"It's kind of sad that we're the only 3D fighting game" On Tekken's 30th anniversary, Harada and Michael Murray look back at the series' past

Harada: It’s kind-of sad that we’re the only 3D fighting game, because 3D and 2D are just so drastically different.

I was just trying really hard to catch up with rivals in the fighting game genre at the time.

Though Tekken is now seen as one of the foundational IPs in the fighting game genre, that hasn’t always been the case.