Street Fighter 2The Sequel Its Players Forced on Capcom
Street Fighter 2 was the sequel its players forced on Capcom, and by one Capcom man's account, pirates set its speed.
From the test cabinet at Sunnyvale Golfland to Rainbow Edition, Hyper Fighting, the Data East lawsuit and Capcom's hangover.
- Subject
- Street Fighter II, the 1991 Capcom arcade game: its development after the first Street Fighter, the combo system born from a bug, the arcade boom it caused, the Champion Edition and Turbo revisions, the bootleg boards, and the home ports that sold the Super Nintendo, 1991
- Chapters
- 8
- Sources
- 8
- Credits
- 18
- Corrections
- 0
Sources
8- Interview5
- Article2
- Archive1
Numbered in the order the description lists them. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.
Image & music credits
18- License unknown17
- CC BY-SA 2.01
18 photos, from the hosts linked below. Each file name links to the file's page, which carries the full license terms.
| # | Use | File | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf2 title screen.png | Frame recorded from the MAME 0.289 sf2 set (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Capcom, 1991) | License unknown |
| 2 | Photo | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Street Fighter II arcade machine.jpg | John Turner, "Street Fighter II arcade machine" (National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, 2014), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 | License unknown |
| 3 | Photo | Golfland Sunnyvale Entrance.jpg | Todd Dailey | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| 4 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf2 flyer japan 1991.jpg | Capcom, Street Fighter II flyer (Japan, 1991), via The Arcade Flyer Archive, flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/1900 | License unknown |
| 5 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf2 flyer europe 1991.jpg | Capcom, Street Fighter II flyer (Europe, 1991), via The Arcade Flyer Archive, flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/1041 | License unknown |
| 6 | Photo | assets/supplied/game machine 401 best hit games.jpg | Game Machine No. 401, April 15, 1991, Best Hit Games 25 (left page of the spread), from onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19910415p.pdf | License unknown |
| 7 | Photo | assets/supplied/gamest 64 cover.jpg | Gamest No. 64 (Shinseisha, 1991), cover, via the Internet Archive item gamest0064 | License unknown |
| 8 | Photo | assets/supplied/game machine 419 overseas column.jpg | Game Machine No. 419, February 1, 1992, Overseas Readers Column (right page of the spread), from onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19920201p.pdf | License unknown |
| 9 | Photo | assets/supplied/electronic games 1992 10 cover.jpg | Electronic Games, Vol. 1 No. 1, October 1992, cover, via the Internet Archive item Electronic-Games-1992-10 | License unknown |
| 10 | Photo | assets/supplied/egm40 letters p14.jpg | Electronic Gaming Monthly No. 40 (1992), Interface letters page, via the Internet Archive item Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_040 | License unknown |
| 11 | Photo | assets/supplied/play meter 1994 01 p16.jpg | Play Meter, Vol. 20 No. 1, January 1994, p. 16, via the Internet Archive item play-meter-volume-20-number-1-january-1994 | License unknown |
| 12 | Photo | assets/supplied/court order 1994 p1.jpg | Capcom U.S.A., Inc. v. Data East Corp., No. C 93-3259 WHO (N.D. Cal.), memorandum decision and order, p. 1, from the Wikimedia Commons PDF | License unknown |
| 13 | Photo | assets/supplied/capcom ar1999 five year summary.jpg | Capcom Co., Ltd., Annual Report 1999, Five-Year Summary (right page of the spread), from capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/Annual1999.pdf | License unknown |
| 14 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf2 control panel capcom usa.png | Capcom USA Street Fighter II control panel, photo from the Progetto-SNAPS MAME EXTRAs cpanel set (sf2.png) | License unknown |
| 15 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf2 cps1 board.png | Street Fighter II on Capcom's CP System (CPS-1): the 90629B-2 B-board with the 90632C-1 C-board, photo from the Progetto-SNAPS MAME EXTRAs pcb set (sf2.png) | License unknown |
| 16 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf1 deluxe cabinet us.jpg | Vincent Pureza, "My SF1 Deluxe Pneumatic Arcade Cabinet", Ars Technica, March 2023 (cropped) | License unknown |
| 17 | Photo | assets/supplied/sf1 pneumatic pads us.jpg | Vincent Pureza, "The control pod has a laminate counter top", Ars Technica, March 2023 | License unknown |
| 18 | Photo | https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cabvertical.jpg | Ars Technica, "My quest to recreate Street Fighter's long-lost pneumatic controls", March 2023 | License unknown |
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