attack movements, allows you to control the characters with unrivalled grace." GameSpot's James Mielke praised the Dreamcast version, awarding it 8.2/10, saying "Virtua Fighter fans will find all they need neatly wrapped in this package". Allgame's Cal Nguyen, however, compared the Dreamcast version unfavorably with Soul Calibur. Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the Dreamcast version of Virtua Fighter 3tb for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "A peek beneath the exterior shows that it's still got all the right moves – the question is, will you look?" In the arcades, the game was very successful, to the point where the profits from this game and Virtua Fighter 4 helped recoup the losses Sega received from the commercial failure of Shenmue''. It hit the top of the arcade charts in Japan upon release, despite initially appearing almost solely in arcades owned by Sega itself, due to the cabinet's high price. The arcade release of 3tb would see a resurgence beginning in the mid-2010s when Japanese game centers a-cho and Mikado began hosting new weekly tournaments. Those would eventually grow to large yearly events involving a wide variety of players both new and veteran. As of 2020, 3tb is widely played competitively in Japanese game centers, with a large number of weekly, monthly and yearly events coordinated by an informal organisation of players. References External links 1996 video games Arcade video games Cancelled Sega Saturn games Dreamcast games Sega-AM2 games Sega arcade games Sega video games Virtua Fighter Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games designed by Yu Suzuki Video games scored by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Video games developed in Japan