Balrog would become a playable character in subsequent revisions of the game, beginning with Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.
Appearances In video games īalrog appears in Street Fighter II as the first of four CPU-controlled opponents at the end of the single-player tournament. Although recognized as a separate character, Mike is considered to be a prototype of Balrog due to their similar names (when one considers Balrog 's Japanese name of Mike Bison) and gameplay. He is simply known as Boxer for international tournaments.Ī character named Mike, who was also an African-American boxer, appears in the original Street Fighter. In his Alpha 3 intro, Balrog's weight is listed as 102 kilograms (225 lb), the same as Tyson in his last victory. As a comparison, Tyson is only 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall. At 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in), Balrog is a tall, massive, heavy built fighter in the Street Fighter series. However, when the developers of Street Fighter II were working on the overseas versions, they rotated the names of three of the boss characters for the English localization, fearing that naming the boxer character "Mike Bison" might be a legal liability. Bison (with the letter being an initial for "Mike") after real-life boxer Mike Tyson.
In Japan, the character of Balrog is named M. Bison's organization, Shadaloo.īalrog is depicted as an African-American boxer wearing blue trunks with white trim and a torn white shirt under a blue tank top, wearing red boxing gloves and boxing shoes. In the series, he is a disgraced boxer and antagonist who works for M. He made his first appearance in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991.
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So part of the job was to revise the game with modern elements present in the SF series itself to give an updated look to the game. It is also not a port restricted to the original work, Street Fighter 2 has always been updated in arcades and ports.
Street Fighter II Remastered is a project that has been in production since 2016 as a laboratory to test various possible solutions to solve part of the problems of this game and other titles on this platform.Įverything related to art and presentation has been redone, all resources have been used intelligently to extract the potential of the console.