“SF2 was so popular that people were quitting their day jobs to open arcades”.
Legendary Street Fighter player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has been speaking about the incredible impact Street Fighter II had on the games industry back in the early ’90s and feels that we haven’t witnessed anything like it since.
The sequel to the 1987 original, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior sold over 200,000 arcade cabinets and 15 million home versions—6.3 million of which were sold on the SNES alone. It almost single-handedly kick-started the one-on-one fighting game boom which would last for the majority of the 1990s, producing a seemingly endless series of sequels from Capcom and a flood of clones from rival companies.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“SF2 was so popular that people were quitting their day jobs to open arcades”.
Legendary Street Fighter player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has been speaking about the incredible impact Street Fighter II had on the games industry back in the early ’90s and feels that we haven’t witnessed anything like it since.
The sequel to the 1987 original, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior sold over 200,000 arcade cabinets and 15 million home versions—6.3 million of which were sold on the SNES alone. It almost single-handedly kick-started the one-on-one fighting game boom which would last for the majority of the 1990s, producing a seemingly endless series of sequels from Capcom and a flood of clones from rival companies.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
