Street Fighter II (SNES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Capcom's 1992 versus-fighter for the Super Nintendo, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.

Played through with Ken on the hardest difficulty level with no losses for the best possible ending.

I loved this game soooo much when it came out.

Everytime we went to the mall my parents would have to drag me away from the various demo kiosks in different stores that were all invariably playing the new SNES Street Fighter game. I don't remember very many games ever generating so much hype and fanfare on release, and though it's easy to dismiss it now in light of the changes made to the series over the past thirty years, this was the game that defined the genre in the modern sense. It took everything and put it together in a way that had never been done before, and most of its trappings are still with us in today's fancy 3D equivalents.

And it was on a Super Nintendo. And it was the first 16-megabit cart released in America, which spoke volumes. Nintendo was pretty much guaranteed to publish their own game on a new, upgraded cart size before letting the third-party developers have at it, but they understood the importance of the release for their brand, and in keeping it exclusive to the SNES, SF2 gave Nintendo a huge advantage over Sega at the time.

It looked incredible - not arcade-perfect, but it might as well have been in 1992. Nobody cared that the characters were smaller or that animation frames had been cut. It looked and felt close enough to the game that people waited in long lines to play. This was close enough of a facsimile that we were all stunned - the latest arcade blockbuster could actually be played at home.

I actually won a copy of this cart (even though I already had gotten it for Christmas) in a Nintendo Power contest! I got a call from the magazine, and about four months later a bubble-envelope showed up in the mail. I was confused when I opened it because the label was white and said "Not for Resale" across the top. It was SF2 sure enough, but I thought it was a special copy at the time, not just a media or store demo copy like I figured out later. It was neat to win, even if it just meant that my sister could use it so she would stop ganking my copy of the game to play in her room.

This game itself was a revolution, and probably only sits behind Mario in terms of how many times it's been blatantly copied. Very good stuff.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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