Back cover illustration for Gamest magazine’s Game Parody 4-Koma Grand Prix 8, by Shineimon Ooedo.
Back cover illustration for Gamest magazine’s Game Parody 4koma Grand Prix 4, by Kohime Ouse.
Photos from Sega Virtua Night, an event held at club Yellow in Roppongi in 1994. The club event featured TV and radio personalities, DJs, as well as a Virtua Fighter tournament, with 4 free play cabs available for all attendees.
Virtua Fighter comic by Mahiro Nouno, from a 1996 Comic Gamest compilation.
Virtua Fighter 3/Dynamite Deka (Die Hard Arcade) comics by Takafumi Sotoma, from a 1997 Comic Gamest compilation.
Fighting game fanart column, from a 2003 issue of Arcadia magazine.
Key art for Sega’s All Japan Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua, from 1997.
A 1995 survey asked Virtua Fighter 2 fans what type of players they hate the most. The most hated were “Chickens” (turtling players), with second place being “Monkeys” (players who spam the same move), and third place being players who don’t leave the cabinet after their turn.
MMB, Sega’s official cosplay unit in the mid-90s, advertising Virtua Fighter Kids at an event.
Insert illustration by Terazou for Gamest magazine’s Game Parody 4-Koma Grand Prix, from 1995.