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If like me your teenage years were misspent pumping coin after coin into video game machines in dimly lit rooms, attempting to administer a whooping to those hard-to-beat Japanese kids, and then later endless hours (months/years) of dueling with friends, on the Amiga, the SNES, or the MEGADRIVE, all the way through to the current Street Fighter IV on the XBOX 360, you’ll understand the satisfaction that comes only with brutally beating a close friend to the ground, and hearing that one little word, “PERFECT!”
Whether you’re a ‘Ryu’, or a ‘Ken’, a ‘Blanka’, a ‘Chun Li’, or an ‘M. Bison’ (and everybody has their favorite), you’ll have spent countless hours honing your skills, so that while your lesser opponents may button-push and fumble, you can pull off a perfectly-timed ‘dragon punch’, or a death dealing ‘flash-kick‘, while not even looking at the screen.
Heralding back to the days when you were still allowed to smoke inside public buildings, Capcom, unleashed Street Fighter way back in 1987. However it was ‘Street Fighter II: The World Warrior’ (released in 1991) that really took the arcade world by storm. Allowing players as it did to pit characters with different fighting styles and varying special moves against each other, opening up a new depth of game-play previously missing from the genre. Street Fighter 2 would set a precedent for all future fighting games, and help the Street Fighter series to enjoy long term popularity and a commercial success, unlike any fighting game before it, turning the Street Fighter name into a multimedia franchise, that in addition to the dozens of well-received Street Fighter games, and the usual array of plastic tat, also includes some pretty decent animated movies, and at least one questionable Hollywood style blockbuster.
So Star Wars fans may keep their mint-condition 12-back action figures, and Doctor Who nuts their life-size ‘Tardis’, because all else pales in comparison beside what is without a doubt the Holy Grail for any real Street Fighter fan: A full-size coin-operated Street Fighter II arcade video game machine, the best version of the best fighting game ever made. Upon which to quietly reminisce, and/or educate cocky nieces and nephews, in how a whoopin' is truly served up, as per back in the day.

"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance!"

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