is a series of association football sports video games released by Sega for arcades. Originally developed by Sega AM2 from 1994 to 1999, the series moved to Amusement Vision with Virtua Striker 3, but it later moved to Sega Sports Design R&D Dept. with Virtua Striker 4. The original Virtua Striker, released in 1994, was the first association football game to use 3D computer graphics, and was also notable for its early use of texture mapping, along with Sega's own racing video game Daytona USA. Sega advertised the game as "the first three-dimensional computer graphic soccer game". Only two games in the series have been released on home consoles - Virtua Striker 2 (ver. 2000.1) for the Sega Dreamcast, and Virtua Striker 3 for the GameCube. History The main arcade series includes: Virtua Striker (1995) Virtua Striker 2 (1997) Virtua Striker 2 ver. '98 (update, 1998) Virtua Striker 2 ver. '99 (update, 1998) Virtua Striker 2 ver. '99.1 (update, 1998) Virtua Striker 2 ver. 2000 (update, 1999) Virtua Striker 2 ver. 2000.1 (Sega Dreamcast port; December 1999; named Virtua Striker 2 in US version) Virtua Striker 3 (2001) Virtua Striker 2002 (2002) Virtua Striker 3 ver. 2002 (Nintendo GameCube port; February 2002; named Virtua Striker 2002 in US version) Virtua Striker 4 (2004) Virtua Striker 4 ver. 2006 (2006) The original Virtua Striker game received Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ports, distributed respectively through Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, in February 2013, exclusively for Japan. Overview The original Virtua Striker used Sega's Sega Model 2 hardware. The Virtua Striker 2 series run on Sega Model 3, with the exception of Virtua Striker 2 ver. 2000, which appeared on the Dreamcast-based NAOMI system. Virtua Striker 3 was released for the NAOMI 2; subsequent installments (Virtua Striker 2002 and Virtua Striker 4) used the GameCube-based Triforce hardware. Virtua Striker 4 added a card system and mobile phone syncing, allowing players to configure strategies and formations on the move. The game consists of a single-elimination knock-out tournament with 16 teams (like in the knock-out stage of the FIFA World Cup), with each match lasting two minutes by default, plus injury time and, if the match ends in a draw, one extra minute of sudden death. If the draw persists, penalty shootouts are used to decide the winner. In the console versions and Virtua Striker 4, matches are divided in two halves of