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They said the new features were "pretty cosmetic or just downright boring and unimportant", and that music and voices of the Genesis version were all inferior to the SNES version, but concluded "Super is still Street Fighter" and "Street Fighter is still the best fighting game ever made".
In 1995, Total! ranked the SNES version sixth on its list of the "Top 100 SNES Games", calling it "one of the finest beat-'em-ups and one of the most well-crafted games ever.
In 2018, Complex ranked the SNES version 26th on their list of "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time".
Unlike the Sega Genesis version, the SNES version has the blood for the character's beat up portraits removed or replaced with sweat due to Nintendo's strict censorship policy at the time.
In the February 1994 issue of Gamest, Super Street Fighter II was nominated for Best Game of 1993, ultimately ranked at third.
In Japan, the Super Famicom version was the third best-selling video game of 1994, with 941,000 sales that year.
They made similar comments on the Genesis version, and two of the reviewers additionally criticized it more than the Super NES version, such as the poor quality of the digitized voices.
Unlike the Sega Genesis version, the SNES version has the blood for the character's beat up portraits removed or replaced with sweat due to Nintendo's strict censorship policy at the time.
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