Super Street Fighter II, Adventures of Lolo 2 on Virtual Console today
by Justin McElroy 
{ Jan 21st 2008 at 8:30AM }
Super Street Fighter II (Super NES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points): Back in the day, when new Street Fighters were being released more frequently than Friday the 13th movies, it was hard for us to keep all of them straight. These days, we likely couldn't tell Noob Saibot from Akuma. So, as a refresher, this is the one with Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Blanka, E. Honda, Zangief, Dhalsim, Balrog, Vega, Sagat, M. Bison, T. Hawk, Deejay, Fei Long and Cammy. Now, as to what all those words mean, well, we trust you can find the way to the Wikipedia section of the internet.
Adventures of Lolo 2 (NES, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): We're sorry about earlier when we called Lolo 2 mediocre. We feel bad about it. We just don't understand what kind of person got the first Lolo and was left clawing their skin for more. But hey, if that was you, far be it from us to stand in the way of your happiness. You fly that flag, homes. You fly it.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bonafide247 @ Jan 21st 2008 8:58AM
"We just don't understand what kind of person got the first Lolo and was left clawing their skin for more."
Wow...people who are so passionate about video games, yet ignore the fun and innovation of such a great 8-bit classic. Come on guys.
Princess Skittles @ Jan 21st 2008 8:56AM
There's no guns or murder in Adventures of Lolo. Based on the horrible "trying to hard" writing style on the site, these are probably kids whose first system was the Playstation.
Chase @ Jan 21st 2008 8:46AM
Surely this Super Street Fighter II has accomplishments, as it's the only way I'm getting it; since I already have Street Fighter Anniversary Collection.
Nik @ Jan 21st 2008 8:48AM
DAMNIT!
Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap.
WHHHHHHHHHHHY?!?!
I bought SFII Turbo two weeks ago. [face_crying]
Backslash @ Jan 21st 2008 1:36PM
Yeah, I got SFII' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, too. Makes me sad. :/
Kirby PopStar @ Jan 22nd 2008 8:51AM
Just for that... I'm going to crush you guys with Lolo & Lala in Brawl. Just wait.
Blazur @ Jan 21st 2008 8:58AM
Yeah, I bought the original SF2 when it came out not thinking they'd release the later versions. What a load of crap...
Martin @ Jan 21st 2008 8:59AM
Lest you forget, Justin, SSFII for the Virtual Console is currently the only version playable with a DECENT D-PAD!
kevinski @ Jan 21st 2008 9:37AM
Decent d-pad? Surely you aren't referring to the classic controller. I've been trying to play Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and man...it's horrible. I love the general shape of the controller, but that d-pad simply isn't good.
Chase @ Jan 21st 2008 10:02AM
The d-pad is good -- if you grind it flat. It did wonders for my fighting gaming.
DangerMouse @ Jan 21st 2008 10:54AM
Sure, but it's too bad you're getting the SNES version shoved down your throat. Great games back then, although after getting my hands on the perfect arcade ports, i can't go back to the ugly snes versions. Missing animations, sluggish gameplay and low quality sound? No thanks.
Obie @ Jan 21st 2008 10:59AM
Actually the Wii classic controller D-pad is the best out there, the 360 and PS3 d-pad suck ass.
Mr.ESC @ Jan 21st 2008 11:20AM
Sadly that’s the way we played them in the Snes so yeah I would pay for some Snes ports just for the nostalgia.
The Wii controllers are something that look flawless but in some games are sometimes unresponsive, I don't know why. I haven't seen any problem with the D-pad so far tho’.
Vidikron (FU) @ Jan 21st 2008 11:24AM
The PS3's d-pad works just fine.
DangerMouse @ Jan 21st 2008 12:00PM
"Sadly that’s the way we played them in the Snes so yeah I would pay for some Snes ports just for the nostalgia."
I won't. If I want it for nostalgia purposes, i'll grab the rom, or plug my snes back in. I still play the old SFII's, but i'll pass on playing the inferior version. I already dropped 70 dollars on SFII for the snes 15 years ago. That's enough from me.
kevinski @ Jan 21st 2008 2:17PM
I'd love to see a Saturn-style classic controller...
Adam Danielson @ Jan 21st 2008 9:06AM
I bought the first lolo one night and played it untill about 3 in the morning. i took a bout a months break and played the rest of the game non stop until I beat it...the only reason I didn't download a lolo 2 rom was cause I knew it would eventually come to the VC.
also, to refresh my memory...is there also a Super SF II turbo?
lvl99ultrathug @ Jan 21st 2008 10:36PM
Yes there is, but not for the SNES. The only SNES Street Fighter left to rerelease on the VC is SF Alpha 2, I believe.
brian @ Jan 21st 2008 9:32AM
ssf2 and the first lolo were both more fun and less of a waste of time then reading anything you have written.
Princess Skittles @ Jan 21st 2008 10:34AM
*applause*
Dopple Boppler @ Jan 21st 2008 9:34AM
Wow, when did Adventures of Lolo become mediocre? I used to play it with my dad all the time when I was a kid, and I played it a few months back and it was still pretty enjoyable.
Bonafide247 @ Jan 21st 2008 10:03AM
I'm with you buddy. I think Princess skittles hit it on the money...maybe the author was still in the womb when it was released. :-)
Blazur @ Jan 21st 2008 10:14AM
Heck yeah...Lolo was an excellent mind bender of a game. Pretty sure I played both 1 and 2 deeply.
Kendall B @ Jan 21st 2008 10:16AM
Agreed. Lolo was good (sometimes frustrating) times.
Vidikron (FU) @ Jan 21st 2008 10:47AM
The Lolo series is awesome. One of the best on the NES and a true puzzle genre classic. I implore anyone reading this that has a Wii and never played the Lolo series to give them a shot on the VC.
343 Guilty Fart @ Jan 21st 2008 5:00PM
I've still got both Lolo 1 and 2 sitting around somewhere. Absolutely fantastic games. Some of the later puzzles are sooo mind bendingly hard, it's great that nowadays I can just look up the answer online (if I need to) rather than call the Nintendo hotline at $1.99 a minute (ask your parents first!)
In other news, my 360 just RROD'd about 10 minutes ago!
Kendall B @ Jan 21st 2008 10:15AM
The new announcer in Super Street Fighter 2 absolutely killed the game for me.
Mr.ESC @ Jan 21st 2008 10:58AM
Feilong victory cry,wow I will be down the memory lane for the rest of the day.
Too bad I don't have a Wifi connection to download it..yet
Zac @ Jan 21st 2008 11:25AM
Super SFII on SNES is absolute shit. So far from arcade its not worth paying for. At least Turbo was pretty close, but then with Super they had to cut animations, the sprites for the original 12 were NOT redrawn (as you can see in the above video right away its the same Ryu sprite from the first 2 releases), and the sound is god awful.
Wait for the PSN or XBLA versions. what good is your d-pad if the game you play is crap? I'm getting stick for Xbox anyway...
Knoxximus @ Jan 21st 2008 11:27AM
Mr. McElroy....would that 'we' in ". We feel bad about it. We just don't understand what kind of person got the first Lolo and was left clawing their skin for more."...actually be an "I" in disguise? Or does every Joystiq staffer REALLY not 'get it'?
Mr Khan @ Jan 21st 2008 5:21PM
It's a tendency, at least on the joystiq family, for the blogger to speak like the borg.
Not a bad tendency, just an odd one