Number 14 in my all-time top 20 🙂

I can't remember which one it was but one of the home consoles actually had a parental lock on the game that would disable fatalities and blood.

My guess is that it was the Genesis version because my Master System version had this lock too!

They're still releasing new versions of this aren't they? We had Street Fighter 2 on the SNES which I agree was a better game. These 2 player fighting games were awesome - we'd sit around a friends house and play "winner stays on" playing the likes of this and later, the various versions of Tekken.

My favorite characters were Scorpion (get over here!) and Sub-Zero

Me too 🙂 I still remember "back, back, punch" for Scorpion and Sub-zero's ice blast was the same controls as Ryu and Ken's hadouken. My young brain was so good at learning.