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This is a fairly average fighting game. There have been much better fighting games around at the time this one came out (International Karate springs to mind), but there was obviously something about this game… Oh yes, its sequel!

That’s right, this is the prequel to the famous Street Fighter II!

You are Ryu and you can select the country where you’ll fight. There are four to choose from (Japan, UAS, China and UK). In each country you’ll get a different opponent. The one who scores two wins is the winner. The one who ends up facing the ground is the looser (obviously).

You get one key for punches “,” and one key for hits “0” (best on the numerical part of the keyboard) and the 8 directions in which to move. You’ll really need to slow the game down though, as otherwise you’ll only be pressing the keys randomly, while getting kicked around.

The game requires a lot of practice and a lot of nerves before it begins to get fun. I guess it’s just too difficult to begin with. And you know what? After you beat everybody you’ll start all over again, only they’ll get tougher!

This is probably the very first game that included special moves for the characters. Each of them has a special way to attack. Afterwards this became a must-include feature of one–on-one fighting games, that sometimes went way overboard (seeing how you do nothing more then to perform tricks instead of fighting).

The graphics are nice (colorful EGA graphics), although the sound leaves a lot to be desired and I already warned you about the controls. Maybe it really should be played with an old joystick (because I remember that the C64 version I played with a primitive joystick was rather fun). Thus the game gets a low mark of 2, simply because it’s too darn hard to be really playable or fun.