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Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
- 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…
- Street Fighter II TurboCapcom released Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting in 1992 as an enhancement kit for existing arcade cabinets. This distribution method allowed…
- Final Fantasy Mystic QuestSquare released Final Fantasy Mystic Quest in North America during 1992 as a simplified role-playing game designed for entry-level players.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Doom (1993 video game)In November 1992, five people gathered in a dark office building they called Suite 666 to begin work on a new game. John Carmack started technical research…
- Super Street Fighter IICapcom released Super Street Fighter II in 1993 on a new machine called the CP System II. This hardware replaced the older CP System used for previous…
- The Lost VikingsSilicon & Synapse began work on The Lost Vikings in 1993, drawing inspiration from the puzzle game Lemmings. The original concept involved managing hundreds…
- Street Fighter IICapcom began work on Street Fighter II in 1989, following the commercial success of Final Fight. Yoshiki Okamoto led a team of approximately 35 to 40 people…
- 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 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…
- Space InvadersTomohiro Nishikado spent a year designing Space Invaders in 1978. He worked alone to create custom hardware for the arcade cabinet.