Street Fighter II on Amiga was absolutely terrible and remains largely unplayable to this day. Despite the bountiful pleasures of the Amiga 500’s hardware capabilities, the publisher, US Gold, opted for a fast release that looked good in screenshots.
But as this tech demo from Neeso Games reveals, Street Fighter II can run on Amiga 500 and 600 and look reasonably impressive. How? They used Scorpion Engine, the game creation kit for Amiga that runs on Windows.
The game is very buggy but allowes basic moves like walk, jump/fall, punch, kick and hadouken.
Admittedly it’s imperfect and is some way from a fully functioning game, but you can clearly see how well it could work on the Amiga. Want to play? The finished version has the full playability of a single Street Fighter II battle, plus sound, so is more playable and advanced than the demo above.
Download this Street Fighter II tech demo from Itch.io.
All this is quote interesting, because it seems that a desire to right the wrong of the US Gold port of Street Fighter II is widespead. While Neeso Games is not progressing with their project, someone else could. That may or may not be Swedish developers Pixel Shade who took the time to make a video explaining how an AGA conversion of Street Fighter II for Amiga 1200 might work.
In this day and age of MAME emulators, of course, it might be somewhat pointless to sweat over poor conversions of games that originally ran on cabinets. On the other hand, of course, who doesn’t want a Street Fighter II Amiga conversion to run at its full potential?
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Christian Cawley is the founder and editor of GamingRetro.co.uk, a website dedicated to classic and retro gaming. With over 20 years of experience writing for technology and gaming publications, he brings considerable expertise and a lifelong passion for interactive entertainment, particularly games from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.
Christian has written for leading outlets including TechRadar, Computer Weekly, Linux Format, and MakeUseOf, where he also served as Deputy Editor.
When he’s not exploring vintage consoles or retro PCs, Christian enjoys building with LEGO, playing cigar box guitar, and experimenting in the kitchen.
