Strip Fighter II

Seeing that there are two games, Strip Fighter and Strip Fighter II, it would be reasonable to assume that the latter is a sequel to the former. Wrong. The two games have nothing in common (except a more or less erotic element), and Strip Fighter II is seven years older than Strip Fighter. Strip Fighter is a Spanish strip poker game for the Amiga, 2002; while Strip Fighter II is a Japanese fighting game for the Turbogfx-16/PC Engine from 1995. Why then is it called Strip Fighter II? Because, as one reviewer put it, it has more than a passing resemblance to Street Fighter II. And this resemblance, of course, is completely intentional.

Strip Fighter II is part of a series of parodies on well known games and game series Games Express published In the early 90s. Usually, the title made it quite clear what the game was based upon (at least if you think in katakana English): Final Fantasy became Hi-Leg Fantasy, Dragon Quest became Body Conquest, Wizardry (though I'm not quite sure about this one) became Lady Sword, and Street Fighter, well, Street Fighter became Strip Fighter.

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• Am I the Fatty or the bird-headed Indian, Seanbaby wonders.

  There were a lot of half-naked people already in Street Fighter 2, so the actual game doesn't even seem unusually erotic. Yes, I understand there is something wrong with an industry when a group of women kicking the crap out of each other in thongs is totally normal, but fuck that; I'm not a sociologist. I'm just telling you that probably nothing in this game is going to turn you on until you win a picture of a naked girl. Unfortunately, that's when it gets a little bit creepy. Before the camera pans down her strategically blurred body, there's an inept attempt by the graphic artists to make it look like the girl's winking at you. A stupid graphic of an eyelid slides over one eye then disappears. And I don't know if you've ever seen anyone wink without moving the rest of their face, but it looks less like flirting and more like a horrible sleepy-wakey baby doll with a broken eyeball.

• At least this game has Strippers, Joe Musashi admits, but so does Dead or Alive:

  Expect to win pictures of nude women winking and saying something in japanese like This game blows more than Me! Stop Playing! I also find it weird that these strippers are fighting in anything BUT Strip Clubs. What's the Point? At least throw in a mud-wrestling Bonus Round or some crap. After suffering through this game I come back totally impressed by the minimal effort put in to make such a bad game. I also want to take the time to feel sorry for anyone that found Strip Fighter 2 anything or at all related to sexy. I say the only time I actually got hard from playing this was when I looked away from the screen.

• This one is horrible, Fragmaster declared, even though he has just nominated it Game of the Week (along with Kart Fighter) for its unusualness:

  The control is horrible, the graphics aren't that great, the AI is stupid, and it's very easy to beat (but frustrating because the controls suck). The special moves are lame (except for that spinning breasts of death attack… that's cool…) and are supposed to reward you by having your character flash some skin or do something sexually suggestive. But it ends up just looking dumb.

• This is a truly terrible game, Zeroes Unlimited ensured us.

  This game is just too damned painful. While taking these screenshots, I just wanted the whole ordeal to be over. It is, without question, the worst game I've ever played for the Turbo Grafx/PC Engine, and that includes a whole lot of worthy candidates. China Warrior, for example. Shines like molten gold next to this maggot-riddled pile of dung.

• Enjoy, you horny geek boy, Jackal-1 wished.

  Strip Fighter is…well, a porno mod for Street Fighter. It's a totally independant game, but it has more than a passing resemblence to Street Fighter. The characters (though all are girls) are basically the same as Street Fighter, a fat woman (E. Honda in ST), a woman with a mohawk (Guile in ST) etc etc. As you'll probably notice, the in-game shots don't have any nudity, and you're probably zipping your pants up and saying What gives?, thats the fun part about the game, you must win 2 rounds in a match to see the girl naked, though with the downstairs area blurred out, of course.

  The game is very similar to Street Fighter, though the animation is pretty shocking, but this game isn't meant to be taken seriously, anyways. Just a warning, some of the moves, may seem…esoteric.

• Some games are clearly parasites, PC Kwajalein mused:

  A parasite game is one created in the wake of a highly successful game of the same genre. Strip Fighter II (or 2) is such a game. Just by viewing the initials SF2 you can obviously see that it's trying to cash in on the success of Capcom's own Street Fighter II (again, or 2). But there is something Strip Fighter II is offering that Capcom never thought about. It's something that Ken, Ryu, and especially Blanka could not offer to a gamer… nudity. That's right; what do you think the strip part of the title was for? Seeing as how M. Bison, Zangief, and Dhalsim wouldn't exactly be naked model material, the creators of Strip Fighter II, Games Express, incorporated an all female cast of six fighters. How considerate, seeing as how there's a woman for just about every lowly pervert (including me) that picks up the controller to play the game.