We held a tournament for the MOST BROKEN version of Street Fighter 2

[@ThiagoGualtieri]

This version was very famous here in Brazil, we used to call it a "bus station street fighter" (SF de rodoviária).

[@StarPlatinumV]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THE NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hikaritx]

Why the hell are these creative names only in Brazil Lmao

[@ThiagoGualtieri]

@@hikaritx We have to make our lemonades with the lemons life give us LOL

[@hikaritx]

Sounds fair

[@AlexsanderSantiago]

LENDÁRIO STREET DE RODOVIÁRIA KKKKKKKKK

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

This might be the most famous bootleg version of any video game ever. Iconic in its own way even though it's total jank garbage fire.

[@Kitsune986]

Ever heard of Vietnamese Crystal? It's Pokémon Crystal, just horribly mistranslated. It's hilarious and infamous in the Pokémon community

[@Rhannmah]

To be perfectly honest i'd play this over SF2 100 times out of 100

[@YadonTheCat]

Ms Pac-Man? Well, maybe not exactly, that's based on a bootleg hack, but the actual bootleg (crazy otto) is obscure

[@yano4473]

02 magic plus is up there and actually pretty good

[@Klunkyman]

Ms. Pac Man says 👋

[@cainancapko4149]

If I remember correctly Rainbow Edition is also where Dhalsim's teleport initially came from, so SF2:RE created a canon move that was kept throughout the rest of the series

[@edrez1]

and the air tatsus along many other ideas, this was so funny to play, I remember another edition where every SRK spam a dozen of Hadoken, and of coourse how to forget the ZAngief SPD going down 20 screens or so

[@famebano]

i think chun's fireball also came from this game

[@heathmcrigsby]

SF2:T came about cause of rainbow

[@s-wo8781]

How did you know about this game?

[@mazystarr]

@@s-wo8781 This game was pretty widespread throughout the entire world if you are from the golden era of arcades. They even had one in Gatlinburg TN tucked away in the corner of a strip mall and many, many other places throughout the world.

[@friendofphi]

Having played this a lot in arcades, when the person tries to cheese going off screen you have to press your player button and switch to Zangief who has an infinite vertical hitbox on SPD.

[@rhyhaggen336]

Exactly, sorry i just posted that too before reading ur comment

[@snkybrki]

I was just thinking about if that strat has a counter. It almost seems like every play you could make has several ways to counter it in the game, especially considering how you can change characters at will. That begs the question...is Rainbow Edition actually balanced? If everything is nuts, then nothing is, after all.

[@friendofphi]

@@snkybrki When I played it in the arcade I'm pretty sure balrog can stun lock you/TOD. The computer can change characters and uppercut you but I don't think humans can. So there's a scramble at round start but eventually, I would get my balrog infinite going.

[@snkybrki]

@@friendofphi Really? Damn. I suppose the search for a balanced fighting game shall have to continue, then. Thanks for the info, though.

[@JLillo]

That's what I did on Rainbow. Thankfully, I got more love than hate for doing that.

[@Fleetw00d]

Without Rainbow Edition I am convinced the VS series would not exist lol

[@Felipera_]

Even sf2 turbo was created because of this, capitalizing on the idea that people liked the fast pace.

[@No0dz]

In Brazil this was nicknamed “bus terminal street fighter” for the typical spots you could find these

[@Lostcontroller]

LOL. This does look like some back alley jank you could find in the 80s and 90s.

[@DimitriMoreira]

@@Lostcontroller It was!

[@lucianoguimaraes7485]

Hahahahah sim

[@ubermaster1]

Now I’m just imagining some guy in a shady hoodie walking up to me and pointing to a shady cabinet saying “Hey…you wanna okay some Street Fighter?” And it’s this beautiful mess

[@teko1987]

The arcade/bus station uncles with sunglasses and smoking cigarette who would double perfect you are legends among people of my age

[@nicholasmcgreevy8313]

I used to play this at a 7-11 of all places. This was back in the day when there would be 13 or 14 high school kids crowded around any SFII machine. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. There was a guy that used gief to lariat>jump>lariat>jump the whole match up and up through the screen over and over. then at like 20 seconds he would piledriver from like 12 screens above and slam at 1 sec and win the match. It was a huge douche move. I can't believe anyone put this on YT. Well done my man.

[@Longlostpuss]

Yes, there was always THAT guy who did that with The Gief.

[@doomedspacemarine5076]

LMFAO I totally believe it, I'd just like to see it done.

[@terryhenyo9216]

The counter to that is very easy though. Just play Guile, or any character with an air throw, then throw them out of the air. You could always pull down and press a button faster that they can input the command for a spinning piledriver.

[@keystone6162]

Brings back memories bro. I remember a spot, used to be really crowded after school. Place used to smell like a box of wet, dirty socks lol. All the sweaty teenage boys. The security guard would make frequent trips with a can of air freshener, just spraying the entire place, trying to kill the smell. We didn't give a shit. We will game out, until the police officers will pass in and send anyone in a school uniform home.

[@TomasTurbado-c2v]

RIGHT????!!!! Guile could do the same thing!!!!!

[@WhyDo]

Laughing my ass off rn, Ryu timer scamming by literally WRAPPING AROUND THE SCREEN might be the best thing I have ever seen in a tournament

[@khatdragon7694]

There was a guy at the arcade who did that. He got the living shit stomped out of him by a group of other guys. They even turned off the game and gave him his quarter back.

[@raijuko]

The best part is him dropping the loop, and reverse wrapping 4 times until he finally hits the ground. Just to... standing heavy punch lmao like "shut up I got stuck, you see nothing!"

[@Dhampire1976]

mvc3 wesker air teleport vibes

[@luischeco3009]

Looks like someone is getting ideas

[@gnomo27]

If you turn into zanguif you can grab in other screen

[@danielolan8154]

I have to say. You getting flabbergasted when Ryu was just fireballing off screen and coming from underneath was one of the funniest reactions I've ever seen on anything funny. I was in stitches. That truly made my day. Thank you sir.

[@jcwins]

In Brazil we call this version the "bus station" version

[@santiagoherrera6697]

Why?

[@jcwins]

@@santiagoherrera6697 cause here a lot of acardes where in bars and had this version, in some small cities the only place that had an acarde was the bus station or a bar nearby it

[@daviddugen]

why is that?

[@xxxxSylphxxxx]

@@daviddugen why do you ask?

[@boombox0410]

Guile is actually the most broken. Just sonic boom out of the screen and youll be invincible which all characters can do..but guile can air throw you just by doing this through the opponent' s shadow

[@jazzygeofferz]

I remember getting bodied by a Guile player on this who'd just jump into the air slightly then spam sonic boom as they were done by just pressing DF&P, so there'd be a constant string of them.

[@SuperNovice007]

Some versions of this let Zangief use his command throws to grab you from off screen as well.

[@junqone]

Zangief was too.

[@boombox0410]

@@SuperNovice007 Yeah i remember that but Guile's was easier to execute and it was anti Gief coz he can just air grab Gief's shadow

[@alq95]

@@jazzygeofferz that's for all characters with air throw

[@the_bookworm8281]

If you thought the Shadaloo fighters were already cheap in the normal game, this bootleg bumps up the bs levels of them to the next level. Sagat tracking Tiger Shots. M. Bison possessing turbo speed Psycho Crushers. Vega's.... everything.

[@mrosskne]

what does shadaloo mean?

[@Dhampire1976]

@@mrosskne its the organization sagat,balrog and vega work for,which bison owns 🤦‍♀

[@RadikAlice]

@@Dhampire1976 Let him be, some people just don't know this stuff. To some Ryu is just martial arts man, and that's okay As long as we're all having fun, who needs to know lore? People back in the day sure didn't

[@Dhampire1976]

@@RadikAlice cry about it

[@mikaelamonsterland]

Claw really only got fireball on his roll from what I could tell besides the general hyper speed which says a lot about how silly that character is in sf2

[@carlosencarnacion9425]

That was crazy, but entertaining. I remember there been so many version of rainbow edition. The one I remember the most is the wall of hadoken when you did a DP. It was outright broken making Ryu and Ken the real option to even do anything in that version xP

[@kevinsemidey2516]

Me too. It didn't have tracking fireballs. It had two fireballs that alternate swing up and down

[@dougstanton9816]

@@kevinsemidey2516 The Rainbow edition I also remember. This one aint it.

[@gustavovm491]

I think I played that as a kid, I was filling the screen with sonic booms so frantically that ended up injuring my wrist lol

[@LT-uq6dg]

The prefered method we used was dp sonic booms. I think the casting animation was shorter which allowed you to get more sonic booms on the screen. I even think we tested sonic booms vs hadokens and sonic booms won... I think... can't remember cuz it was over 20 years ago lol

[@adamturner8397]

​@@kevinsemidey2516 The M5 bootleg? Did Blanka shoot sonic bombs when he did his electricity?

[@r1konTheAutomator]

That balrog switch and straight punch at 21:02 was fucking genius

[@rebbelwivcause]

With Zangrief, doing consecutive air larriats, let's you transition through the top of the screen, and then once you've crossed a few screens like this, you can't be hit by the opponent, but you can still grab them with a piledriver that looks like he's craving them through multiple screens before slamming them into the ground, it was awesomez!!

[@kahn9918]

I never got close to being beaten with that skil less combo 🤣. He was the most broken player ever!!!!

[@rebbelwivcause]

@@kahn9918 Hahaha YESSS! Seeing all the Ryu/Ken players when their 500 fireballs don't work lol

[@theAshesofDecember1]

What’s more is that there are different versions of rainbow that each broken in their own way. This isn’t the one I’m used to because the characters don’t start floating before the match begins and the shoru doesn’t spread a bunch of fireballs. So this is like the medium busted version

[@rendyajadech1957]

And on that version, blanka shoot sonic boom instead of hadoken. Zangief spinning lariat wil have constant yoga flame under his feet 😅

[@RobertBatchelor]

Yeah, the fireballs would bounce up and down as they move forward slowly.

[@SethCall]

The best version is Accelerator Pt. II . It sounds like the one you describe.

[@ll1ll1ll1ll1ll]

That's the one Maximilian Dood used in his playthrough. Ken spamming DPs and creating a wall of fireballs with each DP is basically an unbeatable strat in that one.

[@LemonRush7777]

@@rendyajadech1957 Ah that's the one from my childhood!

[@bidoofenshmirtzevilinc.4369]

I've been waiting for this kind of video for way too long😂 Thank you JMCrofts, this version is very special to me and a small group of friends due to it pulling a lot of us out of a very rough time. It's anything but perfect, but it made us laugh at one of the worst times in our lives Fun fact (haven't seen the full video yet) Zangief can also grab from anywhere on the screen

[@Nice_G]

I remember a version of this game where you can span hadoukens and each hadouken comes with two fireballs that move in a wavy pattern.

[@dougstanton9816]

The real version. If you remember the Charlie/Nash super from Street Fighter vs. X-Men? That was Guile's normal Sonic Boom.

[@ravenhoodcat9421]

Back in the day this illegal version was one of the most hilarious and feared arcade cabinets to have in your store at the time.

[@TheTiltblazin]

This was so awesome during my teenage years! I remember playing with Zangief, jumping upward, doing his arm spin to the top screen and appear on the bottom and I continued to repeat this process until it was like 10 secs left in the round, them I would grab the opponent to do the spinning pile-driver. You would see Zangief spin from multiple, circling screens! Ahhh, good times! 🤣🤣

[@jazzygeofferz]

I remember playing a hacked version where Zangief's lariat and Sagat's Tiger Uppercut would produce Yoga Flames on from the feet, knees, waist and shoulders and the hadoukens would do two that criss crossed over each other. All the costume colours would be messed up at the start of the next round as well if you changes character during the round.

[@YadonTheCat]

Might have been koryu, that version is this but more absurd

[@shinrahunter]

I played that one. Zangief lariat all up and down the screen with a yoga flame out of his feet. The one I played was SF2: Black Edition in the UK.

[@gfmol845]

I remember that one! Played it in Brazil. Even crazier than this one.

[@paulblake7889]

That was the one I played as a kid. Grief was a monster!!

[@CrimsonMoonM]

That flying DBZ-style battle between Ryu and Dhalsim was intense!

[@TheAfroKidz]

finally, the original anime fighter

[@kloa4219]

first 12v12 versus fighter too

[@ultimateretroasd]

Now I understand what a "loose game" means

[@Fco2k7]

My first experience with a fighting game was with a pirated version of SF2, over 30 years ago lol. Having a button that lets you choose a character in the middle of the game was super crazy.

[@djamesgoddard2426]

This is awesome & exactly the kind of broken goodness I saw at Galaxy Arcade when I describe my report & pitch to create Turbo SFII Hyper Fighting! Great video!

[@CanadaMMA]

There was a great pizza place near my house when I was a kid that had this rom hack, along with a few other fighting games. Not to mention the amazing food. I miss it.

[@BigDaddyCola]

This was amazing to watch. Sf2 was so compelling and easier to watch back in the day. Rainbow edition and its antics take the cake

[@Yogi-Bee]

The most unrated character in this version was Balrog. Trust me ppl didn’t have a clue how to handle him back in the good old days.

[@moas1982]

I remember came across a arcade machine when Balrog can throw two hadouken at once that travel across the screen up and down , you can easly fill the screen with it , great times

[@MrMixtape]

Unironically this is still more balanced than ST

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Damn

[@pokepress]

I would like to see some of these characters go up against Shin Akuma.

[@Larsgman]

Hearing jmcroft voice crack as he grips his head - chefs kiss. What a video. Too many laughs were had

[@nikopteros1659]

6:34 this is what people like krillin and yamcha see when goku is fighting with gods

[@thetofuterror]

Great video! Your commentary makes it really fun.

[@Rwtheking]

Finally more rainbow edition in my life. I’d love a Hokuto No Ken tourney. It’s an underrated arc systems game with touch of deaths and instant kills. The combos are nuts and the action is hype.

[@Kastagaar]

Our local arcade had this when I was growing up. One guy had a killer strat of just doing spinning bird kick repeatedly because it was invulnerable to just about everything. What I liked doing, however, was using Guile to fireball jump up about 5 screens up until our characters overlapped, and then doing an atomic knee drop air throw. This works, and is very satisfying to watch.

[@DankDynamite]

Lmao JM's blanka noises are unmatched

[@whs1pmjazz]

It got old real fuckin quick for me. Couldn't make it through the video

[@Nougatbars]

Perfect winning that way was absolute bullshit.

[@JamesWilliams-t2u]

The local arcade sold me an arcade cabinet with this PCb in it for £100 back in 1993, I felt like a super star.

[@liamashburn3334]

The reactions in the first 20 seconds were just adorable 🤣

[@TheEverythingEnthuiast]

Akuma would be insanely broken in this version

[@chadlong3226]

That stresses me out just watching other people play. I don’t think I could endure it LOL… You should give Bushido Blade a video!

[@khhnator]

bushido blade 2 is sooooooooo good

[@georgegreeniii4013]

I second this!

[@jayjay-cl1eo]

Are ps1 games on fightcade?

[@shinrahunter]

I'd love a bushido blade tournament.

[@PhilM4]

I played this in an arcade near my house. It was so crazy because it was in the rainbow edition board in the turbo edition arcade unit, so it took us all by surprise. I didn't know the name of the rom hack until this video so thank you JMCrofts!

[@viewtifuljon8105]

I remember a version where Ryu and Ken would shoot out 2 fireballs each time, they would move up and down in a wave pattern.

[@michaeldemaio4937]

The pizza joint around the corner from my childhood home in the bronx swapped out The World Warriors for this monstrosity.... And things were never the same. 😂

[@honorablejay]

It's crazy to think that none of the changes we saw in future revisions of SFII would've existed if not for this romhack. I remember reading an article where someone from Capcom played this version for a bit, noted how crazy it was, and said when he got back to playing the normal version it felt like everything was in slow-motion.

[@Seydaschu]

How am I just now noticing that Hadouken has images of Ryu's hands in it? I'm almost 38, why did it take ultra-slow fireballs for me to notice?

[@drew941]

OMG.. This version was at my summer camp back in the day and I just thought the game was messed up when I was younger.... Holy hell I had no idea this was an actually thing and brings back some fun memories

[@MrTableDesk]

Back in the day, we always called this Blackbelt Edition over here.

[@casualslax]

I've never seen someone from that era not know what Rainbow Edition was. Especially one who is into the fighting game scene. But in the intro he's blown away by the SF2RE differences. I mean he's gobsmacked. Can't believe his eyes.

[@r1l426]

This video is iconic, the bullshit gets me every time I come back to it.

[@nathanielalexander8928]

oh dude.. There was a Rainbow Rom SF2 machine at this diner I used to frequent in the 90's.. so much fun playing this and finding all the crazy combos, glitches & mixes..

[@GreenHad0ken]

When he went off screen going up so many times, turning to Zangief and doing a spinning pile driver (grabs from anywhere) would take all life

[@edgargranados9444]

I remember playing this in Mexico when i was a kid. I had some experience with SF 2 and knew how to play, stupid me thought it would carry over to this crazy ass version

[@yukiyagami9744]

6:34 It sudenly went from a Street Fighter battle to a Dragon Ball Z battle 😂

[@GinisisDroid]

This and some others broken version was on every arcade shop here in Pakistan when I was a kid, people used mostly bolrog, his attack also sent fire ball and it was so fast that in vs match anyone who hit first will win the match, also the screen jump was used by many Ryo player with fire ball and jump they cross the screen so many times, watch this now give me strange feelings, since I was way to poor to play games I only watched all day

[@ravindavinthescandinavian4998]

A local arcade where I lived had a version of this game. Thing is Ken and Ryu fired double criss/cross fireballs using fireball command. Single fireballs using dragon punch.hurricane kick commands. Chun Li, Bison, Vega, Blanka, E. Honda and Balrog fired fireballs while doing other special moves. Chun Li and D. Honda’s 100 foot kick/100 hand slap both produced fireballs, and you could slide across the screen at full speed in both directions while doing them. Sagar produced double Tiger Shot and also did Tiger Shot when doing other special moves. Dhalsim produced Ryu fireballs during certain moves, and produced double Yoga Fire fireballs. Loads more I can’t remember and didn’t see all characters gameplay so probably missed a load of effects.

[@krodmandoon3479]

"Arrerr!" - jmcrofts, April 18th, 2022

[@Occult_Detective]

We had one out here in Hawaii on the Big island. In the Fun factory on Alii drive. It didn't have a known name, as what it actually is, was only a rumor at the time. The walk speed of Dhalsim was insane, just as fast as the fierce fire balls. Zangief can do his spinning fist in air, then jump to do it again, so he can scale multiple screens. Once your past a screen, only a throw can cause collision. So Zangief can then do spinning piledriver in air, grabbing the opponent, then he will scale back down through as many screens as he went up! Suddenly Street fighter becomes a WWF version.

[@dectilon]

As a huge aside, if you were ever curious... Malört is pronounced with a slight separation in the middle (mal-ört) and ö is pronounced kinda like the 'i' in "stir". A literal translation would be "moth weed/herb" if you ever wondered about the taste (mal = moth, ört = herb).

[@kraashk4864]

Subscribed. Your commentary made this video. "He gets the bite". "He gets the noogie" 🤣🤣🤣 Ivenever heard it called that. I was laughing and smiling. So glad someone likes sf II in any shape or form.

[@sandwich4916]

This was called "Rocket Fighter" in Turkey's arcades back in the day. I always lost my shit whenever I saw Zangief throwing Sonic Booms everytime he did his spin move lol. Thanks for the nostalgia man.

[@spamerrific1]

Thanks man. Rainbow was the only cabinet I ever clocked. Even then it was an all you can eat affair. Couldn't beat World Warrior or Championship Edition even on a prepaid free for all after the bigger kids were done with them. But I did clock Rainbow. Spamming sonic booms and flashing everything that dared to jump above them, which still took some timing against Dictator.

[@keithw4920]

I remember this version. As long as you can do a DP, Ken is invincible since his short DP recovers before the DP invulnerability expires so you can just chip from start to end.

[@chrisrac88]

What the???? I just picked up the Rainbow upgrade chips via ebay for my cps1 board and this video came as a suggested clip. Talk about coincidence. Loving this video!

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

Really love the random fighting game series JM puts out... wondering when MK will make an appearence in the series

[@qwizzle78]

I remember playing this at the arcade in my local chippy, balrog was my dude those punches with fireballs were invincible

[@sukmykrok3388]

I got to play this in the wild back in the day! It was so much fun, lol!

[@jantaganas8822]

NAH THE most broken sf2 would be the one where one shoryu fills the screen with like 7 hadokens somethin and blankas elec moves in the ground mad fast and doesnt stop until ur dead from chip and zagief lariat moves fast as well with yoga flame on his legs ......balrog dash punch no charge and comes in with 3 hadokens lol

[@aSTROnomical_8]

When he jumped on and off the screen over and over to finally fall back through it 3 times I literally cried laughing

[@bacardim390]

I remember a local video store having this back in long Beach CA. The banner called it Street Fighter 2 : Crazy lol. Such a fun version of SF2

[@halfdane]

I loved playing this. I would play Zangief, jump and then to the spinning clothesline. Then jump in the air, do it again, repeat, go through the floor about ten times. Then, even though your sprite was ten floors above the opponent, you could grab them with the spinning pile driver, and you would go back down through ten floors before piledriving them into the ground. I always imagined this would do massive damage but it never did. So much fun!

[@SP_Sour]

Reminds me of how the "Magic Plus" version of KoF 2002 is one of the most popular versions of the game in South America (if what I have heard is true). It's not quite as crazy as Rainbow Edition but there's ridiculous stuff like infinite meter, HDSMs at full health, and the ability to tag out team members mid-match.

[@aznpikachu215]

Rainbow edition, Koryu edition, so many classic memories of those two back in the day in the arcades.

[@punchabunchabuttons]

I played this game back in 1992 or so.. I remember Zangief clearly spinning and jumping up. When a friend and I played this, we would go up then appear from the bottom but we'd keep this up and up and up untill Zangief would disappear from the top and appear from the bottom multiple times... but when you stop spinning and just let go, he would fall multiple screens until he reaches the starting point. It was hilarious.

[@dpark189]

I remember this arcade in my after school program when I was in elementary school. I never knew what edition it was and kind of gave up. Thanks for this

[@DanKojak]

I played a variant of Rainbow back in Korea in the mid-00s. With Zangief I'd repeatedly jump, midair lariat, and when I was three or four screens above the opponent, SPD them. The logic for the grab doesn't care how vertical you are, just that you're within horizontal range.

[@MrVomora]

I remember playing this in the arcades as a child. During the match, if you pressed the START button you could change you could randomly change your character.

[@GoroMazoku]

Yoooooooo that portal drop to a crouching fierce is crazy lol 5:15

[@huesudowoodo]

i remember playing this in a street corner store years ago 😂 good shit

[@calilifestyle]

We used to play this at the Arcade, loved it. we had so much fun

[@Luper1billion]

I feel like the developers were laughing their asses off when they made this

[@ReePa666999666999]

Spat out my tea 4:46 his reaction was priceless lmfao

[@StunnafulPhotography]

Wow! I remember the arcade room at the Fort Bragg PX had this version of SF2 when I was in a kid in the early 90s. I was like wtf is this?! 😂

[@trash-heap3989]

These are blessed days to see this kind of crazy stuff all over the place, a fantastic janky piece of work for all to see and laugh too!

[@oo7x7oo]

I saw this in the arcade when I was young in Taiwan, I told my friends about it after moved to the US, they all thought I was making things up. It's funny to see it again and realize how crazy it was.

[@QCCBigZam]

Rainbow is great. I won an impromptu tournament for it back at CEO 2019 with the Ryu air fireballs. Big fan. Definitely recommend y'all run SF2 Xiang Long Koryu at some point just to see it devolve into Shoto DPs versus Gief SPD the game. You can cancel hitstun into special moves in that version. It's blessed.

[@txcforever]

I had the luck of seeing this at a random restaurant back in the day. It was so absurd for years I was afraid it was a fever dream of mine. Guile filling the screen with sonic booms, changing characters simply by pressing start I think, it was insane and chaotic.

[@pernyberg2816]

I remember a really weird version of SF2 Turbo which was projectile mania! So imagine that every special move you make just vomits projectiles. Shuryuyken spat out a good solid 10 fireballs. Guiles flash kick had around 10 sonic booms coming out. You could double jump like in this version - but all other moves and walking speed was actually normal. I think it was an old SNES rom i found somehwere. I dont remember what the exact name was of the ROM because this story is like 20 years ago....geez..Im getting old 🤣

[@nickjones3068]

I'm old ennough to have played this version in the arcardes during it's heyday

[@flippin_eh]

Rainbox Ed was my high school days. Best I remember seeing was Zangief chars going up the screen multiple times and pull of spinning piledrivers that would then drop at a ridiculous rate. The ROM was so broken, but we loved it.

[@BlackMoore82]

One of the arcades by my Grandma's place had Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition. That variation was insanity the first time playing it.

[@TheBacontarian]

The version I played you could air throw to suck them down multiple screens. Blanka's bite would turn into ryu and a 5 hit shoryuken. Ken and ryu's fierce shoryuken would release a wall of fireballs. Jab fireballs would be so slow you could spend half the match dodging around it. Chun li's lightning kick moved forward with no knock back so you could corner trap them

[@PatriciaCross]

The answer to screen climbing is Zangief. His SPD in most versions of Rainbow don't care about your altitude. I used to climb screen with him, SPD from multiple screens up, just to see how far we can drop. You can SPD people no matter how high in the air either character is.

[@jrstuckey1471]

Ahmagad. THIS was my first introduction to arcade SF and SF in general. These machines and version were everywhere. Then I played snes version and wondered why Balrog (boxer) couldn't shoot fireballs with his punches or why tatsu didn't clear fullscreen or where the horizontal element to the dragon punch had gone off to. Didn't realize it was a bootleg but makes perfect since when I think about it.

[@LT-uq6dg]

The first time I played this was in an arcade back in the 90s. The winning strat was to throw a chain of dp sonic booms which was unavoidable. Cuz it filled the screen with slow moving sonic booms that would follow the opponent so it was impossible to jump over. So in 2 man competition it became a contest of who can throw sonic booms the most consistently. Cuz if you miss one input, you get wrecked.

[@IsoYear]

i love these videos. so glad i found your channel this really made me dive back into fighting games

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Rainbow edition kept things fresh... There were more updates regularly coming out that added new game dynamics or stuff like being able to throw multiple spiraling Hadouken at once... I remember loving Balrog and Chun Li in some version I used to play.

[@mc_zittrer8793]

jmcrofts actually does some pretty dope commentary. 'Reaching for the nachos', I'm dead. XD

[@trip2themoon]

I remember there was versions that were called Black Belt Edition. I liked how if the computer opponent changed into Balrog and you got a perfect you'd get 50,000 points instead of the 30,000 you would have got if he hadn't changed.

[@hlimp2]

The best thing on this video are the awesome sound effects of jmcrofts

[@martianunlimited]

#12:55 Chun HAS fireball with her lightning kicks... in fact, because she is one of the three characters with air throw (with Guile and Claw) she is one of the more broken characters as she can air throw from "below" you after she warps from the top of the screen.