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50 free Tekken trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Tekken started as a Namco test for animating 3D models and became the longest-running story in video games without a reboot, a multi-generational family feud fought one King of Iron Fist Tournament at a time. This quiz covers the lore and the history: Heihachi throwing five-year-old Kazuya off a mountain, the volcano, the Devil Gene, Jin's debut in Tekken 3 and the saga's conclusion in Tekken 7 and 8. It also tests the production side: the System 11 arcade board, the 60 fps milestone, Seiichi Ishii's direction, Katsuhiro Harada's voice roles, Tekken 3's 8.36 million PlayStation sales, Unreal Engine 5, Arika, the Heat system, Snoop Dogg's stage, Akuma and Negan as guests, Pokkén Tournament and the Netflix anime Bloodline. Every answer is sourced from Wikipedia pages on the games and characters. Play in sets of ten, then try the Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat quizzes.
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Q 01What does the Japanese word 'Tekken' mean in English?
Iron Fist
The in-game tournament is therefore called the King of Iron Fist Tournament.
Q 02Which company created the Tekken series?
Namco
Namco later merged to become Bandai Namco; the first game was its answer to Sega's Virtua Fighter.
Q 03In what year did the first Tekken arrive in arcades?
1994
A console port followed in 1995, making all eight sub-bosses playable for a total of eighteen characters.
Q 04The tournament at the heart of the games is hosted by which company?
Mishima Zaibatsu
Winning the tournament means taking control of the Zaibatsu itself.
Q 05Which family's multi-generational feud drives the series' main plot?
The Mishimas
Harada describes it as three men, Heihachi, Kazuya and Jin, each trying to destroy the others.
Q 06Unlike most fighters, Tekken dedicates each of its four buttons to what?
A limb of the fighter
Left punch, right punch, left kick and right kick replace the usual weak/strong button layout.
Q 07Tekken was the first 3D fighting game to run at which frame rate standard?
60 fps
It aimed to be like Virtua Fighter but with detailed textures and twice the frame rate.
Q 08The original Tekken began as an internal test for what?
Animating 3D character models
It borrowed texture mapping from Namco's 1993 racer Ridge Racer before becoming a fighting game.
Q 09Which Virtua Fighter designer directed the first Tekken?
Seiichi Ishii
Ishii had designed Virtua Fighter at Sega before moving to Namco.
Q 10The first Tekken arcade machine ran on which board?
System 11
It was a purpose-built low-cost board based on Sony's console hardware, a pattern the series kept for years.
Q 11How many playable characters did the original arcade Tekken have?
Eight
Each had a sub-boss with a cloned moveset, and Heihachi waited as the final boss.
Q 12Who is the protagonist of the first Tekken?
Kazuya Mishima
He ends the game by throwing his father off the same cliff Heihachi once threw him from.
Q 13How old was Kazuya when Heihachi threw him off a mountain?
Five
He survived by making a pact with an entity called Devil, the origin of the series' cursed bloodline.
Q 14The series' first protagonist was based on which Japanese writer?
Q 21Which Brazilian capoeira fighter joined the roster in Tekken 3?
Eddy Gordo
Capoeira master Mestre Marcelo Pereira performed his motion capture.
Q 22Which mentee took over Eddy's capoeira moveset in Tekken 4's initial roster?
Christie Monteiro
Christie is Eddy's mentee and shares his moveset.
Q 23Tekken 5 introduced Asuka Kazama, a newcomer from which Japanese city?
Osaka
Devil Jin also became a separate playable character that game, and many Tekken 3 cuts returned.
Q 24Which revision of Tekken 5 added Lili and Sergei Dragunov?
Yukio Mishima
They share a surname; staff have debated nerfing Kazuya as one of the roster's strongest fighters.
Q 15In Tekken 2's canon ending, where does Heihachi throw Kazuya?
Into a volcano
Kazuya survives; Tekken 4 reveals he returned 20 years later to reclaim the Zaibatsu.
Q 16Tekken 3 jumps how many years ahead of Tekken 2's story?
19
The gap meant a largely new cast, including Jin Kazama, Ling Xiaoyu and Hwoarang.
Q 17Jin, who debuted in Tekken 3, is the child of Kazuya and whom?
Jun
Jin mixed the Mishima karate style with his mother's Kazama arts before switching to traditional karate in Tekken 4.
Q 18Which side-scrolling beat 'em up mode debuted in the 1998 home version of the third game?
Tekken Force
Tekken Ball, a volleyball-style bonus, also arrived in Tekken 3; Tekken Bowl came with Tag Tournament.
Q 19How many console copies did Tekken 3 sell worldwide?
8.36 million
It was the fifth best-selling game on its console and shipped 35,000 arcade units.
Q 20Who wins the third tournament in the canon story?
Paul Phoenix
Paul beats Ogre and leaves, not realizing it transforms into True Ogre, which Jin then defeats.
Dark Resurrection
Its PS3 version, Dark Resurrection ONLINE, was the first Tekken with online play.
Q 25Tekken 6 was the first game in the series to be what?
Multiplatform
It launched on both Sony's and Microsoft's consoles, based on the Bloodline Rebellion arcade update.
Q 26Who is revealed as Heihachi's illegitimate son in Tekken 6?
Lars Alexandersson
Lars leads the Scenario Campaign and later helps Jin recover in Tekken 7.
Q 27Tekken 7 was the first in the series built on which third-party technology?
Unreal Engine
It hit Japanese and Korean arcades in 2015; the sequel moved to the next version of the same technology.
Q 28Which Capcom fighter guest-starred in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution?
Akuma
Geese Howard, Noctis from Final Fantasy XV and The Walking Dead's Negan followed as guests.
Q 29Who ends Tekken 7 vowing to end the cursed Mishima bloodline?
Jin
Kazuya has just thrown his father into an erupting volcano, concluding the Mishima saga.
Q 30Tekken 7 revealed that Heihachi's wife Kazumi carried what?
The Devil Gene
The story says Heihachi acted in self-defense shortly after Kazuya's birth.