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Street Fighter II

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  • electronic fighting game
    / Sixteen-bit era

    …of Capcom’s 16-bit arcade game Street Fighter II (1991), which had vastly improved hardware that supported better graphics and special button-pushing combinations to perform elaborate combat moves. Another popular 16-bit fighter was Midway Manufacturing Company’s Mortal Kombat (1995), which used digitized images of real people and large quantities of realistic…

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    …of Capcom’s 16-bit arcade game Street Fighter II (1991), which had vastly improved hardware that supported better graphics and special button-pushing combinations to perform elaborate combat moves. Another popular 16-bit fighter was Midway Manufacturing Company’s Mortal Kombat (1995), which used digitized images of real people and large quantities of realistic…

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