Virtua Fighter

The following is a list of games in the Virtua Fighter series: Arcade fighting games The brainchild of Sega AM2 's Yu Suzuki , Virtua Fighter was released in 1993 as an arcade game using hardware jointly developed by aerospace simulation technology by the company that is now known as Lockheed Martin and Sega's most prominent and well known studio AM2 , originally crafted for the arcade system dubbed the Model 1 . It is considered the first polygon-based fighting game. It introduced the eight initial fighters as well as the boss, Dural. Sony developers have confirmed that the game inspired Sony to create the first PlayStation console and to focus more on 3D games, more so than the main competitor in Japan, the Sega Saturn .

Virtua Fighter 2 was released in November 1994, adding two new fighters: Shun Di and Lion Rafale. It was built using the Model 2 hardware, rendering characters and backgrounds with filtered texture mapping and motion capture . 1 , followed soon after. Virtua Fighter 3 came out in 1996, with the introduction of Taka-Arashi and Aoi Umenokoji.

Aside from improving the graphics via use of the Model 3 (such as mipmapping , multi-layer anti-aliasing , trilinear filtering and specular highlighting ), the game also introduced undulations in some stages and a fourth button, Dodge. Virtua Fighter 3tb in 1997 was the first major update in series history, implementing tournament battles featuring more than two characters (though not simultaneously as in the Dead or Alive games and Tekken Tag Tournament ). Virtua Fighter 4 , which introduced Vanessa Lewis and Lei-Fei and removed Taka-Arashi, was released on the NAOMI 2 hardware in 2001 instead of hardware from a joint collaboration with Lockheed Martin. The game also removed the uneven battlegrounds and the Dodge button from the previous game.

The title is consistently popular in its home arcade market. Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution , released in 2002, was the first update to add new characters, these being Brad Burns and Goh Hinogami. Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tuned , an upgrade to Evolution , was released in the arcades in 2004. In Japan, Virtua Fighter 4 was famous for spearheading and opening the market for internet functionality in arcades.

Net by Sega. Virtua Fighter 5 was released in Japan on July 12, 2006, for Sega's Lindbergh arcade board and introduced yet two more new characters, Eileen and El Blaze. Similar to its predecessor, two revisions were later released. Virtua Fighter 5 R , released on July 24, 2008, saw the return of Taka-Arashi while introducing a new fighter, Jean Kujo.

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown was released in arcades on July 29, 2010. Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (known in Japan as Virtua Fighter eSports ) was released for Sega ALLs cabinet on June 2, 2021, a day after PlayStation 4 version's release.