I remember tossing my 1st Hadoken on SNES as Ken. My older bro and dad were watching and their jaws dropped cuz they were practicing for hours but they did the inputs too slow. Granted, my thumb was sore on that brick house SNES controller but the looks on their faces as the current baby of the fam threw a fireball before they did was bragging rights (and memories) alone.

Bison looks so evil

"I started in SF2 with Blanka..." Somewhere right now, Woolie is smiling with a manly tear in his eye.

The fighting game that started it all for a lot of people.

As a 44 year old, I have to laugh at Max give commentary on one of my favorite games like an archeologicalist explaining the history of some ancient artifact 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯

I've read in an article that SF2 took a while to blow up in Japan initially because people were only playing it single player, and that only after the multiplayer aspect was highlighted in magazines, that it reached the popularity that we know nowadays. So don't feel bad for cheesing the AI in these games, cuz the difficulty was BS even back then.

For me, it was Champion Edition at the local movie theater. In the afternoons, you would get a few challenges; in the evenings is when the real competition came out! Guys trying to impress their girlfriends or rep their street cred...

This was my first exposure to fighting games. And this was mind blowing back then. Then mortal Kombat came soon after.

SF2 was the ultimate game back in 91, the original version in the arcade was an absolute magical time. Soundtrack is timeless also, this was the start of the golden era of fighting games.

Such incredible pixel goodness. The detail and variety in stages is really GREAT!.

9:29 I think this game has a damage x2 amplyfier on any counter happening in the fight, so that was like taking 2 flash kicks and 2 sonic booms in 2 moves.

I remember seeing the cover art for Street Fighter II on SNES for the first time and it just immediately capturing my imagination.

SF II had a HUGE impact on me growing up. I was obsessed with it. I collected guide books, art, comic books...man. Truly an icon.

SFII is the game that got me into fighting games. Didn't own a game console growing up, so I dealt with the AI shenanigans back in the arcades. It helped me get good, at the end of the day.

Guile's Flashkick does 65 percent damage?!? Max's reaction is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 Timestamp: 9:28

sf2 is the friggin GREATEST when it came out. it CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guile & Chun-Li will always have the greatest theme

Street Fighter II was the first fighting game I ever played when I was a teenager. I thought it was another version of Final Fight, and my first character was either Blanka or Zangief. But I believe the fighting games that got me more into the genre was World Heros 2, Darkstalkers, and King of Fighters '94.

SF2 on Genesis was my first experience playing videogames in general. It was my first videogame i played. My dad taught me how to do the moves. Back when i was 5.

My big bro used to tell us arcade stories about this street fighter 2…. The rest is history after finally seeing and playing it🤙🏾

For me, Street Fighter 4 started my love for fighting games. It made me play the classic SF and Vs series (MvC/Snk vs Capcom etc) Street Fighter 4 also made me discover your channel.

I remember my first time playing SF2. I was 11, and there was a travelling funfair in town. They had it in the little arcade which was on the back of a wagon. I spent most of my pocket money playing it one afternoon and it was love at first play. My school friends and I would meet up there on the weekend and play each other, all as either Dhalsim because of the stretchy limbs, or Honda/Blanka to mash punchfor the hands/electricity. Happy times.

3:23 lol cpu Guile doing a flash kick while walking backwards.

I remember seeing Street Fighter 2 in the arcades in 91/92 and was fucking blown away by how good the gameplay, graphics, sound effects and music were. Awesome. I remember having the SNES version for Christmas a few years later, and even though it was very good, I was still gutted it was nowhere near the arcade version.

*AI in hitstun* "I'm going to throw you and it's going to connect I decided"

Blanka head bite move use to show blood

SF2 Championship edition (arcade) is what set me love playing fighting games, I remember being a little kid always taking on older teens and young adults it didn't matter where if it was at Pizza hut, 7-11, or the laundry mat, etc. They were always talking shit and praising if you did cool combos or had a good match, finally getting up to the controls and feeling the tension of everyone watching, I saw the line of quarters, this wasn't like playing at home on the SNES against friends. Arcade players were ruthless but damn fun to play against.

Ken greeting that freaky Eliza sprite with, "WHAT ARE YOU" was too good.

It's crazy hold long ago Street Fighter II came out. I'm 41 now and remember doing SFII moves in elementary school, specifically doing Guile flash kicks from the swing set by backflipping out of the swing.

Street Fighter 2 was also the most influential fighting game for me as well. I still go "Hadoken" or "Shoryuken" when nobody is around. I still got a major crush on Chun-li and love when women do her cosplay. I hope Street Fighter never dies!

Classic game. Crazy how this is the Grandfather fighting game that set the trend.

After getting UMvC3 for Christmas, I felt the urge to really get into fighting games for the first time. This led me to get SF2 for SNES, which I played a bunch, maybe even more than UMvC3 for a bit. A year later I got the chance to play a real cabinet at a fair, and the experience was amazing.

That thumbnail is amazing lol. And street fighter 2 and all it's variants for me is still the goat of fighting games. My favorite fighting game and my first game i remember playing

My uncle was the one that got me into street fighter and I even played it at the arcade with my fren. Good times with these fun games

Max, dood I just wanna say right when I reach those moments where I feel like my content creation or my creative drive is starting to fail, I watch a video of yours and I’m instantly inspired and reminded of why I do what I do. It’s out of the love of video games and the unity they create between fans and consumers. Thanks dood!

Took me a while as a kid to realize their hands were in the fireball lol.

Back in the good old days when Capcom made a stage for every character in the game

I remember staying up all night at grandma's trying to learn the fireball move in SF2 on the snes. When I finally did I became a street fighter weeb for life.

Street Fighter 2 transitioned to CPS2 hardware with Super Street Fighter 2. It's hilarious in hindsight, because all of the new characters and new moves on old characters are animated SO MUCH more nicely compared to the old animations. It's legit jarring on Chun Li and Cammy.

I remember trying to get that group photo at the end of the game of all the characters together. I think you had to beat it on the hardest difficulty without losing a round or something.

Thank god for the single button repeat moves. My little hands couldn't do hados and stuff, but I could lighting someone.... kinda

This game early on, you can find it in almost every laundry mat, liquor store, as well 7 elevens. You actually made me tear up when you began to play the intro. Thanks Max!

The most influential fighting game for me that "made" me has to be SF2 Champion Edition, it was the very first fighting game i ever played. I remember seeing it at a laundromat around early 1993 and it blew my 7 year old mind away. Up until that point i was used to playing stuff like Mario and Sonic and had never seen a fighting game before so seeing a martial artist fight a wrestler while throwing fireballs and doing spinning kicks across the screen was crazy to me. I was INSTANTLY hooked on the series and fighting games in general from that point forward. Every time i saw it anywhere i HAD to stop and play it. I even begged my parents to get me the Genesis version. Me and my little brother wore that game out man, i played it like no tomorrow, that was where i first learned how to actually do special moves. So yea while Champion Edition might not be one of my favorite fighting games of all time, it was definitely the one that got the ball rolling on my love of the genre and had the biggest impact on me for sure.

Thanks for reliving my childhood bro. Can’t wait to see more of your new videos

As someone who was born in the late-mid 80's, growing up in the 90's was the BEST.

If you're of a certain age and you were a gamer back then, 99% SFII had a massive impact on you. I was quite obsessed with SFII because I had heard so much about it from my older brother before getting to play it at an arcade. Xmas 92 I got a SNES and SFII. I cried.

Im with max , the first time i played sf my cousin had it on snes and i did my first fire ball with ryu and i lost my mind after that any time i played a fighting game i tried a fireball motion on world heroes lol

I remember my cousin when he first got a SNES with Street Fighter 2 bundled, he called me straight away and told me to come round and play it. The early 90s was just a special time.

My first fighting game was when I was a kid and played the original SSB at my cousin’s house. My first exposure to the whole genre was when I was in High School in 2010 and saw on KZfaq an episode of the old G4 show “Icons” where they talked about the history of Fighting Games. I instantly fell in love with the genre and was hooked from then on. Since then guys like Max and Matt have been my go-to on Fighting Game content and I have been collecting various fighting games from all sorts of platforms.

Guile: "Go home and be a family man." Max: "Okay."

This game brings back so many memories geez man thanks for this Max 🙄🥲

im loving this, street fighter 2 was my first fighting game too. had such a blast tring to beat the arcade on the snes. i def can see you taking it to fatal fury or mk or even the other versions of sf2

enjoyed the stream immensely, glad we have Max's channel to enjoy video games from our childhood👍👍

When I was a kid, my bro sat me down with a sega and trained me to do all of ryu's imputs. Love that game!

Looking forward to this series!!! I still remember borrowing street fighter 2 for the snes from my neighbor when I was a kid. Then seeing super street fighter 2 in a really dingy and dark arcades, right at the back, with the opening looking awesome as F. Ryu jumping up and down with the lightning. Ahhh good memories!

I mastered Ryu on Street Fighter 2 and came close with Blue Blanka. My record is 16 perfects on the hardest settings.

Capcom vs SNK 2 and MvC 2 on Dreamcast made me… I’ve been whooping ass even as a kid. Beating up my older brothers and cousins who are great players in their own rights. Kids would play kids game while I practice hard on fighting games.

street fighter in arcades so much nostalgia good memories

The Artwork on this thumbnail is Amazing !!!🤩

Funny that you said everything of my experience of Street fighter. I 1st had Super street fighter for genesis, my main was also blanka guile and chin li.

Thought this was going to be a scripted series like Fighting History. Ah well, always here for ST!

I remember walking into the arcade when it came out. 10 cabs, each with a queue of 8 - 10 people for weeks. Insane.

My first fighting game was World Heroes 2 on the SNES where I've mastered all characters special moves. This help me honed my skills as I started getting into fighting games.

I love that the cover for most of the home console ports is used for the thumbnail

Street fighter 2 arcade was THE most played arcade machine at my local skating rink. And it had 3 arcades machines. Teenage mutant ninja turtles and akari warriors were the other 2.

Man that thumbnail is awesome yet again it just reminded me of mr mick mcginty the man behind iconic snes sf2 cover artwork

Hey Max that thumbnail is amazing 👏

"Can't you just taste the pizza" My introduction to fighting games was a World Warrior cabinet that was in a retro '50s burger joint my mom worked at back in 1991. The place--as you can imagine--reeked of burgers and fries, and sometimes I can still smell it when I think of this game. Literally the "smell of the game!"

I think a lot of us watching started off with Street Fighter II; be it through the arcades, SNES, or Genesis. Crazy how much time has passed. I remember the first time playing it on the SNES and button mashing til I got blisters to randomly pull off special moves.

I was born in '91. Using allowance money, I bought a random game for my hand-me-down SNES for a whopping $2 at a flea market off of some college students in the late 90's. They made the comment "Oh man, we'll miss this one!" when I bought it. That was SF2. I was late to the party, but that was the game that made me love fighting games, and one of the few SNES games I'll never let go of

I remembered playing Hyper Street Fighter 2 in the arcades back in 1993, then I graduated to playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 1996. The 90s really has some good arcades back in the day. Shine on max. 10:35 Max doing a parody of Jackie Chan's City Hunter Street Fighter moment.

*Street Fighter II is the game that got me into fighting games....me, my cousins, and my homies use to run tournaments for hours and go to the arcades and compete sometimes man if any fighting game got majority of my time while i was growing up as kid it was street fighter then Mortal Kombat became the ultimate go to fighting game for me and became a big fan of KI & Art Of Fighting/KOF*

I remember a local Casino had Streetfighter 2 Cabinet installed right at the entrance. Me and my brother used to sneak in (because you had to be 18y to enter) and play SF II untill we got kicked out.

Everybody goes on about how big Mario and Sonic were, but to me SFII was the one that transcended the gaming universe. Back then EVERYBODY knew this game, even people who hadn't played it. Kids would impersonate characters during intervals, skip class to sneak into the arcades, make art related to the game, and be generally obsessed about it. It was a cultural phenomenon.

The music is so nostalgic for me everything about the game is

This year marks 30 years of my journey with fighting games starting with Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. I'll never forgot my first time playing it at a local Walmart. I had no idea what I was doing, but knew I needed more of it. It's seems so ordinary by now, but SFII was like nothing I'd ever seen back then.

Street Fighter 2: World Warrior is the very first fighting game I've ever played back then and it started my love for fighting games.

We had a arcade cabinet actually at a flea market but man the music will always make me feel groovy

Street Fighter II was my favorite childhood game & Street Fighter 4 got me into fighting games

Brought my new SNES over to a friends house earlier today, all we did was play Street Fighter II Turbo on it. Some 30 years later, it's still a timeless classic. Me and my friends didn't grow up with Street Fighter II yet we were screaming and laughing the whole afternoon. It was cool to see my friends enjoy on what we all missed out on.

Great game. The style, music and sounds of this still help it to hold up really well today, even have in on an arcade 1up with final fight etc. Although I usually play CE on there as it's less broken in some ways. :) Seeing this in the arcades and later having it on the snes and sf2t were amazing, so much replay on this, it's timeless. We have everything digitally and at the touch of a button for the most part these days, but it's sad that kids growing up today don't get to experience the arcades in their heyday like many of us here did, such fun times. :)

oh god, those lovely and precious childhood memories... I remember I was a button masher too, with Blanka and Honda, until I tried Dhalsim and just strategically stretch punch/kick and spam slide my friends to frustration... this game totally changed and shaped me...

Omg ive never clicked a Video so fast! The next 25 mins will be me watching my favourite guy talking about my Favourite thing in the world!!! So excited!

I remember in 92 when this game came to my town in Mexico. I was 6 and the little store across the street from my house had it. My first arcade experience was this game. The music and sounds are what make it the most nostalgic for me. Bro 13:04 HAHAHAHA!!

Street Fighter 2 and MK are what also made me. I started playing any fighting game I could get my hands on after playing those games. It wouldn't be until my early 20s when I started taking fighting games seriously, Super Street Fighter 4 specifically. It was the first time I started using an arcade stick since the Sega years. Back then, I didn't even know how to use charge characters or properly use the dragon punch motion. It was the early years of EVO and the Daigo moment that inspired me to switch to an arcade stick and play competitively online.

SF2 was really the only way for me and my dad to connect. So many great memories with the old man playing this game. Still remember the first time I beat him and it felt so rewarding lol

10:38 yeah, one of the biggest banboozle moments of my early life was choosing Guile after getting my ass handed to me way too many time, thinking "wow, he must be really good, now how do I pull off his moves?". When I found out you have to HOLD backwards or crouch for 2 seconds, I felt so cheated :D Same with M. Bison in SSF2, you have to hold to pull off his moves, while the AI just pulls them off instantly...

I was 9 or 10 when I first played this back around 1993. Will always be my favourite franchise

I have alot of memories of playing this in arcades and SNES I even play this to this day

Lmaoooo not the “rest in peace, Bob Sagat” after demolishing Sagat first round

I've been looking forward to this

The shoutout to DNO is very nice, he's such a cool chill dude!

Super Street Fighter 2 got me to straight fighting games. Ken has been my favorite. I have all "Street Fighter games and the movies on blu-ray. SuperStreetFighter Turbo was my favorite. I had it on "Super Nintendo. Really good video "Maximilian Dood 🤟 .

I liked that after you won and she came on screen, Ken pretty quickly said "What are you", which seemed pretty appropriate. But then it went on to finish with "doing here?".

Back in 1992 Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition was the arcade game that did it for me. SF2 World Warrior was always crowded with long lineups at the arcades but when SF2 Champion Edition came out it was easier to play because it was everywhere other than just the arcades.

That Thumbnail reference is golden!

Man SF2 cabinets were everywhere. You couldn't go out without seeing one. Getting pizza? Gas station? There'll be a cabinet there.

I will never forget the first time I played Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition in an arcade cabinet. That waiting line was huge and I only endured 3 minutes.

MvC 1, MvSF, Mvc2, and n64 fighters destiny!! Congrats on 1mil Max

That thumbnail is awesome!