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November 23, 1998 - The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was released in NA
Tekken was not originally conceived as a fighting game. The project began as an internal Namco test case for animating 3D character models, and eventually incorporated texture mapping similar to that found in Namco's 1993 racing game Ridge Racer. In 1994, Namco acquired developers from longtime competitor Sega, which had recently created the first 3D fighting game with 1993's Virtua Fighter. The game was originally going to be titled Rave War, but in its final stages of development it was changed to Tekken.
Directed by Virtua Fighter designer Seiichi Ishii, Tekken was intended to be a fundamentally similar title, with the addition of detailed textures and twice the frame rate. Tekken was further distinguished by its intuitive control scheme and memorable characters. Because it was developed for Namco's System 11 arcade board, which was based on raw PlayStation hardware, Tekken was easily ported to the latter. It was the first arcade game to use this board. Tekken was marketed to small arcades as a cheaper alternative to Sega's Virtua Fighter 2, which was released for the more expensive Model 2 arcade board.
December 20, 2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic releases for the PC in North America. It is the second MMORPG based in the Star Wars universe, following Star Wars Galaxies whose servers shut down just five days prior to the release of The Old Republic.
This thread is like On This Day In History, only with the word "Gaming" inserted into it. Yep.
On this day in gaming history!
April belongs to the N64.
The rest of the year too.
On this day in gaming in 2006, Saints Row was released on the Xbox 360. And 15 years later, the series is still causing controversy.
On this day in Japan, September 3, 1998.