Curated playlist
Nintendo 3DS games
- Super Street Fighter IVSuper Street Fighter IV was called the last of its series, then got two more versions.
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UA 2015 Smash fan poll kept its top winners secret until October 2021. Sora and Banjo and Kazooie led the vote.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater sends the player up an extremely tall ladder for roughly three minutes, with a vocal theme song as the only company. Fans and critics singled out the climb as one of the series' most memorable moments. Some…
- Dementium: The WardKonami turned down Dementium: The Ward when it was pitched as a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS.
- Project X ZoneProject X Zone sold more than ten times what its publisher expected in the West.
- MystMyst, a 1993 adventure game from the studio Cyan, opens with a book. The player, an unnamed person, finds a volume titled Myst and reads its detailed description of an island. Resting a hand on the last page carries the player into that…
- MinecraftMinecraft, the 2011 sandbox game from the Swedish company Mojang Studios, tells its only story through a poem of roughly 1,500 words. The End Poem was written by the Irish novelist Julian Gough. It scrolls past in about nine minutes when a…
- Final Fantasy (video game)Final Fantasy got its name because its creator planned to quit if it failed. Square was also facing bankruptcy in 1987.
- Bravely DefaultThe team behind Bravely Default never expected the 3DS game to leave Japan. It sold a million copies by July 2014.
- Pokémon X and YPokémon X and Pokémon Y, released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, sold more than four million copies worldwide in one weekend. That made them the fastest-selling games the handheld had ever seen. Game Freak developed the pair, and The…