Street Fighter 2 
Mortal Kombat 2 Overall Comparison I really hate to betray MK like this, but I had to go with Street Fighter. The first few Mortal Kombat games didn't need 'depth' per se , it was meant just to be a fighting game, so all it really needed was arcade mode. Don't get me wrong I really do love story lines and story modes, I tend to get involved with the characters, its how I work, but at that time I really felt like MK didn't need one.
Street Fighter was a great game, it posessed SOME SORT of story mode, even though really it was just characters talking their way into a fight... but that doesn't matter.
The greater difference is it wasn't EASY..in the first few MK games all you really had to do was click 1 button and the other person wouldn't get a chance! Though the fatalities were EXTREMELY hard to figure out on your own, I suppose that was the attempted balance.
WIth Street Fighter however, you really did require more than a little luck, it required a general since of skill, I mean...you could still haduken your way to victory, but the other person still had a chance.
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However, especially MK II, the AI was SOOOO cheap. I bought MK2 on the Playstation Store to play with friends and when I played single-player, I kept getting thrown left and right IN THE MIDDLE OF AN UPPERCUT! The AI is TERRIBLE! I can not stress that enough. The can block and counter perfectly, making some round seem impossible unless you fight cheaply. Even with the sweep kick, they could still throw you. Annoying!
Probably with regard to game mechanics SF is superior to MK, but I had more fun with the latter.