Virtua Fighter Animation
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System(s): Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega Tec Toy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Aspect | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supporting companies: Moore & Price Design Group (packaging) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: TV Tokyo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peripherals supported: Gear-to-Gear Cable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Fighting/Kakutou Action (格闘アクション)[1], Action[2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Virtua Fighter Animation, known in Japan as Virtua Fighter Mini (バーチャファイターMini), is a fighting game released for the Sega Game Gear in 1996. It is based off the Virtua Fighter anime series, which in turn was based off the video game with the same name. It is one of the few Game Gear fighting games, and the only Virtua Fighter game to date to be released for a handheld console. It is also one of the only Virtua Fighter games not to be presented in 3D (apart from the Sega Mega Drive port of Virtua Fighter 2).
Tec Toy, Sega's Brazilian distributor, brought the game to the Sega Master System in 1997. Though there is some color loss, the Master System version offers a larger screen resolution.
Contents
History
Development
While it had already been released in Japan at this point, the North American version of Virtua Fighter Animation was announced at E3 1996, alongside a Sega Mega Drive version. While ready and playable on the Game Gear, Sega had only artwork to show for the Mega Drive port; a project that very likely became its version of Virtua Fighter 2.
Versions
Localised names
Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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English | Virtua Fighter Animation | Virtua Fighter Animation |
English (US) | Virtua Fighter Animation | Virtua Fighter Animation |
Japanese | バーチャファイターMini | Virtua Fighter Mini |
Production credits
Game Gear version
- Producer: Yasuhiro Nishimoto
- Programmers: Tatsuo Matsuda, Yoshiaki Makishima
- Chief Designer: Teruo Hamai
- Designer: Fumikazu Sugawara, Taro Murayama, Aya Sato
- Data Converter: Satoshi Ozawa, Yukio Shimeno
- Music Composer: Koujiro Mixa
- Special Thanks: Hisayoshi Yoshida, Kazuyuki Oikawa
- Producer: Erik Wahlberg
- Product Managers: Bill Onderdonk, Eric Dunstan
- Product Specialist: Clint Dyer
- Package Art Director: Bob Schonfisch
- Package Art Firm: Moore & Price
- Manual: Wendy Dinsmore
- Lead Tester: Sean Doidge
- Assistant Leads: Jeremy Caine, Victor Quimson, Polly Villatuya, Fernando Valderrama, Lloyd Kinoshita
- Testers: Shari Shaklin, Annette Ancel, Matt Clerici, Kenneth Chan, Charles Yang, Arnold Galano, Raul Orozco, Matt Ironside, Chris Lucich, Jeff Junio, Jeremy Wheat, Rolef Conlan, Darren Nagtalon, Pedro Ponce, Chris Johnson, Byram Abbott, Sam Ford, Rob Prideaux
Magazine articles
- Main article: Virtua Fighter Animation/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
Game Gear version
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Master System version
Technical information
ROM dump status
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References
- ↑ File:VFA GG JP Box Front.jpg
- ↑ File:VFA GG EU Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/gamegear/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-12-07 04:57)
- ↑ http://riehlspot.simplenet.com/vgame/new/gear.html (Wayback Machine: 1998-01-31 04:05)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 ', "" (; ), page 83
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 85
- ↑ File:Virtua Fighter Animation GG credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Virtua Fighter Animation GG US Manual.pdf, page 16
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 80
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Virtua Fighter series | |||
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Virtua Fighter (Remix | PC) (1993-1995) | Virtua Fighter 2 (Mega Drive | Sega Ages 2500 Series) (1994-1996) | Virtua Fighter 3 (3tb | 3tb Online) (1996-1997) | Virtua Fighter 4 (Evolution | Final Tuned) (2001-2004) | Virtua Fighter 5 (R | Final Showdown | Ultimate Showdown) (2006-2021) | |||
Spin-offs | |||
Virtua Fighter Kids (1996) | Virtua Fighter Animation (1997) | Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary (2003) | Virtua Quest (2004) | |||
Cross-overs | |||
Fighters Megamix (Game.com) | Dead or Alive 5 (5+ | Ultimate | Last Round) (2012-2015) | |||
Portrait series | |||
Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series: (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | The Final) (1995-1996) | GG Portrait: Yuuki Akira (1996) | GG Portrait: Pai Chan (1996) | |||
Others | |||
Virtua Fighter (LCD) (1995) | Electronic Virtua Fighter (199x) | Virtua Fighter (R-Zone) (199x) | Virtua Fighter 3 Win-PC-Collection (1996) | Virtua Fighter (2007) | CR Virtua Fighter (2008) | Virtua Fighter Mobile (2008) | Pachinko CR Virtua Fighter Revolution (2012) | Virtua Fighter Cool Champ (2012) | Virtua Fighter Fever Combo (2014) | Virtua Fighter Pachislot (2014) | Virtua Fighter Battle Genesis (2019) | |||
Unlicensed | |||
Virtua Fighter 2 vs. Tekken 2 (199x) | |||
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- Gear-to-Gear Cable-compatible games
- 1-2 player games
- JP Game Gear games
- US Game Gear games
- EU Game Gear games
- DE Game Gear games
- UK Game Gear games
- Game Gear games
- 1996 Game Gear games
- All 1996 games
- Game Gear fighting games
- All fighting games
- BR Master System games
- Master System games
- 1997 Master System games
- All 1997 games
- Master System fighting games
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- Stubs
- Old technical information
- Virtua Fighter Animation
- Virtua Fighter (franchise)