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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)Star Wars: X-Wing launched in February 1993 on floppy disks, and its first shipment of 100,000 units sold out before the weekend was over.
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)X-Men: Children of the Atom arrived in Japanese arcades in December 1994 carrying a technical problem that would shape every decision its makers faced.
- 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)Quake is a 1996 first-person shooter from id Software, and on the day it launched, only one member of the entire development team came into the office to…
- 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)Doom, released on the 10th of December 1993, crashed a university's network before most people had even heard of it. At midnight, after thirty straight hours…
- 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 IIStreet Fighter II arrived in arcades in 1991 and changed the way people played games in public spaces. By 1994, an estimated 25 million people in the United…
- North & South (video game)North & South dropped in 1989 with a bold premise: let players refight the American Civil War as a strategy-action hybrid, built on a Belgian comic strip…