Street Fighter II is one of my favorite games of all time, despite its age it still remains one of the best fighting games of all time. I try my hardest not to pick on Capcom's 2D fighter out of respect for what it did for our industry, but I can't keep quiet any longer ... these Street Fighter II adverts are simply atrocious! There are a lot of bad advertisements I can stand, but this PC port of Super Street Fighter II is one of the worst. It decides to feature no artwork, small (and extremely unexciting) pictures, and one of the worst commercial models you ever will see. It's a train wreck in every sense of the word.

The real problem here is the idea that you're going to play something like Super Street Fighter II over the standard 56K dial-up phone lines. I have a speedy broadband connection and find myself running into trouble playing Dead or Alive 4, I can only imagine how smooth it would be set over a dial-up connection. Combine that with your standard PC game pad and you have a disaster quickly approaching epic levels. The idea is sound, but there's just no way that something like this could be pulled off with the technology of the time ... which might explain why nobody remembers the PC version of Super Street Fighter II.

And to make matters worse we are forced to look at a guy trying to plug a standard telephone cord into his head. What good is this going to do? No matter how many telephone cables you drill into your head you are still going to need the computer connected to the internet to play this game. And how stupid is this guy going to feel when in a couple of years nobody is using dial-up to connect to the net? Hopefully there's an Ethernet jack somewhere on his body (or better yet, a wireless card). Either way, it still doesn't explain why he has that stupid ass look on his face, if that's what Neo looked like before jacking into the Matrix I can guarantee that there wouldn't have been any sequels!

FROM: My Bad Advertising on the D-List