Chapter 2: Here comes a New Challenger!
With Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumodo gone, having moved on to SNK, the team behind the now wildly successful Final Fight, Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda, began work on the real sequel to Street Fighter. The graphical style and technology used in Final Fight would serve as a starting point, and the designers would add a level of detail and depth previously unseen in the genre. The end result: Street Fighter II, landed in arcades in March of 1991, and began to gain momentum, by the fall, it had become a phenomenon.
In celebration of the release of Street Fighter 4, on the 21st anniversary of the long running series, the inaugural edition of SAVE STATES is pleased to present to you, the first in a 5 chapter look at Street Fighter: The series.