Super Street Fighter II [Arcade] - play as Balrog
This is a playthrough using Balrog (boxer) in the Arcade version of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. Read on below for more information...
Balrog is the 1st of 4 bosses in this game, and he is a regular playable character.
NOTE: Continues used in this playthrough, some losses cut out to save time and to keep file sizes low.
===== ABOUT BALROG =====
Probably the most famous fighting game boxer (in a non-boxing-focused game of course)... back in SFII:WW he was clearly designed to reference Mike Tyson, and the chance of a potential lawsuit from him is the reason on why Capcom USA switched around the names of 3 of the bosses.
In comparison to his WW, CE and HF appearances, he gained a load of new animation/normals for his crouching and jumping attacks, making him a more rounded-out and flexible character. A new special move is also added in the form of the Buffalo Headbutt, which is a great anti-air with invincibility properties at start-up that allows him to escape/dodge projectiles.
It's also interesting on how his new SSFII in-gameplay animations/spritework kind of "doesn't match" his old spritework.
===== SPECIAL MOVES =====
-- Dash Straight: charge B, then F + [P]
-- Dash Upper: charge B, then F + [K]
-- Turn Punch: hold [3P] or [3K], then release
-- Buffalo Headbutt: charge D, then U + [P]
===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / TRIVIA =====
---- Being the 1st boss, he'll always appear as the 9th opponent when the player plays through single player mode.
---- Being a set boss character in single-player mode, you get to have a mirror match against him if you select him as your character to play as.
---- If the player plays through the game as Balrog in his default colour palette (Jab), when you reach CPU Balrog, the CPU Balrog will use the second (Strong/CE) colour instead. This means that there is no instance where the CPU Balrog can use any other colour palette besides the Default (WW) and Strong (CE) colours.
---- When Balrog is controlled by the CPU, his Turn Punch is slightly different when the CPU does it.
---- The bosses and E.Honda are the only characters who do not have a unique 'backwards' walking animation in the SF2 series.
---- He is known as M.Bison in Japan.
---- To determine him, fighting game players refer to him as "boxer".
---- Capcom have implied that 'Mike' from SF1 is not him.
---- In the SNES and Genesis ports of the game, in his ending sequence, the two ladies are not in the second picture where he is sitting with the bags of cash.
---- In the SNES port of the game, in his ending sequence, it does not have the first picture where he has his arm in the air.
---- E-Sports interview with Mike Tyson regarding Balrog/M.Bison: https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/...
===== ABOUT ARCADE SSFII =====
As the previous games World Warrior, Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting ran on the CPS-1 hardware with the same base, SSFII was the first proper "rebuild" or "refresh" of the game, running on the CPS-II hardware. Almost everything besides the gameplay character sprites has been redrawn, and the character portrait and icon images are completely new. Many of the ending images are also new and/or have been redrawn. The bosses receive proper endings. The superior sound hardware is evident in the new music, voices and sound effects (although some may prefer the previous three game's sounds of course).
The most significant new feature is the addition of the four new characters Cammy, Feilong, Deejay and T.Hawk, which of course also brings along four new stages/backgrounds and BGMs.
The gameplay speed "reverts" back to the CE-esque speed after the fast pace of the previous game Hyper Fighting. This resulted in some complaints of SSF2 being too slow, in which the next game in the series rectified.
===== CHAPTERS =====
00:00 - Intro, Title & Character Select
00:42 - Regular Fights & Bonus Rounds 1 and 2
16:35 - Balrog as loser and on Continue screen
16:52 - Regular Fights
22:15 - vs. Balrog (and Bonus Round 3)
24:33 - vs. Vega
26:53 - vs. Sagat
29:04 - vs. M.Bison
30:40 - Ending
31:31 - Credits 1 (Rounds lost, No continues)
33:00 - Credits 2 (No Rounds lost)