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Cooperative video games

  • Silent Hill: The ArcadeKonami revealed Silent Hill: The Arcade at the 2007 Japan Arcade Operator's Union trade show. Polygon Magic developed this arcade game spin-off of the…
  • Cooperative video gameThe first video game to feature cooperative play dates back to 1973, with Atari's arcade video game Pong Doubles. This tennis doubles version of their hit…
  • StarCraft IIJim Raynor stands on the surface of Char, the Zerg homeworld, watching the sky turn a sickly green as the swarm descends.
  • Quake (video game)John Carmack stood before a blank screen in late 1994, ready to build the future of video games. He began work on an engine that would render full…
  • Final Fantasy VSquare released Final Fantasy V in 1992 for the Super Famicom. Hironobu Sakaguchi directed the project and called it his favorite entry before releasing…
  • Silent Hill: Book of MemoriesOn a specific birthday, the player-created protagonist receives a mysterious book that outlines their entire life. This object becomes the central mechanism…
  • Doom (1993 video game)In November 1992, five people gathered in a dark office building they called Suite 666 to begin work on a new game. John Carmack started technical research…
  • Super Smash Bros. UltimatePlanning for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate began in December 2015, shortly after the downloadable content for the previous Nintendo 3DS and Wii U versions was…
  • The Lost VikingsSilicon & Synapse began work on The Lost Vikings in 1993, drawing inspiration from the puzzle game Lemmings. The original concept involved managing hundreds…
  • Final Fantasy IVSquare released Final Fantasy IV in 1991 for the Super Famicom. The development team consisted of only fourteen people who finished the project in roughly…
  • Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI entered development after the release of its predecessor V in December 1992. The project took just one year to complete, a remarkably short…
  • Final Fight (video game)In 1987, Capcom released Street Fighter, a fighting game that would become a cultural phenomenon. Two years later, the company began work on what was…
  • DaikatanaIn 2455 AD, a plague-ridden Dr. Toshiro Ebihara visits swordmaster Hiro Miyamoto with a desperate plea. Kage Mishima has stolen the Daikatana and altered…
  • Dead or Alive (franchise)In 1996, the first Dead or Alive game released on arcade hardware introduced a three-button control scheme that changed how players approached fighting games.