Chances are, if you saw a crowd huddled around an arcade cabinet in the early 1990s, they were watching Ken face off again E.Honda or another martial arts match-up in Street Fighter II. The complexity of the hit fighting game helped to spawn the competitive gaming culture that led to big tournaments and SF characters became icons in their own right. SFII changed the way people socialize around video games and reinvigorated a whole sub-genre of the medium, too.