As yet another release of a game we first got in 1991, the basic features you’d expect-Arcade mode, local Versus, Training-have been paired up with a few notable additions.

It seemed like a weird choice for a full retail Switch title, and after digging into my review copy, I still wasn’t sold. Which is why, in part, I was skeptical of Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers. Samurai Shodown II I’ll always be able to return to, but Street Fighter II has been tough at times. Still, fighting games have advanced by leaps and bounds over the years, and it’s really hard to go back to a lot of older releases that existed before some of the niceties of the modern era. There’s no downplaying what Street Fighter II meant to the world of gaming, from single-handedly establishing the fighting game genre to being an incredible hit both in arcades and at home (the entire reason I wanted a Super NES was because it was the sole place you could play the game at first). To be honest, though, that is where Capcom’s legendary fighter exists for me at this point in life: as an occasional experience to be had in smaller, more casual bursts. It’d been a long time since I’d actively played the game, but I had a whole lot of fun trading blows with some of the bar’s other patrons that night. Last year while visiting a retro barcade in downtown Los Angeles, I built up the courage to put a quarter down to reserve my turn on the Street Fighter II machine.

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