Fighting Game Anniversaries in 2016 Part 3: 3D Fighters
20 Years: Virtua Fighter 3 (Sega/Sega AM2), Sonic The Fighters/Sonic Championship (Sega/Sega AM2), Fighters Megamix (Sega/Sega AM2), Virtua Fighter Kids (Sega/Sega AM2), Dead or Alive (Tecmo), Soul Edge* (Namco), Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (Taraka/Tamsoft)
15 Years: Virtua Fighter 4 (Sega/Sega AM2), Tekken 4 (Namco)
*Note: Soul Edge premiered in Arcades in December 1995
Fighting Game Anniversaries in 2016 Part 3: 3D Fighters
20 Years: Virtua Fighter 3 (Sega/Sega AM2), Sonic The Fighters/Sonic Championship (Sega/Sega AM2), Fighters Megamix (Sega/Sega AM2), Virtua Fighter Kids (Sega/Sega AM2), Dead or Alive (Tecmo), Soul Edge* (Namco), Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (Taraka/Tamsoft)
15 Years: Virtua Fighter 4 (Sega/Sega AM2), Tekken 4 (Namco)
*Note: Soul Edge premiered in Arcades in December 1995
It was kind of obvious Sega was doing something with VF with the recent update to Final Showdown disabling online (in arcades). What I want to know is why so mum about it?If NeoGAF user and an alleged insider in the Japanese video games industry Verendus is to be believed, Sega may be making announcements next year for …
20 Years: Virtua Fighter 3tb (Sega/Sega AM2- September 1997), Bloody Roar/Beastorizer (Eighting/Raizing- July 7th, 1997), Tekken 3 (Namco- March 20th,1997), Mortal Kombat 4 (Midway/Netherrelm Studios- October 15th, 1997)
15 Years: Mortal Kombat V:Deadly Alliance (Midway/Netherrelm Studios- November 16th, 2002), Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (Hudson Soft/Eighting- March 18th, 2002), Soul Calibur II (Namco/Project Soul- July 5, 2002)
10 Years: Tekken 6 (Namco/Tekken Team- November 26th, 2007)
5 Years: Soul Calibur V (Namco/Project Soul- January 31st, 2012), Dead or Alive 5 (Koei Temco/Team Ninja- September 25th, 2012)
25 Years: Virtua Fighter (Sega, Sega AM2, October 1993)
20 Years: Fighting Layer (Namco, AKIRA, December 1998), Soul Calibur (Namco, July 1998), Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram (Sega, Sega AM3, March 1998), Fighting Vipers 2 (Sega, Sega AM 2, April 1998)
15 Years: Virtual-On Marz (Sega, Hitmaker, May 29th, 2003)
10 Years: Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe (WB Games, Midway, November 16th, 2008)
5 Years: Tekken Revolution (Bandai Namco, June 11th, 2013)
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2014/nov/04/virtua-fighter-5-final-showdown-version-b-announced-march-2015-contains-1-major-albeit-sad-change-maybe-more/This update so far just looks like it just turns the online aspect of VF arcade machines offline, meaning it won’t be able to update after this update. Although it might be a sign that Sega is planing to do something new with VF…
There are more interesting thoughts on VF from Harada (Tekken) and Yosuke Hayashi (Dead or Alive) on the VF forums so please do read those as well. Wish the article had those and not just Ono’s.Last year, Virtua Fighter celebrated its 20 year anniversary. A website was created to honor the milestone, and featured various articles of VF news, video clips …
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is a solid fighter I recommend picking up. If it looks intimidating (I don’t blame such assumptions @_@), this may help you make sense of it.
~R
This video will help as well. Long but very comprehensive.
EVO Flash Back: EVO 2012 Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Finals
By the way, the winner of Final Showdown, Fuudo, was the 2011 Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition’s champ as well.
This actually doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me really is how many people probably don’t know about the fact that the first VF is the first fighting game in the National Smithsonian Institute in 1998. Or the absurd lengths Yu Suzuki went to get the martial arts down pat. Seriously, if you enjoy learning about interesting gaming back stories, then look into VF.Being a developer of new and innovative products can lead you down many unexpected pathways, and one such case was brought up by Yu Suzuki, who …
