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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 76: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Description: When Street Fighter 2 first released in arcades in 1991, it single handedly revolutionised the fighting game genre. It introduced shocking concepts like letting you select more than one character! And for the very first time combinations of attacks could be strung together while the enemy player was still stunned (which, hilariously, was a bug). Its characters essentially defined the archetypes and set the baseline for how characters should be designed. This was the Mario or the Doom of the fighting genre.A few years, and many revisions later, we got the final version of Street Fighter 2 - Super Stre...