Genre: 2D / Fighting / One on One CDs: 1 (623, 521 Megs) Players: 1 or 2 Players (Versus) ESRB: Teen
 Animated Violence
Publisher: Capcom Retail Barcode: 0 13388 21024 4 Memory: 1 Block
Developer: Capcom Sony ID: SLUS-00423, 00584 Accessories: None
Released: December 16, 1997 PSRM: 007850, 008600


Box Copy
The Greatest Collection of Fighters Just Entered the Arena

We've hit you with a Super Combo! 3 Monumental releases featuring 27 fighters from the series that defined fighting games. Battle your way through your all time favorites: Super Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and the U.S. debut of Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gold, brought home in their true arcade form for the first time.

Discussion
Welcome world warriors, to one of my all-time favorite collections. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo has always been at the top of the PlayStation’s great treasures, if only because it signified the end of the Saturn’s 2D dominance in the United States. With the rival system on the way out, Capcom had to start ramping up their Sony conversions to keep the Western crowd happy.

Super and Super Turbo were the last two iterations of the original Street Fighter 2 legacy. The former added new graphics and new characters, while Super Turbo added in Super Moves for the first time as well as some final rebalancing. The new characters were Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk, and Fei Long. 

Alpha 2: Gold was a somewhat repair job on a botched port to the PlayStation. As seen in the review and Battle Mode, the PSX version of Alpha 2 was pretty roughed up. Here Gold adds in Cammy, several character upgrades like Evil Ryu, rebalancing on the damage charts and other tweaks.

For the younger crowds and newcomers, you’ve seen Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo in a much more stylish light; it was completely redrawn from the ground up by Udon for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. While I do own the Xbox 360 version, as gorgeous as it looks, sometimes the original just wins your heart over more often. Such is the case here.
 

 

 

 Trivia
  • Fighters Edge Variant. See below.
     
  • Worth 15 Points in the Fighters Edge Promo
     
  • Each horizontal row above is a single game in the package. The top row is of Super SF2 and shows off the 4 new characters. Row 2 is Super Turbo and shows off some of the Super Moves. Alpha 2: Gold is on the bottom, with the crazy Akuma Mode. I couldn't unlock Cammy in time...
     
  • The Street Fighter series, when re-released in compilation form, was released backwards in the US. This set came first, even though they were the later games. The first 3 games would come 2nd, in Street Fighter Collection 2.
     
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gold was a odd sort of Director's Cut. It featured some rebalancing, minor timing changes, the addition of Cammy, a new mode where Akuma basically beats the crap out of you, and other minor changes. It still does not have the Teddy Bear animation present in the Saturn version.
     
  • Dee Jay's pants proved to be an interesting technical problem. The original character design had the word  "Mantis" on his pant leg, named after his martial art style. However, when the sprite was flipped (i.e. facing left from Player 2's spot) the N and S were backwards. The word MAXIMUM contains only letters that are perfectly symmetrical if divided down the center...or in the game's case, flipped.
     
  • Games included in this compilation are:
  • Super Street Fighter II
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gold
  • Cammy was a hidden character in the Gold version of Alpha 2.
     
  • An interesting retrospect in the war between Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 3. Since these two were the big money makers, most magazines spent ridiculous amounts of cover time and pages to them. The biggest problem is that the majority of these comparisons were somewhat unjustified.

    Mortal Kombat 3 was a full fledged sequel, and it had its own set of tweaks and moves as it went on in the arcades. Despite the new looks, technically Super and Super Turbo SF2 are just upgrades to the original SF2, not whole new games. The only fair comparison would be Ultimate MK3 to Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Capcom just had to ruin it by releasing every upgrade as a new cart.   
     
  • For a strange reason, the high pitched announcer also did the voice for Guile. It was...a very dark period for our American character.
     
  • Rolento's Alpha 2 stage is a tribute to his original Final Fight area.
Variants / Misprints
Obviously released in the Fighters Edge category. The FE discs feature a prominent Hot-Line Number and slightly different Copyrights. The back large text got a color change, otherwise it's not that big of a change over. 		Street Fighter Collection - "Fighters Edge Variant" - All Information is the Same
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