Tekken (1994)

Tekken is a 3D fighting game released for arcades in 1994 and for the PlayStation in 1995, it is the first game in the popular fighting series Tekken.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) 17 fighters to play with (eight in the arcade version), and eight of them are unlocked from the start.
 * 2) The AI is easily the most challenging and really difficult in the Tekken franchise.
 * 3) Awesome characters with interesting cutscenes.
 * 4) Each limb of the character (left arm, right arm, left leg and right leg) has its own button, making it easier for casual fighting gamers to do combos.
 * 5) Each character has his/her own sub boss, defeating him/her/it unlocks said sub boss (PlayStation version only).
 * 6) Heihatchi is really hard and punishing to beat in Medium difficulty, which is great as a final boss fight, a very punishing one, making the fight feel unfair when It's not, It's extremely challenging.
 * 7) A Galaga mini-game appears at start up, defeating the mini-game unlocks a special character.
 * 8) Unlike fighting games at the time that had Alternate costumes for characters the same but with slightly different color, there's alternate costumes for literally every character in this game.
 * 9) Unlike most fighting games, the story isn't about the main character trying to be the best fighter.
 * 10) You can modify the L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons to make the press combos, for example you can make the R1 button acts like a Circle + X button together.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Sometimes stages can be very hard due to delayed controls.
 * 2) Most characters sound the same, due to low budget that Namco had while making the game.
 * 3) The Galaga mini-game is hard, and defeating the mini-game unlocks Devil, who's basically just a skin for Kazuya.
 * 4) Characters unlocked from the start are the only characters with an ending.
 * 5) The game is outdated because of the superior sequels to this game that were released.
 * 6) The geometric level of the characters is low and make them look too blocky and ugly if you stare at their faces.
 * 7) The jump system was not very well adjusted, making you jump ridiculously high for a human character while doing a kick or an evasive jump (a problem with most 3D fighting games back then).

Reception
Tekken received positive reviews and became the first PlayStation game to sell over 1 million copies.