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- Super Street Fighter II TurboIn April 1994, the arcade cabinet for Super Street Fighter II Turbo began spinning coins in Japan. Game Machine listed it as the second most successful table…
- Star Wars: X-Wing (video game)Until 1992, Broderbund held the license for Star Wars computer games. When that license reverted to LucasArts in early 1993, designer Lawrence Holland…
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom released X-Men: Children of the Atom on CP System II arcade hardware in December 1994. The game arrived in Japan first, followed by North America and…
- Metal Gear (video game)Hideo Kojima took over the Metal Gear project in 1987 after a senior associate had already begun work on it. The original concept was a straightforward…
- 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…
- Star Wars (1983 video game)Atari released the Star Wars arcade cabinet in 1983 using a unique hardware design that rendered 3D color vector graphics.
- Star Wars: Dark ForcesIn September 1993, Daron Stinnett began writing code for a game engine that would change how players saw the Star Wars universe.
- 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 Street Fighter IICapcom released Super Street Fighter II in 1993 on a new machine called the CP System II. This hardware replaced the older CP System used for previous…
- 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…
- Street Fighter IICapcom began work on Street Fighter II in 1989, following the commercial success of Final Fight. Yoshiki Okamoto led a team of approximately 35 to 40 people…
- North & South (video game)Infogrames released North & South in 1989 for the Amiga and Atari ST. The studio later ported the title to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amstrad CPC…