Curated playlist
Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game)To beat the 1992 NES Empire Strikes Back game, you must rescue Han Solo and defeat Darth Vader.
- Star Wars (1991 video game)In the 1991 Star Wars NES game, Darth Vader appears only on the Game Over screen. Han and Leia get one life each.
- Metal Gear (video game)In the 1987 game Metal Gear, Snake's own commander tells the player to switch off the console.
- Star Wars (1987 video game)In a 1987 Star Wars game, bosses look like Darth Vader until hit. Then they turn into a shark or a scorpion.
- Snake's Revenge1990 video game
- Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III's developers followed a programmer to Sacramento after his work visa expired.
- Super Mario Bros.Super Mario Bros., Nintendo's 1985 platform game, had only about 20 bytes of cartridge space left once its music was added. Shigeru Miyamoto spent them on a small crown. The crown appears beside the life counter, and only for players who…
- Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
- Pac-ManPac-Man was first called Puck Man, until executives feared vandals would change the P to an F.
- 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.
- North & South (video game)North & South turned the American Civil War into a game based on a Belgian comic. Infogrames released it in 1989.