About Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a fighting game that Capcom developed and published for arcades in 1991. Capcom gives March 7, 1991 as its mass-market release date in Japan, after earlier location tests. It is the second game in the Street Fighter series, the sequel to the 1987 Street Fighter, and the fourteenth game to run on Capcom’s CP System arcade board. Akira Nishitani directed it and designed it with Akira Yasuda, Yoshiki Okamoto produced it, and Yoko Shimomura and Isao Abe composed the music.
The sequel built on ideas from the first game: command-based special moves, a combo system, a six-button layout and a wider choice of fighters, each with a style of their own. Fights are one-on-one, best two out of three rounds, and you take a round by draining your opponent’s vitality before the timer runs out. If both fighters go down together, or time runs out with both on equal vitality, a double KO or draw is called and extra rounds follow. In single-player, a bonus stage comes after every third match.
Home versions followed quickly. The Super NES release reached Japan on June 10, 1992 and North America on July 15, 1992, and there were also versions for MS-DOS, the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Game Boy. Creative Materials made the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS versions.
How it runs in your browser
Play opens DOS.Zone’s Street Fighter 2 page in a new tab. There, js-dos, the open-source DOSBox build the site makes for browsers, emulates an old PC and starts the original MS-DOS release. The game files come from DOS.Zone, so there’s no installer, no copy of your own to track down and nothing to sign up for. DOS.Zone runs no ads. The listing is filed under arcade and fighting and shows 5 stars from 18 player reviews.
There’s no online play on this listing. The page doesn’t say whether two people can share one keyboard for a match, or whether settings are kept between visits, so look in the game’s own options if either matters to you.
Controls and devices
The MS-DOS version is played on the keyboard. DOS.Zone doesn’t publish its key layout, and the arcade original was designed around six buttons, so check the game’s setup screens to see which keys do what before your first fight. Once the game has loaded, click into its window so your key presses reach the emulator.
On phones, DOS.Zone adds virtual on-screen controls, but this port was made for a keyboard and a computer suits it better. Chromebooks haven’t been checked.
Who it’s for
It suits people who played Street Fighter II on a PC and want that version again without configuring DOSBox, and fighting game fans curious about how a home computer port of the arcade game turned out. For more one-on-one fighting from the same years, Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3 are on DOS.Zone in their MS-DOS versions as well.
Is Street Fighter II Free, Safe and Official?
Can I play Street Fighter 2 online for free?
You can play it free in your browser on DOS.Zone, with no account and nothing to download. This listing has no online matches against other people, though.
Is this the arcade version of Street Fighter II?
No. It’s the MS-DOS version, which Creative Materials developed and Hi Tech Expressions published in North America, with U.S. Gold handling Europe. DOS.Zone runs it in an emulated PC.
Does Street Fighter II work on a phone?
DOS.Zone shows virtual on-screen controls on phones, but this version was built for a keyboard, so a desktop or laptop is the better choice.
