Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

A one-on-one fighting game released by Capcom in arcades in 1991 and ported to the Super Famicom in 1992. Players choose from a cast of distinct fighters and battle in timed bouts.

The arcade original took roughly two years and approximately 35–40 people to develop.

Developer

Capcom

Publisher

Capcom

Fighters are controlled with an eight-way joystick and six buttons (three punches, three kicks), and its combo system later became a standard of the genre.

Platform

Super Famicom

CPU

Ricoh 5A22 (65C816-compatible) up to 3.58 MHz

Media

ROM cartridge

Bits (period term)

16-bit

Platform specifications are sourced on the console page.

Japan — Arcade

7 Mar 1991[1]

Japan

10 Jun 1992[1]

North America — Super NES

15 Jul 1992[1]

Europe — Super NES

17 Dec 1992[1]

Director

Akira Nishitani

Producer

Yoshiki Okamoto

Designer

Akira Nishitani, Akira Yasuda

Composer

Yoko Shimomura, Isao Abe

Credits are limited to what the sources state.

• GAME1990

  Super Famicom

  F-Zero

  F-ZERO

  Release

  JP 1990.11.21

  Dev

  Nintendo EAD

  Genre

  Racing

• GAME1990

  Super Famicom

  Super Mario World

  スーパーマリオワールド

  Release

  JP 1990.11.21

  Dev

  Nintendo EAD

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

• GAME1991

  Mega Drive

  Sonic the Hedgehog

  ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ

  Release

  JP 1991.07.26

  Dev

  Sonic Team

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

The Super NES version sold more than 6.3 million cartridges worldwide, remaining Capcom's best-selling single-platform game until 2013 (English Wikipedia).

Series: Street Fighter

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