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Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. (スーパーマリオブラザーズ) is a platform video game developed by Nintendo in late 1985 and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the titular character, Mario, seeks to...
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ, Zeruda no Densetsu Toki no Okarina) is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It was...
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger (クロノ・トリガー) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a...
Tetris
Tetris (Russian: Те́трис) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He...
Civilization II
Sid Meier's Civilization II (Civ II or Civ 2) is a turn-based strategy computer game designed by Brian Reynolds, Douglas Caspian-Kaufman and Jeff Briggs. Although it is a sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization, neither Sid Meier nor Bruce Shelley was...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース, Zeruda no Densetsu Kamigami no Toraifōzu, "The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods"), is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo...
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United...
Super Metroid
Super Metroid (スーパーメトロイド), also known as Metroid 3, is an action-platform video game and the third game in the Metroid series. It was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super...
GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console, based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.
The game received overwhelmingly positive reviews and sold over eight million copies. It...
Battletoads
Battletoads is a video game developed by Rare Ltd.. Starring three anthropomorphic toads named after skin disorders (Rash, Zitz and Pimple), the game was created to rival the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was developed by Rare...
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid (メタルギアソリッド) (commonly abbreviated as MGS) is a stealth action video game directed and written by Hideo Kojima. The game was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and first published by Konami in 1998 for the PlayStation...
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4, known in Japan as Biohazard 4 (バイオハザード4), is a survival horror third-person shooter video game developed by Production Studio 4 and published by multiple publishers, including Capcom, Ubisoft and Nintendo of Australia. It is the...
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (スーパーマリオ64, Sūpā Mario Rokujūyon) is a platform game, developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development and published by Nintendo, for the Nintendo 64. Along with Pilotwings 64, it was one of the launch titles for the...
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
TIE Fighter, a computer space combat game, is the sequel to Star Wars: X-Wing, and the first game of the series that puts the player on the side of the Galactic Empire.
A notable improvement is the flight engine, which supports Gouraud shading, an...
Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. It was released in North America in 1981 and became one of the most popular video games of all time, leading to its adoption by Pac-Man licenser Namco as an...
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 2D action-adventure game developed and published by Konami in 1997. Its Japanese title is Akumajō Dracula X: Gekka no Yasōkyoku (悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲, officially translated as Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight...
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy III is an enhanced remake of the 1990 Japan-only console role-playing game of the same name originally for the Family Computer video game console. It is the only version of Final Fantasy III to have been officially released outside of...
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a computer game created by Sid Meier and published and developed by MicroProse in 1987. It was the first game to include the name "Sid Meier" in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games,...
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo: Combat Evolved (frequently referred to as simply Halo) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie. The first game of the Halo series, it was released on November 15, 2001 as a launch title for the Xbox gaming system, and is...
Doom
Doom (occasionally typeset as DOOM) is a landmark 1993 first-person shooter computer game by id Software. It was initially released for MS-DOS. It is widely recognized for popularizing the first person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics...
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (スーパーマリオブラザーズ3) (also referred to as Super Mario 3 and SMB3) is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and is the fifth game in the Super Mario series. It was first...
X-COM: UFO Defense
UFO: Enemy Unknown (later released under the title X-COM: UFO Defense in the United States and X-COM: Enemy Unknown for the European market) is a video game created by Julian Gollop and published by MicroProse Software in 1993. It is the first entry...
System Shock 2
System Shock 2 is an action role-playing video game, designed by Ken Levine for the personal computer. The title is a sequel to the 1994 PC game System Shock, and was co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. The sequel was...
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Kart (スーパーマリオカート) is a go-kart racing game developed by Nintendo EAD for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The first game of the Mario Kart series, it was launched in Japan on 27 August 1992, in North America on 1 September...
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II (ストリートファイターⅡ) is a series in Capcom's Street Fighter saga of head-to-head fighting games, originally released as coin-operated arcade games. The Street Fighter II series started with the Street Fighter II game itself, released in...
SimCity 2000
SimCity 2000 (SC2K) is a simulation/city building computer game and the second installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 2000 was first released by Maxis in 1993 for computers running the Apple Macintosh and DOS operating systems. It was later re...
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime is a video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube, released in North America on November 17, 2002. It is the first 3D game in the Metroid series, and is classified by Nintendo as a first...
God of War
God of War is a video game for the PlayStation 2 console released on March 22, 2005. It is an action-adventure game based on Greek mythology. God of War was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division. It is the first...
Warcraft II
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is the sequel to the popular real-time strategy game Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in December of 1995. Users play as either orcs or humans in a fantasy medieval world full...
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior, known as Dragon Quest (ドラゴンクエスト, Doragon Kuesuto) in Japan, is a console role-playing game developed by Chunsoft and published in Japan by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Dragon Warrior has been...
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII (ファイナルファンタジーVII) is a console role-playing game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 1997 for the Sony...
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter video game originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. The game was developed and published by Rare, creators of the multimillion-selling GoldenEye 007, an earlier first-person shooter with which Perfect...
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is the well-recieved sequel to Half-Life. Half-Life 2 takes place in the dystopian City 17 and the surrounding area, almost 20 years after the events of the original Half-Life. In the intervening years, Gordon Freeman has presumably been...
Deus Ex
Deus Ex (abbreviated DX and pronounced /ˌdeɪəsˈɛks/, day-us-eks) is a cyberpunk-themed action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in the year 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person...
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) is a role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts. It was released for the Xbox on July 15, 2003, for Microsoft Windows on November 19, 2003, and on September 7, 2004 for Mac OS X....
Super Mario World
Super Mario World (スーパーマリオワールド) is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo as a pack-in launch title for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released initially on November 21, 1990 in Japan. Similarly to other games in the Mario...
Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango is a personal computer game in the graphic adventure genre released by LucasArts in 1998 and primarily written by Tim Schafer. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered 2D...
Pokémon Red and Blue
Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue are the first installments of the Pokémon series of role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. They were first released in Japan in 1996 and later released in North...
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics (ファイナルファンタジータクティクス) is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998...
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec is a racing game, the first in the Gran Turismo series to be released for the PlayStation 2. Gran Turismo 2000 was the working name used when demonstrated at E3 2000/2001. The game was a critical and commerical success, going...
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, originally released as Super Mario: Yoshi Island (スーパーマリオ ヨッシーアイランド, Sūpā Mario Yosshī Airando) in Japan, is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, developed by BioWare and released September 26, 2000, is the second computer role-playing game in the Baldur's Gate series, which takes place just a few months after the events of Baldur's Gate. It is based on the...
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Saga (アゼル パンツァードラグーンRPG, Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG) is a critically-acclaimed role-playing video game (RPG) released exclusively for the Sega Saturn in 1998. It was the third Panzer Dragoon game to be released (not counting Panzer...
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (ゼルダの伝説 ムジュラの仮面, Zeruda no Densetsu Mujura no Kamen) is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan on April...
Battlefield 1942
'Battlefield 1942' is a 3D World War II first-person shooter (FPS) computer game developed by Swedish company Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows (2002) and Apple Macintosh (2004). The game can be played in...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, often abbreviated as THPS2, is the second game in the Tony Hawk's series. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2000. It was first released for the PlayStation, with subsequent ports to the Nintendo...
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, released in Japan as Devil May Cry 3, is an action game that was developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and published by Capcom in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 (also ported to the PC in 2006). The game is a prequel...
Shining Force II
Shining Force II, also known as Shining Force II: The Ancient Seal (シャイニング・フォースII 古えの封印, Shainingu Fōsu Tsū: Inishie no Fūin), is a tactical role-playing game for the Mega Drive/Genesis console developed by Sonic! Software Planning in 1994, and is a...
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the Guitar Hero series and is the sequel to Guitar Hero. It was first released for the PlayStation 2 in November...
Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as Nintendo All Star! Dairantō Smash Brothers (ニンテンドーオールスター！大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ, "Dairantō" meaning "Great Melee"), is a crossover fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64....
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ) is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis system. It is the inaugural game in Sega's flagship Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, and was the first title...
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (retitled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and for the Mega Drive/Genesis port) is a Dune computer game released in 1992 by Westwood Studios. It is based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, an adaptation of...
Rome: Total War
Rome: Total War (often abbreviated to RTW or Rome) is a critically acclaimed strategy game composed of both turn-based strategy and real-time tactics, in which the player fights historical and fictitious battles set during late Roman Republic and...
Contra
Contra (魂斗羅), known as Gryzor in Europe and Oceania, is a 1987 run and gun action game developed and published by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. A home version was released for the Nintendo...
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy II (ファイナルファンタジーII) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) in 1988 for the Family Computer (or Famicom, known as the Nintendo Entertainment System outside Japan) as a part of the Final...
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (メタルギアソリッド2 サンズ・オブ・リバティ) (commonly abbreviated as MGS2) is a stealth action video game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in...
NHL '94
NHL 1994 is an ice hockey game by EA Sports for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo and Sega Mega CD, as well as the first release of the "NHL Hockey" series for PC/DOS, simply titled "NHL Hockey", without the "94" in the title. The game is...
Ico
Ico (イコ, Iko, pronounced /ˈiːko/) is a 2001 action-adventure video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist...
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!!, known originally as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (マイクタイソン・パンチアウト!!), and later re-released as Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream is a boxing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) developed and published by Nintendo in 1987. It...
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy computer game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in 1996. The second game to bear the "C&C;" title, Red Alert is the prequel to the...
