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20. Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (LeonhartFour)


That intro where Ryu gradually builds up to throwing a Hadouken directly at the screen was absolutely amazing back in the day. That might have been the moment I learned to appreciate the value of presentation in video games! Now during the '90s, Capcom released five different versions of the game (and have somehow released three more versions since then, including one just last year!). If you grew up on Street Fighter II, you probably have one "definitive" version of it that you loved more than the others. I imagine for most people, it was either Turbo or Super Turbo. For me, it was this one. I liked the full roster of fighters here, and they made several additions and revisions to the movesets (This is the first time Ryu and Ken really started feeling like they had different fighting styles), but I wasn't a fan of some of the changes Super Turbo made (The Alpha games perfected that style of gameplay for me), so I prefer vanilla Super Street Fighter II.

As far as characters go, Ryu has been my favorite most of the time, although I've played with and beaten the single player Arcade mode with every character. I liked experimenting with the new movesets, like Ryu's new fireball that actually sets people on fire. Then you have the four new characters, with Cammy being the best of the bunch. I liked Dee Jay a lot, too, although he's an exception for me in terms of the type of character I usually pick. I tend to prefer fighters whose special moves are motion-based rather than charged, so I don't use characters like Balrog or Guile that often. That being said, most of my friends were bad at fighting games, so I could win with anybody, so it's not like it mattered.

One of my favorite features of Super Street Fighter II was its Tournament Battle mode, where you can have up to sixteen fighters compete. You can rotate around between players if you want, but I actually preferred to watch all-CPU tournaments. I don't know what it was about it, but it was a lot of fun to watch and try to guess who would win. This was the first fighting game I can think of that had something akin to this. I would also occasionally do this weird thing where I would hook it up to a Game Genie, input the code that gives you infinite health, and host tournaments with that cheat enabled. I don't know how the game determined who would win after time ran out, but I guess it had some sort of system in place to figure it out since there was never a draw! I'm not sure if Super Street Fighter II is my favorite game in the series (It's close between this, Street Fighter Alpha 2, and Super Street Fighter IV), but it's probably the one I've invested the most time in over the years.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite Street Fighter game?

Exact hits for Roba, kateee, LotM, and Kleenex! This was another game most people had pretty low, so no major damage done either way.
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