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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Feb 7, 2021 9:14:04 GMT -5
Today one of the most important video games of any generation celebrates three genre defining decades, and to celebrate let us now rise for Guile's Theme:
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 7, 2021 9:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by dav on Feb 7, 2021 9:37:44 GMT -5
The game that pretty much kick started a golden age for fighting games and made arcade memories for many out there. Here's to another thirty years for the franchise.
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Post by chrom on Feb 7, 2021 9:39:15 GMT -5
When do we celebrate all the rereleases and special editions it got?
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 7, 2021 9:42:46 GMT -5
Ah, the days of Ryu having a safe and invincible DP and throws being controversial. Crazy to imagine how not just the series, but fighting games period evolved from this. It was a huge landscape changer.
The first time I saw a SF2 machine at my local 7-11, I couldn’t make out the audio. “Hadouken!” made me think “the heck? Did he just say ‘Aahdoogitt’?”
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Post by Paul on Feb 7, 2021 9:48:27 GMT -5
This video about the history of Street Fighter II is great.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 7, 2021 10:09:50 GMT -5
That reminds me I wanna buy a Hitbox but you literally can't import them to the UK right now until some import tax crap is cleared up.
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Post by Muskrat on Feb 7, 2021 10:47:59 GMT -5
So many great memories of this game. When I was a kid, you could find a SFII or SFII CE machine everywhere. The local mall had 2 or 3 of them spread out, every rink, corner store, pool hall etc. had a Street Fighter II machine. This game was f***ing EVERYWHERE in the early 90’s.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Feb 7, 2021 12:57:02 GMT -5
I'm not even a huge video gamer, but this is literally one of the first games I can ever remember seeing in my life.
If you were a young kid in the '90s, it was pretty inescapable.
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Post by Captain Patren Fenderbaum-X on Feb 7, 2021 13:20:28 GMT -5
It is a broke as f*** game and is jank as hell because when it slows down IT SLOOOOWWWSSSS down to a f***ing crawl lol.
Still fun to nostagically go back to what really boomed it all but ima stay with Hyper Fighting as my definitive edition of SF2.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 7, 2021 15:12:18 GMT -5
OH shit it has been that long. I dropped close to 300 bucks into various SFII machines all over the MS gulf coast in the first year or so that thing was out.
I prefer SF II Rainbow or SF II Championship Edition as my favorite of that series.
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Post by MrElijah on Feb 7, 2021 15:22:31 GMT -5
When do we celebrate all the rereleases and special editions it got? Nine, NINE Versions of SF II Exist. -World Warrior, Champion Edition, Turbo Hyper Fighting, Super, Super Turbo, Hyper, Turbo Revival, HD Remix & Ultra. People complain about all those DLCs and the such? Street Fighter 2 did it first! But seriously in terms of impact not too many games can match it let alone surpass it. From character archetypes, mechanics, gameplay and style, it's influence can be felt today.
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Post by fw91 on Feb 7, 2021 15:24:41 GMT -5
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Post by Cyno on Feb 7, 2021 15:27:25 GMT -5
It's incredible how much SF2 evolved. It was the first fighting game with combos, and those combos were technically a glitch until either Turbo or SSF2. I forget which.
The original game was busted as hell by modern standards, but it was also a game-changer for an entire genre and led to an Arcade renaissance not seen since the early-mid 80's. The entire SF2 line led to some incredible innovations between playable bosses and mirror matches in SF2 CE, the faster speed of Turbo, the expanded roster, new mechanics, and engine upgrade in SSF2, and super moves and one of the most balanced and competitively longest lived games ever in Super Turbo.
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Post by DragonMasterP on Feb 7, 2021 16:39:03 GMT -5
Fewer things in video games are more satisfying than countering M. Bison's Psycho Crusher with a Shoryuken and watching half his health drop as he goes flying.
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Post by chrom on Feb 7, 2021 16:41:32 GMT -5
Fewer things in video games are more satisfying than countering M. Bison's Psycho Crusher with a Shoryuken and watching half his health drop as he goes flying. And fewer things make you tear your hair out more then getting on the receiving end of the Psycho Crusher
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 7, 2021 18:06:26 GMT -5
I used to play it, and when the plane flew to Thailand my granddad would say "Irrrrrrrreland".
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Feb 7, 2021 18:22:31 GMT -5
What a game. When this arrived under the Christmas tree it was a complete game changer. Opened my eyes to fighting games and I have adored them all ever since.
Sure everyone likes Ryu, Guile or mashing with Blanka but my guy appeared here first the Yoga master Dhalsim.
Yoga Flame!!
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Post by Cyno on Feb 7, 2021 18:40:40 GMT -5
Let us all reminisce about the absolute bullshit that was CE Bison's Psycho Crusher. The amount of hits and chip damage that thing would do on block almost made it worth taking it outright.
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Post by MrElijah on Feb 7, 2021 20:41:31 GMT -5
Let us all reminisce about the absolute bullshit that was CE Bison's Psycho Crusher. The amount of hits and chip damage that thing would do on block almost made it worth taking it outright. CE Bison and his wonderful re-dizzy combos.
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