An excellent "mulligan" from the early days of Sega Saturn. I was thrilled to receive my disc in the mail for free (w/purchase of Saturn system). The texture mapped polygons still look impressive, and all of the graphics glitches (plz ignore this videos emulation hiccups) from the original VF were completely resolved. Yes, VF2 blew everything out of the water, but it's fun to play the original VF now and then.
There is something about the true to life way the fighters move and throw punches in this game (and even the orginial) that blows tekken out of the water...
+ronjon83 It was a deliberate attempt by the developers to discourage jumping. They probably should have just eliminated the ability to jump altogether, to make it truly realistic.
What's so funny with this statement is that the game has no lighting and shading what so ever, all it does is display the painted textures on the polygons! I agree it looks great though!
I swear if the Virtua Fighter games just had a balanced difficulty, I would dig it 100%! Virtua Fighter 5 FS was very good with this, seriously, that one is an AMAZING game, it's absolutely gorgeous! I especially like Akira and Wolf. But with all of the older games the AI is just way too frustrating. I mean look at Fighting Vipers. The arcade version was BRUTAL, but the saturn port has such a good difficulty curve, even Very Hard felt like a genuine challenge instead of being plain cheap. I can understand the sentiment, cos yknow it's arcade and they want to draw quarters from you. I mean sure. But a home console port HAS to be balanced to fit every audience, no reason for cheap AI there. So sad VF is so difficult in terms of AI :/
I am one of the few that miss the polygon graphics of the original Virtua Fighter, as well as other games like Star Fox 1, Stunt Race FX, Virtua Racing and a few others.
Oh I am too. I love retro games more than I love modern games. I constantly play old SF, VF and Tekken games on my emulators. And then games like Sega Rally, Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, etc. I just love em all haha
maybe not in story or graphics back in the day but in gameplay its more "real" you know what i mean?its like almost all of the kicks and punches feel "real" like they could be executed in real life and tekken or soul calibur you just hit the buttons by chance and you do awesome combos in VF you have to know what you're doing thats the big difference!
Yes it seemed so. But there were games like Tomb Raider, Doom 1&2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and best of all - Exhumed, which really surpassed PSX versions in a big way. SEGA did a horrible job with Saturn's launch. Daytona USA was a fun game, but the tech was really bad. Virtua Fighter was ugly too. If SEGA had launched with VF REMIX and SEGA Rally or a tuned version of Daytona USA, they would still be here. Dreamcast was way superior to PS2, it offered twice as much video ram and showed off often.
You're right. The polygon count is still lower than the Model 1 arcade version, as this is evidenced on the PC version in which you can turn the textures on or off on the fly.
Preferred the look of the original Saturn version as it resembled the arcade version pretty closely. It wasn't arcade perfect but close enough for my standards, but this remix just didn't do for it me.
PC-FX! 32x is technically 2D and is missing even more polys than the original Saturn game. Sound is also limited to the megadrive sound chip. Good load times but loses to Saturn overall. Virtua Racing deluxe on 32x was incredible though.
awesome game. I own every collectable saturn game. I loved last bronx that was my favorite weapons based fighter long with Samurai Shodown. VF is the reason 3d is the standard and there are many stupid fanboys that fail to realize even Sony admitted it. I admit to liking some PS games but the Saturn was were the gamers games were at with better higher rez polygons.
@NebilimXYZ Once more I am reminded of how bad I am at "dating" some of these things. Actually, I wasn't sure if you meant that or the quality of the sounds. But again, I enjoyed it, especially since it had some electric guitars. What did you mean by "shoal melody", anyway?
Virtua Vighter REMIX is the best beat em up ever! SEGA lost versus Sony because they were late with VF REMIX and SEGA Rally, Daytona USA didn't look as good, as it should.
Sorry for the 4-year wait, but the arcade version came after the home version. There was also a standalone retail package, but it appears to have only been released in Minnesota and Canada and is now extremely rare.
The Saturn could've looked better than the PS1 (having a higher polygon count and expandable RAM), but it has a dual VDP (graphics card), 2 CPU's and 6 other SPU's and is pretty damn hard to program.
@FriendlyFloyd7 describing sth as "shoal" derives from the german. i want to say that this music doesnt affect me on an emotional level. its superficial jingle-jangle for me. but thats just my opinion, so no offence anyway please! the age of the game doesnt matter, as long as its music is enthralling and fitting to the content.
hey im just kidding im not a fan boy roflmao but it was the first game i played :p i have great memories and yes i played almost every tekken and soul calibur is great too i just think VF is kinda more real i dont know but i have tekken tag and soul calibur 2 on ps2!i keep my mind open to be able to enjoy any kind of game but i will always love VF :) if tekken tag had the tekken 3 volleyball game it would be almost perfect :p anyway i prefer VF5 to tekken 6 hehe
The developers didn't want to eliminate jumping completely, as players who were used to other fighting games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat expected to be able to jump. So instead they made it very floaty and ineffective, to try and discourage players from jumping.
huh...i thought you meant it as a fake lol whats an emulation exactly?because this is the same as the one i have on saturn :p except for the message in the loading screen "patience,grasshopper"
There's only 2 Sega consoles that are technically inferior to their competitors: Sega Game 1000 (VS the Famicom) and the Dreamcast (VS the PS2, Gamecube and XBOX).
The Dreamcast was a competitor to the N64, PS1, and PS2. They had already announced the console was discontinued months before the Xbox and Gamecube came out. As a Dreamcast owner, it was very sad to have to think all Fall about which new console I would need to choose.
then go play VF5 and call them robots :p i admit tekken was better looking than vf back in 95 or 96 but not the remix version :p anyway its even better if we have the chance to appreciate and play both!
A man after my own heart. I got Remix for free from Sega back in the day, from memory it was a thank you to those who got Saturn at launch and lost out due to the quick price drop. Remix has always looked like a fan mod, it utterly removes the feel of the original game. Not a fan, never have been.
@@DreamcastFan-101 Remix served two purposes: 1) Sega making it up to its nascent Saturn owners for the rushed, buggy port of the original VF which played well but did not look the part compared to the coin-op, 2) To acclimate Sega's development staff to the Saturn hardware. VF Remix was used as a testing ground for the Saturn port of VF2 which followed months later; initial tech demos were based off of VF Remix assets. That and Tekken and Toshinden had come onto the scene on the rival console, so Sega had to prove that the Saturn hardware could go until VF2/Sega Rally/Virtua Cop dropped.
The comments section is full of completely crazy fanboys who think that an ugly ass original looks better somehow... Some things is impossible to comprehend...
I do not like the characters of the Virtua Fighter series, they look like Street Fighter II ripoffs (as well as Dural being a Terminator 2: Judgement Day ripoff), I like the 20 characters from another SEGA game in 1988 called Gain Ground, this game should have been a fighting spinoff to that one with hand-to-hand combat, the only characters I like from the VF series is Goh Hinogami and Brad Burns from Virtua Fighter 4 EVOLUTION.
Thierry Cashew Tekken is one big Virtua fighter and street fighter rip off. Whats your point. FYI VF is the reason your playing 3d games. SF could be called a Karate fighter rip off and final fight a double dragon ripoff. Other than Akira who uses kung fu not shotokan like ryu and bares some visual similarity your wrong. If everyone thought like you every game with a karate, kung fu or wrestling character would be a street fighter rip off. Mortal Kombat is a street fighter rip off. Ridge racer is a daytona ripoff, And every PS 3d fighter is VF ripoff.
+Mark S He's arguing what the characters look like not how the games play. Too much generalization and not enough specification or fact to make a point as well. Also, learn the definition of rip off and inspiration.
Thierry Cashew There's nothing particularly wrong with the Virtua Fighter characters designs, but they are solely lacking in personality and really need proper intros and endings to explain who they are, what they are fighting for, etc. Pai is a Chinese girl like Chun-Li, but her Street Fighter counterpart is far more memorable.
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I recommend Virtua Fighter Remix. It is a better version of Virtua Fighter 1 with improved graphics and better gameplay balance.
I would its just as good as Virtua Fighter 2
PATIENCE GRASSHOPPER!!!!!!!!
YEAAAAH!
OOOOOOH!
YE-YE-YE-YEAH!
O-O-O-OOOH!
I love at 5:18 how Kage is able to dive headfirst into concrete without taking any damage
Judging from their appearance, they are piece of concrete themeself - so it shouldn´t hurt. Much xD
A Headstrong MF 😆
The music selection has some real bangers in it.
An excellent "mulligan" from the early days of Sega Saturn. I was thrilled to receive my disc in the mail for free (w/purchase of Saturn system). The texture mapped polygons still look impressive, and all of the graphics glitches (plz ignore this videos emulation hiccups) from the original VF were completely resolved. Yes, VF2 blew everything out of the water, but it's fun to play the original VF now and then.
There is something about the true to life way the fighters move and throw punches in this game (and even the orginial) that blows tekken out of the water...
Yeah, I like how they jump 40 feet in the air as well, very... true... to life...
+ronjon83 lol.
+ronjon83 It was a deliberate attempt by the developers to discourage jumping. They probably should have just eliminated the ability to jump altogether, to make it truly realistic.
rocketcon
no. that would have sucked!
GOD DAMN this game looks good for its time!
What's so funny with this statement is that the game has no lighting and shading what so ever, all it does is display the painted textures on the polygons! I agree it looks great though!
If you learned martial art, you would appreciate this game in terms of accuracy of techniques.
Ah yes. My favorite martial art: moon jumps and jet engine kicks.
@@billyj.causeyvideoguy7361 you could do that in real life
@Gamewitzer There really wasnt that many 3D fighting games back then. They were mostly 2D onlay. 3D fighting blew our minds back in the day.
my fav character was Kage. He says Habai at the end of every wins.
What does Habai mean?
it cracks me up the way he says "ready, GO!". hhahaha!
I swear if the Virtua Fighter games just had a balanced difficulty, I would dig it 100%! Virtua Fighter 5 FS was very good with this, seriously, that one is an AMAZING game, it's absolutely gorgeous! I especially like Akira and Wolf. But with all of the older games the AI is just way too frustrating. I mean look at Fighting Vipers. The arcade version was BRUTAL, but the saturn port has such a good difficulty curve, even Very Hard felt like a genuine challenge instead of being plain cheap. I can understand the sentiment, cos yknow it's arcade and they want to draw quarters from you. I mean sure. But a home console port HAS to be balanced to fit every audience, no reason for cheap AI there. So sad VF is so difficult in terms of AI :/
That's the same reason why I can't stand the Mortal Kombat games. Cheap A.I. really spoils the single player mode in fighting games.
@@rocketcon most fighting games suck hope sf6 is good
The arcade version took so many coins from me... Frick you Dural xD
I am one of the few that miss the polygon graphics of the original Virtua Fighter, as well as other games like Star Fox 1, Stunt Race FX, Virtua Racing and a few others.
Oh I am too. I love retro games more than I love modern games. I constantly play old SF, VF and Tekken games on my emulators. And then games like Sega Rally, Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, etc. I just love em all haha
1983parrothead me too I loved the look of untexture polygons, I still love the way virtua racing looks.
bartdude82 your a true gamer you play all and enjoy all your not a fanboy. That is rare
This is awesome
Akira looks Like Ryu from Streetfighter xD Pai, Wolf & Jeff are my favorite Characters *_*
This still looks real nice
maybe not in story or graphics back in the day but in gameplay its more "real" you know what i mean?its like almost all of the kicks and punches feel "real" like they could be executed in real life and tekken or soul calibur you just hit the buttons by chance and you do awesome combos in VF you have to know what you're doing thats the big difference!
I’m 28 and I still love this game
The version of VF that should've been released in '94 at launch
Pai laught is so cute
My chilldhood :,D
João Arthur a minha também Br!
the only way i can judge the person playing is that they have an awesome taste in games!
Pai was the best. She was really fast.
She was like the Chung Li in Virtua Fighter.
eu sempre quis arranjar uma maneira de usar as roupas alternativas dos personagens e nunca consegui ahauahaua. Pai era o cão chupando manga.
I love this game and you are playing my favorite character. ;-)
The original was glitchy and far from perfect, but it at least did have lighting. Sarah's stage obviously loses out as a result.
Stephan Dolby that Will be Very cool, fall down of The building in Sara's stadium.
Oh Man, my favorite character for Virtua Fighter is Akira!
5:42 timemarker: 2'29
5:53 timemarker: 7'14
i cant say i'm surprised XD
5:15 was a really good comeback!
Yes it seemed so. But there were games like Tomb Raider, Doom 1&2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and best of all - Exhumed, which really surpassed PSX versions in a big way. SEGA did a horrible job with Saturn's launch. Daytona USA was a fun game, but the tech was really bad. Virtua Fighter was ugly too. If SEGA had launched with VF REMIX and SEGA Rally or a tuned version of Daytona USA, they would still be here. Dreamcast was way superior to PS2, it offered twice as much video ram and showed off often.
altho this looks prettier, i prefer the original look
Yeah, me too. The original is more primitive, but that simplicity makes it more unique.
yeah although the first version was glitchy and had a lot of broken backgrounds it still felt more like the arcade.
You're right. The polygon count is still lower than the Model 1 arcade version, as this is evidenced on the PC version in which you can turn the textures on or off on the fly.
Classic, love it how the polygon characters creep me the fuck out.
Preferred the look of the original Saturn version as it resembled the arcade version pretty closely. It wasn't arcade perfect but close enough for my standards, but this remix just didn't do for it me.
PC-FX! 32x is technically 2D and is missing even more polys than the original Saturn game. Sound is also limited to the megadrive sound chip. Good load times but loses to Saturn overall. Virtua Racing deluxe on 32x was incredible though.
@Thekinggamelon Yep, that was an emulation problem. The patience grasshoper thing is just an ugly loading screen ;)
Pour moi de mon avis des jeux que j'ai eu sur cette console c'est le meilleur jeu auquel j'ai joué sur la Sega Saturn c'est le meilleur
awesome game. I own every collectable saturn game. I loved last bronx that was my favorite weapons based fighter long with Samurai Shodown. VF is the reason 3d is the standard and there are many stupid fanboys that fail to realize even Sony admitted it. I admit to liking some PS games but the Saturn was were the gamers games were at with better higher rez polygons.
@NebilimXYZ Once more I am reminded of how bad I am at "dating" some of these things.
Actually, I wasn't sure if you meant that or the quality of the sounds. But again, I enjoyed it, especially since it had some electric guitars. What did you mean by "shoal melody", anyway?
@NebilimXYZ Oh hey, no offense here either! Once again, I thought it was enthralling and fitting, but I agree with you about "to each his own".
good memories
@NebilimXYZ What are you talking about?? The music's pretty good, especially considering how old it is!
The "uhs" are also used in Sonic Rivals, and the "slam" heard during the credits: Masters of the Desert.
Virtua Vighter REMIX is the best beat em up ever! SEGA lost versus Sony because they were late with VF REMIX and SEGA Rally, Daytona USA didn't look as good, as it should.
McDaniel77 VF2 best version for me
Cubamus Prime Virtua Fighter Remix looks better. More realistic.
best of the best
Was the Saturn version an arcade perfect port of the segas STV arcade broad version ? I'm not 100% sure
Sorry for the 4-year wait, but the arcade version came after the home version. There was also a standalone retail package, but it appears to have only been released in Minnesota and Canada and is now extremely rare.
Why is everyone 18 and up in this game?
Why don't teenagers get love in fighting games?
I'm 15 :)
Guilt-free porn
You'd be suprised
Just play Fighting Vipers.
@A2Nesk Toshinden had it and it was a launch title for the PSX (1994).
The Saturn could've looked better than the PS1 (having a higher polygon count and expandable RAM), but it has a dual VDP (graphics card), 2 CPU's and 6 other SPU's and is pretty damn hard to program.
Toddo Roi the PS1 had the better GPU and lighting that the Sega Saturn didn't have
ora ora oraaaaa!
@sacrisesma I forgot about that game. Great when it was played then.
This was always an awesome game. I wonder how much later until side stepping was implemented into these sort of 3D fighters.
It took only 4 years. VF was released in 1993, VF3 introduced side-stepping (with a dedicated button, to boot) in 1997.
VF 3TB
just a retexture!
7:58 Clothesline from Hell!
@FriendlyFloyd7
describing sth as "shoal" derives from the german. i want to say that this music doesnt affect me on an emotional level. its superficial jingle-jangle for me. but thats just my opinion, so no offence anyway please! the age of the game doesnt matter, as long as its music is enthralling and fitting to the content.
no wonder the game time is longer than the video time- you lost a few battle and edited them out
04:43 Why some graphics are blinking
What programs have used to record?
hey im just kidding im not a fan boy roflmao but it was the first game i played :p i have great memories and yes i played almost every tekken and soul calibur is great too i just think VF is kinda more real i dont know but i have tekken tag and soul calibur 2 on ps2!i keep my mind open to be able to enjoy any kind of game but i will always love VF :) if tekken tag had the tekken 3 volleyball game it would be almost perfect :p anyway i prefer VF5 to tekken 6 hehe
8:52 who DOES THAT to their DAUGHTER?!?! Lau is one messed up son of bitch!
I appreciate it's accuracy, but in a real fight there's 100% of earth's gravity acting down on you not 10%.
The developers didn't want to eliminate jumping completely, as players who were used to other fighting games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat expected to be able to jump. So instead they made it very floaty and ineffective, to try and discourage players from jumping.
huh...i thought you meant it as a fake lol whats an emulation exactly?because this is the same as the one i have on saturn :p except for the message in the loading screen "patience,grasshopper"
There's only 2 Sega consoles that are technically inferior to their competitors: Sega Game 1000 (VS the Famicom) and the Dreamcast (VS the PS2, Gamecube and XBOX).
Toddo Roi The Sega Saturn das just had its bad capacity used.
The Dreamcast was a competitor to the N64, PS1, and PS2. They had already announced the console was discontinued months before the Xbox and Gamecube came out. As a Dreamcast owner, it was very sad to have to think all Fall about which new console I would need to choose.
00:04 What's with that "Patience, grasshopper!"?
I know its a decade late, but I think it's a loading screen.
its not emulation i have this game for the saturn and its awesome!!
Good old DAY NEVER COMO BACK
ohhhh i didnt knew that :p even so its a great fighting game!beats tekken any day in my opinion :p but im a sega boy roflmao
then go play VF5 and call them robots :p i admit tekken was better looking than vf back in 95 or 96 but not the remix version :p anyway its even better if we have the chance to appreciate and play both!
the video is stuck at 1:40
I prefer the original version with its early lego-like models, rather than this cringy version lol
A man after my own heart. I got Remix for free from Sega back in the day, from memory it was a thank you to those who got Saturn at launch and lost out due to the quick price drop. Remix has always looked like a fan mod, it utterly removes the feel of the original game. Not a fan, never have been.
@@DreamcastFan-101 Remix served two purposes: 1) Sega making it up to its nascent Saturn owners for the rushed, buggy port of the original VF which played well but did not look the part compared to the coin-op, 2) To acclimate Sega's development staff to the Saturn hardware. VF Remix was used as a testing ground for the Saturn port of VF2 which followed months later; initial tech demos were based off of VF Remix assets.
That and Tekken and Toshinden had come onto the scene on the rival console, so Sega had to prove that the Saturn hardware could go until VF2/Sega Rally/Virtua Cop dropped.
The comments section is full of completely crazy fanboys who think that an ugly ass original looks better somehow... Some things is impossible to comprehend...
Well everything has a start, and this basically is the grandad of 3d fighting games
Hong Kong isn't a country -.-
@FriendlyFloyd7
i know much older games which have way better sounds. this shoal melody pattern just sucks imo
music's terrible ...
I do not like the characters of the Virtua Fighter series, they look like Street Fighter II ripoffs (as well as Dural being a Terminator 2: Judgement Day ripoff), I like the 20 characters from another SEGA game in 1988 called Gain Ground, this game should have been a fighting spinoff to that one with hand-to-hand combat, the only characters I like from the VF series is Goh Hinogami and Brad Burns from Virtua Fighter 4 EVOLUTION.
Thierry Cashew Tekken is one big Virtua fighter and street fighter rip off. Whats your point. FYI VF is the reason your playing 3d games. SF could be called a Karate fighter rip off and final fight a double dragon ripoff. Other than Akira who uses kung fu not shotokan like ryu and bares some visual similarity your wrong. If everyone thought like you every game with a karate, kung fu or wrestling character would be a street fighter rip off. Mortal Kombat is a street fighter rip off. Ridge racer is a daytona ripoff, And every PS 3d fighter is VF ripoff.
+Mark S He's arguing what the characters look like not how the games play. Too much generalization and not enough specification or fact to make a point as well. Also, learn the definition of rip off and inspiration.
Thierry Cashew There's nothing particularly wrong with the Virtua Fighter characters designs, but they are solely lacking in personality and really need proper intros and endings to explain who they are, what they are fighting for, etc.
Pai is a Chinese girl like Chun-Li, but her Street Fighter counterpart is far more memorable.
@@rocketcon True. That's the only thing that's really lacking in the Series. Cause the physics, movement, music & learning curve are great.