“We really had to shorten the move list for Tekken Advance”.
Tekken Advance is the one of the stranger entries in Namco’s long-running fighting game series. Released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, it is commonly mistaken for a straightforward port of Tekken 3, but is instead a non-canonical entry in the series that arguably shares a lot more in common with the PlayStation 2 title Tekken Tag Tournament, which was released one year prior.
The first ever Tekken to be launched for a handheld platform, it arrived at a time when Tekken was primarily associated with sophisticated arcade hardware and cutting edge Sony consoles, and, as a result, generated a lot of curiosity and attention from fans and gaming outlets, with many wondering how Namco and the game’s developer Eighting were going to be able to squeeze the visually impressive 3D fighter onto a console primarily known for its sprite-based 2D games.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“We really had to shorten the move list for Tekken Advance”.
Tekken Advance is the one of the stranger entries in Namco’s long-running fighting game series. Released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, it is commonly mistaken for a straightforward port of Tekken 3, but is instead a non-canonical entry in the series that arguably shares a lot more in common with the PlayStation 2 title Tekken Tag Tournament, which was released one year prior.
The first ever Tekken to be launched for a handheld platform, it arrived at a time when Tekken was primarily associated with sophisticated arcade hardware and cutting edge Sony consoles, and, as a result, generated a lot of curiosity and attention from fans and gaming outlets, with many wondering how Namco and the game’s developer Eighting were going to be able to squeeze the visually impressive 3D fighter onto a console primarily known for its sprite-based 2D games.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
