who the frick approved this box art?
you can't have your flagship character Ryu shown all beat up
who the frick approved this box art? you can't have your flagship character Ryu shown all beat up
who the frick approved this box art?
you can't have your flagship character Ryu shown all beat up
made me want to play it when i was 7
this
I was obsessed with SF2 & TMNT when i was 6, and this is the first game i ever owned.
This is him today. Feel old yet?
how did eyes work? i don't get it
I’m getting X6 Sigma vibes from that picture, fricking cool
>SH….REDD…….ERrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Donatello is even more horrifying.
he's cosplaying as a wrecked evangelion
While this is obviously better I think there's some marketing magic to that psuedo photorealistic look of the american covers, that blanka would have driven kids nuts.
Who cares about that guy? Kids like green monsters and hot chicks. Capcom USA made the tough but smart choice.
You talk about same company that made Guile as the protagonist at American Street Fighter media (live action movie, cartoon series etc) ?
That was the intention of the Japanese devs
Guile is top tier in SF2:World Warrior
meanwhile the ken & ryu are both low tier.
americuck gaylords strike again, reminder you are not the center of the planet and you don't matter in the future
signed
t.seer
>1991
>America isn't the epicenter of all popular culture
Wrong.
Why would Americans want to see a stoic karate-man in his pajamas on their video game box?
It should have just been Guile in an F-14 giving a thumbs up with the US flag waving in the background.
>Green monster dude and woman with thick thighs >That will sell our game
Yes
anyone have the japanese box art for regular ass sf2?
cuz marketing would dictate
>put pretty girl and monster on cover
because x-men etc was popular during the time.
>anyone have the japanese box art for regular ass sf2?
much better than the gringo version
Soul
Soulless
back to Wrong board
Fwiu one of these is the first canon representation of “green Blanka” since he’s yellow/orange in game
It's an iconic cover
yeah best one
not bad but too pandering to murricans, and Bison's derpy face ruins it
another classic one
bold and to the point, good.
pretty hype
This would've been the best SF cover if the art was actually good
akiman then had a pretty crap style, his work was blocky stiff not dynamic like the other guys
This looks like the kind of artwork on a Soviet propaganda poster.
>elongated forearms
It's obviously worse but /vr/ sees "Super Famicom" and thinks 'wow that's bvsed'.
>US flag on the box
>Jap version
Lmao brainlet
Ryu wasn't really the draw in the USA.
Especially this.
As a kid I literally thought Guile was the flagship character of the franchise. Which is exactly why he was the main character of the live action movie. A lot of kids thought that.
Be the American Japan thinks you are
I don't know what you're complaining about it's one of the few times they didn't make the box art objectively worse in localization.
>you can't have your flagship character Ryu shown all beat up
>flagship
it was the first game, there was no flagship character.
>inb4 street fighter 1 counts
>Street Fighter II
>first game
moron
well, he's got a point, it's the first one that mattered
It's the first in the Street Fighter II series.
Each numbered SF game is its own series that later gets revisions and expansions.
ryu getting his ass kicked by a mysterious whatever probably gave me the impression he was a low tier character.
i never thought sf2 had a main character.
But Blanka wins the match up.
sweetie the main charactesr of that version of the game are Gillie and Chunz
Burgers never get artwork right.
Genesis CHADS win again
Wtf is the movement here
Guile getting hit by a Scissor Kick, have you never played Street Fighter?
Bison looks goofy
>CHADS
>that chin
sure
Nice manass cover
They are in the street and they're fighting, I don't know what else to say
Who the frick likes Ryu? If you want to play a shoto Ken at least is wienery and has some cool combos, Akuma for edgelords, Dan for "whacky" characters. Who wants to play boring ass generic white guy (but actually asian) who's character is "I want to get better" and who's most iconic combo is low forward fireball.
Ken is for dudebros and brazilians, Akuma for edgelords and Dan for trolling
Nobody ever notices Dhalsim is on the cover.
WTF? My childhood was a lie.
He isn't on the cover you moron.
that's the mural, not Dhalsim you schizo
You are blind, it is him
Show me where he is then?
Behind the hundred slaps
Holy shit, you right!
It's just boring, you know? Fighting game covers should show off characters, even if they're just standing there
Like this. You can feel your balls drop, becoming a man as you get ready to who the frick they are
>Ryu looks bad here
If you only knew how bad things really are...
Reminds me of those terrible G.I. Joe SF2 figures.
Those things were the tightest shit when I was a kid.
They were so bad yet they were huge hits
yeah that chun and ken are not great kek, still cool though. It's always been odd to me how little game properties were licensed out for action figure lines, comic books, movies, never games.
I get trying to draw them realistic but why did they make them so ugly?
Have you seen the character select screen?
Ryu and Ken's eyebrows got gradually thicker, Chun Li's eyebrows got thinner, Guile's neck got bigger, and Blanka's hairline got more Vegetalike.
World Warrior had some goofy portraits. Boxer was literally just Mike Tyson.
I realize the SSF2 portraits are better drawn but personally I still think the world warriors portraits are badass.
Guile's look got progressively more derp
Okay that one's cool. The brick is ugly but the concept is cool.
I have a poster of this one that came with a 90s magazine, kinoplex
>kinoplex
Off yourself.
holy shit Cammy is small ToT
Blanka is yellow, not green.
Could have been worse..
What and where is this from?
Some site had a giant look back at SF and at the end they commissioned the original artist to make a new artwork based on his snes SF2 art.
I cant find it 123, I'll see if i can find it later.
https://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history
https://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history/artwork
This was practically the first game since the real first Street Fighter was garbage. They had no idea for sure Ryu would be the flagship. Idiot
Ryu was the only playable character in the first game, Ken is based on him, he's the default character on the select screen, he's meant to be the easiest to understand, those types are usually the face of a fighting game
>Ryu shown all beat up
By a Brazilian green-skinned ape-man at that.
>you can't have your flagship character Ryu shown all beat up
Why not? Who says you? You? The game sold like hotcakes, so clearly you're fricking wrong, you idiot toddler.
makes blanka seem like an overwhelming monster the rest of the cast has no chance against
Blanka rocks. Capcom USA was based (at least that time).
The echo other comments, my impression was that Guile was kind of a main character, with Chun Li being the second most important character.
I always saw Ryu and Ken as Scorpion/Sub Zero type supporting character palette swaps.
I always thought that's how Capcom USA always wanted to market the series in the U.S. before Street Fighter II: The Animated Series and later on the Alpha series turned the franchise into the Ryu & Ken Show. Sure, they were in the first Street Fighter from '87, but nobody gave a shit about that game back then.
they realized they can't make guile the lead because nobody wanted to play a charge character
guile and chun li were practically the only ones me and my friends could play well, no casuals were pulling off dragon punches consistently or doing hundred hand slaps.
It's called Street Fighter, not Ryu's Super Hadooken Championship
Putz
idiot
I fricking love the realistic cover arts the street fighter ports had