Nintendo Life - Although many will accuse Capcom of flogging the Street Fighter license within an inch of its life, the company wasn't solely to blame for the production line of incremental updates which appeared after the release of the original Street Fighter II. Unscrupulous arcade owners would "hack" arcade boards to increase the speed of the game or make characters perform different moves, thereby prolonging player interest in the game. Capcom's hand was forced; to counter the hacked boards it released Street Fighter II': Champion Edition and Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting (also known simply as Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting). Of course, such releases also helped the coins to keep rolling in, so it's not like the company had much to complain about; the hacked boards effectively spurred the franchise on.
Hong Kong-based toy and collectibles manufacturer BigBoysToys has opened pre-orders for the latest figure in their collection of Capcom-themed figures.
Street Fighter on SNES Week continues with a look at Street Fighter II Turbo, which is what many consider to be one of the finest 16-bit fighters!
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Contrary to what the mobile market might want everyone to believe with their ‘casual’ offerings of bite-sized games and pay-to-win models, gamers do like to be challenged every now and then.
After all, why settle for an ordinary, run-of-the-mill boss fight when you can take on a secret big cheese that laughs in the face of every weak enemy you’ve fought previously up to his point? It’s the kind of mantra that games developers must have when they come up with the simple – yet genius – idea to include hidden boss battles.
Not going to go through freaking 17 pages... It's ridiculous when you can put several on one page just as easily.
