Howdy Hive Gamers
This is my contest entry for Hive Gaming Memories Contest.
Street Fighter 2 is one of the first games I remember playing back in arcades in the early 90s.I was in love with all things martial art,Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan and Jean Claude Van Damme back then,so naturally Street Fighter 2 grabbed my attention right away.
In 1991 when Street Fighter 2 first released I would have been 7 years old.I cant remember exactly the first place I ever saw the game but I do remember being on a cruise ship in either 1991 or 1992 and playing this game alot of the time in the ships arcade.
The original game had a line up of 12 characters...
Ryu and Ken Karate Masters
E Honda The Sumo Wrestler
Chun Li the kung fu kicking queen
Guile The US Airforce bro
Blanka the Brazilian Beast
Zangief The Russian Wrestler,
Dhalsim The Indian Yogi
Balrog the Mike Tyson look alike Boxer
Vega the Claw wielding Spanish fighter .
Sagat the Muay Thai Boxer
M Bision The Big Bad end Boss guy
One of the things I loved most about the game back when I first played it was the bonus stages where you need to destroy a car.Letting loose on the car is still incredibly satisfying today :)...
My favorite character from the original line up is Ryu.In this walk down memory lane I fired up the game on the MAME emulator and started with Ryu to see how far I can progress with him before checking out the rest of the characters.
Lets do this :)
(Sorry about the low volume on my commentary,I need to figure out how to lower the volume on MAME )
^^^ In the lets play above I didn't make it past Ken on the second stage.I button bashed with every character trying to beat him.I got close with Blankas electric attack but the difficulty on the MAME version seems real tough.I suppose in the end these games were designed to take quarters of kids.Ill try again on the Super Nintendo version and might do a side by side comparison of the difficulty on MAME vs SNES versions.