Curated playlist
Platformers
- 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.
- Super Star WarsIn Super Star Wars, Luke fights up a Jawa sandcrawler to reach the droids. He does not simply buy them.
- Hollow KnightHollow Knight has sold more than 15 million copies as of August 2025, and it was built by Team Cherry, a small independent studio based in Adelaide, Australia. The player controls a nameless insectoid warrior, commonly called the Knight,…
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's EndUncharted 4: A Thief's End was already in strangers' hands on the 26th of April 2016, ahead of its official launch. Amazon had begun shipping copies early. The next day, a batch bound for retail stores in the United Kingdom was stolen in…
- Sonic the HedgehogSonic the Hedgehog, a franchise about a blue hedgehog with supersonic speed, had reached 1.77 billion in combined series sales and free-to-play mobile downloads by 2024. Sega counts it as its flagship. Three Japanese developers created it:…
- Kirby (series)Kirby is a media franchise created by Masahiro Sakurai and owned by HAL Laboratory, and it began as a rough prototype. Sakurai drew a ball-shaped character as a stand-in. People liked it so much that the stand-in became the final design.…
- Super Smash Bros.Super Smash Bros. is a series of platform fighting games published by Nintendo, and it began as a prototype called Dragon King: The Fighting Game. Only three people built that prototype. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the series, handled…
- North & South (video game)North & South turned the American Civil War into a game based on a Belgian comic. Infogrames released it in 1989.
- Celeste (video game)Celeste began as a weekend experiment. In August 2015, Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry built a small mountain-climbing game for the PICO-8, a fantasy video game console, in just three days. They titled the prototype Everest. Three years…