According to a Bootleg Games contributor, these colours are inspired by the hues from Guile's default palette. The colours of the Street Fighter logo, switched up to a fetching green-to-blue gradation for Champion Edition, were instead a garish, seemingly corrupted mess. And here it was, nestled in the back corner of Wilson’s Crazy Casino*.įrom the moment I dropped my first 20p something was clearly amiss. This was the era of Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition, where our dreams of playing as the four bosses (Punchy, Slashy, Eyepatch McScar and Magic Communist) were finally a reality. One year - let’s call it 199X - I thought I had struck gold.
If not, a repurposed video poker machine with a knackered monitor running BurgerTime. If you were lucky, you’d find an Electrocoin Unigamer unit housing WWF Wrestlefest with two working buttons. I’d never expect much from its generically branded cabs. If you’ve never had the pleasure, a fairground arcade was typically a compact steel cabin with a claustrophobically low ceiling, approximately one billion cabochon lights, and more coin-ops, fruities and 2p shove machines crammed into its modest volume than absolutely necessary.
The Xiang Long version of the game makes a compelling point in its boot-up message.Īs an aspiring teen, I’d navigate through this sea of flagrant copyright infringement and dubious food hygiene standards for the real star attraction: the arcade. Watch on YouTube Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has a lot of games, but not some of the more.