Tekken 2 is a fighting video game developed and published by Namco. The second entry in the Tekken series, it was originally released for arcades in 1995, and ported to the PlayStation a year later. The arcade version was later released in Tekken 5's Arcade History mode for the PlayStation 2. There are 25 playable fighters in the game, which includes 17 returning veterans and eight newcomers. The home console version also introduced new, now-staple game modes to the series. Tekken 2 was a critical as well as commercial success, becoming one of the best-selling PlayStation games with about 40,000 arcade units and 5.7 million PlayStation copies sold worldwide. It was followed by a sequel, Tekken 3, in 1997.