Virtua Inside Jokes

There's no better way to play Virtua Fighter than in domestic multiplayer with a friend. Scratch that; this is true of any game. I even played single player games with my little brother, growing up. Even if he didn't actually play the game with me or vice versa, I think it always can add to the experience and make any game that much more fun.

Specifically, in the case of Virtua Fighter, I mainly enjoy playing with Brain (or the DrunkPope), my Shun-playing best Virtua friend. He's the first person I successfully got into VF, and he's grown as a player more or less alongside me. During that time, we've created a handful of inside jokes related to the characters, which I think is more a response to the game's lacking (and potential for) story than anything. This following is a list of everything that we've made up (that I can recall at the moment).

We frequently refer to Akira as Thundernuts, if only because everything he does makes that classic Virtua smash sound effect. I think Brain asserted that it could only be his hidden bodyparts making that sound, because it erupts even when he doesn't make contact with anyone. At any rate, the name has stuck.

In reference to one of Jeffry's win quotes, we have decided that he literally took the very confusingly Irish name McWild from someone long before the events of Virtua Fighter.

Every time Wolf speaks, howls or laughs, he adds, "Eh?" Ergo, "I won't go easy on you, eh?" Just poking fun at the Canadian stereotype, y'know. Speaking of, fighting Wolf in the Snowy Mountain stage prompts one of us to speak as Wolf and say, "How you enjoying the Canadian Summer, eh?"

Shun refers to the raft in the River stage as his house. It seems suiting to his character that he'd live so simply, but it's hilarious to me that anyone would call a raft a house.

There are probably more, but the point is that to me, these things are as much a part of the Virtua Universe as the actual, official bits about the game. I encourage everyone to share their own.