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Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for the Nintendo Entertainment System arrived in 1992, a full twelve years after the film it was based on first played in…
- Star Wars (1991 video game)Star Wars the video game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in November 1991, more than fourteen years after the 1977 film that inspired it.
- Metal Gear (video game)Metal Gear arrived on the MSX2 home computer on the 13th of July, 1987, and almost nobody outside Japan noticed at first. It was a game about hiding.
- Star Wars (1987 video game)Star Wars, released in 1987 by Namco for the Family Computer, arrived in Japan with something unusual attached to its announcement: a photograph of George…
- Snake's RevengeIn 1990, Konami released Snake's Revenge for the Nintendo Entertainment System under the Ultra Games brand. This title appeared in North America and PAL…
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III launched on the 27th of April, 1990, and within its first week sold 500,000 copies in Japan. By March 2003, that figure had reached 1.4…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…