Great post!
I think this was one of the first games that had an international roster. I mean that it had characters from all over the world: Japan, Brazil, USA, India, China, etc. I remember playing with my older brother and older cousin and as I was never very skillful to obtain the special attacks with the combinations I smashed all the buttons like a crazy little monkey and sometimes I beat them hahaha.
Thank you for sharing your memories!
I still bash the buttons like a crazy little monkey....In the lets play above I didn't make it past Ken on the second stage.I button bashed with every character trying to beat him.I got close with Blankas electric attack but the difficulty on the MAME version seems real tough.I suppose in the end these games were designed to take quarters of kids.Ill try again on the Super Nintendo version and might do a side by side comparison of the difficult on MAME vs SNES versions.
Ohh yes on the arcades they game had to be tougher, makes sense because that way they will win more money, while on the console you could replay the game as much as you want. I'm gonna try this game on an emulator soon, but I want to get a controller for my PC.