Release date: 1991
Selectable Characters: Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, E. Honda, Guile, Ken, Ryu, Zangief
Non-Selectable Characters: Balrog, M.Bison, Sagat, Vega
Street Fighter II – The World Warrior was released in 1991 and was the first true sequel to the original Street Fighter, Final Fight was unsuccessfully branded as a Street Fighter sequel in 1991, they are still known to be in the same ‘universe’ with some characters from Final Fight appearing in future Street Fighter games.
Street Fighter II – The World Warrior was one of the earliest arcade games for Capcom’s CP System hardware and was designed by Akira Nishitani (Nin-Nin) and Akira Yasuda (Akiman), the creators of Final Fight and Forgotten Worlds. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior quickly gained unexpected popularity world wide.
In the single-player mode, the player’s chosen character is pitted sequentially against the seven other main characters before having to to face the four boss opponents, Balrog, Vega, Sagat & M. Bison.
Street Fighter II was the first one-on-one fighting game to give players a choice from a variety of player characters with different moves, an option which created hitherto unknown levels of depth and replay value for an arcade game. Each player character had a fighting style with approximately 30 or more moves (including previously nonexistent grappling moves such as throws) as well as two or three special attacks per character.