Super Street
Fighter II: The New Challengers is a head-to-head fighting game produced
by Capcom originally
released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1993. It is the fourth
game in the Street Fighter II sub-series of Street Fighter games,
following Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting. In addition to
refining and balancing the existing character roster from the previous
versions, Super Street Fighter II also introduced four new
characters. It was also the first game to be developed on Capcom's CP
System IIhardware, which permitted more sophisticated graphics and audio over
the original CP System hardware used in previous versions of Street
Fighter II.
Super Street
Fighter II was followed by Super Street Fighter II Turbo, a fifth
version of Street Fighter IIreleased the following year, which further
refined the balance between characters and introduced additional new features.
In the
February 1994 issue of Gamest, Super Street Fighter II was
nominated for Best Game of 1993, though it was eventually ranked at third.
In the category of Best Fighting Games, Super won three more third
place prizes in the categories of "Best Fighting Games," "Best
Graphics," and "Best VGM.
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