Street Fighter II: The World Warrior

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
A Japanese brochure for the arcade version of Street Fighter II, featuring the original eight main characters. Clockwise from top: E.Honda, Zangief, Ken, Blanka, Dhalsim, Ryu and Guile. At the center: Chun-Li.
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Producer(s)	Yoshiki Okamoto
Designer(s)	Akira Nishitani Akira Yasuda
Programmer(s)	Shinichi Ueyama Seiji Okada Yoshihiro Matsui Motohide Eshiro
Artist(s)	Eri Nakamura Satoru Yamashita
Composer(s)	Yoko Shimomura Isao Abe
Series	Street Fighter
Platform(s)	Arcade Super NES, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, DOS, Game Boy, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable (in Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded), iOS, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Java ME, Wii Virtual Console, Nintendo Switch
Release date(s)	1991 Arcade NA: February 6, 1991 WW: February 14, 1991 SNES JP: June 10, 1992 NA: July 15, 1992 EU: December 17, 1992 Amiga EU: 1992 Atari ST EU: 1992 Amstrad CPC EU: 1992 Commodore 64 EU: 1992 CPS Changer JP: 1994 MS-DOS EU: 1992 NA: 1993 Game Boy JP: August 11, 1995 NA: September 1995 EU: November 23, 1995 ZX Spectrum EU: 1992 Wii Virtual Console JP: December 2, 2006 NA: December 25, 2006 PAL: January 19, 2007 Wii U Virtual Console JP: June 25, 2014 WW: August 22, 2013
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players simultaneously
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	CP System
CPU	68000 @ 10 MHz, Z80 @ 3.579 MHz
Sound	YM2151 @ 3.579 MHz, MSM6295 @ 7.576 MHz
Display	Raster, horizontal orientation, 384×224 resolution, 60 Hz refresh rate, 4096 colors on screen, 65,536 color palette

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (Japanese: ストリートファイターⅡ -The World Warrior-^?) is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in 1991. It is the second entry in the Street Fighter series and the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987. It is Capcom's fourteenth title that runs on the CP System arcade hardware. Street Fighter II improves upon the many concepts introduced in the first game, including the use of command-based special moves and a six-button configuration, while offering players a selection of multiple playable characters, each with their own unique fighting style, and introducing a combo system and competitive multiplayer combat between two players.

The success of Street Fighter II is credited with starting the fighting-game boom during the 1990s which inspired other game developers to produce their own fighting-game franchises, popularizing the genre, and setting off a renaissance for the arcade game industry in the early 1990s. It was then ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System platform, for which it became a long-lasting system-seller. Its success led to a sub-series of updated versions (see below), each offering additional features and characters over previous versions, as well as several home versions.