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PlayStation Network games
- Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)Konami released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation in 1998. The game directed by Hideo Kojima required players to navigate a nuclear weapons facility…
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionThe year 2004 marked the release of Capcom Fighting Evolution, a game that emerged from the wreckage of an earlier project.
- Street Fighter Alpha 2In February 1996, Capcom unveiled Street Fighter Zero 2 at the AOU show in Tokyo. The arcade cabinet introduced a new system called Custom Combo that…
- Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionSquare Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy XV using the Unity engine to fit mobile devices. The original game relied on the in-house Luminous Engine for its complex…
- Dissidia 012 Final FantasySquare Enix began work on Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy in August 2009. Creative producer Tetsuya Nomura wanted to include Kain Highwind from the original game.
- Street Fighter Alpha 3Street Fighter Alpha 3 arrived in Japanese arcades during the summer of 1998. It ran on Capcom's CP System II hardware, a board that had powered previous…
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesIn February 1998, the CP System II arcade board powered a new fighting game called Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
- Final Fantasy VSquare released Final Fantasy V in 1992 for the Super Famicom. Hironobu Sakaguchi directed the project and called it his favorite entry before releasing…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades on NAOMI hardware during 2001. Sega handled the North American arcade release for this…
- Super Gem Fighter Mini MixCapcom released Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix in Japanese arcades during 1997. The cabinet featured the CPS II hardware that powered many of their hit titles…
- Final Fantasy IIISquare released Final Fantasy III in 1990 as one of the largest games ever built for the Famicom. The cartridge held 512 KB of data, which was the…
- Street Fighter AlphaProduction for Street Fighter Alpha began in October 1994 following the release of Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors. Capcom gave its development team only…
- Super Star WarsLuke Skywalker leaps from a moving conveyor belt inside the dark interior of a Jawa sandcrawler. The player must fight his way to the top while avoiding…
- Final Fantasy VIIIn 1994, Square began planning a new entry for its flagship role-playing series. The team initially targeted the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as their…
- Star Wars: Dark ForcesIn September 1993, Daron Stinnett began writing code for a game engine that would change how players saw the Star Wars universe.
- Tokimeki Memorial (video game)Players controlling a male freshman at Kirameki High School face a unique mechanic called the bomb. Neglected girls who are not dated frequently become angry…
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike hit arcade floors in May of 1999. It ran on Capcom's CP System III hardware, a machine built to handle the game's complex…
- Silent Hill (video game)The year 1996 marked the start of development for a project that would change video game history. Team Silent, a group within Konami Computer Entertainment…
- Final Fantasy IISquare began production of Final Fantasy II in 1987, shortly after the original game's success. The team consisted of approximately ten people, including…
- Final Fantasy (video game)Hironobu Sakaguchi stood at the edge of his career in 1987. Square, the company he worked for, faced potential bankruptcy.
- Final Fantasy IVSquare released Final Fantasy IV in 1991 for the Super Famicom. The development team consisted of only fourteen people who finished the project in roughly…
- Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI entered development after the release of its predecessor V in December 1992. The project took just one year to complete, a remarkably short…
- Final Fantasy VIIIIn 1997, Square began developing a battle system that would discard the traditional magic points of previous titles. Hiroyuki Ito designed a mechanic where…
- Vagrant StoryOn the 10th of February 2000, Square released Vagrant Story for the PlayStation in Japan. The game centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a…
- Final Fight (video game)In 1987, Capcom released Street Fighter, a fighting game that would become a cultural phenomenon. Two years later, the company began work on what was…
- Astro BotTeam Asobi began work on Astro Bot almost immediately after finishing Astro's Playroom in 2020. The project took roughly three years to complete with a…
- Space InvadersTomohiro Nishikado spent a year designing Space Invaders in 1978. He worked alone to create custom hardware for the arcade cabinet.
- Final Fantasy TacticsSquare released Final Fantasy Tactics in June 1997 for the PlayStation. The game features three-dimensional isometric fields where characters move on square…