My dad used to play this game on the Arcades in the 90s so i sent him a message asking if i could buy a game and he said yes, and considering that i'm a fan of street fighter games i bought Street Fighter 2 and surprised him calling him to my room with the game on with two controllers avaiable for both of us to play
Maybe the single most legendary game of all time. Words cannot define how important this game was for me growing up. An absolute classic and a phenomenon not to be repeated. It was IT. :')
Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis was my first ever game when I was 3 years old so I agree, this game shaped me a whole lot Also if you wanna replay the classics again (if you didn’t already know) The 30th anniversary bundle has 12 classic street fighter games in 1 for like $40
@Marcus Homs The fun fact is that the person who composed the songs was an inexperienced female musician that went through with bluffing , the team was happy with her work so far and she produced masterpieces everyone remembers 30 years later and on..
I bought it 2 months ago and just with the sounds I when back to 1995 my girlfriend at the time she loved watching me playing she was the one I fucked up 😬
@@Mergatroid_Skittle All Midway arcade games were unoriginal but they had a unique bizarre concept; Arctic Thunder is Sega's WaveRunner but with bizarre snowmobile hand-to-hand combat concept, Mortal Kombat is Capcom's Street Fighter II but with bizarre blood and gore concept, Cruis'n is Sega's OutRun but with bizarre cheesy themes and killing animals concept, Hydro Thunder is Sega's Daytona USA but with bizarre powerboat and over-the-top Tarzan yell concept, and Invasion: The Abductors is Sega's Gunblade NY but with bizarre alien invasion concept.
+Chorrell Klaverweide You got that right! I think I was in 8th grade then it was the most awesome shit I ever saw at that time used spent my whole allowance or chill with a soda and a slice just watching others play.
Holy crap... watched entire video speechless... then noticed we're living in 2021. Swear i was back in '94 for a moment... playing this on the Genesis... feelin' old man!!!!
Nostagia, nostalgia forever. When I was younger this game meant summer, holidays, free time, my father taking me to the arcade to play with friends on saturday night and lot of carefree to me. That's the sound of my youth. Miss those good times...
Bro going to the arcade was the shit for me, I saved all the quarters my mom gave me, I grew up very poor, but my mom did her best and I saved my quarters, fuck I don’t want to cry but who is cutting onions
The music alone takes me right back to my childhood, must have spent a fortune on this in the arcade. Shame kids today and in future will never really get to experience that.
@@jolie5689 it came out 30 years ago he means if you played it near relalse im only 17 and played it probably same time as you but he means in the arcades and just generally when it came out like 30 years ago or even 15 years ago
I atreve with you. Im 38 yo. I started at 6 playing video games. I can say if any person consider himself a master of fighting games should be a big master of the street fighter world warrior and champion edition, in a very second place could be mortal kombat, killer instinct and art of fighting/ king of the fighters 94 and 95. To me. This are the games that set the future but the real foundation is street fighter. I love to match with people that really know how to play.
thats the way i speak when English its my fourth language and im trying my best to be understood. its that ok to you? or i need to kill myself to make your life more agreeable, and i consider that i mástered a lot of fighting games to a superb level, its that ok for you?
and i quit playing those games more than 20 years ago but anyway i know i can play to the same level i did in my youth. thats why i talked in present tense.
When I was a little girl I had an action figure of Blanka and I gueinally did not know what he was from, I thought he was the incredible hulk's son and he had ginger hair.
My mum told me ages ago that’s she played this. So just now I went to her and said “does this bring back memories?” And she was sooo happy to see it again. She played it the 2nd year it came out and loved it
10:34 Who here still get chills the moment you defeated all 7 of the other playable characters, and the portrait icons of the 3 bosses ping in on the map! Back then Capcom knew how to present them in STYLE!
The worst was when Championship edition was in the arcade, and you couldn’t play the boss characters on the street fighter 2 console game. There was a code to play championship colors, but not the bosses. I bought a game genie, just to try to hack playable bosses.🧞♀️
@@spiritchild9101 Ah yes, the ever-memorable Down R Up L Y B (AKA the "Champion Edition" code), where you can select the character in their CE colors by hitting the Start button and also play mirror matches...though not being able to play as the bosses did suck
Still my favorite game after all these years. I can even remember all the places where I would see a Street Fighter II machine in my youth. There were folks lined up to play this at the laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, burger stand, pizza joint, donut shop, video rental store, car wash, movie theater/drive-in, bowling alley, skating rink, and the barbershop. I even saw this game at a clothing store in the hood and also at a teenage nightclub when I was 15 (no lie, they had both The World Warrior and Turbo). Only reason I didn't mention the arcade is because people were already dropping quarters on the machine over there from jump
@@HJules-cw6fb Had some good experiences from this game too. I met my best friend of 13 years because of Street Fighter II (best birthday of my life 😊). He's as crazy about SF2 as I am
A finales de los años 90's y principios de los 2000's era muy común salir de la escuela y lo primero que hacíamos muchos de nosotros era ir a jugar a las maquinitas y disfrutar de nuestros videojuegos favoritos ☺😊 Yo me entretenía jugando y disfrutando del Street Fighter, el The King of Fighter, el Mortal Kombat y el Metal Slug 🕹🎮🤩🤩 Lindos recuerdos de la infancia ❤👌👍
Back when i was a kid, my grandmother gifted me one of those scratch tickets one day, i scratched and won 20USD, this was the first game i bought with my own money, good memories, i remember finishing it like hundreds of times, i was really good at it. This really gave me the feels.
@@DeMonotheist why do you have to be so negative just because a guy is sharing his memories he cherishes? People like you always want to be edgy and just kill the joy for everyone else. People like you are the reason we can’t have anything good in this world. What’s the point of having to say you don’t care? You obviously do since you responded anyways
@@Hillthugsta And you could only play Ryu, and most of the characters are forgettable which is why most of them were transformed into different characters Like that ninja with the claws in SF1 became 3 separate characters Gen Vega Ibuki The ninja style of Ibuki The clothes of Gen The claws of Vega
@@justinsmith7000 No it has quite a few Ryu is the only playable one Ryu has his traditional white gi but red hair Ken still has his red gi These are all the characters Ryu Retsu Geki Joe Mike Lee Gen Birdie Eagle Adon Sagat Ken
I lived right across from a liquor store (hood life represent!) where we they would have some of the most memorable arcades during that time (Final Fight, Rastan, WWF Wrestlefest, etc..), but once this got dropped off, that was the end of your quarters as the bottom of the monitor trimming was lined up with them, with kids from the neighborhood ready to play and saying "I got next". Good times and Happy Birthday to Street Fighter II!
I played this game non stop for days. even when I closed my eyes I was still seing fight scenes. Dammn I loved and I still love it. this game is a master peace.
I am 44 now, played this game with my friends at the local arcade almost every evening, you could never forget the characters or phrases, brings back great memory's of my childhood, really great to see this again
Back when the golden days of gaming, no Microtransation, no DLC and less contents but still absolutely best game ever. No matter how many times we played it, it never gets old.
Cuando juntar dinero para comprarse una ficha era una odisea, y encima llegar al salón de videojuegos y que haya 20 pibes alrededor de la maquinita, y tenías que hacer filaaaaaaa!!! T_T!!!!
Yo tenía como 6 años en 1993 y los adultos de ese tiempo jugaban en los flippers le llamábamos en Chile a este juego. Iba a escondidas de mi mamá a mirar, buenos recuerdos.
Lamento decirte que eso ya no existe y hoy en día los chicos pocas veces se ven cara a cara y no existe más esa competencia leal de ver quién tenía más puntos
The reason why Street Fighter still works so well is because the attack and defense system doesn't over-complicate itself. The blocking is easy, but the downside is that you can't just keep doing it forever, because special attacks chip away at your health slowly. You can also crouch block anything you want with the exception of three distinct moves; Grabs, Jump Attacks and Overheads. All three have to be blocked while standing and have clear visual cues that let you know when and where the opponent can potentially use either of the three on you. If an opponent is standing immediately close, you know that they can potentially grab you, if an opponent is jumping, you know they can potentially pull off a jump kick, if an opponent is standing at mid range minimum, you know they can potentially unleash an overhead attack. We use these attacks less because they're more unsafe to use. Grabs require a lot of effort to get in an opponent's face before doing so, Jump Attacks require lengthy jumping and landing sequences that leave you open to anti-air attacks, and Overheads have a long wind-up sequences that the opponent will see coming. It's because of this straightforward system why I consider Street Fighter one of the first fighting games with a core mechanic that creates intuitiveness without breaking the balance between reward and consequence.
pacificvibe (Chinese guy in background with chicken): "What do you RUclipsrs care, I'm makin' a livin' here with thick, meaty thighs....ER!! Chicken thighs!"
W Smith it's a perverted, dark and humorous joke that capcom made because staff and crew will make comments about seeing chun li's ass when she gets knocked to the ground. and they find it funny to add a guy choking his chicken in the background lol
There are things that lightly occur to you, but you accept cultural differences and make allowances for the sake of a certain level of enjoyment. But after time, a long time, and knowing the venue you're in, you can't help but admit that it's a point to make. I thought the same thing watching this video.
Yo era niño en los años 90, y en mi casa había almacén con maquinitas, pool, futbolito y otros juegos, teníamos la Street Fighter, también la Mortal Kombat, y otros juegos, mucha nostalgia.
Quien no se va acordar de ir a las maquinistas a que buena infancia tuvimos todos de niños soy del año 97 voy a cumplir 25 años en octubre en los años dos miles las maquinistas se seguían usando mucho y ahora los niños de hora puro free fíre
Brings me back to when I was a kid hanging out at the local liquor store or bowling alley patiently waiting with my quarter placed on the game top to let others know that I got next. Funny thing too was I remembered the game saying something like… winners don’t use drugs. I couldn’t be more lit playing that game and finishing it.
I’m definitely late here, but that might’ve been Street Fighter Alpha, and not Street Fighter 2. SFA has a bunch of anti-drug stuff in it. Nothing like that in SF2.
@@NeoGio87 They certainly had the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" on the Street Fighter II machines way back when. The only way to find out is if you see "Capcom USA" at the bottom of the title screen. I know for certain because there used to be this burger stand not too far from my house (before it got torn down) that had the North American version of The World Warrior
this game was one of the greatest ever. it got the music, sound effects, and graphics perfect for the time. it obviously had the gameplay mechanics and story telling. so simple and so effective.
I never seen anyone beat the whole game with just perfects and making it look so easy. Well done and well played. This clip is just a perfect masterpiece. Thanks for sharing this
Street Fighter II became the best-selling game since the golden age of arcade video games. By 1994, it had been played by at least 25 million people in the United States alone. Due to its major success, a series of updated versions were released with additional features and characters. 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 SNES cartridges of Street Fighter II have been sold, making it Capcom's best-selling single software game for the next two decades, its best-selling game on a single platform, and the highest-selling third-party game on the SNES. Street Fighter II is regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time and 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. It sparked a renaissance for the arcade video game industry and impacted competitive video gaming and wider popular culture such as films and music.
To add to it, Street Fighter II also holds a record for having the most bootleg versions of its iterations; most notably, Champion Edition. Despite the originals grossing major revenue, Taiwanese hackers would flood the market with hardware containing these weird chips that drastically altered the gameplay, giving us these illegal bootlegs such as Rainbow, Kōryū, Blackbelt, etc. While the OG games continued to make money hand over fist, these hackers had also been cutting into Capcom's profits with these heavily modded versions. Not to mention, fans of CE complained about the game speed being too slow (James Goddard, formerly of Capcom USA, touched on this in an interview with Polygon). So because of these bootlegs and the fans' demands, they gave us Street Fighter II Turbo
Mostafa, why is that important? I don't care what year people are watching a video. I request that you remove that comment, because those "Who is watching in BLANK" comments are spam in my eyes.
Sometimes I need to be reminded of just how good this game was (and still is). I think it’s the music that I cherish the most. It has to rank as one of the best arcade soundtracks of all time.
To fully appreciate sf2. You have to have come from an era that played golden axe, double dragon. Then this came on the scene and teenage kids were getting into fights whilst playing this game. Kids hated getting beating and took it personally. It was just crazy.
Is this the highest difficulty played? People can argue whether it is or not. However, at 3:42, player Schlauchi (as Ryu) jumps in with a Heavy Punch (a.k.a. HP or Fierce) and performs a HP Shoryuuken (a.k.a. Dragon Punch or DP) against a grounded Zangief. To understand the significance of this, here is some history: In The World Warrior (before Championship Edition and the future reincarnations of Street Fighter II), a DP did not necessarily knock a grounded opponent down in one hit. From Championship Edition onwards, character vs. character (i.e. same character battles) matchups were possible, which necessitated the differentiation between Ryu and Ken. Ryu's DP and Tatsumaki Sempuu Kyakuu (a.k.a. Hurricane Kick) were each able to knock down opponents in one hit, while Ken's versions could hit multiple times, enabling longer combinations. Back to the scenario at 3:42. Schlauchi, as Ryu, jumps in with Fierce and DPs a grounded Zangief, who, despite taking a hit, remains standing. Zangief is within range to at least hit Schlauchi with a crouch Heavy Kick (a.k.a. HK or Roundhouse) or grab Ryu with a Spinning Pile Driver (a.k.a. SPD). Any good human Zangief player knows how to punish mistakes with the SPD. Replace the CPU AI with any good Zangief player just at 3:44 (when Zangief has recovered from the hit stun delivered by the DP) and Zangief has a free SPD and a chance to come back in the game. The point is that the CPU AI was not high enough to punish the player of this longplay. Schlauchi needs some better competition.
@@bbbnnuuuhgg7016 Mistranslation of Ryu's Shoryuken (AKA Dragon Punch); EGM would make this into an April Fool's joke and run with this story until the existence of Akuma/Gouki, and then Gouken later on in Street Fighter IV
I'll be real; I've never seen a Street Fighter II machine at a 7-11 in my life (I'm also in Southern California). But, I can tell you straight up that I saw this game at practically every laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, donut shop, car wash, video rental store, burger stand, pizza joint, barbershop, and movie theater/drive-in all over Los Angeles County. Even spotted one SF2 machine at a clothing store in Inglewood back in the day
Awesome Playthrough with one of the most important and recogniseable Character of the STREET FIGHTER Franchise !!! Nostalgia 100%. Some Games never get old. ;-)
First time...7-11 on 118th Ave and 90th St., Edmonton, AB, Canada (Now a liquor store).A bunch of older Triad looking kids were standing around (like 5-10 guys), all chit chatting in Cantonese. I'm just a young Cree (partly French), punk barely tall enough to see the screen and I put my quarter up after watching a handful of matches and learned the house rules at the time. It was an amazing experience with Chun Li as my first pick. As luck would have it I won a match (with mandatory seconds given), but I got my ass handed to me afterwards cause I didn't know any timing or moves. An amazing experience non-the-less.
A couple of months ago I set out to to recreate the arcade experience on an Amiga 1200 and was amazed of how well the A1200 could have handled this game. If it was given proper love and care. I guess the whole project was a part of a healing process in adult years xD (due to how bad the original Amiga version was)... I posted a video of it a while back. ;)
street fighter characters's favorite activities: ryu: japanese karate master ken: japanese karate master e. honda: japanese sumo wrestler chun-li: chinese kung fu master guile: american military dhalsim: indian yoga master zangief: soviet wrestler blanka: brazilian green monster fei long: hong kong movie star and bruce lee's clone cammy: english military t. hawk: mexican indian deejay: jamaican musician sagat: thai muay thai fighter vega: spanish matador balrog: american boxer m. bison: military dictator akuma: japanese demon guy: japanese red ninja sakura: japanese schoolgirl dan: hong kong martial artist elena: kenyan capoeira fighter yun: hong kong skateboarder ibuki: japanese ninja charlie nash: american military rose: italian fortune teller birdie: english punk hugo: german wrestler alex: american wrestler juri: korean taekwondo master.
Back in my small hometown when this game was first introduced, if you could make it to M.BISON you'd get like a million crowded viewers around you in the arcade mall
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My dad and i played this game just now. He convinced me to play and shared his memories. Truly a masterpiece
Your dad is a 90's kid like me i take it! And he is an inspirational person showing you this computer masterpiece. 👊👍💪👈
This has been the greatest thing ive read this year. 💯🙏🏻
Excellent idea
My dad used to play this game on the Arcades in the 90s so i sent him a message asking if i could buy a game and he said yes, and considering that i'm a fan of street fighter games i bought Street Fighter 2 and surprised him calling him to my room with the game on with two controllers avaiable for both of us to play
@@SomeoneThatIsHappy he then got his ass handed to him by his own son after a nostalgic moment
This game was years ahead of its time. I’m 44 now and still remember when I was in high school playing this game with friends at our local bakery
LOL yes same me my brother did the same in high school we will put a quarter on the arcade machine to call next LOL in the neighborhood Mall❤
Kof 94 was ahead of it's time
Why the hell does a bakery have Street Fighter arcade?
@@typingcat ammm mostly to make money !
@@typingcat Same reason why donut shops had a Street Fighter II machine back in the day; it brought in more customers and cash flow 😉
I loved how music becomes uptempo and frantic when energy gets real low. Adds so much tension to the fight.
I love how the VS in the fight preview shot looks like it's got the kinda vascularity you would have after injecting steroids.
bfgh
Better known as vitality especially for this game
The characters, the stages, the music, the sound effects...... Its all just perfection
Yea , souns and music , amazing
It's actually crap. But at the time, pure perfection.
Maybe the single most legendary game of all time. Words cannot define how important this game was for me growing up. An absolute classic and a phenomenon not to be repeated. It was IT. :')
Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis was my first ever game when I was 3 years old so I agree, this game shaped me a whole lot
Also if you wanna replay the classics again (if you didn’t already know)
The 30th anniversary bundle has 12 classic street fighter games in 1 for like $40
1:46
Pokemon Beats IT atleat Gen 1
Definitely a historical sound for 100’s of years to come
only super mario equal it lol
Every single sound of this game is stuck in my mind.
Same here
I’ll say
@Marcus Homs The fun fact is that the person who composed the songs was an inexperienced female musician that went through with bluffing , the team was happy with her work so far and she produced masterpieces everyone remembers 30 years later and on..
☺️
Yoko Shimomura is the composer of every stage song.
90s kids are here... Trying to bring the good old days back when life used to be tension free.
Born on Oct 7 '80, I'm a 80s baby and a 90s teen. I love Street Fighter! Ken & Ryu!
@@dennismolina9033 👍❤️
@@beinganintrovert6177 😉👍 ❤
I bought it 2 months ago and just with the sounds I when back to 1995 my girlfriend at the time she loved watching me playing she was the one I fucked up 😬
Never again.
Thanks for letting me briefly relive my childhood.
I'm 40 now. This game got me through my childhood.
I'm 33 I know the feeling
I am 45 .. same here..
Same
@@Mergatroid_Skittle All Midway arcade games were unoriginal but they had a unique bizarre concept; Arctic Thunder is Sega's WaveRunner but with bizarre snowmobile hand-to-hand combat concept, Mortal Kombat is Capcom's Street Fighter II but with bizarre blood and gore concept, Cruis'n is Sega's OutRun but with bizarre cheesy themes and killing animals concept, Hydro Thunder is Sega's Daytona USA but with bizarre powerboat and over-the-top Tarzan yell concept, and Invasion: The Abductors is Sega's Gunblade NY but with bizarre alien invasion concept.
same
Nostalgia... Good times. When we were happier with less.
+Chorrell Klaverweide You got that right! I think I was in 8th grade then it was the most awesome shit I ever saw at that time used spent my whole allowance or chill with a soda and a slice just watching others play.
Joe Johnson Can you imagine? Hahaha
i totally agree
You are so right.
Chorrell Klaverweide I didn't even exist
Holy crap... watched entire video speechless... then noticed we're living in 2021. Swear i was back in '94 for a moment... playing this on the Genesis... feelin' old man!!!!
The stages still look awesome I like how they represent different cultures
everyday after school i would go to the local bowling alley to play this game. such nostalgic goodness. thanks for the upload
Same here we used to go to our local video rental shop used to have 3 new machines in every year...street fighter was always kept though cool times
Who am I? did you get your homework done?
Who am I? P
Who am I? ❤❤
Who am I? Me too after school I used to play this game at home
Ladies and gentlemen, this game turned 30 years old today.
katerina zachariadou And it is still a legendary game.
@TheGamer Sorry no it was released in 1991.
@@thatguy4747 I know right
Damn that makes me feel old asf 😂
@PhyscoGames Oh
Nostagia, nostalgia forever. When I was younger this game meant summer, holidays, free time, my father taking me to the arcade to play with friends on saturday night and lot of carefree to me. That's the sound of my youth. Miss those good times...
You made me feel nostalgia with your words 😢
yo no e terminado el juego con todos los personajes me lo estoy reservando para un momento especial ..nunca e tenido un arcade en mi casa.
The world was a better place...i am sure of it. Kids played arcade...they didnt live stream stabbing someone
@@FkJTurds7865 At least people used to meet each other in real life to socialize, not behind a monitor.
Bro going to the arcade was the shit for me, I saved all the quarters my mom gave me, I grew up very poor, but my mom did her best and I saved my quarters, fuck I don’t want to cry but who is cutting onions
The music alone takes me right back to my childhood, must have spent a fortune on this in the arcade. Shame kids today and in future will never really get to experience that.
Who ever invented this games is genius.
a lot of people actually :D a whole team!
@@TheTrooperMB hg
Its was me and cheers
Capcom 😀 created this art
@@radcow yoo epik
only child of 90's can perfectly feel & explain about this nostalgia...
Me who is 16 and played that game too much:
Are you sure about that ?
@@jolie5689 it came out 30 years ago he means if you played it near relalse im only 17 and played it probably same time as you but he means in the arcades and just generally when it came out like 30 years ago or even 15 years ago
Born 1990,I remember going to the nail shop with my mom and playing this for the first time💯💯💯😎 it was in black and white
100% with you
Fucking facts. I remember when this game came out I was living in mexico city and play the shit out of it inside of a store similar to a Walgreens.
you know how old is this game when it says USSR !
13antoanto Haha 😂 good point
@@2020-g8s If you watch the intro to Captain Planet, they list Linka from the *SOVIET UNION?*
Iuessesaaaarrr!!!
If the game had been released just a little bit later, it probably would’ve been “Russia.”
@@smoothALOE I like USSR better. Let's you know how old the game is. 😀
No one notices how this guy just gets a straight up perfect through the whole game. This guy is a mad man!
I thought I was the only one trippin' off that.
His playing with his 5 year old
It’s on easy setting
there is a disclaimer in the description that they use save states
It's not only on the easy setting, half of the characters don't even use their special moves, especially Guile never once used the razor kick.
almost 30 years of playing fighting games and I can safely say that this is still the no1 goat
I atreve with you. Im 38 yo. I started at 6 playing video games. I can say if any person consider himself a master of fighting games should be a big master of the street fighter world warrior and champion edition, in a very second place could be mortal kombat, killer instinct and art of fighting/ king of the fighters 94 and 95. To me. This are the games that set the future but the real foundation is street fighter. I love to match with people that really know how to play.
"master of fighting games"? .... that's the way you speak with 38 ?
thats the way i speak when English its my fourth language and im trying my best to be understood. its that ok to you? or i need to kill myself to make your life more agreeable, and i consider that i mástered a lot of fighting games to a superb level, its that ok for you?
and i quit playing those games more than 20 years ago but anyway i know i can play to the same level i did in my youth. thats why i talked in present tense.
Rish Fish so u haven't played tekken
Guile’s music is legendary, I can listen to it all day!
And vega's
You spelled Ryu wrong. But yeah. This game is the greatest ever.
@@milindatalwatte a
Guile and Ken's music is legendary
Guile's music goes with everything.
Though not the first SF nor first fighting game ever, this is THE game that started the formula of the genre we all know and love.
J❤y
I'm 37 and still play this game, just so much nostalgia
Old man
@@seymourlove4788 that's old woman to you
@@seymourlove4788young kid
We share the same age. I'm a woman who still loves playing this game after 30-some-odd years 😊
@hoodmistressreloaded same. Can't go no wrong with nostalgia retro games lol
When I was a little girl I had an action figure of Blanka and I gueinally did not know what he was from, I thought he was the incredible hulk's son and he had ginger hair.
LOL.
+Scott Gray Yes excatly.
Haha that's cute
+foxzygranpa Thank you.
How old are you now?
I just came here for the sounds.
koshi loco gave me a much needed laugh thanks.
Ya…me too
Haahaha me tooo
Randy Washington lol me too
Best comment !!! Nostalgic
what maked me love this game is: the intro,music,good enough graphics for the early 90s and guile's face
My mum told me ages ago that’s she played this. So just now I went to her and said “does this bring back memories?” And she was sooo happy to see it again. She played it the 2nd year it came out and loved it
I play this on my phone everyday at work. Classic game!!! Always gonna be my favorite. Brings me back to my childhood.
How can you play this game on your phone ??
@@Chikoooo rom ig
This game was ahead of its time. Love the 90's!!!
10:40 I wonder how hype that moment felt in arcades when Balrog, Vega and Sagat showed up back in the day.
The 1st Hidden Fighters in Fighting Games
It causes affliction
I'm still wrapping my mind around how someone can beat this without taking a single hit
He had it on easy mode
Honestly would be a more interesting video if he didn't. Don't really get to see the moves of the other characters.
That burning barrel hit him. ( I think)
Had to have been on easy. In the arcades, they cheese u. It's unfair...lol
Easy mode. Meh, I play it at 4 or 5 star. 😅
10:34 Who here still get chills the moment you defeated all 7 of the other playable characters, and the portrait icons of the 3 bosses ping in on the map! Back then Capcom knew how to present them in STYLE!
It was very annoying whenever Vega would beat me!
The worst was when Championship edition was in the arcade, and you couldn’t play the boss characters on the street fighter 2 console game. There was a code to play championship colors, but not the bosses. I bought a game genie, just to try to hack playable bosses.🧞♀️
Chung li crying is wild
@@spiritchild9101 Ah yes, the ever-memorable Down R Up L Y B (AKA the "Champion Edition" code), where you can select the character in their CE colors by hitting the Start button and also play mirror matches...though not being able to play as the bosses did suck
@@spiritchild9101
Those were the days, the good old days. Go to arcade buy token, win or lose, get back home, have Pepsi along the way. Sleep school and repeat.
Of course
Still my favorite game after all these years. I can even remember all the places where I would see a Street Fighter II machine in my youth. There were folks lined up to play this at the laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, burger stand, pizza joint, donut shop, video rental store, car wash, movie theater/drive-in, bowling alley, skating rink, and the barbershop. I even saw this game at a clothing store in the hood and also at a teenage nightclub when I was 15 (no lie, they had both The World Warrior and Turbo).
Only reason I didn't mention the arcade is because people were already dropping quarters on the machine over there from jump
Super facts
Has to be one of the greatest arcade fighting game ever
@@HJules-cw6fb This game was the only reason I wanted an SNES back in the day. Still got all three versions 😊
@@HJules-cw6fb Had some good experiences from this game too. I met my best friend of 13 years because of Street Fighter II (best birthday of my life 😊). He's as crazy about SF2 as I am
A finales de los años 90's y principios de los 2000's era muy común salir de la escuela y lo primero que hacíamos muchos de nosotros era ir a jugar a las maquinitas y disfrutar de nuestros videojuegos favoritos ☺😊
Yo me entretenía jugando y disfrutando del Street Fighter, el The King of Fighter, el Mortal Kombat y el Metal Slug 🕹🎮🤩🤩
Lindos recuerdos de la infancia ❤👌👍
Back when i was a kid, my grandmother gifted me one of those scratch tickets one day, i scratched and won 20USD, this was the first game i bought with my own money, good memories, i remember finishing it like hundreds of times, i was really good at it. This really gave me the feels.
@@DeMonotheist I do.
@@DeMonotheist how rude
@@DeMonotheist I do
@@DeMonotheist why do you have to be so negative just because a guy is sharing his memories he cherishes? People like you always want to be edgy and just kill the joy for everyone else. People like you are the reason we can’t have anything good in this world. What’s the point of having to say you don’t care? You obviously do since you responded anyways
@@bruhman1302 true. i hate these type of people..
Let's be honest,this was the street fighter we all know,not the first one
@Mun man 08 The controls were horrible for starters.
@@Hillthugsta
And you could only play Ryu, and most of the characters are forgettable which is why most of them were transformed into different characters
Like that ninja with the claws in SF1 became 3 separate characters
Gen
Vega
Ibuki
The ninja style of Ibuki
The clothes of Gen
The claws of Vega
@@helpkirbyhasagun_2047 The very first street fighter you had two characters Ryu in blue and ken in brown clothes. If I'm not mistaken.
@@justinsmith7000
No it has quite a few
Ryu is the only playable one
Ryu has his traditional white gi but red hair
Ken still has his red gi
These are all the characters
Ryu
Retsu
Geki
Joe
Mike
Lee
Gen
Birdie
Eagle
Adon
Sagat
Ken
@Mun man 08 No way, the second one was a huge upgrade.
This is the greatest game ever conceived. Absolutely intoxicating. Magical. Unique. Often imitated, never duplicated.
The only game with chapped lip Sagat!!
Never imitated? _Fighter's History_ came close.
One of the first games I played, it does seem kind of magical, idk why but it has magic to it
I lived right across from a liquor store (hood life represent!) where we they would have some of the most memorable arcades during that time (Final Fight, Rastan, WWF Wrestlefest, etc..), but once this got dropped off, that was the end of your quarters as the bottom of the monitor trimming was lined up with them, with kids from the neighborhood ready to play and saying "I got next". Good times and Happy Birthday to Street Fighter II!
I played this game non stop for days. even when I closed my eyes I was still seing fight scenes. Dammn I loved and I still love it. this game is a master peace.
KEN's Music is absolutely epic...
TAAAAAAAN TUN TAN TON TON TON TOOOOOON
ryu better though
Chun Li for me
Also Vega
True that
I'm still in awe of this game, how did they get it so perfect. It still controls like a dream.
I am 44 now, played this game with my friends at the local arcade almost every evening, you could never forget the characters or phrases, brings back great memory's of my childhood, really great to see this again
the nostalgia of watching my uncle play this and going "hadouken" to every object
1992, good days.
Forever classic.
Gıdıklarım seni
Nuff said
Back when the golden days of gaming, no Microtransation, no DLC and less contents but still absolutely best game ever. No matter how many times we played it, it never gets old.
true
And multiplayer meant inviting your friends and/or cousins over to your house just to play classic video games like this
Arcade games literally use microtransactions
Cuando juntar dinero para comprarse una ficha era una odisea, y encima llegar al salón de videojuegos y que haya 20 pibes alrededor de la maquinita, y tenías que hacer filaaaaaaa!!! T_T!!!!
Era los vueltos de los mandados jaja
LA EPOCA DEL SENTIR
Yo llevaba un alambre como de 15 centímetros y me quedaba hasta q cierren el local jugando gratis 😎😂😂😂
Yo tenía como 6 años en 1993 y los adultos de ese tiempo jugaban en los flippers le llamábamos en Chile a este juego. Iba a escondidas de mi mamá a mirar, buenos recuerdos.
Lamento decirte que eso ya no existe y hoy en día los chicos pocas veces se ven cara a cara y no existe más esa competencia leal de ver quién tenía más puntos
Who used to just press random buttons frantically hoping you would discover new fight moves and win? 🤣😭
Haha
😂
I would mash the buttons trying to pull off new moves and win 😂
@How DAE yew! HOW DAE YEW! so true. I was so bad I just ate pizza and watched. Played the occasional game when no one was around.
I remember when I finally figured out how to throw fireballs and do shoryukens. I think I was about 9-10
I miss this version, no stupid ex moves and certainly no super move time stopping.
Man seeing my Uncles and their friends on the SNES was a heck of a time for me when I was a kid love watching every minute of it. 😊😊😊😊😊😊
The reason why Street Fighter still works so well is because the attack and defense system doesn't over-complicate itself. The blocking is easy, but the downside is that you can't just keep doing it forever, because special attacks chip away at your health slowly. You can also crouch block anything you want with the exception of three distinct moves; Grabs, Jump Attacks and Overheads. All three have to be blocked while standing and have clear visual cues that let you know when and where the opponent can potentially use either of the three on you.
If an opponent is standing immediately close, you know that they can potentially grab you, if an opponent is jumping, you know they can potentially pull off a jump kick, if an opponent is standing at mid range minimum, you know they can potentially unleash an overhead attack.
We use these attacks less because they're more unsafe to use. Grabs require a lot of effort to get in an opponent's face before doing so, Jump Attacks require lengthy jumping and landing sequences that leave you open to anti-air attacks, and Overheads have a long wind-up sequences that the opponent will see coming.
It's because of this straightforward system why I consider Street Fighter one of the first fighting games with a core mechanic that creates intuitiveness without breaking the balance between reward and consequence.
This game is one of the first to do it properly but most since then have the design you're talking about
Overheads? You mean the "heavy attacks."
Shoryuken,
The guy in Chun Li's stage background is literally choking his chicken
W Smith You read my mind.
W Smith You read my mind.
pacificvibe (Chinese guy in background with chicken): "What do you RUclipsrs care, I'm makin' a livin' here with thick, meaty thighs....ER!! Chicken thighs!"
W Smith it's a perverted, dark and humorous joke that capcom made because staff and crew will make comments about seeing chun li's ass when she gets knocked to the ground. and they find it funny to add a guy choking his chicken in the background lol
There are things that lightly occur to you, but you accept cultural differences and make allowances for the sake of a certain level of enjoyment. But after time, a long time, and knowing the venue you're in, you can't help but admit that it's a point to make. I thought the same thing watching this video.
Yo era niño en los años 90, y en mi casa había almacén con maquinitas, pool, futbolito y otros juegos, teníamos la Street Fighter, también la Mortal Kombat, y otros juegos, mucha nostalgia.
Saldrá con free fire 🤤xddd
Jajajaja
@@alexisvalencia4321 uy ya llego el pobre a cagarla
@@Darknesst_drk jajaja pobre zy zoy
Quien no se va acordar de ir a las maquinistas a que buena infancia tuvimos todos de niños soy del año 97 voy a cumplir 25 años en octubre en los años dos miles las maquinistas se seguían usando mucho y ahora los niños de hora puro free fíre
Played this in the 90's. Back to show my appreciation in 2024
Brings me back to when I was a kid hanging out at the local liquor store or bowling alley patiently waiting with my quarter placed on the game top to let others know that I got next. Funny thing too was I remembered the game saying something like… winners don’t use drugs. I couldn’t be more lit playing that game and finishing it.
I’m definitely late here, but that might’ve been Street Fighter Alpha, and not Street Fighter 2. SFA has a bunch of anti-drug stuff in it. Nothing like that in SF2.
@@NeoGio87There is a PSA on drug on turbo champ edition iirc
@@NeoGio87 They certainly had the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" on the Street Fighter II machines way back when. The only way to find out is if you see "Capcom USA" at the bottom of the title screen. I know for certain because there used to be this burger stand not too far from my house (before it got torn down) that had the North American version of The World Warrior
Their beatup faces gave me nightmares as a kid.
Same
Only bison
Lol same😂
If you get beaten up, he’ll tell you to defeat sheng long to stand a chance
You wuz
this game was one of the greatest ever. it got the music, sound effects, and graphics perfect for the time. it obviously had the gameplay mechanics and story telling. so simple and so effective.
I never seen anyone beat the whole game with just perfects and making it look so easy. Well done and well played. This clip is just a perfect masterpiece. Thanks for sharing this
This shit is freaking me out seeing this literally my favorite game as a kid ❤
I just got instant goose bumps when I saw that intro screen! I spent so many quarters on this game and I could sure use that money now...
God I lived on this game when I was a kid. SNES version was the best.
Same, I remember my cousins playing it and I was too young to be any good.
Whatever kid had it first was your new best friend.
Still is
Street Fighter II became the best-selling game since the golden age of arcade video games. By 1994, it had been played by at least 25 million people in the United States alone. Due to its major success, a series of updated versions were released with additional features and characters. 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 SNES cartridges of Street Fighter II have been sold, making it Capcom's best-selling single software game for the next two decades, its best-selling game on a single platform, and the highest-selling third-party game on the SNES.
Street Fighter II is regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time and 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. It sparked a renaissance for the arcade video game industry and impacted competitive video gaming and wider popular culture such as films and music.
To add to it, Street Fighter II also holds a record for having the most bootleg versions of its iterations; most notably, Champion Edition. Despite the originals grossing major revenue, Taiwanese hackers would flood the market with hardware containing these weird chips that drastically altered the gameplay, giving us these illegal bootlegs such as Rainbow, Kōryū, Blackbelt, etc. While the OG games continued to make money hand over fist, these hackers had also been cutting into Capcom's profits with these heavily modded versions. Not to mention, fans of CE complained about the game speed being too slow (James Goddard, formerly of Capcom USA, touched on this in an interview with Polygon). So because of these bootlegs and the fans' demands, they gave us Street Fighter II Turbo
Una obra maestra!!!! Nunca olvidaré jugandolo de chico en los arcades a fichas
There was always an a-hole kid that would pick Blanka and spam tf out the electricity move. The kid was me.
Lol we didnt call it spam back then tho, we called it being cheap
Hahaha yea bro...that blanka stuff was amazing
Blanka was very good to jump over fireballs.
lmao that's what my brother used to do
😂😂😂😂😂
Seeing Vega crawl on the cage was always amazing to me. Never knew how to do it.
because Vega wasn't playable in this game hehe
If my memory serves me correctly, you had to hold down for 2 seconds then press up and hard kick. It's been a long time though so I could be wrong!
"Tiger!" That one get me everytime 😊 the nostalgia is real I feel so old!
I spent my childhood in atari saloons that we called in turkey back in the 90’s.
This street fighter was awesome. I remember playing this at my grandmas house on her NES all the time. Those were good times.
Midna G,amer Sorry I do not remember commenting on this but if you ask I meant to say SNES instead of NES.
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Then edit your comment to fix it
Who is watching this in 2019? Childhood memories ❤
Mostafa, why is that important? I don't care what year people are watching a video. I request that you remove that comment, because those "Who is watching in BLANK" comments are spam in my eyes.
Yo!!
even 2020
Mostafa Kotp
You post this exact same comment in every old video game video. Just stop.
I always loved Street Fighter, my favorite's Ken
I realize in this version the hits take off more damage, but to get all perfect fights is insane!
That’s because he cheated, lol
@@furnitureconsortium no he din't
Sometimes I need to be reminded of just how good this game was (and still is). I think it’s the music that I cherish the most. It has to rank as one of the best arcade soundtracks of all time.
When I was 5 years old, my dad and i would play the heck out of this game on the Super Nintendo!
To fully appreciate sf2. You have to have come from an era that played golden axe, double dragon. Then this came on the scene and teenage kids were getting into fights whilst playing this game. Kids hated getting beating and took it personally. It was just crazy.
We used to go to other areas on purpose to beat other kids at this game and show our areas dominance and even sometimes real fights
"Ceremony means nothing to him .... the fight it's all". One of the greatest lines and lesson of life of all time from a videogame.
The way he finishes SAGOT brought back memories of watching an opening scene in the anime version of Street fighter.
So much memories bro....I used to play this game when I was 6
I remember playing to this with my dad when I was a child.... Too much memories 😭😭😭
I'm 41 years old and I remember playing this game for hours.
Is this the highest difficulty played? People can argue whether it is or not. However, at 3:42, player Schlauchi (as Ryu) jumps in with a Heavy Punch (a.k.a. HP or Fierce) and performs a HP Shoryuuken (a.k.a. Dragon Punch or DP) against a grounded Zangief. To understand the significance of this, here is some history:
In The World Warrior (before Championship Edition and the future reincarnations of Street Fighter II), a DP did not necessarily knock a grounded opponent down in one hit. From Championship Edition onwards, character vs. character (i.e. same character battles) matchups were possible, which necessitated the differentiation between Ryu and Ken. Ryu's DP and Tatsumaki Sempuu Kyakuu (a.k.a. Hurricane Kick) were each able to knock down opponents in one hit, while Ken's versions could hit multiple times, enabling longer combinations.
Back to the scenario at 3:42. Schlauchi, as Ryu, jumps in with Fierce and DPs a grounded Zangief, who, despite taking a hit, remains standing. Zangief is within range to at least hit Schlauchi with a crouch Heavy Kick (a.k.a. HK or Roundhouse) or grab Ryu with a Spinning Pile Driver (a.k.a. SPD). Any good human Zangief player knows how to punish mistakes with the SPD. Replace the CPU AI with any good Zangief player just at 3:44 (when Zangief has recovered from the hit stun delivered by the DP) and Zangief has a free SPD and a chance to come back in the game.
The point is that the CPU AI was not high enough to punish the player of this longplay. Schlauchi needs some better competition.
I agree I scoffed when he got off easy...
bb
+DaDoc540 Wow. What a fucking nerd.
+888state Well, he's right at least!
+DaDoc540 You got TOO MUCH time on your hands. Get outside.
*People payed $65 for a copy of this video game in 1992!!* 💡
That's a bit overpriced.
@@LITTLE1994 *People are paying $1100 for a PS5 even stolen units I hear*
I am at my 38, I have a 4vyears old son , and still playing this SF2 most of the time 🤩
Well then, pass on the gift of SF2.
I love street fighter but I could never learn how to play the game
You must defeat sheng long to stand a chance
Who was Sheng long
@@bbbnnuuuhgg7016 sheng long was what ryu said after beating someone it was his master I believe 😁
@@king-sy8er No, he's master is Gouken. Sheng Long is incorrectly translated Shoryuken.
@@bbbnnuuuhgg7016 Mistranslation of Ryu's Shoryuken (AKA Dragon Punch); EGM would make this into an April Fool's joke and run with this story until the existence of Akuma/Gouki, and then Gouken later on in Street Fighter IV
STREET FIGHTER 2, NBA JAM and MORTAL KOMBAT were all over 711s in Southern California. The good old days.
I'll be real; I've never seen a Street Fighter II machine at a 7-11 in my life (I'm also in Southern California). But, I can tell you straight up that I saw this game at practically every laundromat, liquor store, swapmeet, donut shop, car wash, video rental store, burger stand, pizza joint, barbershop, and movie theater/drive-in all over Los Angeles County. Even spotted one SF2 machine at a clothing store in Inglewood back in the day
Its not nostalgia, this game is superior than todays sf games, its an amazing classic, never get tired of it
Awesome Playthrough with one of the most important and recogniseable Character of the STREET FIGHTER Franchise !!!
Nostalgia 100%. Some Games never get old. ;-)
I remember going to the gas station with my friends after school and playing this on the arcade machine. We save our quarters all week for this. 😂😂😂
My childhood.
Cutie
Insert coin... so many coins i spend playing sf2 on the arcades.
First time...7-11 on 118th Ave and 90th St., Edmonton, AB, Canada (Now a liquor store).A bunch of older Triad looking kids were standing around (like 5-10 guys), all chit chatting in Cantonese. I'm just a young Cree (partly French), punk barely tall enough to see the screen and I put my quarter up after watching a handful of matches and learned the house rules at the time. It was an amazing experience with Chun Li as my first pick. As luck would have it I won a match (with mandatory seconds given), but I got my ass handed to me afterwards cause I didn't know any timing or moves. An amazing experience non-the-less.
A couple of months ago I set out to to recreate the arcade experience on an Amiga 1200 and was amazed of how well the A1200 could have handled this game. If it was given proper love and care. I guess the whole project was a part of a healing process in adult years xD (due to how bad the original Amiga version was)... I posted a video of it a while back. ;)
This is best of the best arcade games of all time. The other one I used to like playing was bubble bobble
Happy 30th Anniversary STREET FIGHTER II.
But then the very next year came MORTAL KOMBAT and the rest was history.
@@seanvogt221 that's true 😊
street fighter characters's favorite activities:
ryu: japanese karate master
ken: japanese karate master
e. honda: japanese sumo wrestler
chun-li: chinese kung fu master
guile: american military
dhalsim: indian yoga master
zangief: soviet wrestler
blanka: brazilian green monster
fei long: hong kong movie star and bruce lee's clone
cammy: english military
t. hawk: mexican indian
deejay: jamaican musician
sagat: thai muay thai fighter
vega: spanish matador
balrog: american boxer
m. bison: military dictator
akuma: japanese demon
guy: japanese red ninja
sakura: japanese schoolgirl
dan: hong kong martial artist
elena: kenyan capoeira fighter
yun: hong kong skateboarder
ibuki: japanese ninja
charlie nash: american military
rose: italian fortune teller
birdie: english punk
hugo: german wrestler
alex: american wrestler
juri: korean taekwondo master.
I like Ryu's expression during one of his victory poses.
I felt so cultured playing this in the 90s
You played like a champ! I've beaten it without losing a round before, but never without taking damage at all.
I beat this game without taking damage.
has to be easy mode… no damage on hardest mode ? nah…
The era of when people went to play the home console versions at home, A.K.A the legendary 90's.
Back in my small hometown when this game was first introduced, if you could make it to M.BISON you'd get like a million crowded viewers around you in the arcade mall