This week in patron exclusive episodes of RetroNots, our celebration of the 30th anniversary of Street Fighter 2 continues with an episode focused just on Street Fighter 2.

And I do mean just on Street Fighter 2, as in the World Warrior.

No hyper, no turbo, no rainbow, no ultra, none of that, just the original Street Fighter 2.

It's a game that has such an enormous face crunching impact on video games and the pop culture that we devoted an entire episode to it.

We'll talk about the variants and the spin-offs and the sequels in other episodes.

But for now, it's me, Jeremy Parrish, with Diamond Fight, Kurt Colata and Kat Bailey, talking about this huge, massive, earth-shaking, bone-breaking, etc., etc. fighting game.

And it is an exclusive episode just for patrons. And you can listen by going to patreon.com slash RetroNots.

By subscribing to the show at the $5 per month or higher level, you'll gain instant access not only to this episode, but to every other patron exclusive episode we've recorded every other week for more than a year now.

As well as a year's worth of columns and mini-podcasts that appear every weekend from Diamond Fight.

That's a whole lot of content, a whole huge backlog of stuff that you can listen to and enjoy.

And it's all for the cost of, what is that? Like, 20 rounds of Street Fighter 2? Not a bad deal, in my opinion.

Especially since no one's going to arcades these days.

So, check it out, listen to the Street Fighter 2 30th anniversary RetroSpective episode with myself and Diamond and Kat and Kurt, and look forward to another episode on Monday.

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About 30 years ago, where young Jeremy was really, really, really into Street Fighter 2 in the arcade and then in the home version. So I have a lot of memories wrapped up with this game that I followed it, you know, throughout the various permutations.

I'm sorry, Mr. O'Noah, I did not play ultra Street Fighter 2, but, you know, it's still a viable product in that sense.

It's recent iteration, the most recent version of Street Fighter 2 came out in 2017 with the launch of Nintendo Switch.

That's pretty remarkable, but the game actually made its debut almost exactly 30 years ago, the week of this recording in February of 1991.

And here we are in 2021, and it's still like the impact of Street Fighter 2 is still out there.

So let me put it to you, the question to where did you each discover Street Fighter 2?

Diamond, let's start with you and work our way back toward the east coast of the US.

Well, firstly, I can say that I definitely remember Street Fighter 1. I did not play it much, but I remember seeing it a lot at the sort of go to our Cades that I would visit.

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