Street Fighter II
It's from 1991, before you were born.
- Developer
- Capcom
- Genre
- Fighting
- Debut
- Arcade (1991)
- Planner
- Akira Nishitani
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About
As of 2026, it's 35 years old.
Street Fighter II walked into the arcade in 1991 and turned strangers into mortal enemies. Its roster of distinct fighters and secret special moves — and the eternal struggle to pull off a Hadouken without dislocating your thumb — created competitive gaming as we know it and emptied a generation's pockets one quarter at a time.
The 'winner stays on' format made the arcade cabinet a public arena, where beating a stranger felt like a genuine victory and losing felt like a personal failing in front of a crowd.
Iconic, deep, and gloriously competitive, Street Fighter II is the game that invented the fighting genre and a thousand real-life rivalries.
