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Few video games have been as influential as Capcom’s Street Fighter II, which dominated arcades when it launched in 1991, popularized the fighting game genre, and spawned countless sequels, spinoffs, and imitators. When the Street Fighter movie came out three years later in 1994, there were still new versions of the game hitting game consoles.…

The original Street Fighter arcade game debuted in 1987, but the version that revolutionized the genre arrived four years later. Street Fighter II, released in 1991, finds two fighters, Ryu and Ken, competing in a tournament against the fiercest competitors in the world, and it went on to be hailed as one of the greatest…

When Street Fighter burst onto the scene in the early 1990s, it was a game changer. Literally. The dynamic characters, colors, controls, and more changed fighting video games forever. And at the time, after people played the game in an arcade, they went home to watch Saturday morning cartoons, listen to CDs, go to the…