Explore the history of video games and the industry that created them. This section covers individual games, developers, development studios, publishers, gaming publications, companies, technologies, and other people and organizations that shaped the growth of interactive entertainment.
By the early 1990s, Rocky and Bullwinkle had already survived more than three decades of television reruns, syndication, and changing […]
By the time Adventure Island II appeared on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991, Hudson Soft had already transformed an […]
By the time Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar reached American Nintendo Entertainment System owners in 1993, the game already belonged […]
By the summer of 1992, the Nintendo Entertainment System was no longer the newest machine in American living rooms. Nintendo’s […]
By the time Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance reached the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States in […]
For many American Nintendo Entertainment System players, Adventures of Dino Riki was simply one more strange cartridge on a crowded […]
By the time Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance reached the Nintendo Entertainment System in early 1991, the […]
For many Nintendo Entertainment System players, Hudson’s Adventure Island seemed to have an identity all its own. Master Higgins ran […]
In 1990, Nintendo Entertainment System owners were handed an unusual invitation. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy were preparing for […]
When The Addams Family returned to movie theaters in 1991, the characters were already several generations removed from their beginnings […]
In 1989, American Nintendo Entertainment System owners were introduced to a hero who seemed designed to leap directly from an […]
By the time Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike reached the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, Dungeons & Dragons had already […]
By the beginning of the 1990s, the Addams Family had returned from television history to popular culture in a major […]
In 1989, scrolling shooters were already well established on home consoles. Players had flown through alien worlds, military installations, mechanical […]
By the end of the 1980s, Freddy Krueger had become one of the most recognizable figures in American horror. What […]
Long before Madden NFL turned professional football into an annual video game institution, and before Tecmo Bowl became one of […]
In the crowded library of the Nintendo Entertainment System, some games became permanent fixtures of video game history. Super Mario […]
In 1987, Capcom returned to the skies of the Pacific with 1943: The Battle of Midway, a vertically scrolling arcade […]
Years before the name Square became nearly inseparable from role-playing games, the company was still searching for the kinds of […]
When 1942 appeared in Japanese arcades in December 1984, Capcom was still far from the international video game giant it […]
When 720° appeared in arcades in late 1986, Atari Games was trying to turn skateboarding into something more ambitious than […]