It's funny to think this was enough to launch an entire franchise back in the 90s

I was scrolling through a list of PS1 roms and realised I'd never actually played the original DOA, having started with the series with the PS2 port of DOA2. I gave it a go in DuckStation and the boob physics are distractingly funny on these low-poly models

The game feels pretty clunky and primitive (which is not that surprising since it came out in arcades in 1996) and it looks like most of the things that make these games fun to play (the four button punch/kick/throw/counter system, interactive multi-tier stages with hazards, breakable walls and objects & fast-paced combat where most attacks send your enemy flying at mach 2 right into the things I just listed) were introduced in Dead Or Alive 2

Hope the image host works, not sure where to put mp4s now that imgur requires a login