Curated playlist
1998 video games
- Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
- Mitsumete KnightMitsumete Knight, a 1998 PlayStation game, leaves a church bomb threat unexplained. Audio dramas later explained it.
- Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
- Street Fighter EX2Street Fighter EX2 let players chain basic and special moves into Excel Combos.
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes let Mega Man fight Marvel heroes. It was a first for the series.
- Fighting LayerFighting Layer let fighters step sideways, which Street Fighter EX never allowed.
- Fighter MakerFighter Maker let players build their own fighters, not just pick one.
- Resident Evil 2Resident Evil 2 is a 1998 survival horror game made and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. Across every platform it reached, it sold more than 6 million copies. That success came from a second attempt. The sequel players bought was…
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time holds an average score of 99/100 on Metacritic, the highest of any game on that review aggregator. Nintendo developed and published it for the Nintendo 64, and it was the first Zelda game built in three…
- Suikoden IIIn Suikoden II, best friends Riou and Jowy are fated to fight until one dies. A hidden third ending spares them.
- Half-Life (video game)Half-Life, the 1998 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, was budgeted on the assumption that it would sell around 180,000 copies in its entire lifetime. That forecast came from Gabe Newell, one of the studio's two founders. Yet the…