The Early Years of 3D Arcade Fighting Games

The decade of the 90's were years in which many technological advances in the world of video games were agglutinated. The higher technical performance of the hardware of the time allowed moving from 2D graphics to fully polygonal 3D worlds.

The fighting genre enjoyed great popularity in those years, both in arcades and on home consoles, thanks to the fever that started with emblematic sagas such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The arrival of Sega's Virtua Fighter marked a turning point in the genre, critically acclaimed and a great success with the public. The following years were followed by a wave of 3-D fighting games (such as Tekken, Dead or Alive or Soul Edge) that tried to repeat Sega's success.

This video is part of a series that analyzes the evolution of a genre through the first 10 games that appeared, highlighting the technical advances as well as the evolution in gameplay

Intro and Outro Music

Aries Beats "Synthwave Dreams 2020" is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: https://free-songs.de/synthwave-2020/

Games Featured

0:00 Intro
0:26 1993 Virtua Fighter Sega Model 1
1:05 1994 Tekken Namco System 11
1:44 1994 Virtua Fighter 2 Sega Model 2
2:23 1995 Tekken 2 Namco System 11
3:02 1995 Fighting Vipers Sega Model 2
3:42 1995 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 Sony ZN-1
4:14 1996 Soul Edge Namco System 11
4:53 1996 Street Fighter EX Sony ZN-1
5:32 1996 Last Bronx Sega Model 2
6:10 1996 Dead or Alive Sega Model 2
6:41 Outro

⚠️ All gameplay recording, game curation and opinions included in this video, as well as editing is completely done by me

Bits & Beats creates videos about the history of video games. In this channel you'll find comparisons, retrospectives, technical analysis, but, mostly, game curations with the idea of having an important task of preserving video games, and make them relevant to society at large.

Curation isn't just about digging up neat games, but it's also about preservation, interpretation, and using one's knowledge to make it relevant to people. With my videos I want older gamers to look back and remember the influence of video games on their lives, and new gamers to understand the larger context of the series they're playing for the first time today.

I put significant time and creative effort into each one of my videos, including research, digging into archives, playing video games and recording hours of footage, selecting specific clips, writing reviews for each title, and making a very careful video editing in the way to transmit both educational and entertaining values to my audience. Every video takes a lot of hours to produce, because I strive to give my audience a consistent, high-quality content.

Fidelity and preservation of the video games is essential in Bits & Beats, so the recordings are made with the highest bitrate quality. It is done this way to preserve original game look and sound through modern footage, with no superfluous additions. I recommend you watch the video at 4K and 60 frames per second to get the best possible viewing experience.

I hope you enjoy my videos and find them useful!

#BITSANDBEATS #fightinggames #3dgames