The improved version of Street Fighter for Commodore 64 released in USA
There are two versions of the famous fighting game Street Fighter for Commodore 64, one European PAL and the other North American NTSC, which however differ from each other, even if both can run on the same C64 PAL.
The US NTSC version of the Commodore 64 conversion was better done than the European PAL version. Unlike the European PAL version, the American NTSC version was playable, with sprites and backdrops done well. Also, the US version had the special moves that were missing in the European one. The US version was not perfect, there was no scrolling and there was no Sagat character, the music was not good and the special moves were difficult to do, but at least it was a decent game.
The standard version of the Capcom Go! released in Europe had both the European and the US versions on the same cassette, evidently to compensate for the poor quality of the European version. The curious thing is that this was not indicated on the cover or on the back of the box of the cassette, but there was only a small line that mentioned it in the manual which read: "U.S.A. version on side 1, version G.B. on side 2". The budget version of the game, released for Kixx, instead contained only the European version, which was spread on two sides.
The conversion for the Commodore Amiga was a disaster, but the story of the best US conversion for the Commodore 64 version inspired a joke made by The Games Machine magazine. TGM's first joke is about Street Fighter: in 1988 the conversion of the original chapter brings the signature of a very dusty Tiertex, which is really a bad thing. The big sprites can't balance a nerve-wracking slowness in animations, complete with input lag of a couple of seconds; a result so pathetic as to justify the big fish in April 1989, with fake screens like a five euro coin by this Gandini that presented an elusive American version of the Capcom fighting game by Discovery Soft.
This European version of Street Fighter also contained the US version but strangely it did not indicate it on the cover or on the back
Only in the manual did a text-line indicate the presence of both versions, one on each side of the tape.
In the Kixx budget version, on the other hand, there were not both versions but only one.
As can be read in the manual, the European version was written on both sides of the tape.
In April 1989 The Games Machine magazine jokingly released a fake review featuring a non-existent US version of the game for the Amiga computer.
