The Forbidden Street Fighter Game – Gaming Mysteries

After turning on Street Fighter 2 Turbo on SNES. During the Capcom logo input — Down R Up L Y B — It will unlock 10 star speed. Enjoy 🙂

Ah, crazy core memory unlocked! I remember finding one of these cabinets in a random arcade in a random town I visited as a kid and being completely mystified by it. I only ever saw it one time and I eventually forgot all about it until a few years ago when I saw other people talking about Rainbow Edition, probably around when this video originally posted. Just crazy.

I remember this made its way to Ft Ord California when I was a kid. Guile was easily the most broken character. You could flash kick all the way above the top of the screen and then throw sonic booms that bounced back and forth around the screen, filling it up.

Omfg, I always thought this was a fever dream I had. 😂

That press release is funny because all it makes me think is “dang how can I get in on that grift?” Or “dang where can I find one of those less expensive bootlegs?”

I first saw that game in a laundromat myself lol

I encountered one such cabinet at a movie theater in the early 90s, I was about 8 or 9 at the time

I remember seeing this at a local Sac N Save that carried this Street Fighter version and I thought, I imagined this version when I first saw it. Then I played it after begging my dad for 50 cents to get a few games in while they were checking out their groceries and I gotta tell ya, I loved every second of it! Looking back it was really weird and so random but cool, as Ryu to do a Hakokuen in mid air and just see all the crazy wacking things this Chinese (or whatever) version of Street Fighter 2 arcade machine did. lol I realized it was all bootlegged when I researched for this version to show up on PS3 releases and was pretty disappointed too, but I'm glad this version still has it's random whereabouts where arcades exist. lol

thera was a real strret fighter game in 1998 i gues for snes is that right , the figures looked real like mortal kombat and not like comics, does any one know this game

I remember playing this in city of maywood

Odd I was born in 93 and specifically remembered playing this 🤔😏 …in an arcade no less.

We had these machines back in the mid 90's here in mexico 😂 we even had a name for it "la mágica" which means "the magic one" because it was like magic seeing Guile filling the screen with sonic booms 😂

My dad worked for Capcom from 1991 til about 1996. He told me that M. Bison's original name was "I'm bi, son." And that's where the idea for Mega Man 17 came from.

Fascinating story. Ironically, for me the way Street Fighter evolved is why i lost interest in it. That, and my reflexes are terrible anyway.

Starting with turbo, then we got New Challengers (Super SF2), then we got SSF2Turbo (which i never saw in any arcade). Then we got Alpha/Zero 1, 2 and 3. There was a movie edition that popped up somewhere in between all that (based on the Van Damme movie), again (like SSF2T) yet another version I never saw anywhere. I was long gone at this point. I think i played Street Fighter 3 once, i forget if it was double impact or whatever version it was called, but i didnt carr, i just wanted to see the beautiful detailed sprite animations because by that time i was in college studying how to be an animator.

I get that I probably could have just stuck with the original Sf2 or CE, and maybe gone competitive that way. I mained Ryu (i guess this is common). Just no interest in learning new characters' movesets and their hitboxes. To me it's like a game of rock paper scissors but you cant keep up with the rules. It's all good, my speed is JRPGs which is where i am headed back to…

I always thought this was just a fever dream i had as a kid. My friend's weird neighbor dude had a collection of coin op arcade machines and pinball machines, so of course we hung out there. I remember one of the last times we ever went over there he had a weird ass version of street fighter where we could just spam infinite fireballs at each other.
Dude was arrested when we were 12. Child molester. I suspected he might have molested the friend who lived by him, but he always denied it. Maybe not, he seemed genuinely pissed off that he couldn't go play his arcade games anymore.

"post Shen Long world" 😀

Pretty sure that “Galaxy Arcade” (don’t remember if that was its actual name) was probably in Eastridge mall in East San Jose, the same/only place where I found Rainbow Edition in the wild.

Thank you man! I remember the sfii rainbow edition(s) but, never knew all the tid-bits of history/origination behind it! AWESOME INFO & INSIGHT. Thank you for this lovely, nostalgic trip down sfii memory lane!!!

Makes sense to me bro. When I was a kid, the only place even reachable that had arcade games, was a smaller hole in the wall at a mall two hours away in Burlington VT. 4-5 times a year my family would go shopping there, and I would spend the whole couple hours there, saving every quarter between trips to get tokens to play MK, SF2, X-men, but mostly my favorite the TMNT 4 player arcade. As you know, this stuff was a BFD to a preteen kid in the late 80s-earl 90s, as I still remember the first time I heard that TMNT game playing the theme song. This arcade was always shutting down, being sold, and always in a varying state of appearance and disrepair. The business was seemingly just enough for it to get by, so who ever owned it was probably broke, likely keeping it open mostly because they two were arcade junkies. To the main point however. Since a kid I remember this SF version in the back of my head. I thought I saw that game way back then in that arcade, not playing it, but walking by it and looking over some kid’s shoulder to see a crap load of fire balls flying. But I always kinda thought I dreamt it up as a kid for some reason. But I saw your vid and decided to watch it for no particular reason, and you pulled those game clips out, and I nearly freaked. I didn’t even think there was even a lure or story about it, never had even heard of a Rainbow edition. Never even mentioned it to anyone, I really thought it was chalked up to a kids over active imagination.That’s crazy, blew me away dude, it was real. Plus your stories theory is sound with the situation that was going on back then with that arcade, Great work bro, don’t sub to many gamer subject channels, but you spin it the way I want it spun. Love it, will watch more 4 sho.👍

My local bowling alley had rainbow edition and turbo edition. We hung there day and night as there were 2 sf2 games mortal kombat drivers simulator (so dope). I played 40-100 hours of it. Kids would do anything not to lose as we had a winner stays loser pays policy u lost the next up stepped up to play winner. I don’t remember multi fireballs but it did have no cool down and they moved up and down. Dalasim was lightning fast and had no floaty movements. He could not be beat. Chun li had a fireball before she actually had her little one in future editions. The speed bro was so great though thanks for the memories

I remember this as a kid. Jump hadukens threw the top of the screen. Start to swap characters. Was it called street fighter hyper 2?
Who remembers guides freeze and invisible throw?