Glitches That Surprisingly Made Video Games Better

Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II for the arcade has a glitch that is pretty well known. Next time you’re playing Street Fighter II on an arcade cabinet, choose the character Guile. Throw your opponent and then perform a flash kick. If done successfully, the opponent’s character will become stuck on your side of the screen leaving you to unleash all sorts of fury and powerful blows. Unfortunately, the home version of the game was patched and doesn’t include the glitch. Sadly we don’t see many of these arcade cabinets anymore but if you catch one, then it’s an easy bet you’ll win with this technique. Assuming your opponent doesn’t know of the glitch, that is…