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Fighters never die, they just migrate to new consoles and
portables. The year was 1993 and SHVC-T1 aka Street Fighter
2 Turbo landed on the Super Famicom that summer. Import
shops around the city hawked it for about US$160
but fighting connoisseurs undaunted by the price bought the
game in droves. After all, it was a fine rendition of Street
Fighter 2 and champions could play it at home, undisturbed by
miscreants and boastful braggarts at the local arcade. Fast
forward a bunch of years and Capcom once again proves itself
worthy by issuing a superb version of Street Fighter on
the Gameboy Advance. Original backgrounds as well as news ones
for Bison, Chun-Li, Guile, Ken, Ryu, and Zangief decorate the
bouts and bring back a sense of the olden days. Bonus modes
return where you pummel a car to death or destroy barrels
which roll towards your fighter. Succinctly and to the point
then, we're horribly impressed. | | |
