Back when the fighting game genre was still young, move-sets were seldom seen and players were expected to figure the inns and outs of each character on their own. Tekken was one of the first games to popularize command lists, but ironically, there were several powerful techniques in the game that weren't actually specified as such on commands lists. The most well-known of these secret moves is probably the Electric Wind Godfist. The move was originally exclusive to Jin and later became available to other members of the Mishima family, such as Kazuya and Heihachi. Another such move is Heihachi's Headbutt Carnival. This move is more peculiar as it can only be executed against certain characters, who usually have some kind of affiliation, relation or rivalry with Heihachi. In Tekken 3, this list consisted of Jin, Paul, Lei, Kuma/Panda and himself. In Tekken 4 the list was the same but with the addition of Bryan and Law, but as of Tekken 5 and forward, the move works on almost every male character. It's also been pointed out that the throw has a great resemblance to the move Stonehead, as the escape, damage and animation are almost identical. As of the most recent Tekken games, Namco have added most secret moves to the command list.
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