Earth have a Gem gauge which allows the player to stock up to two gems after the gauge fills up. When the player has a gem in stock, they can level-up their character and make them stronger or perform

1360-733: A three-level "Special Stock" gauge like in Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge , allowing them to perform ES Moves (enhanced versions of their regular special moves) or EX Specials (their super moves). They can also perform Guard Cancels (a counterattacking special move) and Chain Combos (which allows them to link any basic moves with another one of equal or greater strength). Darkstalkers characters can air block and dash, as well as do standing-up attacks and move while they're down. The Street Fighter Alpha characters have single-level Custom Combo gauge and can perform

1445-593: A variety of basic moves in any position, including new grabbing and throwing attacks. Special moves are performed by combinations of directional and button-based commands. Street Fighter II differs from its predecessor due to the selection of multiple playable characters , each with distinct fighting styles and special moves including combos. According to IGN , "the concept of combinations, linked attacks that can't be blocked when they're timed correctly, came about more or less by accident. Street Fighter II ' s designers didn't quite mean for it to happen, but players of

1530-519: Is "one of the best fighting games yet seen in the arcades" and a "brilliant" coin-op. In the June 1991 issue of Sinclair User , John Cook gave the arcade game an "addict factor" of 84%. He praised the gameplay and the "excellent" animation and sound effects, but criticized the controls, stating players "might find the control system a bit daunting at first [with] a joystick plus six (count 'em!) fire buttons [but] it's not that bad really". He concluded "this

1615-547: Is bound to appeal to you if you like the beat 'em up style of game." Jeff Davy of Your Commodore praised the game for its large sprites, character animation, varied opponents, character moves, and two-player mode. Computer and Video Games later referred to Street Fighter II as the "game of the millennium" in 1992. The SNES version of Street Fighter II was very well received. In Electronic Gaming Monthly ( EGM ), its panel of four reviewers gave it scores of 10, 9, 10, and 9, adding up to 38 out of 40, and their "Game of

1700-559: Is the best fighting game to date. Nintendo Power scored it 16.2 out of 20, stating that the "hottest arcade game around has been faithfully reproduced for this Super NES conversion" and that it "is just like having the arcade game at home!". Nintendo Power ranked it the best SNES game of 1992, above The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in second place. Computer Gaming World in April 1994 said that " Street Fighter II now enters

1785-619: The Amstrad CPC development by Creative Materials was canceled. This standalone handheld machine was missing Chun-Li and Dhalsim. The Game Boy version of Street Fighter II was released on August 11, 1995, in Japan, and in September 1995 internationally. It is missing Dhalsim, E. Honda, and Vega. The graphics, character portraits, and stages are based on Super Street Fighter II , although some moves (ex: Blanka's Amazon River Run) from Super Street Fighter II Turbo are included. Because

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1870-836: The PlayStation 2 and Xbox , and in Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for the PlayStation Portable . In 2011, all three games were released on iOS devices as the Street Fighter II Collection , though the compilation was later delisted from the App Store . In 2018, Street Fighter II was one of the many games included in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection for the PlayStation 4 , Nintendo Switch , Xbox One and Windows . Street Fighter II spawned

1955-477: The review aggregation website Metacritic . In Japan, Famitsu gave the former console version a score of 26 out of 40. The game was criticized because all of the characters, except Ingrid, were copy-and-pasted from their respective games, where the Street Fighter II characters were taken from Capcom vs. SNK 2 , but had drastically cut-down animation frames. Comparisons were instantly drawn to

2040-491: The "solid" gameplay, and it was considered the top game at the American Coin Machine Exposition (ACME) that month. In May 1991, Julian Rignall of Computer and Video Games gave it ratings of 94% for graphics, 93% for sound, 95% for playability, and 92% for lastability, with a 93% score overall. He criticized the original Street Fighter for being a "run-of-the-mill beat 'em up with little in

2125-499: The February 1994 issue of Gamest , both Street Fighter II Turbo and Super Street Fighter II were nominated for Best Game of 1993, but neither won (the first place was given to Samurai Spirits ). Super ranked third place, and Turbo ranked sixth. In the category of Best Fighting Games, Super ranked third place again, while Turbo placed fifth. Super won third place in the categories of Best Graphics and Best VGM. Cammy, who

2210-608: The Game Boy only has two buttons, the strength of punches and kicks is determined by the duration of button presses. Street Fighter II , Champion Edition , and Turbo are in the compilation Capcom Generation 5 for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn , which was released in North America and Europe as Street Fighter Collection 2 . All three games are in Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for

2295-674: The Heavenly Bride , Shin Megami Tensei , World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck , and Mario Paint . They later gave the Turbo update a score of 36 out of 40. This made Street Fighter II Turbo their highest-rated game of 1993, and the twelfth game to have received a Famitsu score of 36/40 or above. The arcade game was well received by English-language critics upon release. In March 1991, RePlay said that "the graphics and sounds are tops" while praising

2380-567: The Japanese version of the game, if their current character is defeated for one round, then the next round will begin with the other character. In the North American version, the character can remain the same whether he or she wins or loses. The Street Fighter II characters follow the playing style of Super Street Fighter II Turbo . Each Street Fighter II character only has a single-level Super Combo gauge that allows them to perform

2465-528: The Mega Drive/Genesis version of Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition with 1.65 million sales. In total, more than 14 million copies were sold for the SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis consoles. The SNES version of Street Fighter II was Capcom's best-selling single game until 2013, when it was surpassed by Resident Evil 5 . The Amiga version was successful in the United Kingdom, where it became

2550-541: The Month" award. Sushi-X (Ken Williams) gave it a 10, calling it "The best! Street Fighter II is the only game I have ever seen that really deserves a 10!" Martin Alessi gave it a 9, describing it as "the best cart available anywhere! Incredible game play!" Ed Semrad gave it a 10, saying "The moves are perfect, the graphics outstanding and the audio exceptional. Get one of the new 6 button sticks and you'll swear you're playing

2635-662: The PC ring rather late and with a touch of weak wrist". The magazine reported that "the atmosphere and the impact of hefty welts and bone-crushing action is just not here. The usual lament of many PC gamers about arcade conversions is once again true: too little and too late". Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Sure, it's violent (people can be set on fire), but Street Fighter II offers a depth of play (each character has more than 20 different moves) unmatched by any other video-game slugfest." Shinkiro Toshiaki Mori ( 森 気楼 , Mori Toshiaki , born December 14, 1962) , best known under

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2720-806: The Sixth Annual Grand Prize, as published in the February 1993 issue of Gamest , winning again as Best Action Game. It placed No. 3 in Best VGM, No. 6 in Best Graphics, and No. 5 in Best Direction. The Street Fighter II Image Album is the No. 1 Best Album in the same issue, with the Drama CD version of Street Fighter II tied for No. 7 with the soundtrack for Star Blade . The List of Best Characters only had Chun-Li at No. 3. In

2805-546: The Super Famicom in Japan by December 1992. By 1994, Street Fighter II had been played by an estimated 25 million people in the United States alone, across arcades and homes. All versions of Street Fighter II are estimated to have grossed a total of $ 10.61 billion in revenue, mostly from the arcade market. As of 2017 , it is one of the top three highest-grossing video games of all time, along with Space Invaders (1978) and Pac-Man (1980). Street Fighter II

2890-534: The Super Famicom version were sold in June 1992 within the first two weeks of its release, at a retail price of ¥ 10,780 (equivalent to $ 85.12 then, or $ 185 in 2023). The February 1992 issue of Gamest in Japan said that, due to low stock, the console versions were selling for much higher at ¥15,000 (equivalent to about $ 119.19 at the time, or $ 259 in 2023). It topped the Japanese Famitsu sales charts from June through July to August 1992. It

2975-545: The United Kingdom, Street Fighter II replaced Super Mario World as the bundled game for the SNES, and the SNES and Amiga versions made it the second best-selling home video game of 1992, below Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Mega Drive. Worldwide, four million Street Fighter II cartridges had been sold by September 1992, 5 million units by the end of 1992, and over 6 million by 1993. The SNES version became

3060-500: The United States alone. Worldwide, more than 200,000 arcade cabinets and 15   million software units of all versions of Street Fighter II have been sold, grossing an estimated $ 10 billion in total revenue, making it one of the top three highest-grossing video games of all time as of 2017 and the best-selling fighting game until 2019. More than 6.3 million Super Nintendo (SNES) cartridges of Street Fighter II were sold, making it Capcom's best-selling single software game for

3145-460: The United States. On the US RePlay arcade charts for July 1992, Champion Edition was number one on the upright cabinets chart (above Midway 's Mortal Kombat ) while the original Street Fighter II was number two on the coin-op software chart (below SNK 's World Heroes ). Street Fighter II generated $ 1.5 billion (equivalent to $ 3.26 billion in 2023) annually in 1993, making it

3230-462: The arcade version." GamePro printed two reviews of the game in its August 1992 issue, both giving it a full score of 5 out of 5; Doctor Dave described it as "Capcom's best arcade conversion yet" while Slasher Quan stated that almost "everything's perfect in the Super NES version" and that it is "a nearly flawless conversion of the arcade original that's made even more enjoyable by new options and

3315-435: The base for future titles. Later we were able to make the timing more comfortable and the combo into a real feature. In [ Street Fighter II ] we thought if you got the perfect timing you could place several hits, up to four I think. Then we managed to place eight! A bug? Maybe. The vast majority of in-game music was composed by Yoko Shimomura . This is ultimately the only game in the series on which Shimomura worked, as she left

3400-473: The best-selling arcade game in ten years. Electronic Games noted in its October 1992 issue, "Not since the early 1980s has an arcade game received so much attention and all-out fanatical popularity." It was similarly successful in Australia, where it was performing strongly after 16 months on the market, with Leisure Line magazine noting in 1992 that not "since the days of Space Invaders (1978) has

3485-603: The best-selling home computer software of 1992, though only being available for the last 16 days of the year. Street Fighter II also topped the UK's Amiga sales chart in January 1993, and the UK's Atari ST chart in March 1993. In 2008, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix broke both the first-day and first-week sales records for a download-only game. Street Fighter II was the best-selling fighting game with 15.5   million units sold across all versions and platforms, until it

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3570-532: The boxer's similarities to Tyson could have led to a likeness infringement lawsuit . The characters in the Japanese version have more than one win quote and if the player loses a match against the CPU in the Japanese version, a random playing tip will be shown at the bottom of the continue screen. While the ending text for the characters was originally translated literally, a few changes were made due to creative differences from Capcom's U.S. marketing staff. For example,

3655-404: The company for Square two years later. Isao Abe, a Capcom newcomer, handled a few additional tracks ("Versus Screen", "Sagat's Theme", and "Here Comes A New Challenger") for Street Fighter II and became the main composer on the subsequent versions. The sound programming and sound effects were overseen by Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, the composer on Street Fighter . Location testing began in Japan. It

3740-457: The company's best-selling single consumer game software, at more than 6.3 million units, and it remains its best-selling game software on a single platform. By 1993, 10 million units of all home software versions had been sold, and 11.9 million units for Nintendo and Sega consoles by March 1994. The SNES versions of Street Fighter II Turbo and Super Street Fighter II had 4.1 million and two million unit sales, respectively, followed by

3825-740: The computer-controlled opponent will win by default in a single-player match or both fighters will lose in a two-player match. After every third match in the single-player mode, a bonus stage gives a chance to earn additional points by smashing a car, wooden barrels, or metal oil drums. After each match, the location for the next one is selected on a world map . Like in Street Fighter , the controls are an eight-directional joystick and six attack buttons. The joystick can jump, crouch, walk left and right, and block. A tradeoff of strength and speed are given by three punch buttons and three kick buttons, each of light, medium, and heavy. The player can perform

3910-406: The concepts introduced in the first game, including the use of special command-based moves , a combo system, a six-button configuration, and a wider selection of playable characters , each with a unique fighting style. Designed by Yoshiki Okamoto and Akira Yasuda , who had previously worked on Final Fight , Street Fighter II is regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time and

3995-402: The convenience of home fighting." Super Play gave it a 94% score, stating that with "the inclusion of Champion Edition ' s Character vs. Character select and the extra options, I would even go so far to say that this is actually better than the coin-op." Electronic Games gave it scores of 95% for graphics, 92% for sound, and 93% for playability, with a 94% overall, concluding that it

4080-610: The crossover series SNK vs Capcom on which he collaborated with Capcom's Kinu Nishimura . During the 1990s, he was the most recognizable and famous of their artists. After that, he worked as a free illustrator and a cartoonist. At Capcom since 2000, Shinkiro has done several cover artworks and character designs for many of their games, including Bionic Commando Rearmed , Dino Stalker , Dead Rising , Capcom Fighting Jam , Resident Evil: Dead Aim , Tatsunoko vs. Capcom , Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , and Capcom vs SNK series. He has also done

4165-681: The game and character design, respectively. The budget was estimated at $ 2,450,000 (equivalent to $ 5,480,000 in 2023). Funamizu notes that the developers did not particularly prioritize Street Fighter II ' s balance ; he primarily ascribes the game's success to its appealing animation patterns. The quality of animation benefited from the developers' use of the CPS-1 hardware, with advantages including allowing different characters to occupy different amounts of memory. For example, Ryu can occupy 8  megabits and Zangief 12 megabits. The combo system came about by accident: While I

4250-522: The game began gaining considerable popularity in Japanese arcades. In Japan, Game Machine magazine listed the game on their April 1, 1991 issue as being the second most-successful table arcade cabinet of the month, outperforming games such as Detana!! TwinBee and King of the Monsters , before Street Fighter II topped the charts two weeks later. It went on to become the highest-grossing arcade game of 1991 in Japan, and then it again became

4335-597: The game composed by Noriyuki Asakura. The first pressing of this album came with an exclusive mini disc that featured both the vocal and instrumental versions of Ingrid's Theme; 'Heat Haze' by Maiko Kubo. The cover artwork was done by Shinkiro . The PlayStation 2 version was revealed at E3 2004, and versions for the Xbox and Japanese arcades were revealed soon after. The arcade version is set to be re-released in 2025 as part of Capcom Fighting Collection 2 . The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "mixed" reviews according to

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4420-768: The game years later: namely Hyper Street Fighter II released in December 2003 (later given an arcade release); Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix , released in November 2008 and a remake of 1994's Super Street Fighter II Turbo ; and Ultra Street Fighter II : The Final Challengers released in May 2017, adding three characters who previously debuted outside Street Fighter II updates. In addition to official updated versions, numerous counterfeit modified versions of Street Fighter II were in wide circulation. For example, nine different counterfeit versions were available on

4505-484: The game's creation before leaving during the middle of its production. Street Fighter II Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a 1991 fighting game produced by Capcom for arcades , and their fourteenth game to use the CP System arcade system board . It is the second installment in the Street Fighter series and the sequel to 1987's Street Fighter . Street Fighter II vastly improved many of

4590-428: The genre of Best Action Game (the award for fighting games was not established yet). Street Fighter II placed No. 1 in Best VGM, Best Direction, and Best Album, and was second place in Best Graphics below the 3D Namco System 21 game Starblade . All the characters except M. Bison (known internationally as Balrog) are on the list of Best Characters of 1991. Street Fighter II Dash was awarded Best Game of 1992 in

4675-504: The global coin-op market, including 10,000 units installed in the United Kingdom by mid-1991, with individual machines in the UK estimated to be taking between £ 70–1,000 per week over the next two years. Street Fighter II generated an estimated annual revenue of £260 million in the UK alone for the two years between mid-1991 and mid-1993, totaling £520 million ( $ 913 million at the time, equivalent to $ 1.98 billion in 2023). The company sold more than 60,000 arcade machines of

4760-595: The highest-grossing arcade game of 1992 . Street Fighter II Turbo became the highest-grossing arcade game of 1993 , with Street Fighter II Dash ( Champion Edition ) at number four and The World Warrior at number nine. Street Fighter II was similarly successful in the Western world . In the United States, the game was more immediately successful as it exceeded expectations in test markets, with individual machines earning $ 1,300–1,400 per week, Capcom USA sales representative Jeff Walker predicted it would "become

4845-471: The international versions was designed as a pastiche of real-life boxer Mike Tyson and was originally named M. Bison (short for "Mike Bison", with "Mike" being one of the American opponents faced in Street Fighter ). Vega and M. Bison were originally named Balrog and Vega, respectively. When Street Fighter II was localized for the overseas market, the names of the bosses were rotated, out of concern that

4930-540: The kit of 1991" and RePlay magazine said the game showed there was "plenty of life" left in the then struggling arcade business. By March, it had become a blockbuster and the top-grossing game in the United States, giving a substantial boost in earnings for street operators. It topped the RePlay arcade software charts from May 1991 through August 1992, for a total of 16 months. On the Play Meter arcade charts, it

5015-414: The more advanced CP System II , allowing for updated graphics and audio, and introducing four new characters, but relieving the speed increase of Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting . It was followed by the fourth update, Super Street Fighter II Turbo , released in February 1994, combining the improvements of Super Street Fighter II with the previous Turbo (Hyper Fighting) edition. It allows for

5100-424: The most important and influential fighting game ever made. Its launch is seen as a revolutionary moment within its genre, credited with popularizing the fighting genre during the 1990s and inspiring other producers to create their own fighting series. Additionally, it prolonged the survival of the declining video-game arcade business market by stimulating business and driving the fighter genre. It prominently features

5185-414: The name of Guile's fallen friend (who later debuted as a playable fighter in Street Fighter Alpha ) was changed from Nash to Charlie , since a staff member from Capcom USA said that Nash is not a natural sounding English name. Although the original punching-pad cabinet of Street Fighter had not been very popular, the alternate six-button version was more successful, which began to generate interest in

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5270-499: The next two decades, its best-selling game on a single platform, and the highest-selling third-party game on the SNES. Due to its major success, a series of updated versions were released with additional features and characters, starting with 1992's Street Fighter II: Champion Edition ; its major successor was Street Fighter III in 1997. Street Fighter II follows several conventions and rules established by its 1987 predecessor Street Fighter . The player engages opponents in

5355-482: The order of appearance: Takayuki Nakayama stated in an interview that many character design ideas were trialled and dropped along the development process. Rejected character designs for Street Fighter II included another bullfighter and an American amateur wrestler. With the exception of Sagat, the Shadaloo Bosses have different names in the Japanese version. The African-American boxer known as Balrog in

5440-461: The original Street Fighter II , including about 20,000 to 25,000 units in the United States. It was followed by Street Fighter II′ ( Dash or Champion Edition ), of which 140,000 arcade units were sold in Japan alone, where it cost ¥ 160,000 ( $ 1300) for each unit, amounting to ¥22.4 billion ($ 182 million) revenue generated from hardware sales in Japan (equivalent to $ 407 million in 2023), in addition to about 20,000 to 25,000 units sold in

5525-517: The original game eventually found out that certain moves naturally flowed into other ones." This combo system was later adopted as a standard feature of fighting games and was expanded upon in this series. The leader of the Shadaloo organization, M. Bison, in his global domination plan sets up a world fighting tournament, to select the best fighters to work in his Shadaloo organization through brainwashing. The original Street Fighter II features

5610-651: The packaging illustrations for the Game Boy Advance versions of Final Fight and Super Ghouls'n Ghosts , as well as the Japanese release of Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy . His other job is helping with hand drawn-artwork for the rendering work on games such as Monster Hunter Cross and the HD remake of Resident Evil 0 . He also drew cover arts for manga books and for American comics such as Spider-Man Unlimited and Udon 's Street Fighter and Darkstalkers comic series. His classic work for SNK

5695-452: The pen name of Shinkiro ( 森気楼 , Shinkirō ) , is a Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist who used to work for SNK and is currently employed by Capcom . Prior to joining Capcom, Shinkiro was employed by SNK, where he provided the character designs and cover illustrations for many of their Neo Geo games, including such series as Fatal Fury , Metal Slug , The King of Fighters , and Samurai Shodown , as well as for

5780-403: The player, which led to some backlash from fans of the games. Producer Yoshinori Ono has admitted that the game was essentially a salvaged version of Capcom Fighting All-Stars , and has also stated how the crossover, mechanics, and inclusion of the various gameplay systems inherent to each series lead to balancing problems. Ono also said that he replaced another producer who had been in charge of

5865-564: The same character in a match, which is not possible in the original arcade version. The second player uses the same alternate color palette introduced in Street Fighter II: Champion Edition . The four Shadaloo Bosses are still non-playable, but the code enables their Champion Edition color palette. Tatsuya Nishimura, who had recently joined Capcom from TOSE , arranged the soundtrack with assistance from Shimomura, Abe, and Sakaguchi. The American SNES cartridge

5950-423: The similar Vs. Marvel and SNK series of games, and the gameplay of this newest fighter seemed to lack the finesse of previous games. Many series favorites such as Ken , Sagat and Morrigan were also relegated to background appearances or cameos in the endings, which did little to aid the game's popularity. The game also received criticism that certain moves that the characters originally had were not available to

6035-414: The victor of the match. While a single-player game is in progress, a second player may join at any time, immediately starting a head-to-head match. The winner continues the game in single-player mode. The original Street Fighter II allowed up to 10 rounds per match; this maximum is reduced to four rounds starting with Champion Edition . If there is no clear winner by the end of the final round, either

6120-428: The way of thrills and spills" but praised the sequel for being "absolutely packed with new ideas" and special moves. He noted the "six buttons combining with 8 joystick directions to provide more moves than I've ever seen in a beat 'em up" and praised the "massive, beautifully drawn and animated sprites, tons of speech and the most exciting, action-packed head-to-head conflict yet seen in an arcade game," concluding that it

6205-611: The world. RePlay noted in January 1993 that Street Fighter II had "single-handedly re-ignited the worldwide black market in counterfeit PCBs and speed-up kits". Many counterfeit arcade units often outsold official Street Fighter II arcade cabinets in various markets. For example, about 200,000 counterfeits were in Mexico alone, where Capcom did not officially sell the game. Bondeal from Hong Kong produced 3,000 copied arcade units per month for markets such as Latin America , and

6290-576: The year's highest-grossing entertainment product, above the film Jurassic Park . In January 1994, Capcom referred to Street Fighter II as "the most successful video game series of the decade" while promoting Super Street Fighter II . In early 1994, Capcom projected sales of Super Street Fighter II to reach 100,000 arcade units. According to the March 1995 issue of GameFan , the game had earned "billions of dollars in profit". In addition to Capcom's official arcade units, many pirated counterfeit Street Fighter II arcade clone units were sold across

6375-582: Was a multi-million seller in Japan by December 1992. In the United States, 750,000 units of the SNES version were sold between July 15 and September 30, 1992, with a retail price of $ 74.99 (equivalent to $ 160 in 2023). According to Electronic Gaming Monthly : "Never has a game taken the country [by] storm as this one has." It remained America's top-selling Super NES game for much of late 1992, in August and then October, November, and December. In 1992 in North America, 2 million units were sold. In

6460-466: Was also published in North America by Hi-Tech Expressions . These versions suffer numerous inaccuracies, such as missing graphical assets and music tracks, miscolored palettes, and lack of six-button controls due to these platforms having only one or two-button joysticks as standard at the time. Though officially advertised by US Gold along with the C64 and ZX Spectrum conversions and anticipated in magazines,

6545-448: Was followed by a second update, Street Fighter II Turbo : Hyper Fighting , released in December 1992, increasing the playing speed and giving some characters new special moves. It was Capcom's official response to a wave of unauthorized modifications for arcade cabinets of Champion Edition , such as the so-called "Rainbow Edition" The third update is Super Street Fighter II : The New Challengers , released in September 1993, using

6630-675: Was introduced in Super , placed fifth place in the list of Best Characters of 1993, with Dee Jay at 36 and T. Hawk at 37. In the January 30, 1995 issue of Gamest , Super Street Fighter II X (known as Super Turbo internationally) placed fourth place in the award for Best Game of 1994 and Best Fighting Game, but did not rank in any of the other awards. The Super Famicom (SNES) version was critically acclaimed. Famitsu ' s panel of four reviewers gave it scores of 9, 9, 9, and 8, adding up to 35 out of 40. This made it one of their five highest-rated games of 1992, along with Dragon Quest V: Hand of

6715-412: Was making a bug check during the car bonus stage... I noticed something strange, curious. I taped the sequence and we saw that during the punch timing, it was possible to add a second hit and so on. I thought this was something impossible to make useful inside a game, as the timing balance was so hard to catch. So we decided to leave the feature as a hidden one. The most interesting thing is that this became

6800-415: Was not immediately successful in Japan, as most arcade players were initially playing it solo, rather than multiplayer as originally intended. Yoshiki Okamoto was disappointed with its initial performance, and was told he should have produced another solo beat 'em up like Final Fight instead. After Japanese arcade magazine Gamest began publishing articles informing readers about the "battle play" feature,

6885-592: Was re-released in November 2017 as a limited edition item to celebrate the anniversary of the Street Fighter series. U.S. Gold released versions of Street Fighter II for various home computer platforms in Europe, namely the Amiga , Atari ST , Commodore 64 , PC ( DOS ), and ZX Spectrum . These were all developed by Creative Materials, except the ZX Spectrum version by Tiertex Design Studios . The PC version

6970-522: Was released for the Super Famicom on June 10, 1992, in Japan, followed by a North American release for the SNES in August and a European release in December. It is the first game released on a 16-megabit SNES cartridge. Many aspects from the arcade versions were either changed or simplified in order to fit into the smaller memory capacity. This version has a secret code allowing both players to control

7055-476: Was surpassed by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2019. Like the arcades, the home conversions were impacted by copyright infringement . Upon release of the SNES version in 1992, thirteen different unauthorized versions were reportedly available for the Super Famicom. The original arcade version of Street Fighter II was awarded Best Game of 1991 in Gamest ' s Fifth Annual Grand Prize, which also won in

7140-404: Was the top-grossing video game during January–February 1992 and May 1992. Street Fighter II was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1991 in the United States, and one of the top five highest-grossing arcade conversion kits of 1992 (below Champion Edition ). Its success was considered phenomenal; by 1992, it had turned around the convenience store segment of the coin-op industry and become

7225-432: Was then exhibited in the United Kingdom at London's Amusement Trades Exhibition International (ATEI) in January 1991. The same month, Capcom held a two-week location test in North America, before unveiling the game at Capcom's distributor conference on February 1, 1991, held at Marriott Harbor Beach , Fort Lauderdale, Florida . Capcom introduced Street Fighter II as its "greatest video game ever". Street Fighter II

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