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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

20 years ago, they sold every Street Fighter three times with more characters in each new iteration. Microtransactions suck, but simple DLC is a less shitty than what used to be normal.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? You didn't like buying SUPER Street Fighter II TURBO Championship Edition?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I actually did, because once I bought it they couldn't shut down the dlc servers on me when they released the next one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was more a way for them to keep people putting in quarters at the arcades and selling machines to arcade ops.

It translated to some home games, but wasn't the focus of putting out all these new versions. It made some sense at the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - (1991)

Street Fighter II': Champion Edition - (1992)

Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting - (1992)

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - (1993)

Super Street Fighter II Turbo - (1994)

All $40-60 games at the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You are mistaken about the price. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior had a retail price of $69.99 at launch.