The Most Important Fighting Game Ever Made? 30 Years of Virtua Fighter. 

Seeing Virtua Fighter for the first time in the Arcade was like a paradigm shift in gaming and what i thought gaming could be. completely unforgettable moment : D

Virtua Fighter is by far my favorite fighting game series! With my all time favorite being Fighter's Megamix on Saturn. I'll never forget playing the original Virtua Fighter at the arcade for the first time

Excellent reporting and video. I'll never forget seeing VF at a Super K-Mart in 1993. Hitting that trademark 4 hit combo with Lau had me hooked! It truly changed the game. There wasn't anything like it at the time.

i'm one of the three guys who bought a 32x, still have it btw. when i played virtua figher for the first time, it completely blew my mind. it was so smooth and realistic. haven't seen anything like it before.

Will be watching. I also done a 1 hour documentary on the Virtua Fighter games. We need another VF game

Experiencing Video Games Leap From 2-D To 3-D First Hand Was Magnificent. After All These Decades Later, One Of My Favorite Things About Virtua Fighter Is Its "Plainness". As I Also Love Tekken, But All The Flashy & Sparkly Particle Effects In Tekken 8 Is To Me Is Just A Distraction From What Should Have The Focus, Which Is The Fighting Of Course. That's Why I Respect Virtua Fighter So Much, It Doesn't Distract From What We Are There To Do, Which Is Fighting Of Course.

My first time playing virtua fighter was with the big screen with seats at a small arcade. It's great being able to play the original model 1 arcade version in mame after the most major graphical bugs were fixed. I also like the 10th anniversary version and yes I know it uses the VF4 game engine but I still love it. It looks great on pcsx2 with a no-interlacing patch and widescreen.

Amazing retrospective! I'm from Argentina and I clearly remember when I saw it on arcades circa 94/95 and couldn't believe it!

Excellent work. Lotta things that I didnt know about fighting games in general were explained very well and eye opening. Thanks A Lot.

Tremendous - my absolute first memories of VF was VF2 so I missed out on the early early days of Saturn The video production quality is fantastic chaps and you collaborate very well. This is up there with pandas videos in terms of quality 👏

Just discovered your channel! LOVE the commentary, informative material, snappy music and flow. Keep it up fellas! Much love from GA, USA. Have a sub, like and bell

Virtua Fighter is always my favourite fighting through the entire Virtua Fighter series. I love to more of Virtua Fighter for 30th anniversary like Virtua Fighter 6, Virtua Fighter merchandise and Virtua Fighter live action.

Why won't sega give us modern ports of these amazing model 1,2 and 3 games.😔

I'm actually getting to watch a premiere for once. Super excited!

That music on the character selection made nostalgia! I still play it on my Saturn and the remix pc version on my diamond edge 3d

There is a port of Virtua Fighter on the PS2 you could consider. And it runs at 60fps .Virtua Fighter - 10th Anniversary Edition.

Spot on again

Hi guys, I am obsessed with Virtua Fighter! I've loved it since day-1... Do you know how they got it to look so smooth on the Astro-City-Mini? I've played-around with Retroarch, and loads of resolutions and shaders & filters... No matter what I try, it doesn't look as good as thge Astro-City-Mini output!!! Can you please suggest how I might proceed to improve the look of my fave game on the PC? Thanks 😁

And you would think they would've made a Virtua Fighter 6 by now

I think the 32x port was impressive on its own. I still think some songs are even better there

I first experienced Virtua Fighter on the Saturn that first Christmas. To say my head exploded is an understatement 😂 My tiny little mind could barely comprehend seeing three-dimensional polygons displayed magically within my two-dimensional CRT TV... It was a beautiful moment in gaming, and although I'm old, and everything hurts for no reason, I'm glad I was there for it 😎

Hello guys I am trying to find a funny relic of Virtua Fighter it was a video of a match showcase with 2 different characters, most notably one is drawing circles around with funny whoosh sound and other one teleports around or turns into a humanoid jet and fly around. On 2nd match it was a game between a regular character with funny character that grapples the woman and squeezes the testicles. does anyone remember the name or provide the link of this video?

Final Showdown is still the best 3D Fighting game, without question. I never could stand Tekken's gimmicky nonsense, VF has one gimmicky character in Dural but I love it's comparatively grounded style. It's grounded in the same way old school HK Kung Fu movies were, the movements are unrealistic and hyper-exaggerated but goddamn is the combat enjoyable and incredibly deeply layered. Nothing comes close. The only Fighting game in recent years that has really impressed me is the weapons based fighter, Hellish Quart - which is outstanding. Great video, guys.

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Surely the Astro City Mini is the best way to play Virtua Fighter 1 today?

Whilst I did think of this game as groundbreaking at the time, the input lag was pretty terrible and put me right off the game at the time. You could time the input controls on Super Street Fighter Turbo so it worked acceptably, but I didn't feel like it was ever achievable with Virtua. Felt more like a polygon test than an outright game for me. Carried by the absolutely noisy sound card to some degree that pricked ears up.

_I still remember how the playstation's compared VF with so called tohshinden. Of how they downgraded VF's blocky characters than tohshinden's characters._

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NICE. I still prefer SF 2 lol

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Yes....to everything said in this video. Virtua Fighter literally is the grand daddy of fighting games and 3D. Even though Sega fell off the horse decades ago, Virtual Fighter 5 Final Showdown is still the best 3D fighter on the market. It doesn't matter if Namco release Tekken 16x at this point and Sega don't produce another Virtua Fighter ever again, Namco cannot make fighters the way Sega can. This is also considering that Sega was on its way down at the time of making VF5 too, Yu Suzuki had nothing to do with the game. Let that sink in. If Sega had continued on their original trajectory and tradition of using the NASA supercomputer technology to bring us new arcade releases, it is frightening to imagine what a modern Virtua Fighter would have looked and played like today.