The Fighting Games that MADE ME - Street Fighter II

[@ajp1282]

I remember tossing my 1st Hadoken on SNES as Ken. My older bro and dad were watching and their jaws dropped cuz they were practicing for hours but they did the inputs too slow. Granted, my thumb was sore on that brick house SNES controller but the looks on their faces as the current baby of the fam threw a fireball before they did was bragging rights (and memories) alone.

[@TonyTheTGR]

I remember trying to individually tap out each direction instead of doing motions! XD This is why I played charge characters until Alpha 2.

[@ajp1282]

@@TonyTheTGR That's exactly what my fam did! Each arrow was a second-long pause before the next input. Even then I was like, "y'all ain't doing it right" 🤣🤣

[@ryublueblanka]

The SNES controller is my favorite of all time. My dream is a custom SNES controller I can play on every system with.

[@siraj2cool]

I was around 10 years and saw this game on arcade near my house i remember loosing badly against teenagers of that time

[@brudog56]

SNES... I don't hate the controller at all, but when I first got WW, I would re-map the buttons so that Fierce and Roundhouse were the inside buttons (Y and B) since those were the main "Mario" buttons I was used to. It took FOREVER for me to learn to use the proper button layout!

[@jwonggg]

Bison looks so evil

[@remymiante8454]

Yooo Justin!!!!!!!

[@pixelgoat7317]

He was a scary dude...until Max got a perfect on him. Wow! Eat shit, Lord Bibson!

[@BurgerSoup]

Stop bodyshaming him guys, what did he do to yall

[@1MCElias]

Haha.

[@asdueb8260]

Let's go Justin!!!

[@Guile_The_Exile]

"I started in SF2 with Blanka..." Somewhere right now, Woolie is smiling with a manly tear in his eye.

[@MarcSummersH2O]

Or getting hit by a Big Band super to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

[@gettingannoyedquick]

Or losing to Daigo

[@MuhammadAli-xw4yc]

I just said the cpu Guile playing like Daigo

[@Sly_Maverick_31]

@@MarcSummersH2O *[Seven Note Vaudeville Fanfare intensifies]*

[@ShiningT1g3R]

For me, it was Champion Edition at the local movie theater. In the afternoons, you would get a few challenges; in the evenings is when the real competition came out! Guys trying to impress their girlfriends or rep their street cred...

[@tpatt513]

The fighting game that started it all for a lot of people.

[@pc4mlc451]

I am one of them. I was in the 1st grade.

[@arkdetective]

Me as well i think, my dad was a manager of a pizza hut that had I think super since it had Cammy, and I played that a bit when I was little. Either that or it was primal rage on genesis at a friend's house. One of those two around 1995-1996. I know it was one of those two as my first fighting game for sure. I'm betting on super sf2 specifically.

[@Pazuzu-]

Yeah, but also a lot of people started to really give attention to the series only with Champion Edition.

[@minechaftgamer288]

@@Pazuzu- na Street Fighter II was an instant phenomenon, started it all full stop

[@yogurt_junior]

@@Pazuzu- Yup SF2 World Warrior was so broken and glitched, Guile was Demi-God Tier, and there were no mirror matches, and no playable boss characters. Champion Edition added those things missing, and fixed the glitches, making the game more balanced and a lot more competitive.

[@victorhugocosta1127]

I've read in an article that SF2 took a while to blow up in Japan initially because people were only playing it single player, and that only after the multiplayer aspect was highlighted in magazines, that it reached the popularity that we know nowadays. So don't feel bad for cheesing the AI in these games, cuz the difficulty was BS even back then.

[@marioreyes7971]

That's real interesting, about Japanese players only playing in single player at first. At local arcades where I lived I don't remember if I ever actually saw anyone playing single player, anytime people got a match in against the CPU it wouldn't be long until someone else joined in and played.

[@emilholst9789]

Such incredible pixel goodness. The detail and variety in stages is really GREAT!.

[@combatfgc]

SF2 was the ultimate game back in 91, the original version in the arcade was an absolute magical time. Soundtrack is timeless also, this was the start of the golden era of fighting games.

[@robjoker3786]

9:29 I think this game has a damage x2 amplyfier on any counter happening in the fight, so that was like taking 2 flash kicks and 2 sonic booms in 2 moves.

[@Aversa33]

Thats random ai godmode cheats

[@Ugo2sleep]

The damage is because Blanka is more vulnerable if hit during his cannonball attack. Not sure if this applies to any counter, maybe just special move counter? Been a while since I played World Warrior.

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

@Cayden Deleon it is counter damage. Sagat has this too during his dp recovery. Thats the 2 i know for sure but might be more

[@ptakleo]

It's just that specificing port cheating AF (more damage,less stun time,grab priority etc etc)

[@saucy756]

@@Ugo2sleep punishing sagats uppercut amplifies the damage done to him

[@hanzohattiori1737]

As a 44 year old, I have to laugh at Max give commentary on one of my favorite games like an archeologicalist explaining the history of some ancient artifact 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯

[@TwesomE]

Yeah its like he never played it and its the first time he does that or something! 😂😂😂

[@tellmesomething2412]

This

[@russelbutt]

Bro, same boat, lol. I can't believe it's been so long already.

[@lightup6751]

HAHAHAH true

[@UncomfortableShoes]

As a 38 year old that played SF2 at a local 7/11 I feel like when my kids are old enough to understand I’ll sound like this. I may have to start by explaining why I went to a store to play a video game.

[@cymandeh]

sf2 is the friggin GREATEST when it came out. it CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mypal1990]

This was my first exposure to fighting games. And this was mind blowing back then. Then mortal Kombat came soon after.

[@imoffendedthatyouroffended5173]

The Arcades were so damn fun

[@dwaynemitchell9983]

Definitely!

[@vidk1dd96]

Mortal Kombat 1 & Samurai Shodown 1 on SNES were my first introduction to fighting games, and to gaming as a whole as a child. Street Fighter shortly came after. My interest as a fan of the genre only grew more as I got older and the urge to learn more about how they worked.

[@thedukebelmondo]

MK1 is still my favorite to this day. Raiden all the way!

[@KrishnaSingh-ow1ie]

It was nothing we ever saw before. It was a complex fighting game.special moves took a while to learn. Six buttons. Nobody never saw anything like that. It was a phenomenon

[@SilverAxe13]

I remember seeing the cover art for Street Fighter II on SNES for the first time and it just immediately capturing my imagination.

[@jackcoleman1784]

Funny thing about the cover art for the SNES port is that it depicts an impossible situation. A three-way fight between Ryu, Blanka, and Chun-Li. Which is obviously not possible in SFII.

[@minechaftgamer288]

The proper Japanese box art looks so much classier today but maybe was the right move at the time

[@shinsmoke]

SFII is the game that got me into fighting games. Didn't own a game console growing up, so I dealt with the AI shenanigans back in the arcades. It helped me get good, at the end of the day.

[@Xarcabard]

SF II had a HUGE impact on me growing up. I was obsessed with it. I collected guide books, art, comic books...man. Truly an icon.

[@ajshiro3957]

SF2 on Genesis was my first experience playing videogames in general. It was my first videogame i played. My dad taught me how to do the moves. Back when i was 5.

[@jazzygeofferz]

I remember my first time playing SF2. I was 11, and there was a travelling funfair in town. They had it in the little arcade which was on the back of a wagon. I spent most of my pocket money playing it one afternoon and it was love at first play. My school friends and I would meet up there on the weekend and play each other, all as either Dhalsim because of the stretchy limbs, or Honda/Blanka to mash punchfor the hands/electricity. Happy times.

[@darrielwlters]

My big bro used to tell us arcade stories about this street fighter 2…. The rest is history after finally seeing and playing it🤙🏾

[@tomaturtle7790]

Street Fighter II was the first fighting game I ever played when I was a teenager. I thought it was another version of Final Fight, and my first character was either Blanka or Zangief. But I believe the fighting games that got me more into the genre was World Heros 2, Darkstalkers, and King of Fighters '94.

[@benredfield6643]

That's a great set of games to get you into the genre. As for me, I was only 7 when SF2 came out and since there was no arcade scene here, I wasn't even aware of it until it came out on consoles. (Arcade games were so dead here that my dad had a job where he took arcade cabs from pubs and smashed them up with a mallet so they could be thrown in a dump.) I don't think I got a SNES until maybe 1994 but I remember playing one of the other ports of it, possibly on the PC, at a friend's house. I remember the feeling of being fully drawn in by the music on Ken's stage, and how colourful the art style was. Such a great game.

[@FREEZA_AKA_MR_COOLA]

I remember hitting blanka with the shoryuken during his ball attack and getting an instant ko lol

[@brudog56]

Interestingly, Final Fight was only created because of a chip shortage in the late 80s. SFII was always slated to be the first CPS1 game, but the RAM modules available at the time weren't sufficient to hold all the assets. Final Fight was the contingency plan. Also, it was originally going to be titled "Street Fighter '89"

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Guile & Chun-Li will always have the greatest theme

[@nesaiamon8727]

I beg to differ - Ken's theme kicks ass

[@garou119]

You mispelled Balrog

[@icebird8575]

You misspelt M Bison

[@arkdetective]

Guys and gals, can we all agree that this is still one of the best fighting game soundtracks ever made? Fun fact!!! This was scored by yoko shimomura. Yes, THE kingdom hearts main composer herself.

[@ChannelForbus]

Funny that you said everything of my experience of Street fighter. I 1st had Super street fighter for genesis, my main was also blanka guile and chin li.

[@mrlyles2002able]

Guile's Flashkick does 65 percent damage?!? Max's reaction is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 Timestamp: 9:28

[@fnh123]

3:23 lol cpu Guile doing a flash kick while walking backwards.

[@DippedInInk]

Classic game. Crazy how this is the Grandfather fighting game that set the trend.

[@eric4133]

It's crazy hold long ago Street Fighter II came out. I'm 41 now and remember doing SFII moves in elementary school, specifically doing Guile flash kicks from the swing set by backflipping out of the swing.

[@LordBeMine]

For me, Street Fighter 4 started my love for fighting games. It made me play the classic SF and Vs series (MvC/Snk vs Capcom etc) Street Fighter 4 also made me discover your channel.

[@ShinGouki666666]

I remember trying to get that group photo at the end of the game of all the characters together. I think you had to beat it on the hardest difficulty without losing a round or something.

[@marioreyes7971]

SF2 Championship edition (arcade) is what set me love playing fighting games, I remember being a little kid always taking on older teens and young adults it didn't matter where if it was at Pizza hut, 7-11, or the laundry mat, etc. They were always talking shit and praising if you did cool combos or had a good match, finally getting up to the controls and feeling the tension of everyone watching, I saw the line of quarters, this wasn't like playing at home on the SNES against friends. Arcade players were ruthless but damn fun to play against.

[@DisgruntledBee]

Ken greeting that freaky Eliza sprite with, "WHAT ARE YOU" was too good.

[@orlanzo2621]

The most influential fighting game for me that "made" me has to be SF2 Champion Edition, it was the very first fighting game i ever played. I remember seeing it at a laundromat around early 1993 and it blew my 7 year old mind away. Up until that point i was used to playing stuff like Mario and Sonic and had never seen a fighting game before so seeing a martial artist fight a wrestler while throwing fireballs and doing spinning kicks across the screen was crazy to me. I was INSTANTLY hooked on the series and fighting games in general from that point forward. Every time i saw it anywhere i HAD to stop and play it. I even begged my parents to get me the Genesis version. Me and my little brother wore that game out man, i played it like no tomorrow, that was where i first learned how to actually do special moves. So yea while Champion Edition might not be one of my favorite fighting games of all time, it was definitely the one that got the ball rolling on my love of the genre and had the biggest impact on me for sure.

[@Franswa80]

This game early on, you can find it in almost every laundry mat, liquor store, as well 7 elevens. You actually made me tear up when you began to play the intro. Thanks Max!

[@JOmega2007]

Street Fighter 2 was also the most influential fighting game for me as well. I still go "Hadoken" or "Shoryuken" when nobody is around. I still got a major crush on Chun-li and love when women do her cosplay. I hope Street Fighter never dies!

[@applepretz5368]

Same here. Im a Mid 2000s baby but I grew up with the series as well. I loved playing super street fighter 2 with my bothers when i was younger and I go hadouken and shoryuken when Nobody is around too. Tatsumaki as well, But I hurt myself a few times with that so um yeah lol

[@brandonb404]

I remember staying up all night at grandma's trying to learn the fireball move in SF2 on the snes. When I finally did I became a street fighter weeb for life.

[@Destroyah5000]

After getting UMvC3 for Christmas, I felt the urge to really get into fighting games for the first time. This led me to get SF2 for SNES, which I played a bunch, maybe even more than UMvC3 for a bit. A year later I got the chance to play a real cabinet at a fair, and the experience was amazing.

[@HappyRatKaiser]

"Can't you just taste the pizza" My introduction to fighting games was a World Warrior cabinet that was in a retro '50s burger joint my mom worked at back in 1991. The place--as you can imagine--reeked of burgers and fries, and sometimes I can still smell it when I think of this game. Literally the "smell of the game!"

[@SergeEXE2]

Street Fighter 2 transitioned to CPS2 hardware with Super Street Fighter 2. It's hilarious in hindsight, because all of the new characters and new moves on old characters are animated SO MUCH more nicely compared to the old animations. It's legit jarring on Chun Li and Cammy.

[@jcaa92]

That thumbnail is amazing lol. And street fighter 2 and all it's variants for me is still the goat of fighting games. My favorite fighting game and my first game i remember playing

[@GaionSputro]

Chun li vs pedo

[@dealt]

If you're of a certain age and you were a gamer back then, 99% SFII had a massive impact on you. I was quite obsessed with SFII because I had heard so much about it from my older brother before getting to play it at an arcade. Xmas 92 I got a SNES and SFII. I cried.

[@burnsyboy2007]

I remember seeing Street Fighter 2 in the arcades in 91/92 and was fucking blown away by how good the gameplay, graphics, sound effects and music were. Awesome. I remember having the SNES version for Christmas a few years later, and even though it was very good, I was still gutted it was nowhere near the arcade version.

[@brudog56]

Interesting... I didn't have much access to arcades, so when I first got the SNES version, I literally thought it was arcade-perfect. It wasn't until months later when I went to a local arcade with a friend that I saw how much nicer the sprites looked in the arcade version. Makes sense since CPS1 has a 384 × 224 while SNES is only 256×224. The Genesis version could have had sprites that were closer to the arcade, but it ended up being a direct port of the SNES version

[@ericjones9668]

It was like that for me when it came to MK2!! The arcade version was like god but when I got it on SNES, it had devolved to mere mortal status😣😣

[@burnsyboy2007]

@@ericjones9668 Very true, I do think the SNES version of MK2 was the best of the consoles at the time though - very good effort.

[@stevo8825]

*AI in hitstun* "I'm going to throw you and it's going to connect I decided"

[@drewstar8611]

I remember my cousin when he first got a SNES with Street Fighter 2 bundled, he called me straight away and told me to come round and play it. The early 90s was just a special time.

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

I remembered playing Hyper Street Fighter 2 in the arcades back in 1993, then I graduated to playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 1996. The 90s really has some good arcades back in the day. Shine on max. 10:35 Max doing a parody of Jackie Chan's City Hunter Street Fighter moment.

[@shoken4421]

Im with max , the first time i played sf my cousin had it on snes and i did my first fire ball with ryu and i lost my mind after that any time i played a fighting game i tried a fireball motion on world heroes lol

[@XerosigmaZ]

I remember in 92 when this game came to my town in Mexico. I was 6 and the little store across the street from my house had it. My first arcade experience was this game. The music and sounds are what make it the most nostalgic for me. Bro 13:04 HAHAHAHA!!

[@HeyItsRyGuy]

SF2 was really the only way for me and my dad to connect. So many great memories with the old man playing this game. Still remember the first time I beat him and it felt so rewarding lol

[@ShinGouki666666]

Took me a while as a kid to realize their hands were in the fireball lol.

[@IveBeenChris]

Capcom vs SNK 2 and MvC 2 on Dreamcast made me… I’ve been whooping ass even as a kid. Beating up my older brothers and cousins who are great players in their own rights. Kids would play kids game while I practice hard on fighting games.

[@micshork]

My first fighting game was when I was a kid and played the original SSB at my cousin’s house. My first exposure to the whole genre was when I was in High School in 2010 and saw on KZbin an episode of the old G4 show “Icons” where they talked about the history of Fighting Games. I instantly fell in love with the genre and was hooked from then on. Since then guys like Max and Matt have been my go-to on Fighting Game content and I have been collecting various fighting games from all sorts of platforms.

[@hydro_storm4527]

I was born in '91. Using allowance money, I bought a random game for my hand-me-down SNES for a whopping $2 at a flea market off of some college students in the late 90's. They made the comment "Oh man, we'll miss this one!" when I bought it. That was SF2. I was late to the party, but that was the game that made me love fighting games, and one of the few SNES games I'll never let go of

[@alittlebitofkarate9769]

Blanka head bite move use to show blood

[@erisunflower]

My uncle was the one that got me into street fighter and I even played it at the arcade with my fren. Good times with these fun games

[@VicGT2]

Me too except they'd get drunk every weekend and everyone would take turns in CvS2..good times

[@travamongshrubs]

Brought my new SNES over to a friends house earlier today, all we did was play Street Fighter II Turbo on it. Some 30 years later, it's still a timeless classic. Me and my friends didn't grow up with Street Fighter II yet we were screaming and laughing the whole afternoon. It was cool to see my friends enjoy on what we all missed out on.

[@RonaldDorsinator]

*Street Fighter II is the game that got me into fighting games....me, my cousins, and my homies use to run tournaments for hours and go to the arcades and compete sometimes man if any fighting game got majority of my time while i was growing up as kid it was street fighter then Mortal Kombat became the ultimate go to fighting game for me and became a big fan of KI & Art Of Fighting/KOF*

[@Chtud]

I remember a local Casino had Streetfighter 2 Cabinet installed right at the entrance. Me and my brother used to sneak in (because you had to be 18y to enter) and play SF II untill we got kicked out.

[@SuperRobert56]

Omg ive never clicked a Video so fast! The next 25 mins will be me watching my favourite guy talking about my Favourite thing in the world!!! So excited!

[@ChaosAngelZero]

Guile: "Go home and be a family man." Max: "Okay."

[@zero195]

So true. My dad always used to pick E. Honda and handslap me to death. Then I figured out how to do fireballs and the other special moves. He stopped playing me after that, said I was cheating.

[@supernecessary]

Max, dood I just wanna say right when I reach those moments where I feel like my content creation or my creative drive is starting to fail, I watch a video of yours and I’m instantly inspired and reminded of why I do what I do. It’s out of the love of video games and the unity they create between fans and consumers. Thanks dood!

[@JarvisCosric885]

Thanks for reliving my childhood bro. Can’t wait to see more of your new videos

[@SrSacaninha]

Everybody goes on about how big Mario and Sonic were, but to me SFII was the one that transcended the gaming universe. Back then EVERYBODY knew this game, even people who hadn't played it. Kids would impersonate characters during intervals, skip class to sneak into the arcades, make art related to the game, and be generally obsessed about it. It was a cultural phenomenon.

[@landonhulett2119]

As someone who was born in the late-mid 80's, growing up in the 90's was the BEST.

[@jeffreycummings2769]

I liked that after you won and she came on screen, Ken pretty quickly said "What are you", which seemed pretty appropriate. But then it went on to finish with "doing here?".

[@ajver19]

Man SF2 cabinets were everywhere. You couldn't go out without seeing one. Getting pizza? Gas station? There'll be a cabinet there.

[@hyperjan]

Street fighter II simpsons tmnt and X-men arcade. Friday night pizza and birthday parties at the skating rink was amazing times

[@TheDigitalAtlas]

Thought this was going to be a scripted series like Fighting History. Ah well, always here for ST!

[@djbubblegum9975]

Me too, kinda disappointed it's not but still a fun video

[@ChaosTx]

Well you were wrong buddy!

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

Those scripted videos were for a different time

[@TheDigitalAtlas]

@@SPACECOWBOY705 ehhhhhhh I think you might be blind to the KZbin space around you if you think that. Like, no offense, but we're in an era where a Fallout New Vegas essay got 6 million views in a year.

[@707zacbuster]

Street fighter 2 arcade was THE most played arcade machine at my local skating rink. And it had 3 arcades machines. Teenage mutant ninja turtles and akari warriors were the other 2.

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

I still remember how to counter the ai in ww and ce lol Ryu: try going for a throw at the start bc he always walks to the corner, then its just about jumping fbs. Generally hard Honda: weak to fireballs, telegraphed jumps and headbutt. Generally easy Blanka: anti air, fairly telegraphed ball, takes extra damage during it. Generally moderate Guile: try to out fireball him, then he sometimes goes for a jump. If you dont have a projectile, youre screwed. Generally very hard Ken: does unsafe shit all the time, just punish. Quite unpredictable. Generally easy Chun: anti air. Easy. Gief: neutral jump, close fireballs. Cheats a lot but cant do much against these. Generally fairly easy Sim: weak to slides. Sometimes goes for hk multiple times and walks closer, punish that. Other than that, just jump, throw fb carefully and counter the drills. Generally moderate Rog: crouch. Generally fairly easy Vega: anti air, otg, telegraphed roll. Generally moderate Sagat: takes extra damage during dp recovery, cant throw. Sometimes walks up and whiffs hk multiple times, punish that. Jump and fb carefully. Long reaching normals like cr.hp with blanka can help a lot with high shots. Very hard in ww, moderate in ce Bison: neutral jump, anti air, weak to slides, telegraphed crusher especially in ww, very unpredictable overall. Generally hard

[@thomasarcanine]

oh god, those lovely and precious childhood memories... I remember I was a button masher too, with Blanka and Honda, until I tried Dhalsim and just strategically stretch punch/kick and spam slide my friends to frustration... this game totally changed and shaped me...

[@venom3421]

Street Fighter 2: World Warrior is the very first fighting game I've ever played back then and it started my love for fighting games.

[@BigALBoomer]

I was 9 or 10 when I first played this back around 1993. Will always be my favourite franchise

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

10:38 yeah, one of the biggest banboozle moments of my early life was choosing Guile after getting my ass handed to me way too many time, thinking "wow, he must be really good, now how do I pull off his moves?". When I found out you have to HOLD backwards or crouch for 2 seconds, I felt so cheated :D Same with M. Bison in SSF2, you have to hold to pull off his moves, while the AI just pulls them off instantly...

[@marioreyes7971]

Balrog (boxer) was notorious for just throwing out dash punches and uppercuts often miliseconds apart, it was so bad that during some play throughs that his whole movement was x5 dash punches. I knew the A.I. didn't have charge moves but damn it was crazy how fast they pulled them off.

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

@@marioreyes7971 yeah, Balrog cheated to, but you could easily cheese him by sweeping the leg. Vega is also a dirty input reader (mirroring your moves to stay out just of range), but you could also take advantage of that...

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Aw man, I remember this game! It's got Blaynka, Raiyu, Chong Lee, Sagget, Baylrog, all those guys! Oh yeah, don't forget Zane Geef! He's Soviet!

[@xxnike0629xx]

I think a lot of us watching started off with Street Fighter II; be it through the arcades, SNES, or Genesis. Crazy how much time has passed. I remember the first time playing it on the SNES and button mashing til I got blisters to randomly pull off special moves.

[@Sukochii]

Looking forward to this series!!! I still remember borrowing street fighter 2 for the snes from my neighbor when I was a kid. Then seeing super street fighter 2 in a really dingy and dark arcades, right at the back, with the opening looking awesome as F. Ryu jumping up and down with the lightning. Ahhh good memories!

[@eth102]

17:43 That was some SFV Balrog shit right there.

[@Darkcloud2218]

Thank god for the single button repeat moves. My little hands couldn't do hados and stuff, but I could lighting someone.... kinda

[@thelastgogeta]

Capcom hit gold with that command in particular. Intuitive to explain and kids will do it by accident.

[@sonicmario64]

Guile being fought as a CPU opponent is definitely the reason for him being one of my least favorite characters in "Street Fighter II" (particularly the original version before "Super Street FIghter II"), but at least he was useful as an Assist Trophy in "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate".

[@alexacosta4754]

We had a arcade cabinet actually at a flea market but man the music will always make me feel groovy

[@ratfink2079]

When I was a kid, my bro sat me down with a sega and trained me to do all of ryu's imputs. Love that game!

[@cashordeals3672]

Man that thumbnail is awesome yet again it just reminded me of mr mick mcginty the man behind iconic snes sf2 cover artwork

[@SaviorGabriel]

This year marks 30 years of my journey with fighting games starting with Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. I'll never forgot my first time playing it at a local Walmart. I had no idea what I was doing, but knew I needed more of it. It's seems so ordinary by now, but SFII was like nothing I'd ever seen back then.

[@fightfannerd2078]

Street Fighter II was my favorite childhood game & Street Fighter 4 got me into fighting games

[@kanchi21]

street fighter in arcades so much nostalgia good memories

[@aynsley1002]

I used to play blanka on my snes vs my dad who would play guile. Nice to know we started our first fighting game with the same character :) although I was like 6 haha. Just spammed electric and nothing else.

[@joshmcnay3467]

I remember going to the Pizza Hut near my house and seeing the two cabinets of 1942 and Street Fighter II. So many quarters dropped and so many slices eaten. Truly good times.

[@afrikasmith1049]

Street Fighter 2 and MK are what also made me. I started playing any fighting game I could get my hands on after playing those games. It wouldn't be until my early 20s when I started taking fighting games seriously, Super Street Fighter 4 specifically. It was the first time I started using an arcade stick since the Sega years. Back then, I didn't even know how to use charge characters or properly use the dragon punch motion. It was the early years of EVO and the Daigo moment that inspired me to switch to an arcade stick and play competitively online.

[@Rogerjr96]

This game made me a fighting game fanatic. I wanted to be good at the skating ring back in the day. Guile was my first character. Those were the days.

[@ryublueblanka]

Street Fighter 2 is...was...and always will be... A MASTERPIECE.

[@cyruscesar2818]

I turned 35 last year and I still remember the first time I played Street Fighter 2. I had to have been no older than 7, but it was one of the first games my parents brought me that I didn't rent. I remember just seeing the box art at Toys R Us thinking, "hey, this looks cool.." Never knew at that moment it would change my life forever.

[@Mkj119]

Heard bisons sf2 theme yesterday for smash ultimates sf anniversary spirits event and it took me back man

[@MrPeterStevens]

I remember walking into the arcade when it came out. 10 cabs, each with a queue of 8 - 10 people for weeks. Insane.

[@sunquestenergyhomesolution96]

Back in 1992 Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition was the arcade game that did it for me. SF2 World Warrior was always crowded with long lineups at the arcades but when SF2 Champion Edition came out it was easier to play because it was everywhere other than just the arcades.

[@thepuppetmaster9284]

I still remember playing SF II WW for the first time on arcade back when i’m still 6-7 years old. It’s just mind blowing. I think i picked Ken as my first character because i like red karate gi.

[@skinc4rver]

I was in born in 2003. Despite this, Street Fighter II (specifically champion edition) is what started my love for fighting games. My childhood (and to this day) best friend had a Dad that was a HUGE Street Fighter fan. A big enough fan to own a SF2CE cab that they kept in their garage. I have many memories of going over on hot summer days to play Street Fighter II for hours, and my friend’s dad had me and him so excited for when SF4 was going to come to the states. We were only in kindergarten/first grade, but we were hooked. PS: My childhood mains were Blanka and Vega, because charge moves were the only special moves my child brain could understand for some reason.

[@Drexus80]

Great game. The style, music and sounds of this still help it to hold up really well today, even have in on an arcade 1up with final fight etc. Although I usually play CE on there as it's less broken in some ways. :) Seeing this in the arcades and later having it on the snes and sf2t were amazing, so much replay on this, it's timeless. We have everything digitally and at the touch of a button for the most part these days, but it's sad that kids growing up today don't get to experience the arcades in their heyday like many of us here did, such fun times. :)

[@statesminds]

Just watching this playlist now and i can relate to all of these but King of Fighters was a huge one for me. I am 32 so started with SSF2T on 3DO but played KoF ‘97 at a Pizza Hut. And later ‘98 which is a big one for me. Also Tekken 3 was bigggg for me. The Capcom Vs. games also important. I did play a version of SF2 in arcades first but don’t remember which version also loved Mortal Kombat on Genesis but SF2 was better fighting game

[@superzeldastepssbb]

im loving this, street fighter 2 was my first fighting game too. had such a blast tring to beat the arcade on the snes. i def can see you taking it to fatal fury or mk or even the other versions of sf2

[@icedcapplord710]

For fighting games formative to my childhood it'd probably have to be Alpha 3, vanilla SFIV, MvC2 and Capcom vs. SNK 2

[@iangoforth6505]

There was, the Toys that Made Us. Then there was, the Movies that Made Us! In 2022 we get, the Fight Games that Made Us!

[@EvanTomiko]

I will never forget the first time I played Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition in an arcade cabinet. That waiting line was huge and I only endured 3 minutes.