Street Fighter II is a competitive fighting game developed by Capcom and released for arcades in 1991. The sequel to the 1987 game Street Fighter, it adds multiple playable characters, each with their own fighting style, and features such as command-based
In 1992, Street Fighter II was ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, for which it became a longstanding system-seller; its success led to a series of updated versions.
By 1994, Street Fighter II had been played by at least 25 million people in the United States, at home and in arcades. The console ports sold over fourteen million copies worldwide, including 6.3 million copies on the SNES, making it Capcom's bestselling game for the next two decades and their bestselling game on a single platform.
Adjusted for inflation, all versions of Street Fighter II are estimated to have exceeded $10 billion in gross revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing video games of all time. Street Fighter II is credited with popularizing the fighting genre and sparking a renaissance for the arcade game industry, and appears on several lists of the greatest video games of all time.