Favourite Street Fighter II Turbo Country

Dude.

You should've done it by fighter, because USA has multiple stages. I think Japan does too.

E. Honda's stage is sweet, so I'll go with that. Or, Japan, I guess.

I'm going with Guile's USA, as much as I'd like to shout "JAPAAAAN" right now. :)

Balrog's USA has the funniest bystanders

Ooooof, so difficult. USSR by far looked the best back in the day, but the best song was, iirc, Ken's USA one. I went with USSR though.

giant snake ftw

Dude, Chun Li's stage was awesome; so much action and life!

haha like that duck that was being choked!

Going by Ken's country groupings it's got to be USA. Guile, Ken and Balrog's had the three best songs in the game, and also Guile's boxes and Ken's barrels to smash open. Japan had Ryu's song, which was pretty great, but the level's hellishly dull, and usually ends up being the default stage picked by accident. Honda's stage was really pretty though, so Japan's got to be up there.

China - awesome, one of the best. Maybe the best looking, tied with USSR.

Brazil - coolest looking character, gayest looking bystanders.

India - second coolest looking character, most annoying elephants. They sort of ruin the stage.

Spain - I forgot this one. This might actually be my favourite song in the game - esp. when it speeds up before one of the guys dies. Also INTERACTIVE STAGE bonus. When Vega jumps up on that fence and you're Ryu or Ken, you know 100% you're about to fuck him up with a shoyuken.

Thailand - no one would pick it. Sagat's stage is boring, Bison's is hideous. If anyone chooses this, plz explain.

Sagat's stage has that sleeping Buddha!

When Vega jumps up on that fence and you're Ryu or Ken, you know 100% you're about to fuck him up with a shoyuken.

Yeah, I always went with the jumping backwards roundhouse kick too, when Vega climbed the wall. Or, depending on the situation, walking underneath his jump, and then throwing. So satisfying.

Guile's USA.

Oh god yeah, throwing Vega is pretty amazing. I was never a fan of the roundhouse thing though - it's a little bit "learned it off GamesMaster" (or in my case, this dodgy SF2 promo VHS with Craig Charles as Captain Nintendo. Totally worth it for an ad for the SF2 TIGER HANDHELD(!) which claims to have all the action of the arcade.)

Onimotmbtw.

OMG, here's the Tiger ad! http://youtube.com/watch?v=912TqPspnco

Did the rock 'em sock'em robots type game come out in the UK? I'd have killed for that.

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Sagat had the best music, ergo the best stage. Thailand wins. Also, my namesake, y'know.

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Hey, I totally voted China; I call bullshit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fer8rdp3hCs&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaYxPcBiXqE

lol @ THAILAND! (i voted for it obv)

this dodgy SF2 promo VHS with Craig Charles as Captain Nintendo

the SF2 Tiger handheld was as shit as you'd imagine

I think by the time they'd used up all the bits of the screen to have outlines of various limbs and fireballs there in LCD, Zangief's finishing move ended up being some kind of rapid shin kick