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Street Fighter and me, part II: famicom

My experience with Street Fighter hacks did not stop with the first time I played the series. During the mid-nineties back in Argentina, my home country, famicom knock-offs and pirate copies of cartridges were super popular.

I never owned one, but renting a "family" was as common as Home Alone on VHS. SF2 for famicom looked something like this:

I guess back in the day, the industry was still in its infancy and there was no concept of piracy in videogames.  Even mainstream game magazines were covering these games as if they were normal releases:

Street Fighter and me, part I: The Beginning

The street fighter hype has been rising in the last 6 to 9 months with the upcoming Street Fighter IV for consoles and the release of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix. I love fighting games (even thought I'm not that good at them) and I owe it all to this game. Without Street Fighter 2, the genre might have never existed.
I clearly remember the first time I played SF2 at the arcades, which was not even a normal version of the game. It was a hack and I got my ass kicked. I remember choosing Zangief (not sure if my subconscious was playing any homo-erotic games in my head) and playing against Ryu. The match was obviously not fair, myself as a n00b vs. a overpowered, multi-hadoken computer character. If you are not sure what am I talking about, look at this video

And in spite of that traumatic first experience, I kept playing street fighter. On part II: more hacks.