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December 11th, 2015 
Carl Williams 
It was the phenomenon that Nintendo desperately wanted on the Super Nintendo. During the build up to the hottest part of the 16-Bit war with Sega, Nintendo was pulling out all of the stops. There are rumors that Capcom was given favoritism to ensure Street Fighter II was on the SNES first, possibly exclusively. While officially the SNES version is the only home port of “Street Fighter II: The World Warrior”, the sequels from the arcade did eventually see release on Sega’s platform. Sure, Capcom licensed out the Street Fighter II game rights to various publishers on computers, they held the console/portable rights close to their chest. That was in the United States. Overseas though, Street Fighter II saw release on many more home consoles and more computers. Here is a collection of those ports for you to enjoy. For better or for worse.
1) Street Fighter II on Sega Master System
This is one that probably would have pushed a few sales of the 8-Bit Sega console. Considering Sega had hell getting Capcom to release “Special Championship Edition” on their Genesis, I am sure no one was holding their breath for a Master System port of the original. Looking at the YouTube video though, it is probably for the better that we never saw this version in North America. Considering it was Tec Toy that released this version it is no surprise that it didn’t make it up north from Brazil. Tec Toy are the ones that did Duke Nukem 3D on the Sega Genesis (Piko Interactive would later license this for worldwide release).
2) Super Fighter III- Street Fighter II on the NES
Okay, this one is pretty neat. Much like the Tec Toy version for the Sega Master System, this version is fairly accurate. I mean, these are 8-Bit systems after all. Unlike the Tec Toy version though, Super Fighter III is not a licensed title that Capcom could endorse. You don’t get all of the World Warriors here, rather you get 9 of the 12. Zangief, E-Honda and Balrog are missing from this version. It is an illegal copy anyhow so that is somewhat expected.
3) Street Fighter II CPC Edition
This one comes to us from our friends over at Indie Retro News who covered it back in July. Apparently there was supposed to be a version of Street Fighter II released for the Amstrad CPC but for some reason it was scrapped (it never appeared outside of some screens published in Amstrad Action). This is a work in progress by a fan who is trying to recreate what was probably planned. As you can see in the YouTube video, it is quite early but there is a lot of progress already.
4) Street Fighter Beta for MSX2
You know, for what it is worth, the MSX2 version is pretty nice looking. We are talking about a Japanese computer that was similar to the TurboGrafx-16 in power. It was more powerful than the Nintendo Entertainment System but not as powerful as the Super Nintendo. This version goes a little farther than the basic Street Fighter II arcade game. The life bar is more in line with later Street Fighter games and so are some of the stages that apparently are planned.
5) Street Fighter 2 for the MSX Computer
Okay, this is apparently what we could expect from a computer that is slightly less powerful than the Nintendo Entertainment System. The characters in this MSX beta are very much of the “chibi” style, or better known as “super deformed”. While they don’t carry the iconic super huge heads of SD styles, the Street Fighter gang here is pretty close. The pixels will almost poke your eye out so be careful watching this one.
Okay, now it is your turn. Know of a wild port of a game and think we should feature it in a future article? Let us know!
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[…] Super Mario is a Nintendo property and the chances of Nintendo letting it onto other platforms is pretty much less than zero. Why would Nintendo let their leading man out to work on say, Sega Genesis or PC’s? It makes no sense for them to do so. They are not in the same position that Sega is in so they have more power over their intellectual properties. That has not stopped fans from doing it though. Here, we take a look at several ports of Super Mario games that you don’t know about. Previously I looked at several ports of Street Fighter 2, available here on Retro Gaming Magazine. […]
There was a c64 version as well
Thank you for bringing that up! I will definitely make sure the C64 version is in the next iteration of this article.
there is a bootleg virtual boy version
Got it – http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2015/01/29/bandit-gaming-street-fighter-ii-champion-edition-hyper-fighting-virtual-boy-spotted-wild/
There is a ZX Spectrum version, one of the last official games for the computer
Interesting. Thank you for mentioning that. I am almost completely new to the Spectrum, at least as far as official releases from back in the day.