The Rise and Fall of Street Fighter II
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Twenty years ago, I would step into my favorite video game arcade, only to find every time that a crowd was already patiently awaiting their turns to get their hands on Nintendo’s Donkey Kong. Since then many games had come and gone, and I never thought another game would ever be more popular. How wrong I was. Fast forward ten years to 1991. Kids skipping school to play this game. Wealthier folks buying the expensive arcade boards so that they could play this game at home. Fast food restaurant owners threatening to turn off the power to the arcade cabinets because the mob coming in to play this game was far greater in number than the food-buying customers. If there is ever a truly global phenomenon in the history of the video game arcade business, it has to be Street Fighter II: The World Warriors, released by Capcom in March 1991.
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