Tekken 2 is a 3D fighting game developed by Namco. It reached arcades in August 1995 on the Namco System 11 board, and a revised Ver. B followed in October 1995. Development took about seven months; each fighter used roughly 800 polygons and took three days to a week to model.
The roster has 25 fighters, 17 of them returning and 8 new, including Jun Kazama and Lei Wulong, with 10 available from the start. The PlayStation version came out in Japan on 29 March 1996, in North America on 27 August 1996 and in Europe on 2 October 1996. Much of the port work went into squeezing the game into the console's memory, about half the size of the arcade game's data. In Japan it became the first million-seller among PlayStation games.
Tekken 5 (2005) later included the arcade Ver. B as a bonus in its Arcade History mode.12
Names and releases
| Region | Title on the box | Platform | Date | Publisher | Src |
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| NA | Tekken 2 | PlayStation | Aug 27, 1996 | Namco Hometek | 1 |
| JP | 鉄拳2Namco System 11; also North America in August 1995 | Arcade | August 1995 | Namco | 1 |
| WW | Tekken 2Wider release; the revised Ver. B also arrived in October 1995 | Arcade | October 1995 | Namco | 1 |
| JP | 鉄拳2Based on arcade Ver. B | PlayStation | Mar 29, 1996 | — | 1 |
| EU | Tekken 2 | PlayStation | Oct 2, 1996 | Sony Computer Entertainment | 1 |
| WW | Tekken 5Arcade Ver. B playable in Tekken 5's Arcade History mode | PlayStation 2 | 2005 | Namco | 1 |
| JP | 鉄拳2Game Archives; PS3 support added on 25 April 2007 | PSP | Nov 22, 2006 | — | 2 |
| WW | Tekken 2PlayStation Plus classic for PS4 and PS5 | PlayStation 4 | 2023 | — | 1 |
Also known as: 鉄拳2 JP1
Box art by region
NA Tekken 2 
EU Tekken 2 
JP 鉄拳2
Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: libretro-thumbnails.
Version differences
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ContentPlayStation
The PlayStation version adds Survival, Team Battle, Time Attack and Practice modes, along with hidden options such as a big-head mode and a first-person view.2
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ContentPlayStation
On PlayStation every character gets a full-motion CG ending.1
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AudioPlayStation
The PlayStation version uses arranged music, but the original arcade tracks can be picked in the settings; some character voices were changed or removed.2
Reception
The PlayStation version holds 93% on GameRankings and 89/100 on Metacritic. It sold over 1.2 million copies in Japan by the end of 1996 and 5.7 million worldwide as of 2013, while the arcade original was Japan's highest-grossing arcade game of 1996. Electronic Gaming Monthly's Crispin Boyer called it the best 3D fighting game on any system.1
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