Jonneh3003
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Street Fighter II: The World Warrior made its arcade debut 26 years ago
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EatinOlives
Member
I still get extremely nostalgic from the World Warrior version despite playing SF2 to death. I can do the latter versions, especially the ones that have the CPS2 sound just fine, but the CPS1 sound and the vanilla sprites instill a strong sense of nostalgia. Booting up the game or seeing it in a YouTube longplay, every time the sound comes on (especially Chun Li's theme, since she tends to be one of the earliest opponents) I get taken back to my childhood when my grandpa owned an arcade in his small town and I'd get to play occasionally. It was next to a bar and billiards so every time I hear the sounds of World Warrior SF2 I start to vividly remember the lingering scent of alcohol and cigarettes. Which makes perfect sense because olfactory memory is actually extremely strong in humans.
There's no other game that triggers that kind of nostalgia. I love it just for that reason alone.
EDIT: I also got this guide for free due to some random promotion, even though I never had a home console version of it:
I'm gonna see if I can hunt down a PDF of it because that'll be one amazing trip down memory lane. I perused that guide for no reason for a shitload of time.
There's no other game that triggers that kind of nostalgia. I love it just for that reason alone.
EDIT: I also got this guide for free due to some random promotion, even though I never had a home console version of it:
I'm gonna see if I can hunt down a PDF of it because that'll be one amazing trip down memory lane. I perused that guide for no reason for a shitload of time.
Digital-Hero
Member
Whatever year it was, I had it when it came out. Had a blast playing it.
TeddyShardik
Banned
Make this thread in another 4 years. 26? You're driving me crazy! 
That said, I have many great memories about this game. Some fallouts between friends as well though as salt is not a new thing.
That said, I have many great memories about this game. Some fallouts between friends as well though as salt is not a new thing.
Digital-Hero
Member
I dug out an old EGM and found the code. Totally forgot we had to do that.
Nocturno999
Member
I still remember walking in my town's arcade and the first thing I watched was Blanka biting Guile. I thought it looked similar to Final Fight but still blew me away.
I thought at first that it was a waste of money since losing against a real opponent would mean losing your quarter. I remember a Guile player with a long streak
that was just sitting waiting for people to jump and flash kick them. I got my first victory against him and never looked back.
I played SF1 back then. I still remember how intimidating a machine with six buttons looked considering most arcade games were 2 buttons. SF2 was a quantum leap in every aspect.
I thought at first that it was a waste of money since losing against a real opponent would mean losing your quarter. I remember a Guile player with a long streak
that was just sitting waiting for people to jump and flash kick them. I got my first victory against him and never looked back.
I played SF1 back then. I still remember how intimidating a machine with six buttons looked considering most arcade games were 2 buttons. SF2 was a quantum leap in every aspect.
sixteen-bit
Member
happy anniversary
I dug out an old EGM and found the code. Totally forgot we had to do that.
It was really hard to do this code as a little little kid. These days it would be like, hold down x.
RoryDropkick
Member
Oddly enough, I had played the game for a couple of months already before seeing those screenshots in EGM.
Tangled Up in Blue
Banned
It is easily in the top 5 most influential games of all time. The fighting genre barely existed before SF2. After that, the genre exploded, conquering arcades and consoles alike.
If you weren't alive in the 90s, it's difficult to explain the impact. I've heard the arrival of SF2 to gaming compared to the arrival of Nirvana to pop music, and I'd say the comparison is pretty apt.
Yep.
Bloodborne
Member
The first game i've ever played, and i still have fun playing it till this day.
My cousin and I used to collect scrap metal from my dads workshop and exchange it at a scrap metal place for a few South African Rands.
Which turned into two handfuls of 20c coins which we burned on SF2 and Samurai Shodown at the local arcade. Good times.
The Lone Dragon
Member
Uh...no?
Crazy! I have fond memories of playing this in the arcade back in the day.
https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/828750990979457025
Name: Max
Height: 187cm
Height: 93kg
Bloodtype: A
Birthdate: April 1
Birthplace: America
Likes: Himself, gambling, shiny things
Dislikes: Plain and boring things
Name: Scott
Height: 191cm
Weight: 95kg
Bloodtype: B
Birthdate: September 10
Birthplace: America
Likes: Street fighting
Dislikes: Hairy caterpillars
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/130285
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/130286
Kudos to the game that got me into fighters. I remember salivating at EGMs screen shots in the grocery store and begging my folks for quarters every time we went to the mall just to get my ass kicked by some "big kid". I even remember letting someone put Guile's handcuffs (glitch obviously) on me and getting frustrated because I couldn't get my character back moving.
Ahh the days!
Ahh the days!
sixteen-bit
Member
Uh...no?
Name: Max
Height: 187cm
Height: 93kg
Bloodtype: A
Birthdate: April 1
Birthplace: America
Likes: Himself, gambling, shiny things
Dislikes: Plain and boring things
Name: Scott
Height: 191cm
Weight: 95kg
Bloodtype: B
Birthdate: September 10
Birthplace: America
Likes: Street fighting
Dislikes: Hairy caterpillars
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/130285
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/130286
Max is an npc in SFV story mode right?
There's a 3D model and everything
Premium Quality
Member
That's a pretty good comparison. The game huge at the time. The arcades were starting to fade out at this point, but this game brought in new life to them.
Deckard Chapel
Banned
I'm trying to track down an original arcade cabinet for my home barcade, but it's proving difficult.
I am in love with this arcade game. I have very fond memories of it and I was better at it than any other game in history. I literally almost couldn't lose lol
I am in love with this arcade game. I have very fond memories of it and I was better at it than any other game in history. I literally almost couldn't lose lol
Doctrine Dark
Member
Every time I think of SF2, it just makes me miss the Arcade scene.
Drilled a tiny hole in a 20c (South African) coin and tied wool around it. Deposit it just enough to register a credit, then pull it out. We were living just above the poverty line back then.
I've paid my reparations though... I bought the SFV Season Pass and Capcom Cup DLC
spazchicken
Member
Here's the 'censored' Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive intro for you:
26 years ago, I was 10 years old. I must have seen that intro so many times as a kid, and I never once noticed the racial tones. All I saw was a guy punch another guy in the head. I didn't really notice it until the colour palette swap of the one guy in the Genesis version.
I remember seeing SF2 in arcades back in the day, there used to be huge gatherings of teens/ people huddled around these machines and watching people fight. It was a thing for a while... until Mortal Kombat came in and stole SF2's thunder.
Crazy! I have fond memories of playing this in the arcade back in the day.
https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/828750990979457025
Looking back, that's one of the most racist things ever put in a videogame. This looks like the warm up to a 1950s lynching. All they had to do was add a few more black people throughout the crowd but that would have been going against the code, apparently
Sad that I can't say Japanese devs have gotten any better in the last 26 years when it comes to that.
spazchicken
Member
lvl99 Pixel
Member
Always preferred SF to MK. I liked beating opponents like a kung fu movie, not straight up murdering them like some kind of fetish.
chaobreaker
Member
First part of EGM's first strategy guide
Edit: second part.
Edit 2: later this evening I'll post the SFII content from this issue:
That's one of my favorite magazine covers, ever.
Bruh did EGM really try to pull the wool over reader's eyes by pretending Ryu and Ken weren't literal clones? The fuck is Ken's berserker rage?
Crouch low kick then throw caused some berserker rage for sure.
spazchicken
Member
lol They had no idea what they were talking about.
To be fair, they were probably making close to minimum wage back in those days.
Spladam
Member
Same. That blew my mind at the time. I still have that mag.
dcx4610
Member
This post just inspired me go back to my original idea of beating every single Street Fighter game in Arcade/Story mode with Ken just to say I've done it.
I just finished beating Street Fighter 1 for the first time ever. Adon and Sagat are monsters. You just have to get lucky that your special moves go off. I couldn't imagine pumping quarters in the machine to beat them considering you literally last 3 seconds if Sagat hits you. It was infuriating enough being free.
I just finished beating Street Fighter 1 for the first time ever. Adon and Sagat are monsters. You just have to get lucky that your special moves go off. I couldn't imagine pumping quarters in the machine to beat them considering you literally last 3 seconds if Sagat hits you. It was infuriating enough being free.
dcx4610
Member
To be fair, this was based off of a glitch that made Ken's cyclone hit more than once and also a bug that made Ryu's attacks weaker. They ran with the bug in the sequels which further expanded Ken being a loose canon with Ryu being more technical with one hit knockdowns.
kunonabi
Member
Last great sf game was alpha2
I don't remember ever getting farther than Birdie in the arcade. So many quarters lost.
My grade in math actually dropped that spring because it was my last class of the day and I would just space out mentally going through moves and combos in preparation for going to the arcade on the way home every day. SF2 was a way of life then. Met tons of people I would never have known otherwise, many of whom I never saw again after the arcade scene wound down.
My First One had Ken performing his standing fierce kick on Blanka. It was in a frame where it looks like he has his leg mounted backward.
I remember thinking: wow, characters are big, just like Street Smart, but holy shit graphic are bad. Cant even draw a Human body correct!
I would the proceed to play this more than any other game in my Life.
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Yep, didn't like 3rd strike either. Like 4 however.
dcx4610
Member
I remember studying that EGM magazine posted in the thread like a test. I had every move and character memorized months before I even saw the game. As luck would have it, we had a school field trip and strangely, the rest stop we visited had a Street Fighter II cabinet and I couldn't believe my eyes. I was instantly hooked and wrecking kids because I knew the moves. It started an obsession with arcades and fighting games.
It was an incredible social experience meeting people of all ages, races and walks of life. Something like that will never be repeated and I will cherish those memories forever.
It was an incredible social experience meeting people of all ages, races and walks of life. Something like that will never be repeated and I will cherish those memories forever.
If I may ask, what don't you like about SFIII?
always crazy bacon
Banned
Sure was, loved that game so, so much.