Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This Super Street Fighter II commercial ties into something a lot of fans do not realize. Originally a 1993 arcade game from Capcom, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers landed on Super Famicom and Mega Drive simultaneously in 1994, and the Japanese packaging and TV commercials for both home versions, including the one in this clip, were actually built around promoting the upcoming Street Fighter II animated movie, using the film's insert song Cry by the band Big Life and clips from the film itself.
The home version brought four brand new fighters into the series for the first time, Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk and Fei Long, bringing the total roster up to sixteen characters. It paid off in a massive way commercially too, with the Super Famicom version becoming the third best selling video game in all of Japan for 1994, moving 941,000 copies that year alone. In North America, it topped both the Genesis and Super NES sales charts during July and August 1994, and by the end of the year the Genesis version had actually outsold its SNES counterpart, landing among the region's top ten best selling games for the whole year. Worldwide, the game eventually crossed 2 million copies sold.
One detail that separates the SNES version from the arcade original is the censorship. Capcom removed all the blood from fights and post match portraits for that release, and tweaked a handful of pre match lines and character endings along the way. Critics at the time, including Electronic Gaming Monthly, still called it the best version of Street Fighter II up to that point, even while wondering aloud if Capcom should focus on an actual Street Fighter III instead of another revision.
Let me know in the comments which of the four new fighters you main. Subscribe to Game Forest GF for retro gaming content every single day.
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This Super Street Fighter II commercial ties into something a lot of fans do not realize. Originally a 1993 arcade game from Capcom, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers landed on Super Famicom and Mega Drive simultaneously in 1994, and the Japanese packaging and TV commercials for both home versions, including the one in this clip, were actually built around promoting the upcoming Street Fighter II animated movie, using the film's insert song Cry by the band Big Life and clips from the film itself.
The home version brought four brand new fighters into the series for the first time, Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk and Fei Long, bringing the total roster up to sixteen characters. It paid off in a massive way commercially too, with the Super Famicom version becoming the third best selling video game in all of Japan for 1994, moving 941,000 copies that year alone. In North America, it topped both the Genesis and Super NES sales charts during July and August 1994, and by the end of the year the Genesis version had actually outsold its SNES counterpart, landing among the region's top ten best selling games for the whole year. Worldwide, the game eventually crossed 2 million copies sold.
One detail that separates the SNES version from the arcade original is the censorship. Capcom removed all the blood from fights and post match portraits for that release, and tweaked a handful of pre match lines and character endings along the way. Critics at the time, including Electronic Gaming Monthly, still called it the best version of Street Fighter II up to that point, even while wondering aloud if Capcom should focus on an actual Street Fighter III instead of another revision.
Let me know in the comments which of the four new fighters you main. Subscribe to Game Forest GF for retro gaming content every single day.
#superstreetfighter2 #streetfighter #capcom #snes #superfamicom #segagenesis #retrogaming #classicgaming #90scommercial #retrocommercials #90sgaming #fightinggames #oldschoolgaming #vintagegaming #gaminghistory #youtubeshorts #gaming
