Virtua Fighter
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Virtua Fighter (バーチャファイター) is a fighting game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. for Sega Model 1 arcade hardware in 1993. It is the first game in the Virtua Fighter series. It is often cited as being the first fully 3D fighting game released to the general public, and is a basis for almost all subsequent games in the genre.
It was an influential game in the development of 3D polygon graphics, popularizing it among a wider audience (along with Virtua Racing), demonstrating 3D human character models effectively, with realistic movement and physics, and creating the basic template for later 3D fighting games (such as Tekken, the Soul series and Dead or Alive), and playing a key role in the development of early fifth-generation consoles (the Sega Saturn and PlayStation). It was followed by a 1994 sequel, Virtua Fighter 2.
Contents
Story
While much of the first Virtua Fighter's story would be retroactively filled in by newer games and merchandise, the basic premise of the first game is that martial artist Akira Yuki, specialising in the forgotten art form of "Hakkyoku-ken" enters the World Fighting Tournament, in an attempt to be recognised as the greatest fighter in the world.
Gameplay
Virtua Fighter is a one-on-one versus fighting game, pitting two of eight characters (nine, if Dural is included) against each other in a three-dimensional arena to fight over the best of three matches (or "sets" as referred in-game). Players win a match point if their opponent's life bar is depleted, by a "ring-out" (when one of the opponents falls off the edge of the ring), or has less health when the in-game timer reaches 0. The arcade version's cabinet utilises an eight-way control stick and three buttons: P (punch), K (kick), and G (guard, also referred as defense/block); with the punch and kick buttons not having different "strenghts" like other fighting games. Movement of the characters with the control stick is done with 
and 
to move away/towards the opponent; 
to crouch; holding 
or 
while standing or crouching makes the character slowly crawl backwards/forwards; and 
, 
, or 
are used to make the character jump into that respective direction, with characters having access to two jump heights, depending of how long the player holds any of the up directions. Each attack has their own damage values, with attacks that deal 30 points of damage or more causing knockdown.
While fights take place in a 3D arena, players can only manipulate their characters in a two-dimensional manner, with movement on the third dimension being dictated by the characters' attacks and special moves. Unlike other fighting games at the time, the characters do not turn around automatically when an opponent gets behind them, requiring to tap the required direction in order to face each other. While considered a milestone in real-time 3D graphics, the 3D has limitations, with every arena being a flat square and backgrounds 2D in nature. It also operates with a refresh rate of only 30FPS — half that of Virtua Racing (and Virtua Fighter 2).
Virtua Fighter takes a more realistic approach to combat than many of its popular 2D rivals from the likes of Capcom or SNK, with characters using real world fighting techniques (as opposed to genre-defining Street Fighter II which arms characters with fictional chi-based special attacks and projectiles). It is a slower-paced game as a result, though with hundreds of moves and a computer able to adapt to the player's fighting powers, a more tactical fighter than others on the market. Where this does not apply in the original Virtua Fighter (and its sequel) is the jumping mechanics, with characters being able to jump twice their body height (as was the case in other fighting games of the time).
Unique to Virtua Fighter upon release was the concept of characters receiving "visual damage". If hit with a barrage of attacks, loose items of clothing (for example, Pai's hat or Kage's headband and mask) will fall off and lie on the arena floor until the match is over. This feature makes no difference to gameplay, but would become a staple in many of Sega's fighting games going forward. Another new concept upon release was that of alternate costumes; during a versus match where both players selected the same character, one of the players would receive a secondary costume for that character. This feature would also inspire later 3D fighting games.
Back Attack
Back Attacks are used to defend against an opponent who is coming from behind. When an opponent is behind a character who is facing backwards, the character can perform a Back Attack by pressing P or K. Pressing P performs a standing punch back attack, and K performs a high kick back attack.
Quick Step and Running
Quick Steps can be used for quickly move around the ring. When quickly tapping (if facing to the right) , the player's character will quick step forwards, which is called a Quick Forward; and by quickly tapping , the player's character performs a backwards quick step, which is referred as Step Back.
Running is performed by quickly tapping , followed by pressing and holding . It is only possible to run in the direction the character is facing, for example: if the character is facing away from the opponent, he can run backwards by tapping then pressing and holding again.
Short Jump
Quickly tapping performs a short jump, which can be used to hop over low attacks; tapping makes the fighter Short jump backwards, and tapping makes the fighter do a forward Short Jump. During a short jump, characters can perform various jumping attacks by pressing P or K. Pai, Lau, Jacky, Sarah and Kage can perform a backflip instead of a back jump when quick tapping . Backflips can be chained up to three times.
Giant Leap
Also called Big Jump (大ジャンプ), a Giant Leap is performed by holding , in which characters can leap very high up into the air; by holding or , the characters can respectively Giant Leap backwards and forwards. During a Giant Leap the characters do a variety of jumping attacks by pressing P for a spinning sledgehammer punch; K for a dropkick; K for a reverse dropkick; and finally, pressing K while simultaneously jumping, while airborne, or while landing out of a Giant Leap for a variety of jump kick attacks.
Throws
Throws are performed by inputting a special command while standing near the opponent, and are completely unblockable. All characters (except for Akira) have access to a default throw technique by pressing P+G while close to the opponent. In addition, all characters have access to their own command throws.
Throws are subdivided in three categories: High Throws, which are performed on a standing opponent; Low Throws, which are performed on a crouching opponent; and Back Throws, which are performed on opponents whose back is turned towards the player.
Down Attack
Also referred as Stomp Attack, Down Attacks are attacks that are used for hitting a knocked down opponent for additional damage. The input motion for this move is P or HOLD P when the opponent is in a knocked down state, which causes the character to automatically jump towards the knocked down opponent and attack them. Down Attacks performed with P deal less damage but are hard to dodge, while Down Attacks performed by HOLD P deal more damage, but are easier to dodge.
Quick Recovery
When a fighter gets knocked down, or gets into a knocked down state after performing some specific moves, they'll get get up automatically after a few seconds, however during this time they are vulnerable to an opponent's Down Attack. During a knocked down state, players can perform a Quick Recovery in order to get up quickly. Listed below are the two types of Quick Recovery.
Recovery is a more defensive type of Quick Recovery, being useful to dodge down attacks.
| Name | Command | Description |
| Quick stand up | Rapidly tap and
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The character will get up more quickly. |
| Backwards roll | Hold
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The character will roll backwards then get up. |
| Side roll stand up | GGGGG | The character will roll to the side, either towards or away from the camera, then get up. |
| Spring up onto feet | Hold
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The character gets up in their feet with a kip-up, which can be used to dodge certain Down attacks. |
Kick Recovery is a more offensive type of quick recovery, being used to quickly attack the opponent right after getting up.
| Name | Command | Description |
| High Kick | KKKKK | The character gets up with a spinning high kick. |
| Sweep Kick | HOLD KKKKK
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The character performs a sweep kick, then stand back up. |
| Side Roll and Sweep Kick | GGGGG then K | The character will side roll either towards or away from the camera, then perform a sweep kick. |
Arcade Mode
In the arcade mode, the player completes a series of 8 Stages (referred as "Rounds" in-game) where he fights against all playable characters in a fixed order (regardless of the character chosen): Jacky, Jeffry, Sarah, Kage, Pai, Wolf, Lau, and Akira. After completing all 8 Rounds, players enter the "Bonus Stage", where they are pitted against Dural in a best of five match. It is not possible to use any continues during the Bonus Stage, meaning the player only has one chance to defeat Dural.
Characters
Virtua Fighter contains eight characters each employing a different fighting style. A ninth character, Dural, is not readily available to players.
As well as detailing their careers and hobbies, Virtua Fighter also lists the character's blood type, which in Japanese culture can determine one's personality.
Virtua Fighter claims to feature over 700 moves[18][19][20], many of which were left undocumented for players to find them on their own.
- Note: Move lists assume the player is standing, facing right. If facing left,
and 
should be reversed.
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Akira is a 25-year-old kung-fu teacher with blood type O. Akira is largely considered the main protagonist of Virtua Fighter, featuring predominantly on the games' cover art.
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Pai is an 18-year-old "action star" whose hobbies include dancing. She has blood type O.
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| Lau, father of Pai, is a 53-year-old Chinese cook. He has blood type B and enjoys Chinese poetry.
During development, Lau was known as both "Lee" and "Tao".
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Wolf is a 27-year-old Canadian wrestler who enjoys karaoke. He has blood type O.
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| Jeffry is a 36-year-old fisherman from Australia who enjoys reggae music. He has blood type A.
Curiously, Jeffry's prototype name was "Dural", a name re-assigned to the final character of the game. He was also briefly known as "Willy".
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| Kage-Maru (also spelt as Kagemaru, Kage Maru or just Kage) is a 21-year-old ninja who plays mahjong for a hobby. He has blood type B.
Kage was originally known as "Yagyu" during development.
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| Sarah is a 20-year-old female college student from the United States. She enjoys sky diving and has blood type AB. She shares a few of her special moves with Jacky.
In earlier versions of the game, Sarah's name was spelt without the "h" (i.e. "Sara").
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| Jacky, older brother of Sarah is a 22-year-old male from the United States. He is a Indy car racer by trade and of blood type A.
Originally Jacky's name was spelt with an "ie" (Jackie). This was changed for the final version.
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| Dural is the last fighter. Her move set is a amalgamation of all the other Virtua Fighter characters moves. Basic techniques can be performed using the same inputs as the other characters. However, Dural cannot perform a dropkick with K during a Giant Leap.
Dural is not normally playable in the Arcade version, being playable only in the home ports via a hidden code.
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History
Development
- Main article: Virtua Fighter/Development.
Impact
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Prior to Virtua Fighter's release, fighting games (such as Capcom's Street Fighter series) were mostly designed and rendered on sprite-based raster hardware — meaning that both the characters and background scenery were composed of 2D sprites and tilemaps, which when using multiple layers produced a parallax scrolling effect as the screen moved to follow the characters. Virtua Fighter dispensed with the 2D graphics (apart from the backgrounds, which are still 2D), replacing them with flat-shaded triangles rendered in real-time, using the Sega Model 1's 3D rendering hardware, allowing for effects and technologies that were impossible in sprite-based fighters, such as characters that could move tri-dimensionally rather than just backwards and forwards, and a dynamic camera that could zoom, pan, and swoop dramatically around the arena. The game had a more realistic take on the genre, attempting to represent real life martial arts disciplines, making it more of a fighting simulation.[28]
Virtua Fighter's graphics, however, eventually became obsolete due to rapid advances in 3D polygon technology that allowed for rounder, more detailed, textured, higher-polygon-count character models, as seen in Virtua Fighter 2. Nevertheless, Virtua Fighter forever revolutionized the fighting game genre, introducing a more realistic style of gameplay to the genre with its move to 3D.[29]
Legacy
Virtua Fighter was a phenomenal success for Sega, particularly in Japan which was already consumed by arcade game fighting culture. After a slow start, it became one of Japan's highest-grossing arcade games of all time.[30] Its success has guaranteed future entries in the franchise ever since, and is amongst Sega AM2's most recognisable products.
Virtua Fighter was followed by Virtua Fighter 2 in 1994, which sports significantly improved visuals and two new characters. AM2's graphic designers Seiichi Ishii and Kunihiko Nakata would also leave following his work on this game to create Tekken for Namco, seen as an important competitor to Virtua Fighter during the 1990s.
Likewise, programmer Francois Yves Bertrand (credited as F.Y. Bertrand) was headhunted by Atari Corporation and put to work on the Atari Jaguar 3D fighting game, Fight for Life, cited as being a killer app for the system designed to rival the PlayStation and Saturn consoles (though mismanagement at the company led to an unfinished build being released).
Virtua Fighter was adapted into a comic book, published by Marvel Comics. It was released in May 1995, to coincide with the Sega Saturn's North American launch.[31]
Sega Logistics Service announced it would end service on Virtua Fighter arcade machines on March 31, 2017.[32][33]
Virtua Fighter had been given some representation in the Super Smash Bros. series. In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, Mii Fighter costumes based on Jacky Bryant and Akira Yuki were added to the game as paid DLC, with the Jacky costume being based on his Virtua Fighter 5 appearance, and the Akira costume being based on his appearance in the original game. Akira himself would later appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Assist Trophy, using his polygonal look from this game.
Versions
As a milestone for both Sega and the fighting game genre as a whole, Virtua Fighter was widely tipped for release on the Sega Saturn console. A port was developed in conjunction with the hardware and was released in Japan as a launch title (before becoming the pack-in game for the subsequent North American and European launches of the console).
Views on the Saturn version are generally mixed, as while its existence led to Sega's console out-selling the PlayStation during its first few months of sale in Japan, it quickly became apparent that the port had been rushed to market with severe graphical and technical issues. Although the disc comes paired with higher quality arranged music inspired by the arcade soundtrack, polygon counts are significantly lower, five-second load times interrupt fights and the screen resolution is reduced over the arcade game.
On the Saturn, Virtua Fighter has issues rendering 3D content, with flickering polygons overlapping in odd ways (some of which occasionally disappear entirely), and animation issues, including an infamous bug where certain characters' feet to point in the wrong direction during their winning poses. The jerky camera of the arcade version is also carried over from the arcade game, and in some situations can behave worse than its arcade counterpart. Similar technical issues would be witnessed in Daytona USA, also created in parallel with the hardware.
By the time of the Western release in mid-1995, Virtua Fighter compared unfavourably to other early Saturn/PlayStation fighting games, such as Battle Arena Toshinden. In response, Sega released Virtua Fighter Remix shortly before the Winter launch of Virtua Fighter 2, which addresses some of the concerns and textures the 3D models. Virtua Fighter Remix quickly became the de facto version of Virtua Fighter, being the new console pack-in and the basis for Virtua Fighter PC.
A version of Virtua Fighter was also released for the Sega 32X, which in Japan debuted after the Saturn version (but before the Saturn version in other territories). Originally planned to be a Sega Neptune launch title, it suffers from even lower polygon counts than the Saturn version and various other cutbacks, but is otherwise relatively faithful to the original, subsequently being cited as one of the better games for the system. While the 32X renders fewer polygons at any one time, they are generally more "stable", with clipping and flickering being mostly absent from the port (although some animation issues still remain). It is also the only 32X game with support for 16:9 widescreen displays.
Both home versions of the game added a "Round-Robin" tournament mode.
The arcade version of the game was re-released on the Astro City Mini in 2020. It notably features upscaled graphics and fully transparent shadows compared to the original.
Ports for mobile phones also exist.
Production credits
- Main article: Virtua Fighter/Production credits.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Virtua Fighter/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: Virtua Fighter/Promotional material.
Photo gallery
US cabinet
Artwork
Logo
Akira
Jacky
Jeffry
Kage
Lau
Pai
Sarah
Wolf
Akira
Lau
32X US prototype box art
Physical scans
Model 1 version
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Technical information
- Main article: Virtua Fighter/Technical information.
External links
- Sega of America webpage: 32X, Saturn
- Sega of Japan catalogue page (Japanese): Saturn
- Video Game Storytelllers Part 2: The life of Seiichi Ishii in the Virtua Fighter prototype article by Fumio Kurokawa at 4Gamer.net (Japanese)
References
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter sat jp backcover.jpg
- ↑ File:VF 32X JP Box Front.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/segasaturn/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-30 22:53)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/32x/soft.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-06-19 13:31)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mean Machines Sega, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-06-30), page 93
- ↑ Sega Arcade History, Enterbrain, page 129
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-xx), page 51
- ↑ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19940205-1.2.69.15.3?ST=1&AT=search&K=sega+wywy&P=2&Display=0&filterS=0&QT=sega,wywy&oref=article
- ↑ Press release: 1995-05-19: Sega Saturn launch takes consumers and retailers by storm
- ↑ Press release: 1995-09-19: Sega Genesis 32X price comes down to $99
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 11 November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 68
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sega Pro, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-10-05), page 56
- ↑ Sega Power, "December 1995" (UK; 1995-10-19), page 53
- ↑ Computer Trade Weekly, "" (UK; 1995-11-13), page 3
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Computer & Video Games, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-10-13), page 36
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Sega Magazine, "October 1995" (UK; 1995-09-12), page 84
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Enero 1996" (ES; 199x-xx-xx), page 73
- ↑ File:VirtuaFighter saturn eu cover.jpg
- ↑ File:VF 32X US Box Back.jpg
- ↑ File:VF 32X EU Box Back.jpg
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter 32x us manual.pdf, page 23
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter 32x us manual.pdf, page 24
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 File:Virtuafighter 32x us manual.pdf, page 28
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter 32X jp manual.pdf, page 35
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter 32x us manual.pdf, page 29
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 File:Virtuafighter 32x us manual.pdf, page 30
- ↑ File:Virtuafighter 32X jp manual.pdf, page 37
- ↑ http://www.hg101kontek.net/virtuafighter/virtuafighter.htm
- ↑ htt (Wayback Machine: 2001-11-20 06:12)
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Enero 1996" (ES; 199x-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ Game On! USA, "Vol. 1, No. 6" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 12
- ↑ File:SegaProductsTerminationAnnouncement 2016-11 JP.pdf
- ↑ File:SegaProductsTerminationAnnouncement 2016-12.pdf
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-15), page 100
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