Evolution of Anime Fighting Games 1994-2021
1994 Asuka 120% Final BURNING Fest
1995 Ninku
1996 Waku Waku 7
1998 Marvel VS Capcom
2000 Guilty Gear X
2001 Digimon Rumble Arena
2002 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
2002 Melty Blood
2003 Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2
2004 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
2005 One Piece Grand Battle
2005 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3
2006 Jump Ultimate Stars
2007 Bleach Dark Souls
2007 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
2007 Naruto: Rise of a Ninja
2008 Dragon Ball Z:Burst Limit
2008 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
2009 Sunday vs. Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen
2009 Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
2010 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
2011 Arcana Heart 3
2012 Under Night In-Birth
2013 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle
2013 Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
2014 Guilty Gear Xrd
2014 Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax
2014 J-Stars Victory VS
2015 Saint Seiya: Soldiers’ Soul
2015 BLAZBLUE: CENTRAL FICTION
2016 One Piece: Burning Blood
2016 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
2018 Dragon Ball FighterZ
2018 BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
2018 My Hero One’s Justice
2019 KILL La KILL- IF
2019 Jump Force
2020 One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows
2020 My Hero: One’s Justice 2
2021 Guilty Gear -Strive-
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Nixian Channel Description:
Nixian Channel Description:
We’re lifelong video game enthusiasts with a passion for showing the world how our favorite hobby has grown with us, from individual series to industry-wide retrospectives.
We put significant time and creative effort into each one of our videos, including research, digging into archives, recording voiceovers, and editing. Every video takes as many as 10 hours to produce, because we strive to give our fans consistent, high-quality content.
Our popular “Evolution of…” series goes far beyond simply presenting gameplay footage. We take the time to show how a video game property — its gameplay, character designs, graphics, sound direction, etc. — have evolved over time. We include unique voiceover work on each video to enhance the viewing experience.
People have been playing video games for decades. In that time, we’ve gone from moving a white line up and down to block a moving pixel, to participating in full-fledged, painstakingly rendered real-time battles with people all over the world. We help older gamers look back on how these experiences have changed throughout their lives, and new gamers to understand the broader context of the series they’re playing for the first time today.
The video game medium never stops growing, and we’ll never stop chronicling its evolution.
Editing and voice-over were made by me.
