Virtua Fighter

A 3D fighting game released by Sega in arcades in 1993 and ported to the Sega Saturn as a launch title in 1994. Its fighters are rendered entirely in polygons. It was directed by Yu Suzuki of Sega AM2.

Development began in 1992 for Sega's Model 1 arcade hardware, using flat-shaded polygons and 3D motion capture.

Developer

Sega AM2

Publisher

Sega

Two polygon fighters face off one-on-one in a 3D arena.

Platform

Sega Saturn

CPU

Hitachi SH-2 ×2 @ 28.6 MHz

Media

CD-ROM

Bits (period term)

32-bit

Platform specifications are sourced on the console page.

Japan — Arcade

6 Dec 1993[1]

Japan

22 Nov 1994[1]

North America

11 May 1995[1]

Europe

8 Jul 1995[1]

Director

Yu Suzuki

Producer

Yu Suzuki

Designer

Seiichi Ishii

Composer

Takayuki Nakamura

Credits are limited to what the sources state.

• GAME1994

  PlayStation

  Ridge Racer

  リッジレーサー

  Release

  JP 1994.12.03

  Dev

  Namco

  Genre

  Racing

• GAME1994

  Neo Geo AES

  The King of Fighters '94

  ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ'94

  Release

  JP 1994.08.25

  Dev

  SNK

  Genre

  Fighting

• GAME1995

  Super Famicom

  Chrono Trigger

  クロノ・トリガー

  Release

  JP 1995.03.11

  Dev

  Square

  Genre

  RPG / JRPG

The original Saturn version sold 630,000 units in Japan, and together with Virtua Fighter Remix exceeded 1 million copies (English Wikipedia).

Series: Virtua Fighter

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