Street Fighter Games IBM PC MS-DOS versus Amiga

Street Fighter Games IBM PC MS-DOS

The 1988 ports of Capcom's original Street Fighter arcade game of 1987 were quite poor on both IBM PC MS-DOS and Amiga. Even by 1988 standards the original Street Fighter was barely playable. The Amiga version of Street Fighter did not take advantage of a single aspect of the Amiga's custom chipset.

It wasn't until the advent of Street Fighter 2 (1992) that versus Fighters started to get good on PC and Amiga. But the Amiga port of Street Fighter 2 was still bad in comparison to Amiga-native versus fighters and beat 'em ups.

The PC versions of SF2 and beyond were good, though.

Street Fighter 1 IBM PC MS-DOS

James L. Hanson of Capcom Co. Ltd. ported Capcom's Street Fighter coinop of 1987 to IBM PC MS-DOS in 1988.

Street Fighter 1 Amiga 1988

Donald Campbell of Tiertex ported Capcom's Street Fighter coinop of 1987 to Amiga in 1988.

Compare the arcade version:

Street Fighter 2 IBM PC MS-DOS 1992

James Fisher of Capcom Co. Ltd. ported Capcom's Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior of 1991 to IBM PC MS-DOS 3.10 in 1992. Street Fighter 2 displays in 256-color VGA 320x200.

Street Fighter 2 was the first great versus Fighter for IBM PC MS-DOS. In terms of color range, dimensions and animations, Street Fighter 2 sprites were a massive step up from pre-SF2 versus Fighters. The 2½ megs of Street Fighter 2 sprite animations include the hadoken, whirlwind kick, sonic boom and spinning piledriver.

Street Fighter 2 audio supports Sound Blaster, AdLib, Roland and Sound Blaster / Roland combo.

 

Street Fighter 2 was distributed on 3x 3.5" 1.44 MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs via Street Fighter 2 Install program. The install size is 4 megs. Street Fighter 2 will not run from diskettes, it must be installed to hard disk.

Street Fighter 2 Manual for IBM PC MS-DOS: 40 pages (10 pages in English).

Street Fighter 2 Copy Protection: Page-line-word manual look-up.

Street Fighter 2 Amiga 1992

Gordon Fong of Creative Materials ported Capcom's Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior of 1991 to Amiga in 1992. Passable.

Compare the arcade version:

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo IBM PC MS-DOS 1995

Five coders from Eurocom Entertainment Software ported Capcom's Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo of 1994 to IBM PC MS-DOS in 1995. Great port.

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Amiga AGA 1995

Krisztián Jámbor of Human Soft ported Capcom's Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo of 1995 to Amiga 1200 in 1995. Only one coder for the Amiga version compared to five for the IBM PC version...

Super Street Fighter 2 IBM PC MS-DOS 1996

Roger A. Butler of Rozner Labs Software Group ported Capcom's Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers of 1993 to IBM PC MS-DOS in 1996. Great port.

Super Street Fighter 2 Amiga 1995

Richard Hazlewood and Shane Clark of Freestyle ported Capcom's Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers of 1993 to Amiga in 1995. Passable.

Conclusion:

The PC versions of the Street Fighter 2 games are superior to the Amiga versions.

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