Curated playlist
Amiga games
- Super Street Fighter II TurboIn Japan, no arcade game earned more in 1994 than Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Capcom built it for arcade cabinets as the fifth installment in the Street Fighter II sub-series, following Super Street Fighter II from 1993. Oddly, it did…
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game)The Empire Strikes Back arcade game was sold as an upgrade kit, which limited its reach.
- Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)Mortal Kombat, the 1992 arcade fighting game from Midway, spent six months of its development without a name. Co-creator Ed Boon later said that nobody could come up with a name "nobody didn't hate." The rejected candidates included…
- Star Wars (1983 video game)In June 1985, Flavio Tozzi, Dave Roberts and Mike Ohren took turns at one Star Wars arcade machine for five days, two hours and 26 minutes. They did it all on a single credit. Their combined score reached 1,000,000,012 points, and Computer…
- Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II let eight players compete in one tournament across four linked arcade cabinets.
- The Lost VikingsThe Lost Vikings began with hundreds of tiny Vikings, until TV screens could not show them.
- MystMyst, a 1993 adventure game from the studio Cyan, opens with a book. The player, an unnamed person, finds a volume titled Myst and reads its detailed description of an island. Resting a hand on the last page carries the player into that…
- Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II's combos began as a bug that the team chose to keep. It appeared in the car-smashing bonus stage.
- Final Fight (video game)Final Fight, Capcom's arcade brawler, began as Street Fighter '89. Operators said the name was misleading.
- North & South (video game)North & South turned the American Civil War into a game based on a Belgian comic. Infogrames released it in 1989.