Curated playlist
DOS 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: X-Wing (video game)Star Wars: X-Wing sold out its first 100,000 copies before the weekend was over.
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (video game)Capcom's X-Men arcade game hides Akuma because its Marvel contract required a Street Fighter character.
- Metal Gear (video game)In the 1987 game Metal Gear, Snake's own commander tells the player to switch off the console.
- Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
- Fallout (video game)Fallout, the 1997 role-playing game from Interplay Productions, opens with a narrator voiced by the actor Ron Perlman. In 2026 he recalled that the job paid "40 dollars and a sandwich." It is a modest origin for a game that players and…
- 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…
- Star Wars: Dark ForcesStar Wars: Dark Forces owes its existence to fan-made modifications of Doom. Some of those mods had levels set on the Death Star, and that sparked the idea of a Star Wars shooter built from the ground up. LucasArts, which developed and…
- Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
- 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.
- 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.
- North & South (video game)North & South turned the American Civil War into a game based on a Belgian comic. Infogrames released it in 1989.