Super street fighter 2 switch full#

Super street fighter 2 switch full#

Unless you have four Street Fighter cabinets in your living room, or four SuperGuns with four CRT TVs and four full CPS2 versions of the game. It may actually be even more convenient to set up Tournament Battle on the Nintendo Switch than the original hardware. The Nintendo Switch’s natural portability makes it a much friendlier platform to link up four units than, say, the PlayStation 4. So now that you know how Tournament Battle worked, and what it required of everyone involved, it should make sense why Nintendo Switch received this exclusive. Now imagine eight strangers scrambling around four Street Fighter cabinets and arguing over who is supposed to be at which position, at what machine, while a ten second counter ticks down. I don’t know about you, but on a daily basis I see human beings incapable of making a straight line, ignoring signs telling them to stand on the right side of an escalator, confused about what BART train they just jumped onto while a bright red electrical sign blares the information overhead, and struggle figuring out who should go at a 4-way stop sign during rush hour traffic. This sounds straight forward, but I want you to stop and think about the last time you commuted to work or school. The reality for playersĪfter a one-round game versus an opponent, which is pathetically short for competition, players are then given ten seconds to decipher which position, at what machine, the on-screen UI is ordering them to move to. Developers were flooding the arcade market with their own fighting game titles, and for an arcade operator to dedicate the foot space and revenue of four different fighting games that were independent from each other, for one that tied up all four units per play, was a rare luxury. Keep in mind that Tournament Battle hit during the height of the first fighting game explosion. The Tournament Battle concept only really works in a large dedicated arcade with significant floor space. The floor space required to support a Tournament Battle setup like that made the game unfriendly, and unrealistic, for operators with pizza parlors and liquor stores on their game route. Capcom’s Big Blues weren’t just expensive pieces of equipment back in the day - they were humongous beasts as well!

The advertisement Capcom put out to arcade vendors to advertise Tournament Battle show the game running on four of Capcom’s deluxe “Big Blue” cabinets. Those four boardsets would then have to have four Street Fighter-ready arcade cabinets, sitting next to each other, to drop into.

Supporting Tournament Battle meant purchasing four new CPS2 board kits, which back in those days were not a cheap investment. For Western arcade operators, the concept of Tournament Battle was a hard sell.