Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is Capcom's arcade fighting game from 1991, dated to March 7 by Wikipedia and to February by the trade paper Game Machine, after location tests in January. Akira Nishitani designed the game, Akira Yasuda the characters, Noritaka Funamizu produced it, and most of the music is by Yoko Shimomura.
The Super Famicom version came out in Japan on June 10, 1992, and was the first game on a 16-megabit SNES cartridge; it sold about one million copies in Japan within two weeks. Ports followed on home computers in Europe, on the Game Boy and in many later compilations.
Capcom kept updating the game: Champion Edition arrived in March 1992, Turbo in December 1992, Super Street Fighter II in 1993 and Super Street Fighter II Turbo in 1994. The success also had a darker side: about 200,000 counterfeit arcade units were reported in Mexico alone. Across all versions the game sold about 15 million software units.1
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
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| NA | Street Fighter II: The World Warrior | SNES | August 1992 | Capcom | 1 |
| WW | Street Fighter II: The World WarriorWikipedia infobox date; Game Machine dates the release to February 1991, after location tests in January 1991 | Arcade | Mar 7, 1991 | Capcom | 1 |
| JP | ストリートファイターIIFirst 16-megabit SNES cartridge | SNES | Jun 10, 1992 | Capcom | 1 |
| EU | Street Fighter II: The World Warrior | SNES | December 1992 | Capcom | 1 |
| JP | ストリートファイターIIDhalsim, E. Honda and Vega removed | Game Boy | Aug 11, 1995 | Capcom | 1 |
| WW | Street Fighter IIInternational Game Boy release | Game Boy | September 1995 | — | 1 |
| WW | Street Fighter II CollectionLater delisted from the App Store | iOS | 2011 | Capcom | 1 |
| WW | Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionAlso PS4, Switch and Xbox One | Windows | May 29, 2018 | Capcom | 2 |
Also known as: ストリートファイターII -The World Warrior- JP1Sutorīto Faitā Tsū Za Warudo Uōria JP1Street Fighter II WW1Street Fighter Collection 2 NA1Capcom Generation 5 JP1
Box art by region
NA Street Fighter II: The World Warrior 
EU Street Fighter II: The World Warrior 
JP ストリートファイターII
Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: libretro-thumbnails.
Version differences
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TextArcade (overseas)SNES (NA/EU)
Outside Japan the three boss names were rotated for fear of a likeness lawsuit: the boxer M. Bison became Balrog, the claw fighter Balrog became Vega, and the dictator Vega became M. Bison.1
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TextArcade (US)SNES (US)
Ending texts were rewritten for the US release, and Guile's fallen friend Nash was renamed Charlie.1
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ContentArcade (JP)
The Japanese arcade version has more win quotes per character and shows random tips on the continue screen after a loss to the computer.1
Translations
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English Official
Capcom1991Arcade · Japanese versionReleased · complete
The English international arcade version, with endings rewritten for the US.1
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Spanish Official
Capcom2018Windows · compilationReleased · partial
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection lists Spanish (Spain) among its languages, but the emulated game keeps its original text.2
Where to play legally today
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Steam Purchase
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
arcade version within a 12-game compilation
Checked: 2026-10-132store.steampowered.com
Reception
Capcom sold over 60,000 arcade units of the original and more than 200,000 cabinets across all versions. The SNES cartridge sold over 6.3 million copies and stayed Capcom's best-selling single game for 20 years. EGM named it Game of the Year for 1992, and it also won the 1992 Golden Joystick Award.1
Sources
Checked: 2026-10-13Text reviewed: 2026-10-13
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