Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Tekken (c) 1994 Namco.

World's 8 best martial artists emerge into 'The King Of Iron Fist Tournament' for winning the title of King of Iron Fist and a large purse of prize money. Every artist will try his best to defeat Heihachi and win the prize money and fame.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 11 hardware Game ID: TE

Main CPU: PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz), M37710 (@ 16.384 Mhz) Sound Chips: C352 (@ 16.384 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Horizontal Theoretical maximum video resolution: 640 x 480 pixels Video resolution (boot-up colour bar test): 256 x 240 pixels Video resolution (in-game): 512 x 240 pixels Video resolution (test mode): 640 x 240 pixels

Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 4 => [1] LP, [2] RP, [3] LK, [4] RK

- TRIVIA -

Tekken was released in December 1994 in the Arcades.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Iron Fist'.

The game was originally going to be called 'Rave War'.

The music in Tekken was recycled in "Tekken 2" for all except Venezia and the Character Select BGM. Marine Stadium -> Bruce, Monument Valley -> Armor King, Angkor Wat -> Kunimitsu, Fiji -> Roger, Windermere -> P.Jack, Acropolis -> Kuma, Chicago -> Lee, Szechwan -> Wang, Kyoto -> Ganryu, King George Island -> Anna.

Some of the characters' sound effects are recycled for other characters: Kazuya and Lee Yoshimitsu and Kunimitsu Nina and Anna Jack, P.Jack, Ganryu and Heihachi King, Armor King and Kuma Law, Paul, Michelle and Wang have their own individual sounds.

Interestingly, Kunimitsu had Yoshimitsu's voice, although Kunimitsu is a female character. Why Namco decided not to use Michelle's or Nina's voices no-one knows.

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Tekken (World, TE2/VER.C). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Fighter, Arcade.