Streetfighter 2: Special Champion Edition (Megadrive Monday Challenge)

Yeah, I know it's not Monday - the challenge starts then and goes on all week. This is my contribution to ‪@TheRetroMartin‬ 's New #MegaDriveChallenge: Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition:

It's a High score challenge:
Use any character
Default enemy difficulty (I accidentally went one star higher. Derp)
Hyper speed any setting you like (I went Champion Edition default rather than Turbo)
Only 1 continue allowed
Original hardware or emulation/collection (I used Kega Fusion emulator on my PC)
No rewinds or save states

I totally cocked-up the barrel bashing bonus stage, that was definitely points down the toilet. I got several perfects, only used one continue (bloody Vega!), managed to beat Bison and complete the game, but only just scraped through one of the Bison rounds. I'm pretty rusty at the game these days, but the more I played, the easier the Dragon Punches started getting in the later rounds.

Edited - The results are in:    • MegaDrive Challenge - Street Fighter ...  
I got seventh on the overall leaderboard.

This was absolutely my favourite ever Megadrive game back in the day BTW. The level of hype that I built up for it in my brain before it's release was insane (particularly as it looked like, initially, Nintendo had exclusivity of the game for the SNES when the secured the rights to The World Warrior), which was only heightened by the awesome coverage the game got in UK gaming like Mean Machines Sega. Other than a few grainy voice samples and some missing frames of animation, this is an absolutely outstandingly close port of the arcade original. Gameplay is absolutely spot-on!

#streetfighter2 #megadrive