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Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers just arrived for the Nintendo Switch

Set up your Quarters on the Rail and get next game with Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers on the Nintendo Switch

Back when Street Fighter II came out it was an instant hit. It was the tops of all the fighting games at the time and everyone wanted to get their quarters ready to play. Me, I am a button masher. Sometimes I will get a special move down but other times I just punch and kick and throw with no real focus. It didn’t matter I had so much fun seeing the characters do their special moves. It was fast, it was thrilling and it was fun. Now with the Nintendo Switch you can bring the action of Ultra Street Fighter II to your hands. There are also a bunch of great new features. See them all below.

Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, the first new iteration of Street Fighter II in nearly 10 years, is now available for the Nintendo Switch console. The fighting game features the full Street Fighter II roster, plus two new additions: Evil Ryu and Violent Ken.

With the power of Nintendo Switch, the new single- and multiplayer modes in Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers can be played anywhere! New and returning features in the game include the following:
Co-Op Battle: In this new mode, players can join forces in teams of two as they battle together against a computer-controlled opponent. Players share a health bar and can coordinate attacks to perform powerful combos.
“Way of the Hado”: In “Way of the Hado” mode, players can fight enemies in first-person using the Joy-Con controllers. Iconic special moves like the HADOKEN can be activated using the motion controls of the Joy-Con.
Two graphic modes: With the simple push of a button, players can change between the game’s classic pixel art and modern high-definition graphics.
Arcade Mode returns: The classic Arcade Mode returns in Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers. After battling through all the computer-controlled characters in the game, players can view character-specific endings.
Color Editor: Customize characters and costume colors using this new mode. Players can now bring their favorite character into battle with more style and personality than ever before!
Art Gallery: In between exciting matches, players can check out the digital art gallery included in the game. With more than 1,500 illustrations created by talented artists over the past 30 years, the artbook features many never-before-published pieces from Street Fighter’s past.

Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is now available in stores as well as Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch for a suggested retail price of $39.99.

Remember that Nintendo Switch features parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access.

For more information about Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, visit http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ultra-street-fighter-2-the-final-challengers-switch.

You can also buy the game through our Amazon link.

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Review: Mario Sports Superstars for Nintendo 3DS

Mario Sports Superstars

We received two download codes for Mario Sports Superstars so that we could play with, promote and review the game. Opinions are 100% our own.

Back in 1989 I made a road trip from Massachusetts to Florida with my best friend and his family. I had worked much of the summer toward saving for a Nintendo Gameboy. I finally got one and it was with the primary intention that we both have Gameboys to play with on the ride to Florida. Back then in order to play head to head you had to use a tether wire to connect your devices. You also had to have a copy of the game and if you wanted to play more than one sport you had to have multiple sports games. You also had to have a huge supply of AA batteries with you so that you could play the whole way there and back.

I think that if I had a Nintendo 3DS and Mario Sports Superstars then I wouldn’t have believed how much I could have done on that one trip. We wouldn’t have needed a tether wire. We could play locally with each other, wirelessly. When we got bored playing tennis we could then play baseball, golf, soccer or even horse racing. When we mastered all those games then we could make things more interesting with amiibo cards and work with those. There is so much that Mario Sports Superstars has to it. Oh and we wouldn’t have run out of batteries because we would have invested in car chargers, too.

Mario Sports Superstars amiibo packs

My kids have it so easy. I told them about being a kid looking at a screen tinier than my phone for hours on end, in the car and it didn’t even have color, unless you could tinges of green. I keep threatening to break out my original Nintendo NES for them to play instead of the games they are playing now like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. The advances in gaming that Nintendo has made in my lifetime are incredible.

The kids enjoy playing Mario Sports Superstars. Andrew likes to “kick butt” in Golf and he truly is really good at it. We played a couple of rounds today and he beat me handily each time. He was well under par in both rounds. I was not as good. Eva is good at horse racing, probably Andrew’s least favorite game because he doesn’t win. He likes to win in video games and we are teaching him about being a gracious winner and loser. Eva likes soccer and tennis as well. She had a great time playing those. the only game we didn’t play much of was baseball because we had used up all our time playing the other four games. That is okay, it just means that we have something else to enjoy in this game.

Horse Racing

The game also works with new amiibo cards. I posted a video about them yesterday and these cards even work with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There are 90 cards to collect and they can range from simple character cards to enhanced characters like a metal Mario or a pink gold Princess Peach. Each card does provide the opportunity to increase certain values for a character by leveling them up so that adds added challenge as well.

Overall this is a fun game with lots of challenge and great replayability. Being able to go head to head makes for more fun competitions between friends and family.

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