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Video games about magic (supernatural)

  • Final Fantasy XV: Pocket EditionFinal Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition squeezed a console epic onto a touchscreen. Only the first of ten chapters is free.
  • 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…
  • The Legend of ZeldaAs a boy, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto walked into a cave carrying a lantern. That memory shaped every dungeon.
  • Final Fantasy XVFinal Fantasy XV shipped five million units in one day. Square Enix said that covered its development costs.
  • Suikoden (video game)Suikoden, a 1995 Konami role-playing game, asked players to recruit 108 warriors to overthrow an empire.
  • Fire EmblemFire Emblem is a Japanese fantasy strategy franchise published by Nintendo, and in 2010 it was handed a hard number. Nintendo told the developers at Intelligent Systems that their next game had to sell more than 250,000 units. If it fell…
  • Dragon QuestOver 300 Japanese schoolchildren were arrested for truancy when Dragon Quest III went on sale.
  • The Elder ScrollsThe Elder Scrolls began as a gladiator game about arena tournaments. Side quests grew as the tournaments shrank.
  • It Takes Two (video game)It Takes Two, a 2021 adventure from Hazelight Studios, is a video game that nobody can finish alone. It has no single-player option. Every player needs a partner, either sitting nearby or connected online, and the story simply will not…
  • Final Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy VIII sold 2.21 million copies in one day in Japan.
  • Genshin ImpactGenshin Impact, a 2020 action role-playing game from the Chinese studio miHoYo, caused an uproar before anyone could play it. At the ChinaJoy convention in 2019, fans of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gave the Sony booth the…
  • Final FantasyHironobu Sakaguchi planned to quit games if Final Fantasy failed. The 1987 role-playing game saved Square instead.

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