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About Street Fighter 2

Street Fighter II is the game that created the modern fighting genre. Capcom released it in 1991, and its cast — Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, Dhalsim, Zangief, E. Honda — plus its six-button layout and quarter-circle special moves became the template every fighting game since has either followed or deliberately broken.

It's also where competitive fighting-game culture started: combos were originally a bug, discovered by players and kept in because they were fun. This browser version brings the arcade original to a tab, with keyboard controls mapped to the six buttons.

How to play Street Fighter 2

Move / crouch / jump

Arrow keys

Punches

A, S, D (light, medium, heavy)

Kicks

Z, X, C (light, medium, heavy)

Block

Hold back as an attack lands

Two players

Second set of keys shown in-game

1. Pick a character and fight best-of-three rounds against the computer or a friend.
2. Blocking is holding back — there is no block button.
3. Special moves use directional motions: quarter-circle forward plus punch for a fireball, forward-down-diagonal plus punch for a dragon punch.
4. Empty your opponent's health bar twice to win the match.

Street Fighter 2 tips

• Learn one character's specials properly rather than sampling the whole roster.
• Ryu's fireball into dragon punch is the classic beginner's pattern and still works.
• Block low by default — most opening attacks are low.
• Jumping in is how beginners lose. A grounded approach beats a predictable jump every time.

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