Street Fighter II is the perfect video game sequel. It took an archaic fighting title and turned it into one of the most influential games of all time.
SFII also marked a step up in what arcade hardware could do, showcasing some fancy digitized voices that gave each character a bit more personality.
Hadoken!As great as hearing Ryu and Ken finally speak really was, it came with some caveats. The sound bytes used for each character had to be compressed as much as they could, resulting in the audio appearing a bit muffled.
Add to that the chaos of all the other special effects and the background noise of an arcade and what you get is a collection of characters screaming all sorts of crazy stuff.
That’s how you end up with Ryu wanting some pound cake.Have you ever wondered what the characters were really saying during these intense combats?