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User Rating: 9 | Street Fighter II Turbo SNES
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This game was loved by all my cousins, not the original. I mean 20 people (literally) would gather around my cousins' house and just play it over and over at their house! I could not play though because I was only like 4 years old. This game was loved by all my cousins, not the original. I mean 20 people (literally) would gather around my cousins' house and just play it over and over at their house! I could not play though because I was only like 4 years old. They are the same cousins that I mentioned in my Mortal Kombat 3 games. They would always hold big tournament competitions. If those 20 people were not over at my cousins' house to play, they would come over at my house during our cookouts and have a big tournament and play in my room with additional people, leaving with a total of 35 folks. I still remember when I was 5 or 6, that some of our church members had a tournament in Street Fighter II Turbo over at a bowling alley, I think. I do not really remember much but, I do remember seeing Ken's face artwork on the character selection screen (for some reason) on that really huge TV they played it on. I mean, this game was truly popular in the early and mid '90s! Everybody kept using the "Turbo feature" that was in the game, they preferred it over the normal speed. I never understood why they loved such ridiculous speed that I could not even keep up with. The guys were so good with the "Turbo feature" that they would do all their moves so smoothly and accurate, like it was just normal speed to them anyway. I could not handle the "Turbo feature" myself. They had to be out of my league in Street Fighter!

Story: 8/10
- The storyline is pretty decent and simple. M. Bison throws a tournament and Earth's best warriors are chosen. This is a fighting game; story lines are not a major in these genres.

Gameplay: 9/10
- The gameplay is great! They made everything run smoother and a little faster compared to the original! The player engages opponents in 1 on 1 close quarter combat in a series of best 2 out of 3 matches. The objective of each round is to deplete the opponent's vitality before the timer runs out. If both opponents knock each other out at the same time or the timer runs out with both fighters having an equal amount of vitality left, then a "double KO" or "draw game" is declared and additional rounds will be played until sudden death. Street Fighter II Turbo had new features that increased the game speed and added new special moves. Also, all of the characters received new color schemes, with the new scheme becoming the default and the original color scheme as the alternate for all characters except M. Bison, who still used his original color scheme as the default and the new scheme as the alternate. Another new feature in Street Fighter II Turbo was that it allowed you to play as the last 4 bosses of the game, which you could not possibly do in the original!

Graphics: 9/10
- The graphics are pretty nice. Everything looks better than the original, and I mean everything! The face artworks were improved, making everybody looking "tough and mature", well except Chun-Li of course. The character's sprites were improved. Like I said before, they improved on everything.

Sound: 10/10
- The sound effects of this are a lot cooler than the original! You will see what I am talking about, if you compare the sounds of the fighters of this game and the original, doing strong attacks. It sounds really cool, man! The music is great, I do not really see that much of a change from the original. Balrog, Ken, and Guile's themes are still my favorites.

Overall, I give this game a 9 out of 10. All my cousins and I had a ball with this game! With all the improvements that it had over the original, I would definitely recommend this game over the original to anybody!

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