This version appears to be the one that was often pirated and hacked to make such versions as Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition and Street Fighter II Koryu, as their name often remains in the ROM. In Taiwan, the Street Fighter II: Champion Edition was distributed by Hung Hsi Enterprise. Hawk, Dee Jay, Fei Long, and Cammy) and made balance changes, Super Street Fighter II Turbo made more balance changes, introduced super attacks and added Akuma as a hidden boss, Hyper Street Fighter II allowed all the previous versions of the characters playable, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD which introduced more balance changes as well as updated the overall presentation and allowed online play, and Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers added Evil Ryu and Violent Ken and added several new modes and balance changes. This game would later receive various updates: Street Fighter II': Champion Edition ( Street Fighter II Dash in Japan) made the boss characters playable, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting added new moves and let you changed the speed of the game, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers introduced four new characters (T. It is often cited as having revolutionized the genre and received various ports to many consoles.
The sequel added playable characters to the game and included varying attacks and special moves among the characters. Street Fighter II was released in arcades in 1991. NTDEC's Fighting Hero notably appears to be based on this game controlling a character named Leon who is a copy of Ryu and has to fight against several CPU opponents. Zemina ported the game to the MSX and Sega Master System (running in SG-1000 mode) under the name Street Master. While the game was successful during its time, it was nowhere near as popular as its sequel was which didn't result in much in terms of piracy and/or bootlegs.
There is a 2-player mode where the second player would play as Ken. Unlike its successors, you could only play as Ryu and fight through 10 CPU controlled opponents. The original Street Fighter was released in the arcades in 1987.