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2006 video games

  • Street Fighter Alpha AnthologyCompleting every game in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the only way to reach Hyper Street Fighter Alpha.
  • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VIIDirge of Cerberus was a shooter built around a hero once locked in a coffin. It arrived in 2006 for PlayStation 2.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 action-adventure game from Nintendo, owes part of its identity to a strange dream. Its director, Eiji Aonuma, dreamed during an overseas business trip that he was a wolf locked inside a cage.…
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionPete Hines, Bethesda's vice president of public relations and marketing, once described the mood before The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion arrived with a wry line. He said: "People were expecting the game to cure blindness and heal the sick."…
  • Final Fantasy III (2006 video game)Final Fantasy III sold 500,000 copies in its first week in Japan in 2006. It had never been sold outside Japan.
  • Persona 3Persona 3 asks its player to press a gun-shaped device against their own head and fire. The device is called an Evoker, and the shot summons a Persona, a physical form of the shooter's psyche. Atlus developed this role-playing game, which…
  • RobloxRoblox, pronounced ROH-bloks, reported an average of 85.3 million daily active users as of February 2025. The company also says its monthly players include half of all American children under the age of 16. Those numbers belong to an…
  • Final Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XII lets players program their characters to fight on their own. It drew on American football plays.
  • Suikoden VIn Suikoden V, the Prince's trusted aunt betrays him at the moment he could end the war.
  • The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation DividedThe History Channel: Civil War, subtitled A Nation Divided, is a first-person shooter that gives the player twelve different soldiers across twelve battles. Cauldron HQ developed it, and Activision Value and the History Channel released it…
  • Bully (video game)Bully, a 2006 action-adventure game from Rockstar Vancouver and Rockstar Games, begins with a boy who has already been expelled from seven schools. His name is James Hopkins, known as Jimmy, he is 15 years old, and he is about to be left…
  • ŌkamiŌkami began as a one-minute movie of a wolf racing through a forest, with flowers blooming in its footsteps. Hideki Kamiya made that clip with no gameplay behind it at all. From it grew a 2006 action-adventure about Amaterasu, the Shinto…
  • Pokémon Diamond and PearlPokémon Diamond and Pearl, a pair of role-playing games for the Nintendo DS, helped players complete more than 10 million Pokémon trades over Wi-Fi. Game Freak developed them for the Nintendo DS and released them in 2006, the 10th…
  • Mother 3Mother 3 is a role-playing game that took twelve years and four consoles to finish, and then never left Japan. In the run-up to its release, people who phoned the Japan Post heard the game's main theme, "Love Theme", while they waited on…

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