Curated playlist

PlayStation Network games

Metal Gear Solid (video game)1998 video game
Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 was Japan's top arcade game of 1996. It arrived less than a year after the first Alpha.
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
Dissidia 012 Final FantasyDissidia 012 Final Fantasy is both a prequel and a remake of the game before it. It launched on PSP in March 2011.
Street Fighter Alpha 3Thirty-nine fighters. That is how large the playable cast of Street Fighter Alpha 3 grew on its biggest portable edition. The game itself began in 1998 as a Capcom arcade title. It was the third and final installment of the Street Fighter…
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super HeroesMarvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes let Mega Man fight Marvel heroes. It was a first for the series.
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a 2004 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, gave players one of the most repeated lines in gaming. Early in the story, a mission called "Wrong Side of the Tracks" goes badly, and Big Smoke shouts, "All…
The Walking Dead (video game)The Walking Dead, a 2012 episodic graphic adventure from Telltale Games, begins with a convicted criminal named Lee Everett in the back of a police car. On the first day of an outbreak, the car strikes a walker and crashes. Dave Fennoy…
Grand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, a 2002 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, sold more than 500,000 copies within 24 hours of its release. Within two days it had reached 1.4 million, which made it the fastest-selling game in history at…
Resident Evil – Code: VeronicaIn December 1998, three months after she escaped Raccoon City, Claire Redfield raids an Umbrella Corporation facility in Paris. She is searching for her brother Chris, and she is caught. That capture opens Resident Evil Code: Veronica, a…
Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.
Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2 may be the first game with online play between rival consoles. This worked only in Japan.
Super Gem Fighter Mini MixIn Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Ken searches for a woman to have tea with.
Final Fantasy IIIFinal Fantasy III's developers followed a programmer to Sacramento after his work visa expired.
Street Fighter AlphaStreet Fighter Alpha was built for two different arcade boards at once. Capcom had leftover stocks of both.
Super Star WarsIn Super Star Wars, Luke fights up a Jawa sandcrawler to reach the droids. He does not simply buy them.
Life Is Strange (video game)Life Is Strange opens in October 2013, as an 18-year-old photography student named Max Caulfield returns to Arcadia Bay, Oregon, to attend Blackwell Academy. During class she has a vivid vision of a tornado destroying a lighthouse and…
Grand Theft Auto IIIGrand Theft Auto III began with an art director's complaint about the games of his day. Aaron Garbut felt that most of them were "a thing you played". He wanted this one to be "a place you lived in". The core team behind that ambition was…
Final Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VII skipped the Nintendo 64 after one big enemy slowed it down.
Star Wars: Dark ForcesStar Wars: Dark Forces owes its existence to fan-made modifications of Doom. Some of those mods had levels set on the Death Star, and that sparked the idea of a Star Wars shooter built from the ground up. LucasArts, which developed and…
Tokimeki Memorial (video game)Konami, known for the punishing shooter Gradius, made a high school dating game.
Stardew ValleyStardew Valley had sold more than 50 million copies by February 2026, and one person made it. That person is Eric Barone, who works under the name ConcernedApe. After college he could not find a job in the games industry and ended up…
Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike sold modestly in 1999, yet IGN later named it the greatest fighting game ever made.
Silent Hill (video game)When Silent Hill's composer played his music, the team thought it was a software bug.
Persona 3Persona 3 asks its player to press a gun-shaped device against their own head and fire. The device is called an Evoker, and the shot summons a Persona, a physical form of the shooter's psyche. Atlus developed this role-playing game, which…
Resident Evil (1996 video game)Resident Evil, the 1996 survival horror game from Capcom for the PlayStation, was never expected to become a hit. Its producer, Tokuro Fujiwara, said it was aimed at a core audience, and he thought it would sell only around 200,000 copies.…
Resident Evil 2Resident Evil 2 is a 1998 survival horror game made and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. Across every platform it reached, it sold more than 6 million copies. That success came from a second attempt. The sequel players bought was…
Horizon Zero DawnIn Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 game from Guerrilla Games and Sony, an infant is found before a sealed door inside a sacred mountain. She grows up as Aloy, an outcast of the Nora tribe, raised by a fellow outcast named Rost. Her world is a…
DeltaruneDeltarune began as a fever dream. In 2011, while Toby Fox was in college, he saw the ending of a video game in his sleep and resolved to build it. The result is an episodic role-playing game from the American indie developer, set in a…
Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
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.
Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV began with a Formula One race. Hiroyuki Ito saw cars pass at different speeds and got an idea.
Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII sold 2.21 million copies in one day in Japan.
Vagrant StoryVagrant Story, a 2000 PlayStation game, had no shops at all. Players built their own gear in workshops instead.
Final Fight (video game)Final Fight, Capcom's arcade brawler, began as Street Fighter '89. Operators said the name was misleading.
Astro BotBy April 9, 2025, the PlayStation 5 game Astro Bot had become the most awarded platformer of all time.
Persona 4Persona 4 is a 2008 role-playing game from the Japanese developer Atlus, and it opens on a puzzle that sounds like a ghost story. In a small rural town, bodies are found dangling from television antennas, and no one can say what killed…
Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing game that Square developed and published for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It began with a research trip. In October 1992, three veteran creators traveled to the United States to study…
Space InvadersSpace Invaders sped up as aliens vanished by accident, and its designer kept the quirk.
Final Fantasy TacticsFinal Fantasy Tactics tells of a war that its own church secretly engineered.
Castlevania: Symphony of the NightCastlevania: Symphony of the Night is a 1997 action role-playing game made by Konami for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Its most talked-about moment is a trick of architecture. Deep into the adventure, the entire castle turns upside…
Resident Evil 4Resident Evil 4 is a 2005 survival horror game from Capcom, released first for the GameCube, and by March 2025 it had sold 15.2 million copies. Its hero is Leon S. Kennedy, a special agent dropped into rural Spain on a rescue mission.…
Detroit: Become HumanDetroit: Become Human, an adventure game from the studio Quantic Dream, had sold 15 million units by January 2026. That makes it the best-selling game the studio has ever made. Sony Interactive Entertainment published it in 2018. Its…