Political Duel

A strange little side quest

There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Political Duel. Women's boxing made its Olympic debut at London 2012. And then there is this: Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.