New Dawn: A Virtua Fighter Retrospective
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- čas přidán 8. 12. 2021
- A rambling retrospective on the original Virtua Fighter (1993), looking at my earliest experiences of the game, the pop culture and arcade scene in 1993, the development of the game itself, lots of gleeful waffling and lyrical waxing, and a really bad Yoda impression.
All in-game arcade footage of the game is capture directly from my own Sega Model 1 Virtua Fighter arcade board.
For anyone troubled or angered by my use of the term "beat 'em up" to describe Virtua Fighter, in UK games magazines during the 1980s and 1990s referred to all games which had a combat motif as beat 'em ups, including fighting games. However, they were differentiated by a specific prefix; games like Double Dragon or Final Fight were called "scrolling beat 'em ups" and games such as Street Fighter II or Mortal Kombat were referred to as "one on one beat 'em ups". Fighting games were still being called "beat 'em up" games in the UK gaming press up until the end of the 1990s. I'm old and I'm sticking to it.
If you enjoyed this video, you might also like my retro-infused Sci Fi(ish) novels available here: www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Samuel... - Hry
I totally agree with the thought that VF's cast is unfairly tarnished as boring. I always loved that their designs are, as you put it, manifestations of their fighting styles. I'm a Jeet Kune Do practitioner and VF's decision to make its resident JKD guy a west coast bro dude is far more inspired and accurate than making another played out Bruce Lee clone.
I'm also a fan of the minimal story. The addition of story beats has almost invariably made me think fighting game characters are far less cool than what I'd imagined in my head. VF harkening back to the days of movies like Bloodsport or events like UFC1 feels kind of refreshing and unique today when every other series has gone up its own ass in its tired anime/superhero tropes.
Great video!
Thanks for the shout out! Love this video. Not sure how it slipped under my radar.
this is simply the most immersive Retrospective i ever see On you tube !!! ( THE editing is incredible ) amazing work !!!!
Remember seeing this at the arcade at the mall as a kid and being in awe. Graphics look dated now but back then keep in mind this was mind blowing and out before the N64. The dawn of 3D.
Thanks for your channel mate been loving the content, will always respect these titles that innovate and related; before studios started cat-fishing us. Pure soul man; respect from NZ
Randomly wanted to get a look at the early days of Virtua Fighter and this video captured both the game and the time around it perfectly, really nicely done mate
Always love learning about virtua fighter and general sega history. Great video
Jesus - you were the other kid in the country who had a 32x with virtua fighter?
Man i honestly thought i was alone....
I've always preferred Virtua Fighter over the rest of the vf rippoffs its good 1 to 1 combat no special moves like fireballs and super combos that light up the screen that was the trouble with 3d fighters after vf it got silly imo, vf is the thinking mans game, virtua figher 3 remains my favourite vf as the interactive backgrounds brought something new like fighting down a set of stairs, in the snow and on an island, the vf series is the best of the 3d Fighters.
since those 2 shenmue restrospectives i was wating for another of these videos. Thanks. I ve recomended your channel to a couple of friends. they played recently both shenmues on xbox one and ps4.
Been watching these vids on the channel and its nice to see some nice videos instead of the usual stuff that is redone on youtube all the time. Cheers mate.
I first saw this game at Epcot (Disney world) in late 93 on what seemed to be a larger-than-life arcades screen and it blew my 12 year old brain out the back o' my skull!! And quite frankly I've had a deep appreciation towards Virtua fighter.... Especially on the Saturn. Oh and a quick note I was one of the fortunate few to get a free upgrade of Virtua fighter remix in the mail.
Very good research. Great documnet
I wish that Virtua Fighter games just had story modes
Ah the UK Christmas nostalgia nice to see a retro video from the UK perspective. Nice lil trip down memory lane
the og roblox
I wanna go back to Multi Play now! That bench configuration, magnifique
You're the same age as me and I had similar experiences, and you're articulation of games from this era make me feel less weird ha, as I don't commonly hear these views. This channel is a hidden gem on youtube and ideally it'd be cool if it did reach a wider audience, but maybe not everybody has that something in them to appreciate works like this
Sich a well done video! Thank you
Thank you!
I guess that makes me the second 32X owner in Britain. I liked it but only had five games for the add-on, including Virtua Fighter. Great stuff but as soon as I got a Saturn and VF2, that was it
underrated as hell wtf
This was a great watch: A nice personal retrospective on the first Virtua Fighter, the true originator of 1 vs. 1 3D fighting games. You mentioned that you had a Sega Model 1 arcade board during the video, did you get your video capture from the actual hardware itself?
Thanks very much, Man. Yeah it was captured from my original board, upscaled to 1080p with an Extron scaler. Thanks for watching.
Did you work for Sega? How old were you in 1994?
No I didn't work for Sega. There's quite a bit of information about the game's development if you dig around a bit. I was just a 10 year old kid in 1994 - I used to love going to the arcade with my family and I also read a lot of games magazines.
What's the name of the game at 13:30 where you fly a helicopter and listen to Lei Wulong's music?
It's Wing War.
@@retromuel Thank you!
Could you give me the songs used in this video ?
Whoa wait.... You actually worked at Sega and with Yu Suzuki himself?!
You are now my new hero.
Yu Suzuki is my God, and Shigeru Miyamoto is a mere peseant compared to him.
SEGA!!!!
I murdered people at this game that were way older than me. My strat revolved around getting them out of the ring quick... MANY of the defeated thought that was cheap. I think they were embarrassed a kid beat them in front of their friends. What do y'all think?
Don't you mean "Birth of 3D Fighting Genre"
In the UK at the time they were called 3D beat em ups in the gaming press and amongst fans. There were also 2D beat em ups and belt scrolling beat em ups. I'm old and English and set in my ways. Thanks for watching.
@@retromuel ok i'm sorry, i just didn't know that
@@lamiamekni2802 Oh no problem at all. Didn't mean to be snappy. They've been called fighting games everywhere for donkey's years now, I'm just a bit of a stick in the mud. Take care.
@@retromuel Ha, yes 'beat 'em up' sounds rather antiquated these days, and yet I didn't even consider that when I read the title. And of course there were 'shoot 'em ups'. Somehow the term seems more legitimate with more than one category. Personally, my mind is blown that Llandudno had Virtua Fighter at all, let alone a fancy cab like that, but then I remember the full Daytona cab in Weston-Super-Mare, so I guess I can believe it. Seems about as antithetical to cutting edge Japan technology as anywhere. I used to read magazines like Edge and Next Generation back in the day, and wondered if there was anywhere specific you got the Yu Suzuki interviews from, or is it all readily available online? I must admit to always being a fan of Sega especially the 90s arcades and Dreamcast library. I started with the MegaDrive, but I think it's the Saturn/Dreamcast era that really felt like the bleeding edge of gaming and deeply nostalgic. This was exactly the deep dive I was looking for! Thank you, Retro Muel.
@@Ruylopez778 Hi. Yeah Llandudno actually did have some awesome cabinets back in those days. Most of the big hitters from Sega and Namco if I remember correctly. It's not up to much these days, though. Yeah I read a lot of Edge magazine and the official Sega mag too. I still love the UK gaming magazine culture of the 90s. The interviews with Yu are actually from virtuafighter.com and were originally on Sega's Virtua Fighter 20th anniversary website. There are also various bits and bobs from Edge magazine and some images from the "Virtua Fighter Maniax" art/strategy book I imported from Japan a few years ago. Yeah although I have owned and loved many consoles and pcs over the years, the Dreamcast and particular the Saturn are my absolute favourites. There's something magical about that era of Sega. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed it.
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