Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition is the Greatest Fighting Game of All Time

Huffing paint with a ladyboy in thailand was not a sequence of words I expected when I clicked on this

"This is the classic footsies SF2 is known for!" That comment just kills it for me XD

"The last time i saw something this wild was when i went to Thailand and huffed paint with a ladyboy!" ... "I'm serious, he was bigger than me!"

That 1945 comment was out of pocket and im here for it.

5:27 Dude, if the announcers for video game tournaments in the US were this unhinged, I'd want to buy tickets to watch it live. That's fucking amazing!

That Takeshi commentary made me cry laughing so hard. Dude brought up 1945 and said good job he brought a second pair of underpants omg.

i remember it being in arcades around 92. I was facinated with it. Especially when you could change characters by pressing the start button. They used to call it Street Fighter 2.5 and crazy stuff like that and at the age i was I didn't know the difference from official releases and hacks.

That reaction to the end lol. Japanese commentators are the best now that I got to understand them once

"RYU USES TATSUMAKI TO STRIKE THE AMERICAN DOG DOWN!"

The cookie tasted hella good

I remember discovering this version in the wild we used to call it street fighter 2 crazy edition

Street Fighter 2: SS Tier Shang Tsung Edition

The subs are GOLD.

In Costa Rica we called it "La Máquina Loca" (the crazy machine)

i remember in Rainbow theres a move where Blanka roars and a butterfly comes out of his mouth.. I shit you not! I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw it in real life

Nice history. Ive just picked up a load of PCBs and have a feeling i have some SF2 boots in there, I kind of hope to have a rainbow just for fun as remember it being in my local chipshop growing up and it being the fastest I've ever lost my pocket money. 😂

I've wondered which version this was that let you throw fireballs in mid air that could arc downwards for almost 30 years. Back then, you couldn't Google stuff, but I saw this in a grocery store and had a similar WTF reaction it.

6:11 The commentator has some experience in Thailand

Thank you for making this! I played one of these at a campground in NY once and whenever I told my friends about it, they acted like I was nuts

I was alive for it... SF2 champion edition was even starting to fall a bit flat with Mortal Kombats release. But when Rainbow edition hit , I never seen the quarters flying in....as broken as it is, people adjusted and were surprisingly competitive. There is a few versions. The ones that have waves of fireballs are trash. But the first version is a single homing slow fire ball then fierce lightning fast one. And no charging for charge characters with a speed boost was actually fantastic and I personally now own one of these legendary machines and display it proudly in my living room 😂