My First SNES Game | Video Gaming Memories by Imraan Nazir 🎮🤜💥🤛 #RetroGaming #SuperNintendo

In the early 90s Street fighter 2 The World Warrior hit the arcade machines. This game changed the fighting game genre and till this day I think this is one of the best Street fighter games and I still play it till this day.

My local chicken shop had the street fighter 2 arcade machine and used to play it with my older brother. I could never do the moves and I would always lose. I was always player 2 for some reason. Till this day never knew why that was.

In 1992 Street Fighter 2 came out on the Super Nintendo. This put Nintendo on the map. Street Fighter 2 was only available for Super Nintendo. This meant that anyone with a Sega Mega Drive had to buy a Super Nintendo to play the game.

There was a poster that came out saying 'Street Fighter 2...Sega owners dream on'.

In 1993 my dream came true. One evening my brother and sister came home with a box in their hand. On that box it had the artwork of Street Fighter 2 the world warrior and an image of the Super Nintendo with one controller. Having this meant no more going to the local chicken shop to play. This also meant that I can now play it from the comfort of my own home for free and have infinite continues. No need to insert coins.

My brother would borrow one controller from his mate so we could compete against each other
on street fighter but then eventually my brother bought one. My brother would always be player 1 and I would always be player 2, still don't know why that was.

Before going to the VS battle my brother would go to the option menu and change the button config on his controller and do the same to mine.

The button config would go like this and I still use this till this day.

L. Punch...R👊

M. Punch...A👊👊

H.Punch...X 👊👊👊

L.Kick...L  🦵

M.Kick...B  🦵🦵

H.Kick...Y  🦵🦵🦵

After this we would play against each other. In the first match I would pick Ryu and my brother would pick Ken. I never knew any moves. All I would do is just kick, punch and throw. My brother would come out with the Hadouken, dragon punch and hurricane kicks. I would get beaten badly.

The thing is I wouldn't give up. I would always try and beat him up but it wouldn't work. Sometimes I would get near the end thinking I would beat my brother but then somehow he would beat me with some special move.

One day my brother discovered a cheat where you can be the same character. At that time this was a big thing. Without the cheat it was impossible to be the same character. At the Capcom logo on player 1 controller press Down,R,Up,L,Y,B and you hear a sound 👂to confirm the cheat has been entered. Also another way to confirm the cheat was entered is that the background would turn blue. To see the alternative colour you would need to press start on the controller.

For some reason I used to think that Ryu in the blue karate suit was stronger than the white karate suit. My brother would teach me the moves of the street fighter characters and throughout time I got better and better. Finally I gave my brother a challenge. Instead of him winning all the time I would sometimes win.

Also we used to have something called a Hadouken match. The rules were that you can only do Hadouken in the match no other moves were allowed. Sometimes the match will end because of time or the opponent was knocked out with the Hadouken. This was fun as you could practice your Hadouken skills.

After street fighter 2 I still carried on playing street fighter on the PlayStation and still play till this day.

Thanks for reading

Imraan Nazir

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