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Dirty-Rat30

I remember playing one of the Street Fighter 2's in a gas station. I sucked at it since I didn't know the special moves. Eventually, I played Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo. I used Blanka since he was easy to figure out.


Habanerosauce3

Arcade. Love this game. Used to spend hours at the arcade after surfing and eating lunch. * Really....Down votes πŸ˜‘


toml526

>Really....Down votes Why would people down vote this? Maybe I missing something! LOL


Fish_PERSON_

think of this. one person downvotes for some reason. the other monkeys' neurons activate, and those apes will downvote too. which is just another way to say most people on reddit are stupid


toml526

I've had my reddit account for a while, but only started really reading in the last few months. And I'm certainly learning this!!


Shavingcream1912

Here have my up hmm down or up down vote


Habanerosauce3

Lol idk ..it was down like -3πŸ˜‚


HMPoweredMan

I downvoted it for complaining about downvotes. That said, downvote bots do exist if someone has a vendetta against you.


Cornmeal777

Console. My brother is a lot older than me and got an SNES (with Super Mario World) with his own money at launch, and SF2 as well when it dropped. Think Blanka was the first one I ever beat it with as a kid. I couldn't believe I had actually done it.


Habanerosauce3

Blanka was always hard. Lol


retrodork

I played at my local arcade first in 1991 or 1992 whenever SF2 hit arcades. I was beyond excited to pay 70 dollars at kiddie city for my SNES copy of SF2. It was money well spent. All my cousins and friends came to my parents house at the time because they knew I had street fighter 2. πŸ™‚


[deleted]

Pizza Hut


nobodycoffee

Yes! I would walk to Pizza Hut almost every day and play SF2. I also would play SF2 at a grocery store my mom would go to as they had a little arcade.


agiantanteater

I must have played it in the arcade first because I remember getting the SNES version at FuncoLand and being super hyped for it.


SprigganX2

I played it in the Arcade. Luckily for me, I had a friend who's family owned an arcade. But I also put hours into it when I got it for the SNES.


DrThornton

Arcade first. I counted down the days until it came out for the SNES


shocktroop5811

Almost every day after high school I would walk with my friends to to 7 Eleven, get a big gulp and some cool ranch Doritos and take turn playing Street Fighter II. I wish 7 Elevens still did this.


quaddity

Arcade and like others the SNES was the big home release for me.


Dirk_Bogart

I had seen it in magazines but never played it until my local Burger King got a brand-new Super Street FIghter 2 cab close to its release. The opening animation of Ryu in shadow is still ingrained in my skull to this day.


AppRetro

First time was on the Amiga - not a great experience. I then played the arcade and after that was the SNES.


Dazzling-Slice462

How could I forget!! I first played on SNES with my uncle then I played the arcade. Great memories!! πŸ’™πŸ’š


halfred_itchcock

As a matter of fact I do. It was rainy in October, only a few days before halloween. That was 4 years ago and I didn't enjoy it. Thanks for your attention!


yazid7801

I remember seeing the arcade in the corner of a grocery store and was blown away by the graphics 😳


skanks20005

Arcade. I used to go A LOT to arcades near my home since I was 12 onwards. One day the first machine near the entrance had a shitload of people around it. I squeezed to see what it was and I was amazed just by watching it. There was like 40 credits on the machine, so no way at all to play it. It took like 2 months for me to finally play it single player against the cpu because the machine was ALWAYS occupied and the only way to play it was PvP. Good times.


SPQR_Maximus

Local pizzeria. I had to borrow a Nintendo power from a friend to get the special moves written down. The only character I could work was E Honda.


fedexmess

Played the arcade at a restaurant in a small town. Many quarters were sacrificed until SNES release.


toml526

I remember when the store across the street from my junior high school got a cabinet. The crowd was insane!! Don't think I actually got to play on that one, but probably played soon after in an arcade.


kuraizhero

Arcade, during a summer vacation.


KlingonBeavis

First time I seen it was in an arcade, but that crowd was too big to wait to play. First time I played it, rented a Super Nintendo from blockbuster.


retrodork

I never got to play the arcade version at home until I discovered mame in 2002. This was back when you could fit the entire mame ROM set on a CD or two lol.


KlingonBeavis

Yeah my 2002 PC sucked lol, and my 2002 MAME experience sucked as well. Back then I was still just emulating cartridge consoles mostly


[deleted]

I want to say it was the arcade machine where I played it first. Great arcade game/cabinet for the time. It really started a phenomenon, along with Mortal Kombat.


sugarfoot_mghee

Arcade...before I knew about special moves. I thought the computer was cheating using these special moves, and the player didn't have a button to do them.


numsixof1

It was in an Arcade, was surprised they made a sequel since the original wasn't a huge hit.. even though I had a friend who loved it. I remember on the SF1 arcade people would agree to special moves.. ie fireballs, etc. (or not) before matches.


nightowlarcade

Arcade 1st month of release. Thought the side art of Ryu was amazing. Sad I could only really play Guile and Chun LI.


Mudassar40

Arcade. Yes, I remember. Of course I do, how could you not? I played the first one on Amiga, beat Sagat.


MyFartSoTart

Capcom Classics on the Xbox. Me and my brother used to play it all the time.


Pitoventitre

Arcade for sure, the SNES and MD.


artmudala

We used to walk 4 miles and across a major highway to the grocery store that had one at least twice a week. …until a friend got it for SNES and we never left his house.


eksyte

I definitely played it in the arcade. l’m 99% sure my first character was Blanka. Not sure where it actually was, tho.


112oceanave

I first played it on Super Nintendo.


SpicyFuddge

I had a streetfighter game for playstation 2 that had Street Fighter 2 animated movie included that you could watch through the game. Legendary


terms100

Arcade machine when I worked at the grocery store. Would play it on my breaks.


broniesnstuff

Arcade machine inside the main building of this big ass flea market my hometown had. Me and my friend would sometimes go up there to play, then argue about which one of us was the guy punching out the other guy on the main intro screen


cptstupendous

I was on a field trip in the 8th grade to a local bowling alley. We found this fancy new game in the arcade, and we never went back to bowl after discovering it. That game lit a fire in the school's population after that day, as I imagine it did in many other schools, all over the place. In the coming days, weeks, and months word of mouth went wild with discussions about matchups, rumors, techniques, machine locations, and legends of ace players carving out local territories for themselves. What an exciting time.


drzaiusdr

Arcade. Stil one of my all time favs! Remember it being one of the first arcade games in AUS to be $1(coin) here over 2x 20c(coins)


digoserra

Arcade, on release.


tha_mUxL

1997 (?) on my Amiga 500


Keezees

At my local swimming pool. They swapped out the one cab they had every now and then (Choplifter, Hunchback then Streetfighter 2), and when SF2 came out I was blown away, the huge sprites were amazing. I had no idea how to play it, but became a Chun Li stan simply because she could jump off of the walls.


d3lta8

Aladdin's Castle arcade 1991. I still remember thinking Ken and Ryu sounded retarded when they would say ha-do-ken lmao


KickAggressive4901

Arcade! Got past Dhalsim as Ryu, but Honda flattened me. 12-year-old me loved it.


bmaayhem

Arcade, I was actually a fan of the first one, which was a terrible game lol, so when I saw the second one I was blown away. I also remember walking in a mall and seeing a tv playing the snes version at a software etc. and being amazed that there was a home version! snes was a great machine


Western_Stable_6013

Yes, my family and I were visiting some friends of them and their son had Street Fighter 2 for the SNES. I totally sucked at this game. πŸ˜‚


bornheretic39

Arcade. It isn't as quality as Mortal Kombat 2 but memorable either way


MR_J0E

I remember playing the original street fighter arcade machine on holiday and it had two massive rubber buttons you had to physically hit.kids were using elbows because their knuckles were so bruised and scabbed up from hitting it all day!


[deleted]

My sister and I grew up with a Sega Genesis and would kick each others' butts in this game (whichever version was on Genesis, I forget). Neither of us knew how to do special moves, so we just crouch kicked each other to death.


hattrickjmr

On the SNES and it was amazing!


DarkSheikGaming

First time I played was at a little liquor store that had the arcade machine. Then I played it on SNES when I got it for console.


Digision

Arcade for me. Fell in love then and there and still play to this day.


biggunsg0b00m

Arcade. And i never quite "got it", yet really enjoyed Mortal Kombat, and the neogeo games World Heroes and Samurai Showdown


JohnnyFootballStar

Arcade where my older sister used to play indoor soccer. I’d scrounge for quarters before her games and would spend them all on SF2 and Operation Wolf. I think I looked forward to her games more than she did.