The colours of the Street Fighter logo, switched up to a fetching green-to-blue gradation for Champion Edition, were instead a garish, seemingly corrupted mess.
Postscript: A mere 28 years later, an anonymous Brazilian team released Street Fighter 2 Mix, undoubtedly the most accomplished SF2 hack ever created.
Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Capcom’s official follow-up to CE, arrived soon after, boasting a speed increase and some familiar tweaks to character movesets.
It seems only fitting that my first exposure to a hacked Street Fighter 2 cab would be at the fairground that rolled into my local park each summer.