Curated playlist
1997 video games
- Street Fighter CollectionDespite skeptical reviews, Street Fighter Collection won Fighting Game of the Year from Electronic Gaming Monthly.
- Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Firaxis Games made its very first game about the Civil War's bloodiest battle, Gettysburg. It came out in 1997.
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel kept a comedian's fighter out of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter abroad for over two decades.
- Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactStreet Fighter III: 2nd Impact was the only Capcom CPS3 game with a widescreen feature.
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixIn Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Ken searches for a woman to have tea with.
- Fallout (video game)Fallout, the 1997 role-playing game from Interplay Productions, opens with a narrator voiced by the actor Ron Perlman. In 2026 he recalled that the job paid "40 dollars and a sandwich." It is a modest origin for a game that players and…
- Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII skipped the Nintendo 64 after one big enemy slowed it down.
- Street Fighter IIIStreet Fighter III stayed hand-drawn while rivals moved to 3D. Capcom built a new arcade board for its 2D art.
- Monopoly Star WarsMonopoly Star Wars replaced houses and hotels with starports. C-3PO narrates, voiced by Anthony Daniels.
- Final Fantasy TacticsFinal Fantasy Tactics tells of a war that its own church secretly engineered.
- Castlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game made by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Its most talked-about moment is a trick of architecture. Deep into the adventure, the entire castle turns upside…