As the project slowly morphed into a fighting game, Seiichi Ishii, former designer for Virtua Fighter was brought on to direct the project. The team for this test later started playing with texture mapping, which the company had worked on with the 1993 arcade game Ridge Racer. The purpose of this test was to experiment with the animation of 3D character models, which was a new trend at the time. The earliest version of Tekken can be traced back to an internal test case at Namco in the early 1990s.

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4 through a downloadable content costume for Mii Brawlers based on Heihachi Mishima, while joining the roster with Kazuya Mishima in Fighter's Pass Vol. The series was originally represented in Super Smash Bros. One of Bandai Namco's flagship franchises and its best-selling one, the Tekken series has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide during its lifespan and is considered a pioneer in the fighting game genre, being one of the first to utilize 3D animation and CGI in its gameplay, unheard of for the genre at the time. Originating in 1994 for arcades, the series centers around a feud among the members of the Mishima family surrounding the inheritance of Heihachi Mishima, a recurring antagonist in the series. series' collection of characters, stages, and properties hailing from the long-running series of fighting games created and owned by Bandai Namco (formerly Namco). The Tekken universe ( 鉄拳, Iron Fist) refers to the Super Smash Bros.

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