Attract Mode - Eternal Champions (Sega-CD)

This is the lengthy attract mode from the Sega-CD game Eternal Champions that introduces each character in the game. This intro shows how each combatant throughout time was saved just before their untimely death and brought to fight...to ultimately become the Eternal Champion.

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[Sandberry]

This is a deceitful little video game.

You think it'll be a shallow fighting game meant for superhero loving kids, when, in actuality, it's got a depth and charm of its own and a decent story, while secretly being gorier than anything else on the market at the time (or, even now.)

I could really see the look on a soccer man's face when she goes from watching little Billy's cowboy beating up Susie's Ninja to the latter getting sliced up by the blades in Midknight's stage.

[OfficialMC2]

Sega ended it, it has nothing to do with popularity.

[TheMachoMadnesss]

the good old times.i've always prefered eternal champions over street fighter

[killwhitey88d]

can somebody tell me why the iso never has any in game music?

[Dynaman21]

@BloodyBay I can tell you right now that if Eternal Champions went head to head with Tekken it would have been slaughtered. Also, 2D gameplay mechanics rarely work in 3D. Mortal Kombat, the game Eternal Champions was created to rival, pretty much proved that. I have no true ill will towards EC, but Virtua Fighter was a successful franchise and continued well past the end of Sega's hardware days. I don't know if EC could have done that.

[BloodyBay]

@Dynaman21 That right there is the reason why some EC fans scorn Sega's decision. EC represented Sega doing their own thing: a cast of fighters with widely varied styles and appearances taken from all across the time continuum, imaginative maneuvers and fatalities and an overall "cool factor". Instead, they chose to keep up with the Joneses and copy Tekken with VF.

Maybe they should have let Tekken be Tekken and brought EC3 into the 3D fighter genre instead. It might have worked.

[Dynaman21]

@BloodyBay Let's see...5 games, a two season anime which was pretty much a parody of the uber-strict gameplay (and was surprisingly well done), and a continued presence on consoles. It's done pretty well for itself all things considered. At that point in time, 2D was out and 3D was in, hence the focus on VF to rival Tekken. No way could EC have done anything against Tekken.

[BloodyBay]

@Dynaman21 So you're a VF fan. How many of the rest of us are VF fans? And if VF is so great, then why doesn't it have its own movies, cartoons and comic books?

Yeah, I know...neither does Eternal Champions. But a lot of us old Sega players still remember that game for pushing the envelope like it did...and it looked pretty snazzy while doing it.

I still say that Sega should have made EC3 instead.

[Dynaman21]

"I am the Eternal Champion, played by an impersonator of the great and powerful MAKO!"

[Dynaman21]

@BloodyBay Really? That's why there was 5 VF games, and VF3 is an exhibit at the Smithsonian...

[BloodyBay]

@OfficialMC2 ...or specifically, Sega had a few dollars and a choice to develop either Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter or another Virtua Fighter sequel.

They opted for Virtua Fighter, believing it would be the more popular choice. And so, despite the back of the next-gen Sega Genesis' box showing a screenshot from Eternal Champions III, that game got scrapped.

No one remembers Virtua Fighter anymore.

Sega chose...poorly.

[BloodyBay]

(Eh, I dunno...maybe I'm just nitpicky with details. Kind of like how the Dark Champion here "reveals" that the Eternal Champion overlooked the four new combatants (Ramses III, Riptide, Raven and Dawson). Nevermind that the Eternal Champion MOST CERTAINLY *DID* JUST PLAY SHOW-AND-TELL WITH EACH OF THESE FOUR NEWCOMERS' DEATHS....)

(Oy. I need a chill pill and a good stout beer, I guess.)