Street Fighter II

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Arcade Renaissance: Released in 1991 as the follow-up to 1987's original Street Fighter, Street Fighter II transformed competitive one-on-one martial arts games into a global arcade phenomenon and reinvigorated the early-1990s arcade industry Eight-Character Roster: Introduced eight distinct playable fighters—including Ryu and Chun-Li—each with unique fighting styles and command-input special moves Combos & Competitive Depth: Players discovered and mastered multi-hit combos and frame-precise special moves, establishing the mechanical grammar for competitive fighting games Genre Gold Standard: Recognized by The Strong National Museum of Play and Capcom as the title that popularized the fighting game genre, paving the way for Mortal Kombat (1992), Virtua Fighter (1993), Tekken (1994), The King of Fighters (1994), and Super Smash Bros. (1999)

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