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Since its release in arcades in 1991 and on consoles in 1992,\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em> has been one of the most popular games in history, grossing more than $10 billion and launching a franchise that’s still going to this day. For a long time, it was the best-selling fighting game ever, finally being\u00a0overtaken by\u00a0Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate<\/em> in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since the game is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year<\/a>, it’s the perfect time to look back on the title that started it all. Yes, it was preceded by 1987’s\u00a0Street Fighter<\/em><\/a>, but that game only allowed players to control\u00a0Ryu and Ken and has mostly been forgotten by gamers.\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em> has cemented its place in history, though there are some things even die-hard fans might not remember. Here are just a few cool tidbits you may not have known about the game that took your allowance money all those years ago.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>The Game Isn’t Called What You Think It Is<\/h2>\n
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Most people know the names\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Street Fighter II: Turbo<\/em>, but neither of those is the original title. The arcade version was called\u00a0Street Fighter II: The World Warrior<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>This was followed by\u00a0Street Fighter II: Champion Edition<\/em>, which allowed players to control the four bosses (Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison)\u00a0as playable characters. The third official title in the series was\u00a0Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting,\u00a0<\/em>featuring altered color palettes and increased speed.<\/p>\n

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For the Super Famicom and Super NES, the game\u00a0<\/em>was incredibly popular, selling over six million copies.\u00a0Hyper Fighting<\/em> sold over four million units and was included in the 2017 SNES Classic<\/a>. There have been many sequels and alternate versions,\u00a0with names like\u00a0Special Champion Edition, Revival, HD Remix,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ultra.<\/em> Without going too deep down the rabbit hole, just know that\u00a0the most common versions were\u00a0Street Fighter II: The World Warrior<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting<\/em>.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>Character Names Varied Based On\u00a0Location<\/h2>\n
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Players in different countries\u00a0knew the bosses of\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em>\u00a0by different monikers. In the Japanese original, Balrog was the Spanish fighter with claws, known as Vega in America. In Japan, Vega is the final boss, known stateside as M. Bison<\/a>. The reason for these changes was because the boxer, known in the U.S. as Balrog, was known in Japan as M. Bison.<\/p>\n

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“M. Bison” is a play on the name of boxer Mike Tyson<\/a>, or “Mike Bison.” When the game was localized for the American market, Capcom\u00a0wished to avoid a lawsuit<\/a> from the famous fighter, so\u00a0they shuffled the names, which is why the main villain of\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em>\u00a0has an unexplained first initial.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>It Was The First Game To Feature Combos<\/h2>\n
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When developers were\u00a0creating\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em>, one of their goals was to make it easier for players to pull off each character’s special moves. However, doing so had unintended consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whenever a player attacks, following that attack, there are “recovery frames,” and during this time, they’re frozen, giving the opponent a chance to counter. Similarly, when a player is hit, there are “flinch frames” where they are momentarily stunned. By making it easier to pull off special moves, the programmers accidentally made the recovery\u00a0time\u00a0for these moves shorter than the opponent’s flinch time. The result is that players could string together these moves into combos.<\/p>\n

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Rather than fixing this problem, they left it in<\/a>, and it became a fighting game staple.\u00a0Franchises like\u00a0Tekken<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0Mortal Kombat<\/em><\/a> copied\u00a0the technique, and combos are still used today, showing how\u00a0Street Fighter II\u00a0<\/em>was truly ahead of its time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>It Is Impossible To Defeat Sheng Long<\/h2>\n
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When\u00a0a player loses a fight,\u00a0they are treated to a “win quote,” where the opposing fighter taunts them. In the American version, one of Ryu’s win quotes is: “You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.” This led many players to believe there was a secret character named Sheng Long that could be unlocked, and there was even an article in<\/a>\u00a0Electronic Gaming Monthly\u00a0<\/em>offering a complicated method for unlocking Sheng Long.<\/p>\n

Alas, it was all a lie. The quote about Sheng Long was actually a translation error<\/a>, due to the fact that “Sheng long” is the Chinese\u00a0version of “Shou Ryuu,” part of Ryu’s “Shou Ryuu Ken,” or “Rising Dragon Fist” technique. It was supposed to say, “If you cannot overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!” The\u00a0EGM<\/em>\u00a0article was an April Fool’s Day hoax, and gamers trying to unlock Sheng Long were ultimately wasting their time.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>The Characters Have Extensive Backstories<\/h2>\n
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Fighting games sometimes get a bad rap for having no story<\/a>, but\u00a0Street Fighter II<\/em> has depth many people don’t realize. Did you know Ryu’s blood type is O? That Guile’s birthday is December 23rd? That Ken’s skills have deteriorated over the last year because he’s spent too much time on the beach with his girlfriend?<\/p>\n

It’s all written in the game’s SNES instruction manual<\/a>, where the characters are given deep histories and specific physical traits. Dhalsim is the oldest (born 1956), while Chun Li (born 3-1-68) is the youngest. Of course, that changed with\u00a0Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting<\/em><\/a>, when Balrog (born 9-4-68) became the youngest playable fighter. The original entry for Ryu even contains a reference to the mysterious Sheng Long,\u00a0though this detail was taken out for\u00a0Hyper Fighting<\/em>.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>The Movie Was A Hit<\/h2>\n
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Due to the game’s popularity, Universal Pictures greenlight a film version. In 1994,\u00a0Street Fighter<\/em><\/a> introduced audiences to Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/a> as Guile,\u00a0Ming-Na Wen<\/a> as Chun Li, and\u00a0Kylie Minogue<\/a> as the much-maligned Cammy<\/a>. It was not a\u00a0critical darling, registering a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, but made almost $100 million<\/a> at the worldwide box office.\u00a0Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was released in 2009 and bottomed out at 5% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> on its way to\u00a0a $12 million worldwide gross<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>There Is A Random Element To Fights<\/h2>\n
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One rare occurrence is when two players input their commands at the exact same instant.\u00a0According to designer Akira Nishitani<\/a>, he considered it unfair to give priority to one player if the button presses were simultaneous. The solution was to introduce a random element: if two players try to throw one another at the same time, each will have a 50% chance of being successful. For some attacks, such as Blanca’s Bush Buster, this makes them unblockable half the time,\u00a0something top gamers used as an important strategy.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>They Almost Ran Out Of Memory Designing Chun-Li’s Tights<\/h2>\n
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2 <\/span>Evenly-Matched Players Can Go For A Long Time<\/h2>\n

The inclusion of Chun-Li as the\u00a0franchise’s\u00a0first playable female\u00a0is commendable, though her outfit has led to\u00a0controversy<\/a>. According to designer Akira Yusada<\/a>, she was originally to be wearing pants, but they didn’t look right, so stockings were added. Nishitani remembers it differently<\/a>, stating they “ended up respriting them about 3 times,”\u00a0nearly missing\u00a0the deadline and running out of memory. In the end, other characters had to be altered to fit her in, and the result was a legacy of cosplay and stirred awakenings in young players<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the game’s best-of-three format, if the players trade victories, the third fight determines the winner. However, if both players have an equal amount of vitality when the timer runs out, or knock one another out simultaneously, this third fight is a draw. There will then be an additional round fought in a sudden-death format. If they tie again? Yet another sudden-death fight. This meant skilled players<\/a> could repeatedly draw, and matches could last up to 10 rounds (reduced to four in later releases<\/a>). After that, the CPU automatically won, or both human players lost.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>The Two Guys From The Intro Have Names<\/h2>\n
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The game opens with\u00a0two men fighting in a crowd, gentlemen we’ve never seen before and never see again. Who are these two, and why are they fighting? Two decades later<\/a>, fans finally received some answers. One is Scott, who dislikes caterpillars, and the other is Max, who likes “sparkly things.”\u00a0Alas, we may never know the circumstances that brought them to blows.<\/p>\n

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