The Game That Changed EVERYTHING | Street Fighter II

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Max continues his journey through all the Street Fighter games, moving on to easily the most successful of them all and the game that truly kickstarted the franchise, Street Fighter 2! With an updated roster, gorgeous graphics, and an updated control scheme, it's no wonder that we would inevitably get about thirty more versions of this game over the next twenty years!
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[@fedoraking3611]

My favorite fact about SF2 is that combos were originally a glitch. It was left in because the developers liked what it did for gameplay and made it a feature. The greatest accident to ever happen for fighting games ever.

[@conradojavier7547]

What would SF2, had they fix the glitch?

[@jamirimaj6880]

​​@@conradojavier7547ust like SF1, no combos and just punches, kicks, and the grapple. Combos really separated the "button-mashers" to the truly skilled ones. That's why SF2's "accident" is monumental: it basically became the standard of fighting genre in video games we see now.

[@Shin-iv6yc]

This cannot be.

[@daywalker3735]

I think this also was the case with crossovers / cross ups

[@CyberneticHype]

SF2’s legacy transcends the scope of this franchise, it will always be remembered as one of the most genre defining videogames of all time.

[@doris3026]

Bro it just a game

[@christiansilvino9031]

@@doris3026 nah. It was a movement.

[@Ahmed-og2jm]

​@@doris3026 A game that seemingly influenced other games?? We all know it's a game so what's your point 😂

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

@@doris3026 This is the game that invented animation cancels, all of gaming is influenced by it, MMOs, racing, shooting, heck farming games have cancels for more efficiency.

[@RanmyakuIchi]

@@doris3026 He said with an avatar from a game inspired from SF2

[@gamerkingdom1442]

One of the most iconic games in HISTORY. Hell, FIGHTING GAMES wouldn’t be were it is without this game! It’s so… PERFECT.

[@dropkickpikachu]

I think this is like top 3 most influential games ever made, easily.

[@addex1236]

Top five not to undersell it but games like Half Life GTA 3 and Ocorina of Time didn't just define genres of games but videogames as a medium not to say Street Fighter 2 isn't an important game every fighting game is a decedent of Street Fighter 2 but that's strictly fighting games not to say I don't see or respect argument I just disagree and feel under that narrow other perview other games edge it out

[@thomasromano9239]

@@addex1236 While those games you mentioned are surely influential (though Doom came before Half life), GTA3 and Ocarina of time fall in a similar category of going over head to fully 3D... so on a list of influential games, a fighting game genre should definitely make the top 3 to have variety in that list. I mean while Ocarina of Time was a masterpiece of a game, Mario 64 had already veered into the 3D realm with responsive controls. So they only had to follow suit.

[@deelite19]

Yeah agreed. Top 3 sounds about right. I mean, it literally made a genre.

[@jordanforbes149]

Yea it’s up there with doom and Mario tbh

[@Watburnt]

it mario and doom are definitely the top 3

[@ajshiro3957]

SF2 reminds me of my dad. He taught my brother and I how to play this game. We would get totally destroyed by him. But soon, we were able to go toe to toe. Our Goken.

[@grantz9234]

Cool dad.

[@MrTheil]

Same with my dad

[@GanonAutumn777]

The impact sf 2 had on the industry at the time cannot be emphasized enough It put an entire genre on the map. So many fighting game franchises that we love today wouldve never existed if sf2 didnt succeed in the way it did

[@gipgap4]

It was a phenomena. If younger people think SF4 was big, then that was nothing compared to what was released in 1991. Champion edition the following year was the third highest grossing arcade game behind Space Invaders and PAC man.

[@rodylermglez]

That ending where Guile finally goes home and becomes a family man is timeless :3

[@darkdremora4436]

He finally followed his own advice... Good for him! 🙂

[@shalpp]

3? This is street fighter 2

[@gh0rochi363]

​@@shalpp He's making a cat face :3 is 😺

[@JamMac2023]

The legacy intro goes so hard

[@datniggadubb]

Bruh!!! I want to ask him who does it! It’s insane.

[@chidorisnake22]

@@datniggadubb It's possible he did it himself. After all, Max used to edit trailers for other fighting games and whatnot.

[@thechosenone8332]

@@chidorisnake22 Nah pretty sure in this case, someone did it for him

[@JMS407]

Being a kid in the 90’s and seeing the crowds around SF2 and then MK1 was insane and a great time.

[@grahamcurran8744]

Yeah it was quality. Put all my pocket money in aaaannndddd it's gone

[@brandonwilliams6119]

Street Fighter 2 could very well be the FF7 of Fighting Games, it pioneered the whole genre and exploded in popularity and is absolutely deserving of its legacy, it even got parodied in shows like Family Guy too that’s how big of a phenomenon it was, my favorite thing about the game is people thinking Sheng Long was a hidden character every time Ryu said *”You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance”* when he actually means you must defeat his Shoryuken💪

[@bandawin18]

I just gotta say, whoever makes the thumbnails on your videos does one hell of a job. They're always so good

[@rsome977]

The thumbnail artist is in the description, if you're interested

[@DaviddeBergerac]

Kainonaut the GOAT

[@willyung5819]

Street Fighter 2 was life and still is in some way. Everyone has some sort of SF2 memorabillia in their homes. The memories of pulling off your first DP or SPD as a kid

[@UltimaShadowX]

My favorite part of the Guile handcuff glitch is that they made it an actual move in Street Fighter the Movie the Game

[@jamirimaj6880]

The devs were worried that the combo chain would create an inbalance in the game. What they should've anticipate is the fact that humans love power struggles and reaches the highest form of positive emotion when they are the ones doing the damage after they finally learn how to do it.

[@Offroader210]

Now this is where the Street Fighter legacy truly begins.

[@marche800]

Of course, Guile literally goes home and becomes a family man

[@mrcwillis6970]

Man that’s a cool intro. My dad use to play this a lot back in arcades. If I end up getting street fighter 6 I look forward to playing with him. I’ve shown him the trailer and loves how good it looks. ❤

[@ideologybot4592]

I spent so much time playing this game when I was 11, 12 years old, it's crazy to think about it now. I loved it. I basically don't play video games anymore, but back then, damn.

[@Retro_Gamer_Since_The_90s]

I remember those days back in the early 90’s. I was 10 years old when street fighter 2 hit the arcade. There was Two Asian brothers that new stuff before anyone else did they where awesome playing it and I wasted so many quarters day after day for years but that’s how I got great playing against them in my eyes they were legends. Those two brothers owned everyone who played them myself included. Till one day I got good enough to beat one of them it was one game of course but I was on cloud 9 for the rest of my teenage life. After I beat him he did a special move with Guile and froze the screen and left. I never seen anything like that before. Street fighter was and will always be my favorite fighting game ever!!!

[@laron.henderson]

Street Fighter 2 gave me so many memories! That game gave me thumb blisters trying to learn how to play! Fought wars in that game and stayed at the arcade!

[@unB4nned]

SF2 just can't be matched everything bout it is just iconic and perfect. Amazing music, amazing stages and just started it all.

[@aimfuldrifter]

Historical fighting game. Not without flaws but still epic! I like playing it from time to time.

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

HD REMIX & ULTRA SF2 are both such underrated remakes. Would love to see ULTRA SF ALPHA 3, and ULTRA SF3: 3rd Strike … where they play identically, but with some slight balancing to barely nerf Chun/Yun, slightly buff low tiers, but leave in Urien stuff.

[@Polar-ized]

Max I cant express enough how much I adore the side arcade in battle hub. Just letting people experience Final Fight and then they get to play on the Metro City stage with all the homages is cool enough, but having a 1 coin High Score Ranked ladder is a whole different level of cool. I hope you do one of these for Magic Sword, I spent more time in Beta 1 grinding that than the actual game tbh (top 5 though so worth)

[@mamba7160]

I’m hyped for this new legacy series. it’s always fun seeing you go through these with a new game on the horizon

[@RichSmithson]

On the World Warrior Cabinet you could do a thing we called the "invisible throw" with Guile that made the game freeze. I used to stay at a friends sometimes on weekends and his local shop had a World Warrior cabinet. He and a bunch of the other local kids would glitch the game over and over again to anger the shop keeper who was having to come out and reset it. He kept doing it tho, knowing those kids kept putting in more money to glitch it.

[@masterofchaos7282]

Not sure if he’s already pre recorded all these but I kind of hope he talks about that mobile version of SF4. It’s weird but kind of fun to play if you wanna kill time without booting up a console.

[@archflamingo9156]

you mean the 3ds version of sf4 aka the superior version

[@jlestes1985]

I first played SFII at the bowling alley when my parents went. I then got it and my SNES for Christmas when I was 10. Best Christmas ever.

[@loganford3921]

You were always guaranteed to see crowds of people around SF2 arcade no matter what Arcade you went here in Scotland. I guess I could say because of the crowds that how I discovered the SNK fighting games (Art of Fighting, World Heroes and Fatal Fury) in the arcade.

[@CrackMasterK]

Thanks for making this Max, I always love relearning things I already knew as well as new things. It's all about perception and I find it very fun to see the more documentary type talking about how games were made and the reasons they did so well. I also enjoy this which is from a gamer perspective and they get right down to what they experience from arcades, frame data and even character designs.

[@rickm9244]

There was no online. There was no season pass. But EVERYONE was playing Street Fighter 2. You would play against your brothers and sisters. You would play against your mates and people you never knew before. It was fighting games at its most pure and it was an amazing time.

[@ThePlasticBowl]

No season pass……ahhhh the good old days.

[@islandboy9381]

​​@@ThePlasticBowlood old days of having to try 30 different versions of the same game if you want improvement or more characters 😂 atleast the arcade space allowed for dynamic offline interactions with others while playing compared to online era so I kinda miss that

[@SuperNerdDaniel]

Even as someone who has always kinda been on the fringe, as far as awareness/fandom of Street Fighter stuff (likes I played a bit of SF2 way back when, but didn't get into Street Fighter properly until 5 after the SF6 Juri trailer dropped), I could always appreciate the importance of Street Fighter 2 to the genre and video games on the whole. So many things were out into place in this game that we all just kinda take for granted today. I think I'm gonna try and go back and actually play SF2 at some point just to appreciate it in a new light as an adult.

[@carlbloke8797]

1:56 Max is a Shoto and Blanka main? BASED! Good taste you have, Max! 👍🏾🌟

[@Braven-j7m]

I was always an alpha 3 person but streetfighter 2 was my starting point and will always have a special place in my gaming childhood, the music is still some of the most iconic of any game ever

[@LilBrujoFH18]

Remember playing sf2 on the arcade. Absolutely hated it. You had to figure out how do anything. Felt slow and just not fun. Remember playing kof 98 on the arcade and just having a blast. Didn’t know what I was doing but enjoyed button smashing. Sf2 tuned me off from street fighter until one of my friends let me borrow a copy of vanilla sf4 on the Xbox 360. Fell in love with it instantly.

[@BltzZ]

That thumbnail has to be top 10 for this channel

[@seanmcbay]

Still the best fighting game. It’s still always fun to go back to 30 years on.

[@darktetsuya]

I learned *some* of the glitches back when I was messing around with WW in MAME and on Callus (for those that remember back that far) the only thing I never figured out was the magic throw, could totally do all the others though. definitely familiar with desk's breakdowns, nice of them to confirm what we all secretly knew that the CPU was downright cheating! I can't speak to the comparisons between home and arcade, but damn if I didn't love what basically felt like the arcade version of SF2 on a home system. good times!

[@kosaku_kq5601]

Never had I expected M. Dood to be a thing but then came along this thumbnail

[@darthjc4]

Street fighter 2 on SNES kick started my love for fighting games....even though I suck at them no matter how hard i try lol.

[@GASHPAN]

Agreed- one of the best games of all time. It reignited the 90s arcade and then the home ports basically started the death of the arcades. GG!

[@spaghetti_masher]

Ryu’s arcade ending in SFII has to be one of the best imo

[@capt.animosiac5093]

On Street Fighter 2 arcade (not CE or HE), experiencing Ryu AI kicking your ass with his cheap light kick sweeps also made this a classic.

[@zylowolfzan3345]

These sort of Legacy Review videos are super awesome, and I would absolutely love to see this done for other series with more sort of retrospective videos talking about a series, each game in it, and kinda the influence it had on the series and how it evolved. Would especially love to see it for Soul Calibur, my favorite fighting game series! But even for a series I don't care for as much, this stuff is fascinating to hear and learn about.

[@J_Stonewall]

When I here the music, I get goosebumps!

[@Marzimus]

Had two friends as an 8 year old with the game. Cameron let me (secretly) borrow it and I learned the 360. Been a Gief Guy ever since.. it has served me quite well over all these years. Thank you Capcom!

[@iguessiamhere]

Dude! That pause menu SFX! The nostalgia is real =) 5:25

[@Cajun_knifeguy]

SuperSF2 turbo was the first street fighter I ever played just recently bought the collection on ps4 and love every minute of it

[@Redmoon89]

OMG!! That Chair Edit! 1:14 🤣🤣I'm Dying!!

[@tiradouken2854]

😅😅😅

[@DiruMede]

You had to be there, almost everywhere you went, you could hear the elephants from Dalshim stage from afar.

[@froobly]

There were several different revisions of the original SF2, and most of the glitches were patched out after the first one. If you find a classic, non-CE SF2 cabinet somewhere, the Guile freeze/handcuff/magic throw will probably not work. You can see this if you try it on MAME. You have to specify which specific ROM you want to run, and there are like 7 or so. Again, not Champion Edition, not Hyper Fighting, not Rainbow Edition, I mean 7-odd versions of plain Street Fighter II. As a kid, the Guile glitches were kind of a legend. I'd heard of them but never actually seen them in action. Part of that's because arcade operators were usually pretty diligent in keeping the ROMs up to date, so by the time I actually had money to play SF2 in the arcade, none of the machines still had the glitches.

[@AL_EVOz]

SF2 was something special to me as a kid. My cousin had introduce me to this and SNES games to me was some memories. I remember i couldn't beat Bison at all. I had to get my cousins and other better players to help me. Good times. I just remember jump in heavy kick and low heavy kick did so much dmg.

[@paulthorn6437]

What amazes me with SF2 is just how many games tried to obviously copy it after it came out, and never came close on feel or depth of gameplay.

[@SalvationTenshi]

SFII on SNES was my very first fighting game and brought me to gaming in general still love it and yes I've still mained Ryu in every game lol

[@atre5763]

Played Hyper Street Fighter 2 on the Fighting Collection and it’s pretty crazy.

[@TheRogueWolf]

Back in the day, my best friend and I took the bus down to the mall to get the SNES version on release. On the entire ride back, we were poring over the manual and imagining how awesome it would be to play... until we got back to his house and realized that he'd left his keys inside. So us two dumb kids spent another hour sitting on the stoop talking about the game. It was _totally_ worth it.

[@kathleendelcourt8136]

I don't think people who weren't born (or too young) when SF2 came out realize how CRAZY everybody was about this game. It was THE game every 16bit console owner had to buy. There was no "I'm not a big fan of fighting games", if you had a SNES or a Mega Drive, you had to buy SF2. No modern game comes to my mind if I try to find one that an overwhelming majority of gamers would consider absolutely unavoidable no matter your preferences are if you own a system able to run it.

[@AkinaSpeedStarsAE86]

Having played this in 92 at the glendale galleria; seeing sf6 now still blows me away.

[@rcblazer]

I saw a video that explained the unplayable bosses in the original Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior. The reason Vega only has a low block is because backflipping is his high block replacement.

[@MikeDeeJackson]

Watching Guile become a family man >> I cry everytime 😭

[@CalciumChief]

10:06 Literally Max. He took Guile's advice and went home to be a family man.

[@Someguyonline24]

My recent playthrough of Street Fighter 2 was today on my Switch. One thing that happened to me was I grabbed M Bison (or Vega whichever you prefer) and motherfucker just backed up and did his rolling kick, I play Blanka so he was just floating there until he finally shot back down to the ground.

[@jhsrt985]

Best thumbnail ever pure art

[@DarkOverlord96]

It's still kind of insane how the most ICONIC fighting game, the one that started it all, not only basically invited fighting games as we know them today by ACCIDENT, but it's also a SEQUEL. Seriously, with how forgotten SF1 is, it almost feels like the 2 in the title shouldn't be there, this really doesn't feel like there was something before it. Not to mention the fact that this sequel alone essentially had its own franchise ala FFVII with stuff like the various revisions, the tv show, the anime, the movie, the animated movie, the merch, ALL branded as "SF2" or at least explicitly based on it.

[@risel56]

The fact that Max used to main Blanka as a kid sounds incredibly cursed.

[@Marzimus]

5:17 Had an Ascii controller with Slow Mo. That pause sound would momentarily played, anytime engaged, and is burned into my memory.

[@TheCreepypro]

takes me back to the 90's playing this as a kid in the arcades

[@IfYouWantBlood1]

I remember going to Toys R Us with my dad to get a snes and sf2 when I was 7 years old 🥰

[@nzrockboi]

Me and 2 friends would go to arcades after school and all we did was watch/play SF2, one of us was obsessed with the Guile glitches and that's all he would do is play them and whip us all into submission, almost 30 years later we caught up on FB and he still only plays SF 2 and Guile with his mysterious glitches.

[@kiryukazuma7960]

That intro music will always be amazing to hear, it’s retro.

[@ncpmadhead]

What version is the sf2 intro music max is using in the whole video?

[@kiryukazuma7960]

@@ncpmadhead the arcade version, search for sf2 arcade theme and it shows up.

[@SuperRobert56]

So wierd to think 30 years ago so many of us who have now found each other via the internet were having the same experiences all over the world at the same time thanks to epic games like SF2, and we didnt realise it.

[@evilweevle]

Damn i am just loving all the excitement and hype that has been building on the lead up to SF6 release. I am honestly in awe that capcom have been hitting every single note with this release just perfectly. THIS is how you generate hype for a game and most of it stems from the fact that SF6 is shaping up to be a product of extremely high quality and content creators and the FGC are just riding the wave. Capcom are truly raising the bar with this one. I cant wait for the 2nd!

[@lightup6751]

You can only understand if you were there. Playing Street Fighter II in the arcades or at your friends house on the SNES. No internet, no distractions, no social media and people desperately looking for attention by strangers. Just you and your friends enjoying video games, making friends at arcades or meeting your friends’ friends at someone’s house. Just simply enjoying video games together. Playing SFII all the time. But most importantly. Everyone was together in the moment. No one looked at their phone. No one did something else. Everyone in the same space just sharing their love for video games together. This was the birth of the FGC.

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

Vega's Backslash in World Warrior is actually just his block. He's basically V-ISM Cody.

[@Chadius]

The SNES pause noise is one of my favorite SFX.

[@IlokanoWarrior]

Street Fighter 2 is so great a game that I still enjoy it to this very dayEver since the first time I saw it in the arcades I was hooked.

[@duwude]

I'm glad they made Guille just as ridiculous in SF6

[@krushingbro6620]

2023 fighting games wouldnt be as it is without SFII, glad i was there for it.

[@rustymixer2886]

These vids are great, subbed !

[@swittersanggraini1780]

I love world warrior but i only had the 386 version. Championship edition will always be my jam. I played it non stop at the arcades

[@boxxwiition2928]

IS THE GREATEST FIGHTING GAME OF ALL TIME! REMEMBER ITS RESPOSIBLE FOR BRINGING THE ARCADES BACK IN THE EARLY 90S😮

[@blackmanta2527]

Just imagine a world without sf2 💀

[@fthprodphoto-video5357]

I still enjoy playing street fighter 2 / turbo / Super street fighter on the SNES like it was the old days

[@Parhikunii]

That thumbnail art is freaking amazing, holy shit.

[@stonysheep4364]

Max should've been a voice actor with that iconic performance for Guiles ending.

[@Spikero2]

5:22 Oh god! I remember that pauss sound. Hyuh huh huh!

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

That intro is outstanding

[@landonhulett2119]

The game that got me into fighting games. Fondly remember playing Street Fighter 2 on the Arcade. Good times, good times...

[@darkdremora4436]

_Street Fighter II_ is a Legacy simply on its own. Heck, even Gamers that aren't fans of Fighting Games know of SF2's influence on the industry! Neither Capcom nor Fighting Games in-general would be where they're at today if it wasn't for this one single game. A game that defined a genre and created a generation of Gamers! Perfect!👊💪

[@hpesojogladih9782]

When I was a kid I was amazed when I first played sf2.

[@JohnnyThousand605]

Mega Drive owners were so jealous of the SNES crowd for having SF2. We did eventually get a great port in SCE but damn, that was a rough couple of years, lol =D

[@mkeonine]

Man. I miss playing this in the arcades right after school in the 90s. Such good memories.

[@theheadtapchannel4132]

Guile's End Quote: "Go Home and Be a Family Man" Guile's Ending: Goes home and becomes a Family Man 😂

[@tjreardon8495]

Whatever your favorite fighting game is it probably owes itself too this one in some way

[@Wingman1024]

SF2 Turbo was one of the few games I owned for the SNES, since I was only allowed a handful. So naturally, I played it a lot. But what would later open my eyes was Alpha 2, that my brother and I borrowed from a friend of his. There was so much more in it and it completely blew me away, being on the same console and nearly same title and all.

[@GAMERTAGVR]

This game changed my life as a kid

[@Shizzmoney74]

Also underrated for the SNES version: the sound is AWESOME, including its different soundtrack

[@shikarbabulall3897]

And I agree with you 100% Street fighter 2 started it all as far as I can remember , its is the best!

[@vsingh8078]

Shout out to Street Fighter 2 Turbo, my all time fav!

[@suelto19]

I remember Guile's "Phantom" throw in arcades back in the day. But I never learned it xd.