Curated playlist

Multiplayer and single-player video games

Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000Leon S. Kennedy and Mega Man were meant to be playable in Capcom vs. SNK. Both were cut to keep a fighting-game roster.
Tekken X Street FighterAnimations made for the unreleased Tekken X Street Fighter were reused for Akuma in Tekken 7.
Capcom Fighting Collection 2Capcom Fighting Collection 2 brought back two crossover fighting games missing since the early 2000s.
Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 launched with the PlayStation 2 in Japan on March 4, 2000.
Capcom Fighting CollectionRed Earth, an arcade fighter, reached home players in Capcom Fighting Collection. It had only been in arcade cabinets.
Final Fantasy Legend IIA smashed goddess statue scatters 77 magical stones across linked worlds in Final Fantasy Legend II.
Street Fighter CollectionDespite skeptical reviews, Street Fighter Collection won Fighting Game of the Year from Electronic Gaming Monthly.
Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionStreet Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection put twelve arcade games on one disc, thirteen on Nintendo Switch.
Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 was Japan's top arcade game of 1996. It arrived less than a year after the first Alpha.
Ultra Street Fighter IIUltra Street Fighter II lets you throw Ryu's Hadouken by holding a Joy-Con in each hand.
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginIn Stranger of Paradise, Jack's party are agents sent repeatedly from another world.
Silent Hill: The ArcadeSilent Hill: The Arcade turns the horror series into a light-gun shooter. Players blast through the fog on a fixed rail.
Sid Meier's Antietam!A Sid Meier Civil War wargame skipped retail stores in December 1999. Firaxis tested online-only sales.
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade EditionIn April 2012, Capcom said Arcade Edition would be the last Street Fighter IV. Ultra Street Fighter IV arrived in 2014.
Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)Street Fighter: The Movie was an arcade game based on a film based on a game. Critics widely panned the 1995 release.
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark KnightLego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, a 2026 game from Traveller's Tales, lets players control only seven characters. Earlier Lego games let them swap between hundreds. The studio shrank the roster while building the biggest Gotham City…
SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the MillenniumRivals SNK and Capcom teamed up partly to help a struggling handheld, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
Dissidia Final FantasyDissidia Final Fantasy began as a game about Disney characters fighting.
Street Fighter II TurboStreet Fighter II Turbo reached arcades in 1992 as an upgrade kit.
Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy is both a prequel and a remake of the game before it. It launched on PSP in March 2011.
Hyper Street Fighter IIHyper Street Fighter II, released by Capcom in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, contains only 17 unique characters. Yet those fighters appear in 65 different versions, each one carried over from an earlier arcade game. That number turns a…
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…
X-Men vs. Street FighterX-Men vs. Street Fighter gave each player two fighters instead of one. Capcom's 1996 arcade game used a tag system.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NTDissidia Final Fantasy NT began in a Japanese arcade, not on a home console.
SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosTwo fighters born in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos later joined other games. Violent Ken and Serious Mr. Karate outlived it.
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!Firaxis Games made its very first game about the Civil War's bloodiest battle, Gettysburg. It came out in 1997.
Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Three quarters of Final Fantasy IV's original script never reached players in 1991.
Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
Street Fighter EX2Street Fighter EX2 let players chain basic and special moves into Excel Combos.
Street Fighter Alpha AnthologyCompleting every game in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the only way to reach Hyper Street Fighter Alpha.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes let Mega Man fight Marvel heroes. It was a first for the series.
Assassin's Creed IIIAssassin's Creed III went on sale in North America on the 30th of October 2012 with a secret that its own advertising kept from players. Every promotion showed Connor, a half-Mohawk Assassin. The game itself, however, opened with Haytham…
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street FighterMarvel kept a comedian's fighter out of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter abroad for over two decades.
Red Dead RedemptionRed Dead Redemption is a 2010 Western from Rockstar San Diego, and it opens with a man who has run out of choices. In 1911, federal agents take the wife and son of a former outlaw named John Marston. The price of their freedom is his skill…
Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 chose the Breakout-style Block Block over Super Street Fighter II.
Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the game in which a famous military shooter series walked out of World War II and into the present day. Infinity Ward developed it, Activision published it, and it was the fourth main installment in the…
Halo: ReachHalo: Reach, a video game from the studio Bungie, took in US$200 million on its first day on sale. That set a record for the Halo franchise. Yet the game asked players to defend a planet that the series' own fiction had already declared…
Fighting LayerFighting Layer let fighters step sideways, which Street Fighter EX never allowed.
God of War (franchise)When the credits of the first God of War finished rolling, a closing line promised, "Kratos Will Return." He did, again and again. The God of War franchise now spans ten installments, beginning on the PlayStation 2 in 2005 and reaching…
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a 2004 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, gave players one of the most repeated lines in gaming. Early in the story, a mission called "Wrong Side of the Tracks" goes badly, and Big Smoke shouts, "All…
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.
Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsFinal Fantasy IV: The After Years was a role-playing game released to mobile phones in monthly installments.
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade ClassicsIn December 2013, Capcom pulled three Marvel vs. Capcom games from sale. Their licensing deal with Marvel had expired.
The Last of Us (video game)The Last of Us, a 2013 action-adventure game from Naughty Dog, ends with a man swearing to a girl that his story is true. It is not. Joel gives the oath because Ellie insists on it. Everything before that moment is a long walk toward it.…
Star Wars: Jedi ArenaStar Wars: Jedi Arena builds a whole game on one Millennium Falcon scene. Luke deflects a floating ball's lasers.
Tomb Raider (2013 video game)In November 2010, Square Enix filed a trademark for a slogan, "A Survivor is Born," to promote a new Tomb Raider game. That game arrived in 2013 from the developer Crystal Dynamics, and it did not simply continue Lara Croft's story. It…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023 video game)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III reached its audience first as a phone number. In August 2023, Activision shared the number on social media. Players who agreed to a few terms began receiving anonymous messages, such as "we need someone…
AGEOD's American Civil WarIn AGEOD's American Civil War, you run both the army and the government. You can lead either side.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold 6.5 million copies in the United States and United Kingdom within its first 24 hours. Those sales brought in $400 million. At the time, that made it the largest entertainment launch ever recorded. The…