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Game Boy Advance games

  • 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…
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3Street Fighter Alpha 3 arrived in Japanese arcades during the summer of 1998. It ran on Capcom's CP System II hardware, a board that had powered previous…
  • Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection landed on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005, offering players a vault of arcade history in a single package.
  • Final Fantasy VFinal Fantasy V launched in Japan in December 1992, and within a single day it sold roughly 900,000 cartridges. That opening figure was about 4.5 times the…
  • 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…
  • Final Fantasy Tactics AdvanceFinal Fantasy Tactics Advance arrived on the Game Boy Advance in 2003, carrying the weight of a beloved predecessor and the ambitions of a team that had…
  • Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II launched on the 17th of December 1988, almost exactly one year after the original game, and Square's small team of around ten people had…
  • 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…
  • Pac-ManPac-Man arrived in arcades on the 22nd of May 1980, and within two years it had earned more than a billion dollars in quarters from American players alone.
  • Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy arrived in Japan in 1987 as a last-ditch effort by a company that nearly did not survive to publish it. Square was threatened with bankruptcy.
  • Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV arrived in Japan in 1991, and with it came Cecil Harvey, a dark knight who steers warships through the sky for the Kingdom of Baron.
  • Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI arrived in Japanese homes on the 2nd of April, 1994, carrying a premise that broke from every rule the series had established.
  • Final Fight (video game)Final Fight arrived in arcades in 1989 with a premise that could have come straight out of a Hollywood action film: a former pro wrestler turned city mayor…
  • Space InvadersSpace Invaders arrived in Japanese arcades in July 1978, and within months the country was running out of places to put the machines.