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Virtua Fighter is the Avatar of Video Games. It was a phenomenon that not only brought on an onslaught of 3D fighting games such as Tekken, SoulCalibur, and Dead or Alive but it literally changed the entire games industry by shifting every developer's gaze, no matter what genre, towards 3D graphics.The characters' accessories move with a revolutionary real time physics engine and fall off when they get knocked down. The attack animations are still absolutely stunning to this day even compared to modern fighting games like Mortal Kombat 1, showing that Netherrealms really should've hired animators by now. For Virtua Fighter 2, released just 1 year later, they literally spent $2 million dollars on a Lockheed Martin graphics processor used in military simulations just so they could invent fully texture mapped 3D characters, and pushed the bar even further when it came to its highly detailed environments and its pioneering use of motion captured animations. Now, it was clear, Virtua Fighter would consistently set the benchmark for graphics with each new game, debuting cutting edge technology years before they would become industry standard and many of gaming’s biggest titles and characters such as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, Fumito Ueda's ICO, Jon Romero's Quake and more, hardware such as the PlayStation 1, and every single modern 3D game from Mario 64 to Dark Souls owes their very existence to Virtua Fighter. It’s that important to video games, and its last entry came out in 2006.

This Video will explore the history of the Virtua Fighter series, how it started, where it failed and how SEGA could bring it back through Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the creators of the Yakuza series.