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Video game franchises grouped by genre.

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In each table

• The "Title" value should link to a Wiki article about the franchise, NOT to a Wiki article about an individual game.

• The "Platforms" value shows a union of platforms for all games in a franchise. The number in parentheses beside each platform indicates the number of games in the franchise that run on the platform.

Legends

Action

Action game

Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...

 video games

Title	Number of games	Year of first game	Year of last game	Platforms (number of games)
ToeJam & Earl ToeJam & Earl (series) ToeJam & Earl is an action video game series that includes:* ToeJam & Earl, a 1991 dungeon crawler* Ready, aim, tomatoes!, a 1992 shooter in a 6-game cartridge that Sega bundled with its wireless lightgun Menacer...	4	1991	2002	GEN(3),Wii(2), XBOX(1)

RPG

Role-playing video game

Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...

 video games

Title	Number of games	Year of first game	Year of last game	Platforms (number of games)
Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate (series) Baldur's Gate is a franchise of action role-playing games released under the Dungeons & Dragons Video Game Licenses. It is set in the fictional campaign setting of Forgotten Realms and takes place in its fictional continent of Faerûn. It takes place mostly in the Western Heartlands, but has also...	4	1998	2001	MAC(4),WIN(4)
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Baldur's Gate (series) Baldur's Gate is a franchise of action role-playing games released under the Dungeons & Dragons Video Game Licenses. It is set in the fictional campaign setting of Forgotten Realms and takes place in its fictional continent of Faerûn. It takes place mostly in the Western Heartlands, but has also...	2	2001	2004	GBA(1),GCN(1),PS2(2),XBOX(2)

Shooter

Shooter game

Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...

 video games

Title	Subgenre	Number of games	Year of first game	Year of last game	Platforms (number of games)
Call of Juarez Call of Juarez (series) Call of Juarez is a first-person shooter video game series from the Polish developer Techland.-Games in the "Call of Juarez" franchise:* Call of Juarez * Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood * Call of Juarez: The Cartel...	FPS	3	2006	2011	PS3(2),WIN(3),X360(3)
Dead to Rights Dead to Rights (series) -Games in the "Dead to Rights" franchise:* Dead to Rights * Dead to Rights II * Dead to Rights: Reckoning * Dead to Rights: Retribution -Dead to Rights:...	TPS, shmup	5	2002	2010	GBA(1),GCN(1),PS2(2),PS3(1),PSP(1),WIN(2),X360(1),XBOX(2)

Sports

Sports game

A sports game is a computer or video game that simulates the practice of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including team sports, athletics and extreme sports. Some games emphasize actually playing the sport , whilst others emphasize strategy and organization...

 video games

Title	Sport	Number of games	Year of first game	Year of last game	Platforms (number of games)
Backyard Wrestling Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home Backyard Wrestling is a video game developed by Paradox Development, and published by Eidos Interactive in 2003 for Xbox and PlayStation 2.- General summary :The goal of backyard wrestling is largely to use the environment to defeat an opponent....	Wrestling	2	2003	2004	PS2(2),XBOX(2)

Additional Franchises

This is a list of video game franchise

Media franchise

A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting and trademarks of an original work of media , such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Generally, a whole series is made in a particular medium, along with merchandising and endorsements...

s organised alphabetically by name. This consists of long running series as well as characters that have been portrayed in many games. This list does not include non-gaming intellectual properties

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 that have been adapted for use in games (such as James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 or sports leagues).

A

• Ace Attorney (also known as Phoenix Wright and Gyakuten Saiban)
• Ace Combat
  Ace Combat
  Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
  
  
• Act of War
  Act of War: Direct Action
  Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari, Inc. The game was released in March 2005 and features a detailed story written by Dale Brown, a retired captain of the US Air Force and a bestselling author. An expansion pack called Act of...
  
  
• ActRaiser
  ActRaiser
  is a 1990 Super Nintendo Entertainment System action and city-building simulation game developed by Quintet and published by Enix that combines traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban planning god game sections. A sequel, ActRaiser 2, was released for the Super Nintendo in 1993...
  
  
• Advance Wars
• Adventure Island
  Adventure Island (video game)
  Hudson's Adventure Island, also known simply as Adventure Island and released in Japan as , is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was first released in Japan for the Family Computer and MSX on September 12, 1986...
  
  
• After Burner
  After Burner
  is a 1987 Japanese flight simulator arcade game by Sega. It is one of the first games designed by Yu Suzuki. The player flew an F-14 using a specialized joystick , and the game spawned several sequels.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Age of Empires
• Age of Wonders
  Age of Wonders
  Age of Wonders is a turn-based strategy PC-game often likened to Master of Magic. Originally titled World of Wonders, the game incorporated several role-playing video game elements that were dropped when simultaneous turns were implemented...
  
  
• Alex Kidd
  Alex Kidd
  is a video game character whose popularity peaked during the late 1980s and who was the protagonist of both a series of video games released by Sega and their fictional universe, as well as in numerous spin-off merchandise such as novelizations and comics...
  
  
• Alien Breed
  Alien Breed
  Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games played in the form of a top-down shooter for one or two players. It was released in 1991 by Team17 for the Commodore Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Alien vs. Predator
  Alien vs. Predator
  Aliens vs. Predator, also known as Alien vs. Predator and Aliens versus Predator , is a science fiction-horror fiction series spanning several media. The series is a crossover between two film franchises about extraterrestrial beings: the Aliens and the Predators...
  
  
• Alone in the Dark
  Alone in the Dark
  Alone in the Dark is the title of several works of fiction:*Alone in the Dark, a series of video games*Alone in the Dark , a 1992 video game and the first in the series...
  
  
• Altered Beast
  Altered Beast
  Altered Beast is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega. The game is set in Ancient Greece, and follows a centurion who is resurrected by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena, and to do so become able to turn into beasts such as the werewolf with usage of power-ups...
  
  
• Alundra
  Alundra
  , released in Europe as The Adventures of Alundra, is an action-adventure game developed by Matrix Software for the Sony PlayStation and was released in 1997. It was published by Sony in Japan, Working Designs in North America, and Psygnosis in Europe. It won great critical acclaim for its bizarre...
  
  
• American McGee's Alice
  American McGee's Alice
  American McGee's Alice is a third-person action game released for PC on October 6, 2000. The game, developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, is set in an alternative universe of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
  
  
• America's Army
  America's Army
  America's Army is a series of video games and other media developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment. America's Army was conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski and is managed by the U.S...
  
  
• Amped
  Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding
  Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is an Xbox exclusive snowboarding video game. It is the first of the Amped video game series....
  
  
• Animal Crossing
  Animal Crossing
  The Animal Crossing games have garnered positive response. The first three games are among the best-selling for their respective consoles. Animal Crossing has sold 2.321 million copies; Wild World 10.79 million; and City Folk 3.38 million...
  
  
• Ape Escape
  Ape Escape
  Ape Escape is a platform game published, produced and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was originally released in 1999. It was re-released for the Sony Greatest Hits and Best for Family line-ups in 2000; for the Platinum Range in 2001; and for the PSone Books...
  
  
• Arc the Lad
  Arc the Lad
  is a series of console role-playing games that were released for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Several of the games were published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan. The games were never released outside of Japan until Arc the Lad Collection was released by Working Designs in 2002. An...
  
  
• Armored Core
  Armored Core
  Armored Core is a mecha-based video game series developed by From Software for the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mobile Phone platforms. Armored Core games are Mecha Simulation/third-person shooters, in which the player pilots a large mecha called an...
  
  
• Army Men
  Army Men
  Army Men is a series of video games developed by 3DO and Global Star Software. It is based on various conflicts between four kinds of plastic army men, distinguished by their color: the Green, the Tan, the Blue, and the Grey. Two other factions, the Red and the Orange, as well as a much smaller...
  
  
• Army of Two
  Army of Two
  Army of Two is a third person shooter video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on March 4, 2008 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. The game is centered upon two mercenaries fighting through war, political turmoil, and a conspiracy from 1993 to 2009...
  
  
• Art of Fighting
  Art of Fighting
  is a trilogy of competitive fighting game titles that were released for the Neo Geo platform in the early 1990s. It was the second fighting game franchise created by SNK, following the Fatal Fury series and is set in the same fictional universe...
  
  (Ryuuko no Ken)
• Asheron's Call
  Asheron's Call
  Asheron's Call is a fantasy MMORPG for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment. It was published by Microsoft until 2004. Asheron's Call is set on the continent of Dereth and its surrounding islands on the fictional planet of Auberean...
  
  
• Assassin's Creed
  Assassin's Creed (series)
  Assassin's Creed is a historical science fiction Action Adventure game series that as of 2011 consists of four main games and a number of supporting materials. The games have appeared on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Vita, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable,...
  
  
• Asterix Games
  Asterix
  Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...
  
  
• Asteroids
• ATV Offroad Fury
  ATV Offroad Fury
  ATV Offroad Fury is a hit PlayStation 2 racing game, released in February 2001. ATV Offroad Fury and its sequel ATV Offroad Fury 2 were developed by Rainbow Studios, whose work includes the Splashdown series, MX Unleashed, and the PC series Motocross Madness.-Gameplay:Basic gameplay is very simple,...
  
  

B

• Backyard Sports
• Backyard Wrestling
  Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
  Backyard Wrestling is a video game developed by Paradox Development, and published by Eidos Interactive in 2003 for Xbox and PlayStation 2.- General summary :The goal of backyard wrestling is largely to use the environment to defeat an opponent....
  
  
• Baldur's Gate
  Baldur's Gate (series)
  Baldur's Gate is a franchise of action role-playing games released under the Dungeons & Dragons Video Game Licenses. It is set in the fictional campaign setting of Forgotten Realms and takes place in its fictional continent of Faerûn. It takes place mostly in the Western Heartlands, but has also...
  
  
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Bard's Tale
• Baten Kaitos
  Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
  is a 2003 role-playing video game that was developed by tri-Crescendo and Monolith Soft and published by Namco in Japan, North America and Europe and by Nintendo Australia for Australia and New Zealand for the Nintendo GameCube. First released in Japan in 2003, it is the first game in the Baten...
  
  
• Battle Arena Toshinden
  Battle Arena Toshinden
  is a weapons-based fighting game for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC in 1994. It was one of the first fighting games to boast polygonal characters in a 3D environment, and it is credited for taking the genre into "true 3-D" due to its introduction of the sidestep maneuver.It was an early killer...
  
  
• Battlefield
• Battle Isle
• Beatmania
  Beatmania
  is a rhythm video game developed and distributed by Japanese game developer Konami and first released in 1997. It contributed largely to the boom of music games in 1998, and the series expanded not only with arcade sequels, but also moved to home consoles and other portable devices, achieving a...
  
  
• Bejeweled
  Bejeweled (series)
  Bejeweled is the name of the first game and series of puzzle games created by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001. Four follow-ups to this game have been released, Bejeweled 2, in 2004, Bejeweled Twist in 2008, Bejeweled Blitz in 2009, and Bejeweled 3 in 2010, all also by PopCap...
  
  
• Berzerk
  Berzerk
  Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter video arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago.-Gameplay:The player controls a green stick-figure, representing a "humanoid." Using a joystick , the player navigates a simple maze filled with many robots, who fire lasers back at the...
  
  
• Big Mutha Truckers
  Big Mutha Truckers
  Big Mutha Truckers is a racing video game developed by British studio Eutechnyx. Set in fictional Hick County, the game revolves around completing trips between cities, delivering goods, and competing in races while at the helm of an eighteen wheeler...
  
  
• Bionic Commando
• Bioshock
  BioShock (series)
  BioShock is a video game series developed by Irrational Games—the first under the name 2K Boston/2K Australia—and designed by Ken Levine. It was originally released for the Windows operating system and Xbox 360 video game console on 21 August 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe...
  
  
• The Black Mirror
  The Black Mirror
  The Black Mirror is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed in 2003 by Future Games, a Czech company. Its original name is Posel Smrti . The game features 150 locations and 5 hours of spoken dialogoue...
  
  
• Black & White
• Blinx
  Blinx: The Time Sweeper
  Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a platform game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox on October 7, 2002...
  
  
• Blitz: The League
  Blitz: The League
  Blitz: The League is an American football game by Midway as an unlicensed extension of their NFL Blitz series. Released after the NFL signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts, it was released in October 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Lawrence Taylor, who provides voice acting...
  
  
• BloodRayne
  BloodRayne (series)
  BloodRayne is a franchise that originated in two video games developed by Terminal Reality and inspired several motion pictures and a comic book series.-Influences:...
  
  
• Bloody Roar
  Bloody Roar
  is a series of fighting games created by Hudson Soft, and developed together with Eighting. The series has been published by multiple companies, including, Virgin Interactive, Activision and Konami.Hudson Soft later became a subsidiary of Konami.-Information:...
  
  
• Bobby Carrot
  Bobby Carrot
  Bobby Carrot is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. The fifth game was also released for iOS, and will also be released as a WiiWare game for North America on July...
  
  
• Boktai
  Boktai
  Boktai is a video game series developed by Konami for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS handheld consoles. The title is an abbreviation of the series' full Japanese title Bokura no Taiyō or Our Sun. They are recognized for using a solar sensor that is a key element of gameplay...
  
  
• Bomberman
• Bonk
• Borderlands
  Borderlands (video game)
  Borderlands is a science fiction based first-person shooter with RPG elements that was developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It was first revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine...
  
  
• Boulder Dash
  Boulder Dash
  Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms...
  
  
• Brain Age
  Brain Age (series)
  Brain Age is a series of video games developed and published by Nintendo, based on the work of Ryuta Kawashima.-Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!:-Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!:-Mathematics:...
  
  
• Breakout
  Breakout (video game)
  Breakout is an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc and introduced on May 13, 1976. It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, and influenced by the 1972 arcade game Pong, also by Atari. The game was ported to video game consoles and upgraded to video games such as Super Breakout...
  
  
• Breath of Fire
• Broken Sword
  Broken Sword
  Broken Sword is a video game series created by game designer Charles Cecil of Revolution Software. The game series revolves around the adventures of Idaho-born George Stobbart and the French Nico Collard in several fictitious stories based on history and mythology. The first two games in the series...
  
  
• Brothers in Arms
  Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30
  Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is a first-person shooter video game created by Gearbox Software for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Mac OS X. It is the first game in the Brothers in Arms series. It is published by Ubisoft and was released in early 2005...
  
  
• Bubble Bobble
  Bubble Bobble
  is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles. The game, starring the twin Bubble Dragons and , is an action-platform game in which players travel through one hundred different stages, blowing and bursting bubbles, avoiding...
  
  
• Bubsy
  Bubsy 3D
  Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet, known simply as Bubsy 3D, is a platform video game developed by Eidetic and published by Accolade and Telstar for the PlayStation video game console. It was designed by Michael Berlyn. It was released on October 13, 1996 in North America and in August of 1997 in Europe...
  
  
• Bully
  Bully (video game)
  Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit for the PAL PlayStation 2 version, is an open world video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2 on 17 October 2006 in North America, and 25 October 2006 in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Burnout
  Burnout (series)
  Burnout is a series of high-speed racing games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. Also, for the very first time, a PC version of the latest installment in the series, Burnout Paradise, has been released...
  
  
• Bust a Groove
  Bust a Groove
  Bust a Groove is a hybrid music/fighting game for the Sony PlayStation released in 1998. The game was published by the Japanese video game developer Enix in Japan and brought to the U.S...
  
  
• Bust-A-Move
  Puzzle Bobble 2
  Puzzle Bobble 2 is the first sequel to "Puzzle Bobble" , It was entitled in Europe and North America as Bust-A-Move Again on the arcarde and Bust-A-Move 2 on the home consoles. Released into the arcades in 1995, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and PC conversions followed...
  
  
• Buzz!
  Buzz!
  Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. They are quiz games that see the players answering trivia questions while...
  
  

C

• Cabela's
  Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
  Cabela's Dangerous Hunts is a video game published by Cabela's and Activision for the PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox game consoles.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Call of Cthulhu
  Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
  Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a Lovecraftian horror first-person action-adventure game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks in 2005, in conjunction with 2K Games. The game was released for the PC and Xbox systems; the Xbox version is officially...
  
  
• Call of Duty
  Call of Duty
  Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in 2003. It is the first game in a series with the same name. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II. The game is based on the Quake III: Team Arena engine...
  
  
• Call of Juarez
  Call of Juarez (series)
  Call of Juarez is a first-person shooter video game series from the Polish developer Techland.-Games in the "Call of Juarez" franchise:* Call of Juarez * Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood * Call of Juarez: The Cartel...
  
  
• Cannon Fodder
  Cannon Fodder
  Cannon Fodder is a short series of war themed action video games developed by Sensible Software, initially released for the Commodore Amiga. Only two games in the series were released, but were converted to most active systems at the time of release...
  
  
• Carmageddon
  Carmageddon
  Carmageddon is the first of a series of graphically violent vehicular combat video games produced by Stainless Games, published by Interplay and SCi...
  
  
• Castlevania
  Castlevania
  Castlevania, known as in Japan, is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release of for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30...
  
  
• Chessmaster
• Chibi-Robo!
  Chibi-Robo!
  , fully titled Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!, is a platform-adventure video game for the Nintendo GameCube console. It was developed by Skip Ltd. with collaboration from Nintendo. The game was first released in Japan on June 23, 2005, in North America on February 6, 2006, and in Europe on May...
  
  
• Chrono
• City of Heroes
  City of Heroes Roleplaying Game
  The City of Heroes Roleplaying Game, or "CoH RPG" for short, is a role-playing game developed by Eden Studios based on Cryptic Studios' MMORPG City of Heroes. Development of the game was announced March 2005. The basic CoH RPG was written and designed by M. Alexander Jurkat with additional...
  
  
• Civilization
  Civilization (series)
  Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy, 4X video games produced by Sid Meier. Basic gameplay functions are similar throughout the series, namely, buiding a civilization on a macro-scale from prehistory up to the near future...
  
  
• Clock Tower
  Clock Tower (video game)
  is the first installment of the stealth-based survival horror adventure game series Clock Tower created by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom. The game was published by Human Entertainment and was released in Japan in 1995. It was then re-released in Japan in 1997, when it was ported to the...
  
  
• Colin McRae Rally
  Colin McRae Rally
  Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters.Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games...
  
  
• Colony Wars
• Combat Mission
  Combat Mission (video game series)
  Combat Mission is the name of a successful series of computer games simulating tactical battles. The series has progressed through two distinct game engines. The original game engine, referred to as 'CMx1' by the developer, Battlefront, powered a trio of games set in the Second World War. Combat...
  
  
• Command & Conquer
• Commando
• Commandos
• Condemned
  Condemned: Criminal Origins
  Condemned: Criminal Origins is a psychological horror first-person shooter video game, developed by Monolith Productions and published by Sega. It was launched worldwide in 2005 on the Xbox 360, with a Microsoft Windows version released later in 2006...
  
  
• Conflict
  Conflict (series)
  The Conflict franchise was developed by the award-winning Pivotal Games. It has sold more than 6 million units.The first of the series was released in 2002 with Conflict: Desert Storm, which was based on the 1991 Gulf War.-List of games:...
  
  
• Conker
• Contra
• Cool Boarders
  Cool Boarders
  Cool Boarders is a snowboarding video game developed by UEP Systems for the PlayStation. It was released in Japan in August 1996, in North America in December 1996, and in Europe in January 1997...
  
  
• Cossacks
  Cossacks: European Wars
  Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on April 24, 2001. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe...
  
  
• Counter-Strike
  Counter-Strike
  Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe...
  
  
• Crackdown
  Crackdown 2
  Crackdown 2 is a sandbox-style third-person shooter video game developed by Ruffian Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released on Xbox 360 in July 2010 and is a direct sequel to the 2007 video game Crackdown.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Crash Bandicoot
• Crazy Taxi
• Croc
  Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
  Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a platform video game published by Fox Interactive and developed by Argonaut Software for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and GameBoy Color. It was released on September 29, 1997 in the North America...
  
  
• Crysis
  Crysis (series)
  Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter video game series developed by German developer Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. The series revolves around a group of military protagonists with "nanosuits," technologically advanced suits of armor that allow them to gain enhanced physical...
  
  

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• D
  D (video game)
  is a survival horror puzzle-oriented adventure game released in 1995 by WARP. The first entry in the D series and one of the first games released by the company, it dealt with taboo content such as violence and cannibalism, featured 3D CGI full-motion video and a first-person perspective, and...
  
  
• Dance Dance Revolution
  Dance Dance Revolution
  Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the...
  
  
• Darkstalkers
• Dark Cloud
  Dark Cloud
  is a role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2000 and 2001 in Japan and American/PAL regions respectively. The gameplay of Dark Cloud combines action role-playing with elements of city-building...
  
  
• Dead or Alive
• Dead Space
  Dead Space (video game)
  Dead Space is a survival horror third-person shooter video game, developed by EA Redwood Shores for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was made available on Steam on October 20, 2008...
  
  
• Deer Avenger
• Deer Hunter
• Defender
• Delta Force
• Descent
  Descent (video game)
  Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Entertainment Corp. in 1995. The game features six degrees of freedom gameplay and garnered several expansion packs...
  
  
• Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
• Destroy All Humans!
  Destroy All Humans! (series)
  Destroy All Humans! is a video game franchise developed by Pandemic Studios, Locomotive Games, Sandblast Games and published by THQ. The series is designed as a spoof of Cold War-era alien invasion films...
  
  
• Destruction Derby
  Destruction Derby
  Destruction Derby is a 1995 video game developed by Reflections and published by Psygnosis, the former of which would later develop the successful Driver series. It was released for PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS...
  
  
• Deus Ex
  Deus Ex
  Deus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...
  
  
• Devil May Cry
  Devil May Cry
  is an action game developed and published by Capcom, released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. Although it is the first game in the series of the same name, the events in Devil May Cry are second in the series storyline's chronological order, taking place after Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and...
  
  
• Diablo
  Diablo (series)
  Diablo is an action role-playing game franchise owned and produced by Blizzard Entertainment. , the series has sold over 18.5 million copies worldwide.-Story:...
  
  
• Dino Crisis
  Dino Crisis
  is a survival horror video game by Capcom, originally released in 1999 for the PlayStation and later ported to Microsoft Windows and Dreamcast in 2000...
  
  
• Digimon
• Disgaea
  Disgaea
  is a video game series of tactical role-playing games created and developed by Nippon Ichi. The series debuted in Japan on January 30, , with Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, later re-released as Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness and Disgaea DS. One of Nippon Ichi's most popular franchises, it has branched...
  
  
• Dizzy series
  Dizzy series
  The Dizzy series of computer games, published by Codemasters, was one of the most successful European computer game brands of the late 1980s. The games were based around a central figure: an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy...
  
  
• Donkey Kong
  Donkey Kong
  is a fictional gorilla in the Donkey Kong and Mario series. He is roughly twice the size of a normal gorilla, weighing approximately 800 pounds. Donkey Kong first appeared in Nintendo's popular 1981 video game of the same name. Since then he has appeared in over 20 games in his own series, as well...
  
  
• Doom
• Double Dragon
• Dragon Age
  Dragon Age
  Dragon Age: Origins is a single-player role-playing video game developed by BioWare's Edmonton studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the first game in the Dragon Age franchise...
  
  
• Dragon Slayer
• Dragon Quest
  Dragon Quest
  , published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005,Due to the inconsistent usage by sources since Square Enix obtained the naming rights to Dragon Quest in North America. Dragon Quest has been used by sources to refer to games released solely under the Dragon Warrior titles...
  
  (Dragon Warrior)
• Dragon's Lair
  Dragon's Lair
  Dragon's Lair is a laserdisc video game published by Cinematronics in 1983. It featured animation created by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth....
  
  
• Drakan
  Drakan
  Drakan is an action-adventure video game series developed by Surreal Software and set in a high fantasy world simply referred as Drakan by gamers...
  
  
• Drakengard
  Drakengard
  Drakengard, known in Japan as , is a PlayStation 2 action role-playing game developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix and Take-Two Interactive. It was released on September 11, 2003 in Japan, on March 5, 2004 in North America and on May 21, 2004 in PAL territories.The game was originally...
  
  
• Dream Chronicles
  Dream Chronicles (series)
  Dream Chronicles is an adventure, hidden object and puzzle casual game series created by KatGames and published by PlayFirst. It is also the name of the first game in the series...
  
  
• Driver
  Driver (series)
  Driver is a series of mission-based driving video games developed by Reflections Interactive , and originally published by GT Interactive and later by Atari. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, driving, and third-person shooting in open world environments...
  
  
• Duke Nukem
• Dungeon Keeper
  Dungeon Keeper
  Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game released developed by Bullfrog Productions under Peter Molyneux and released by Electronic Arts in July 1997 for the PC in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from 'hero' characters intent on stealing the...
  
  
• Dynasty Warriors
  Dynasty Warriors
  is a series of tactical action video games created by Omega Force and Koei. The award-winning series is a spin-off of Koei's turn-based strategy Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, based loosely around the Chinese classical novel of the same name. The first game titled Dynasty Warriors,...
  
  (Shin Sangoku Musou)

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• EarthBound
  EarthBound (series)
  EarthBound, known in Japan as Mother, is a role-playing game series created by Shigesato Itoi for Nintendo. The series started in 1989 with the Japan-only release of Mother for the Famicom, and was then followed up by a sequel, released in North America as EarthBound for the Super NES in 1995, and...
  
  (Mother)
• Earthworm Jim
  Earthworm Jim (series)
  Earthworm Jim is a series of side-scrolling platforming video games. First released in 1994, the series is noted for its shooting/platforming gameplay and humorous and edgy style....
  
  
• Eat Lead
  Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
  is an action game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game was developed by Vicious Cycle Software and published by D3 Publisher.Matt Hazard pits players in the role of the title character, a "legendary" gaming hero who is "returning to glory" in a new video game, some 25 years after his debut game...
  
  
• Ecco the Dolphin
  Ecco the Dolphin (series)
  Ecco the Dolphin is the collective name given to a series of action/adventure science fiction video games developed by Novotrade International and published by Sega. They were originally developed for the Mega Drive/Genesis and Dreamcast video game consoles, but have since been ported to numerous...
  
  
• ECW Games
  Extreme Championship Wrestling
  Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...
  
  
• Eggerland (Adventures of Lolo)
• The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:...
  
  
• Empire Earth
  Empire Earth (series)
  The Empire Earth series is a franchise of real-time strategy computer games developed by Stainless Steel Studios and Mad Doc Software, and published by Sierra Entertainment, Activision, and Vivendi. The games in the series are historical RTS games that are similar to Age of Empires...
  
  
• Enemy Territory
  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game, and is the follow-up to the 2005 title Quake 4. It is also the first game in the series to be rated T by the ESRB...
  
  
• EOE
  EOE: Eve of Extinction
  EOE: Eve of Extinction is a 3D beat-'em-up game released on February 26, 2002 for the PlayStation 2. It was published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Yuke's...
  
  
• Europa Universalis
  Europa Universalis
  Europa Universalis is a grand strategy video game released on March 14, 2000 by Paradox Interactive and distributed in North America by Strategy First...
  
  
• EverQuest
  EverQuest
  EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...
  
  
• Excitebike
  Excitebike
  is a motocross racing video game franchise made by Nintendo. It first debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 and as a launch title for the NES in 1985. It is the first game of the Excite series, succeeded by its direct sequel Excitebike 64, its spiritual successors Excite Truck and...
  
  
• Extreme-G
  Extreme-G
  Extreme-G is a motorcycle racing game for the Nintendo 64. It was the first game of the Extreme-G series. It was developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment.-Plot:...
  
  

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• F-Zero
  F-Zero
  is a futuristic racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . The game was released in Japan on November 21, 1990, in North America on August 23, 1991, and in Europe on June 4, 1992...
  
  
• Fable
  Fable (video game)
  Fable is an action role-playing video game in the Fable series. It was developed for Xbox, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms, by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft. The game shipped for Xbox on October 14, 2003...
  
  
• Far Cry
  Far Cry
  Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release. It received positive reviews upon release...
  
  
• Fatal Fury (Garou Densetsu)
• Fallout
• Fatal Frame
  Fatal Frame
  Fatal Frame, known as Project Zero in the PAL region, and Zero Zero in Japan, is a survival horror video game series consisting of four installments and a spin-off. The first and second games in the series were released for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, the third has been released for the...
  
  
• F.E.A.R.
• FIFA
  FIFA (series)
  FIFA, also known as FIFA Football or FIFA Soccer, is a series of association football video games, released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label...
  
  
• Fighting Force
  Fighting Force
  Fighting Force is a 1997 3D beat 'em up developed by Core Design and published by Eidos in the same lines of classics such as Final Fight and Streets of Rage...
  
  
• Fight Night
  Fight Night (EA video game series)
  Fight Night is a series of video games created by EA Sports. The series consists of* Fight Night 2004** Updates: Total Punch Control.* Fight Night Round 2...
  
  
• Final Fantasy
  Final Fantasy
  is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix . The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science-fantasy role-playing video games , but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise...
  
  
• Final Fight
  Final Fight
  is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
  
  
• Fire Emblem
  Fire Emblem
  is a fantasy tactical role-playing video game franchise developed by Intelligent Systems , the maker of Advance Wars , and published by Nintendo...
  
  
• Fire Pro Wrestling
  Fire Pro Wrestling
  Fire Pro Wrestling is a long-running professional wrestling video game series originating from Japan, started in 1989 by Human Entertainment and continued by Spike in 2000.-History:...
  
  
• Flight Simulator
  Microsoft Flight Simulator
  Microsoft Flight Simulator is a series of flight simulator programs for the Microsoft Windows operating system, although it was marketed as a video game. It is one of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series...
  
  
• Football Manager
  Football Manager
  Football Manager is a series of football management simulation games developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The game began its life in 1992 as Championship Manager; however, following the break-up of their partnership with original publishers Eidos Interactive, Sports Interactive...
  
  
• Frogger
  Frogger
  Frogger is an arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami, and licensed for worldwide distribution by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of...
  
  
• Front Mission
  Front Mission
  is a collection of video games and related media produced by Square, now Square Enix. The series was created by Toshiro Tsuchida and developed by G-Craft, a studio that was later absorbed by Square and is now with Square Enix as Product Development Division-6...
  
  
• Full Auto
  Full Auto
  Full Auto is a video game for the Xbox 360 console published by Sega. Originally Developed by Pseudo Interactive for the PC, it is a vehicular combat racing game...
  
  

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• Gabriel Knight
  Gabriel Knight
  Gabriel Knight is a series of adventure games produced by Sierra On-Line in the 1990s. Three games were released in the series: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned.One compilation was...
  
  
• Galactic Civilizations
  Galactic Civilizations
  Galactic Civilizations is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Stardock and released in March 2003. The game is a remake of a vintage OS/2 series of the same name. An expansion pack entitled Altarian Prophecy was released in July 2004...
  
  
• Galaga
  Galaga
  is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan and published by Midway in North America in 1981. It is the sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979. The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a space ship which is situated on the bottom of the screen...
  
  /Galaxian
  Galaxian
  is an arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was published by Namco in Japan and was imported to North America by Midway in 1980. A fixed shooter-style game in which the player controls a spaceship at the bottom of the screen and shoots enemies descending in various directions, it was designed...
  
  
• Gauntlet
  Gauntlet (arcade game)
  Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. It is noted as the first class-based multiplayer game. Released during the emergence of popularity of other role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, the game was a sensation, being one of the first true dungeon crawl...
  
  
• Gears of War
  Gears of War (series)
  Gears of War is a science fiction video game franchise created and owned by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Studios. The three games that currently make up the series take place on the fictional planet Sera and focus on a war between humans and creatures known as Locust...
  
  
• Genji
  Genji: Dawn of the Samurai
  Genji: Dawn of the Samurai is a PlayStation 2 game released on September 20, 2005. It is loosely based on The Tale of the Heike.A sequel, Genji: Days of the Blade was released for PlayStation 3.-Storyline:...
  
  
• The Getaway
• Gex
• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghost Recon
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
  Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is a tactical shooter video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment, a Ubisoft subsidiary, and published by Ubisoft in 2001 for the PC. It was ported to the Mac, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2002 and to the GameCube in 2003...
  
  
• Ghostbusters
• Ghosts 'n Goblins
  Ghosts 'n Goblins (series)
  Ghosts'n Goblins, known as in Japan, is a run and gun platformer video game series created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom. The first entry in the series was Ghosts'n Goblins, released as an arcade title on September 19, 1985...
  
  
• God of War
  God of War (series)
  God of War is a series of action-adventure video games based on Greek mythology.The main trilogy—God of War I, II, & III—in the series were developed by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division , with Ready at Dawn Studios developing the PSP and Javaground the mobile phone installment...
  
  
• The Godfather
• Golden Axe
  Golden Axe
  Golden Axe is a side-scrolling beat 'em up and hack & slash arcade video game released in 1989 by Sega for the System 16-B arcade hardware. It is the first game in the Golden Axe series....
  
  
• Golden Sun
  Golden Sun (series)
  is a series of fantasy role-playing video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and produced by Nintendo. Golden Sun follows the story of a group of magically-attuned "adepts" who are charged with preventing the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being released as it was in the...
  
  
• Gothic
  Gothic (series)
  Gothic is an action role-playing game franchise, created and owned by Piranha Bytes. The latest release was published by Nordic Games.The latest installment in the series was developed by Spellbound Entertainment.-Games in the Gothic franchise:...
  
  
• Gradius
  Gradius
  The Gradius games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper...
  
  
• Gran Turismo
  Gran Turismo (series)
  is a popular and critically acclaimed series of racing simulation video games developed by Polyphony Digital.Developed exclusively for PlayStation systems, Gran Turismo games are intended to simulate the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed...
  
  
• Grand Chase
  Grand Chase
  Grand Chase is a free-to-play, two-dimensional side-scrolling MMORPG developed by the South Korean company KOG Studios....
  
  
• Grand Theft Auto
  Grand Theft Auto (series)
  Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...
  
  
• Grandia
• Guilty Gear
• Guitar Hero
  Guitar Hero
  Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...
  
  
• Gungrave
  Gungrave
  is a PlayStation 2 third-person shooter video game developed by Red Entertainment and published by Sega. The game debuted on July 17, 2002 in Japan, September 16, 2002 in North America and November 29, 2002 in the United Kingdom...
  
   Gungrave (franchise)

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• .hack
  .hack (video game series)
  .hack is a series of single-player action role-playing games for the , developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. The four games are titled .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine...
  
  
• Half-Life
  Half-Life (series)
  The Half-Life series of video games share a science fiction alternate history. Nearly all of the games are first-person shooters on the GoldSource or Source engines, and most are linear, narrative, single-player titles....
  
  
• Halo
  Halo (series)
  Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
  
  
• Harvest Moon
• Hearts of Iron
  Hearts of Iron
  Hearts of Iron is a grand strategy computer game developed by Paradox Interactive and published by Strategy First, set in the years 1936-1948. In the game you can control any one nation as World War II unfolds. It was released for Windows-compatible PCs in 2002. A Macintosh version was also...
  
  
• Hebereke
• Hercules no Eikō
• Heretic
• Heroes of Might and Magic
  Heroes of Might and Magic
  Heroes of Might and Magic is a series of video games originally created and developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing. As part of the Might and Magic franchise, the series changed ownership when NWC was acquired by 3DO and again when 3DO closed down and sold the rights to Ubisoft...
  
  
• Hitman
  Hitman (series)
  Hitman is a stealth game series developed by the Danish company IO Interactive. The series is available on PC as well as several video game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. The game series has since expanded into a novel, Hitman: Enemy Within written by...
  
  
• House of the Dead
  The House of the Dead (series)
  The House of the Dead is a video game franchise published by Sega and created by in-house designer Atsushi Seimiya of AM1....
  
  

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• Jak and Daxter
  Jak and Daxter
  Jak and Daxter is a critically acclaimed video game franchise created by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 2.The series consists of four main games and two spin-offs,though they are also considered to be part of the main series...
  
  
• Jetfighter
• Jet Set Radio
  Jet Set Radio
  is a video game for the Dreamcast, developed by Smilebit and published by Sega on June 29, 2000. A 2D version of the game was later released for Game Boy Advance; this version was developed by Vicarious Visions and published by THQ. Its sequel, Jet Set Radio Future was released 2 years later for...
  
  (Jet Grind Radio)
• Jet Moto
• The Journeyman Project
  The Journeyman Project (series)
  The Journeyman Project is a series of award-winning first-person science fiction adventure games, created by Presto Studios and released by various publishers, including Bandai, Sanctuary Woods, and Red Orb Entertainment.- Plot :...
  
  
• Jump Stars
  Jump Super Stars
  is a 2D fighting game for the Nintendo DS. It was developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo. The game was released on August 8, 2005 in Japan and accompanied the release of a red Nintendo DS...
  
  
• Just Cause
  Just Cause (video game)
  Just Cause is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 on September 22, 2006 in Europe, September 27, 2006 in North America, September 29, 2006 in Australia and...
  
  

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• Katamari Damacy
  Katamari Damacy
  Katamari Damacy is a third-person puzzle-action video game that is published and developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was first released in Japan, and then later in South Korea and North America...
  
  
• Kid Icarus
• Kick Off
  Kick Off
  The Kick Off franchise is a series of football simulation computer games which was highly popular in the early 1990s. The series is renowned for its fast-paced action and delicate ball control scheme....
  
  
• Killzone
  Killzone
  Killzone is a first-person shooter exclusive to the PlayStation 2 game console, developed by Netherlands-based Guerrilla Games and released on November 2, 2004 in North America. A sequel, Killzone: Liberation was released on the PlayStation Portable and another followup, Killzone 2 was released for...
  
  
• Kingdom Hearts
  Kingdom Hearts
  is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts series, it is the result of a collaboration between Square Enix and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney...
  
  
• King of Fighters
• King's Quest
  King's Quest
  King's Quest is an adventure game series created by the American software company Sierra Entertainment. It is widely considered a classic series from the golden era of adventure games. Following the success of its first installment, the series was primarily responsible for building the reputation...
  
  
• Kirby
  Kirby (series)
  The series is a fantasy video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo, and produced by Nintendo. The gameplay of a majority of the games in the series consists mainly of action, platform and puzzle-solving elements...
  
  
• Klonoa
  Klonoa
  is a video game series created by Namco and Klonoa Works, as well as the name of the titular character of the series.-Setting and gameplay:The games are set in different worlds, though the primary and known ones are Phantomile and Lunatea. It revolves around Klonoa and how he, the Dream Traveler,...
  
  
• Kunio-kun

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• The Last Blade
  The Last Blade
  , is a fighting game series created by SNK for the Neo Geo system. The Korean version of the game is known as "The Last Soldier". The Last Blade and its sequel are widely considered to be two of the most accomplished games available for the Neo Geo system, with fan opinion divided as to which is...
  
  
• Left 4 Dead
  Left 4 Dead
  Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...
  
  
• Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain is a series of action-adventure video games developed initially by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics. After a legal battle, Crystal Dynamics continued the series without Silicon Knights and Eidos Interactive became the publisher...
  
  
• Legend of Legaia
  Legend of Legaia
  is a 1998 Sony PlayStation role-playing video game created by Contrail. The game was followed by a 2001 video game called Legaia 2: Duel Saga on the PlayStation 2...
  
  
• The Legend of Zelda
  The Legend of Zelda
  The Legend of Zelda, originally released as in Japan, is a video game developed and published by Nintendo, and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on a boy named Link, the playable protagonist, who aims to collect the eight fragments...
  
  
• Lego Star Wars
  Lego Star Wars (video game series)
  Lego Star Wars is a video game series based on the eponymous toy line created by the Lego Group based on the Star Wars movies.-History:...
  
  
• Leisure Suit Larry
  Leisure Suit Larry (series)
  Leisure Suit Larry is a series of adventure games written by Al Lowe and published by Sierra from 1987 to 2009. The main character, whose full name is Larry Laffer, is a balding, dorky, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing "loser" in his 40s...
  
  
• Lemmings
  Lemmings (video game)
  Lemmings is a puzzle computer game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in . Originally developed for PC and Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time, and several gaming magazines gave it some of their highest review scores at the time...
  
  
• Lineage
• LittleBigPlanet
  LittleBigPlanet (series)
  LittleBigPlanet is a puzzle platformer video game series created by Media Molecule. The series was launched in 2008 with the PlayStation 3 game, LittleBigPlanet which was followed in 2009 by a PlayStation Portable version of the same name developed by SCE Cambridge Studio. The sequel to the...
  
  
• Loaded
  Loaded (video game)
  Loaded is a science fiction-themed top-down shoot 'em up video game that was developed by Gremlin Interactive and published by Interplay. Loaded was released in late 1995–early 1996 on both the PlayStation and Sega Saturn...
  
  
• LocoRoco
  LocoRoco
  is a platform video game released worldwide in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable handheld game console, and developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was developed by Tsutomu Kouno, striving to create a game that was different than other titles being released for the PSP at...
  
  
• The Longest Journey
  The Longest Journey
  The Longest Journey is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Norwegian studio Funcom for the PC. First published by IQ Media Nordic in Norway in 1999, it was later localized for and released in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Denmark,...
  
  
• Lords of the Realm
  Lords of the Realm
  Lords of the Realm is a turn-based strategy computer game published and developed by Impressions Games. It was first released on June 15, 1994, and is the first game in the Lords of the Realm series....
  
  
• Lost Planet
• The Lost Vikings
  The Lost Vikings
  The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game series which was developed by Silicon & Synapse . The first game, The Lost Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for DOS, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive and SNES among others...
  
  
• Lotus
• Lufia
  Lufia
  Lufia, known as in Japan, is a series of console role-playing games developed by Neverland . In Japan, the games were originally published by Taito and later Square Enix , and after the closing of Taito's American branch after the release of the first game, Natsume Inc...
  
  
• Luminous Arc
  Luminous Arc
  is a tactical role-playing game from Marvelous for the Nintendo DS. Luminous Arc was released in Japan on February 8, 2007 and August 14, 2007 in North America by Atlus. The game was released in Europe on October 12, 2007 by Rising Star Games....
  
  
• Lunar
• Lunia

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• Madden NFL
  Madden NFL
  Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game series is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator...
  
  
• Mana
• Manhunt
  Manhunt (series)
  Manhunt is a stealth style video game series primarily developed by Scottish company Rockstar North, as well as several other Rockstar studios, and published by Rockstar Games....
  
  
• Marathon Trilogy
  Marathon Trilogy
  The Marathon Trilogy is a science fiction series of first-person shooter computer games from Bungie, originally released for the Macintosh. The name Marathon is derived from the giant interstellar colony ship that provides the setting for the first game; the ship is constructed out of what used to...
  
  
• Mario
  Mario (series)
  The video game series, alternatively called the series or simply the series, is a series of highly popular and critically acclaimed video games by Nintendo, featuring Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in many games, his brother Luigi. Gameplay in the series often centers around jumping on and...
  
  
• Marl Kingdom
  Marl Kingdom
  is a series of RPGs developed by Nippon Ichi Software. The three main games in the series are Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Little Princess: Marl Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime 2, and Tenshi no Present - Marl Ōkoku Monogatari....
  
  
• Mass Effect
  Mass Effect (series)
  Mass Effect is an award-winning, bestselling series of science fiction RPG third-person shooter video games developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and, from the second installment, for the PlayStation 3...
  
  
• Master of Orion
  Master of Orion
  Master of Orion is a turn-based, 4X science fiction computer strategy game released in 1993 by MicroProse on the MS-DOS and Mac OS operating systems. The purpose of the game is to lead one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through a combination of diplomacy and conquest while developing...
  
  
• The Matrix
• Max Payne
  Max Payne (series)
  Max Payne is a video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment and recently, Rockstar Vancouver. The series is named after its protagonist, Max Payne, a New York City police officer...
  
  
• MechWarrior
• Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor (series)
  Medal of Honor is the name of a series of first-person shooter games set in World War II, with an October 2010 reboot based on the conflicts of present day Afghanistan. The first game was developed by DreamWorks Interactive and published by Electronic Arts in 1999 for the PlayStation game console...
  
  
• Mega Man
  Mega Man
  Mega Man is a video game franchise from Capcom, starring the eponymous character Mega Man, or one of his many counterparts. The series is well-known and comprises well over fifty releases, easily making it Capcom's most prolific franchise. As of December 31, 2010, the series has sold approximately...
  
  (Rockman)
• Megami Tensei
  Megami Tensei
  , commonly abbreviated as , is a Japanese console role-playing game metaseries which was originally based on the novel series Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani and has gone to become one of the major franchises of the genre in its native country...
  
  
• Mercenaries
  Mercenaries (series)
  Mercenaries is a video game franchise published by LucasArts and developed by Pandemic Studios.As of 2009, there are two Mercenaries games originating in a first person third-person shooter format available.- Games :...
  
  
• Metal Gear
  Metal Gear (series)
  is a series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for the MSX2. The player takes control of a special forces operative Solid Snake who is assigned to find the eponymous superweapon "Metal Gear", a...
  
  
• Metal Slug
• Metroid
  Metroid
  is an action-adventure video game, and the first entry in the Metroid series. It was co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division and Intelligent Systems, and was released in Japan in August 1986, in North America in August 1987, and in Europe in January 1988...
  
  
• MDK
  MDK (series)
  MDK is a third-person shooter video game series.-MDK:The game tells the story of its protagonist, Kurt Hectic, and his attempts to rescue Earth from an alien invasion of gigantic strip mining city-vehicles named 'Minecrawlers' that are not only removing all of Earth's natural resources but are also...
  
  
• Midnight Club
  Midnight Club
  Midnight Club is a series of racing video games developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. The games are similar to the Midtown Madness series previously developed by Angel Studios, focusing on competitive street racing in open world urban environments. Midnight Club however,...
  
  
• Midtown Madness
  Midtown Madness (series)
  Midtown Madness is a series of racing games set in famous cities around the world, published by Microsoft Game Studios. Unlike many other racing games created during the series' initial release, Midtown Madness games pioneered the use of open world city environments instead of predefined circuit...
  
  
• Might and Magic
  Might and Magic
  Might and Magic is a series of role-playing video games from New World Computing, which in 1996 became a subsidiary of The 3DO Company...
  
  
• Miner Willy
  Miner Willy
  Miner Willy is a fictional character in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers starring Miner Willy...
  
  
• Monkey Island
• Monster Hunter
  Monster Hunter
  Monster Hunter is an action game for the PlayStation 2. The game was developed and published by Capcom. Monster Hunter was released in North America on September 21, 2004...
  
  
• Monster Rancher
  Monster Rancher
  Monster Rancher, known in Japan as , is a series of life simulation role-playing video games created by Tecmo . The series currently consists of fourteen games across different video game platforms, and future titles are planned...
  
  
• Mortal Kombat
• Moto GP
• MotorStorm
  MotorStorm
  MotorStorm is a 2006 racing video game developed by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. First announced at E3 2005, the game was released in Japan on 14 December 2006 and the rest of the world in March 2007....
  
  
• Mr. Do
  Mr. Do series
  The Mr. Do series were a series of arcade games that revolved around a fictional clown, Mr. Do. The two most popular Mr. Do games were Mr. Do! and Mr. Do's Castle. The other two games, Mr. Do's Wild Ride and Do! Run Run were not as popular....
  
  
• Musashi
  Brave Fencer Musashi
  is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square in 1998 for the Sony PlayStation. The game involves real-time combat in a 3D environment, and features voice overs for most dialogue. Brave Fencer Musashi was scored by Tsuyoshi Sekito, a former Konami employee...
  
  
• Myst
  Myst (series)
  Myst is a franchise centered on a series of adventure video games. The first game in the series, Myst, was released in 1993 by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller and their video game company Cyan, Inc...
  
  
• Mystery Case Files
  Mystery Case Files
  Mystery Case Files is a series developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. The Mystery Case Files series is known for its ‘Hidden Object’ puzzles where, in order to progress through a game, the player must find a certain number of items hidden somewhere on a painted scene.There have been...
  
  
• Mystical Ninja (Ganbare Goemon)
• Myth

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• No More Heroes
  No More Heroes (video game)
  , is an action video game for the Wii video game system. It was directed by Goichi Suda , developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Entertainment Inc., Ubisoft and Rising Star Games...
  
  
• Need for Speed
  Need for Speed
  Need for Speed is a series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts and developed by several studios including Canadian-based company EA Black Box and British-based Criterion Games...
  
  
• Neutopia
  Neutopia
  is an overhead action-adventure video game developed by Hudson Soft. It was released by Hudson for the PC Engine in Japan on . It was then released by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16 in North America in 1990. It was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service worldwide in 2007; it was re-released...
  
  
• Neverwinter Nights
  Neverwinter Nights
  Neverwinter Nights , produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames , is a third-person perspective computer role-playing game that is based on third edition Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms rules. It was originally to be published by Interplay Entertainment, but the publisher's financial...
  
  
• Nights
  NiGHTS into Dreams...
  Nights into Dreams... , is a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system. The game's story follows two children entering a dream world, where they are aided by the main character, Nights...
  
  
• Ninja Gaiden
  Ninja Gaiden
  is a series of video games by Tecmo featuring the ninja Ryu Hayabusa as its protagonist. The series was originally known as in Japan. The word "gaiden" in the North American Ninja Gaiden title means "side-story" in Japanese, even though the Ninja Gaiden series is not a spinoff of a previous series...
  
  

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• Pac-Man
  Pac-Man
  is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
  
  
• Painkiller
• Parasite Eve
• Penumbra: Overture
  Penumbra: Overture
  Penumbra: Overture is the first in a series of episodic first-person adventure games developed by Swedish developer Frictional Games. It was originally intended as the first episode of a trilogy. With the announcement of the second episode, Penumbra: Black Plague, it was stated that the second game...
  
  
• Panzer Dragoon
  Panzer Dragoon
  is a rail shooter video game released for the Sega Saturn in 1995; and later released on PC, PlayStation 2, and as a bonus in its sequel Panzer Dragoon Orta for Xbox...
  
  
• Panzer General
  Panzer General
  Panzer General is a computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1994 and set in World War II.- Overview:Panzer General is turn-based game, set on operational level hex maps. One plays lone scenarios from either Axis or Allied side and against a computer or human opponent...
  
  
• Peggle
  Peggle
  Peggle is a casual puzzle video game developed by Sukhbir Sidhu and Brian Rothstein of PopCap Games. Initially released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems in 2007, it has since had versions released for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, the Nintendo DS , Windows Mobile, the iPod, the...
  
  
• Perfect Dark
  Perfect Dark (series)
  Perfect Dark is a science fiction video game franchise created and developed by Rare. The series debuted with the Nintendo 64 video game Perfect Dark in 2000, which received strong acclaim from critics and players, leading to the franchise's expansion. In 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft Game...
  
  
• Phantasmagoria
• Phantasy Star
  Phantasy Star
  is the first installment in Sega's renowned series of the same name. It was released for the Sega Master System in Japan on December 20, 1987, and then in North America and Europe in 1988. It is considered one of the pioneers amongst console role-playing games, both for its advanced graphics...
  
  
• Pikmin
• Pilotwings
  Pilotwings
  is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It was developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division, led by producer Shigeru Miyamoto. The game was originally released in Japan on December 21, 1990, shortly after the launch of the SNES...
  
  
• Pitfall!
  Pitfall!
  Pitfall! is a video game released by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It is the second best selling game made for the Atari 2600, with over 4 million copies sold.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• PixelJunk
  PixelJunk
  PixelJunk is a series of downloadable games developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. They are available for download and purchase on the PlayStation Store worldwide. The series made its debut on July 11, 2007 at E3 2007 with PixelJunk Racers....
  
  
• Pong
  Pong
  Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity...
  
  
• Pokémon
• Police Quest
  Police Quest
  Police Quest is a series of computer games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1993. The original series was composed of four adventure games, the first three of which were designed by former policeman Jim Walls, with the fourth title designed by former LAPD Chief Daryl F....
  
  
• Populous
  Populous (series)
  The Populous series is a series of video games developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The first game in the series – Populous was released in 1989...
  
  
• Portal
• Postal
• Power Stone
  Power Stone
  Power Stone is a fully 3D arena fighting game series made by Capcom. Power Stone was initially released on the Sega NAOMI hardware and later ported to the Dreamcast...
  
  
• Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia
  Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games....
  
  
• Pro Evolution Soccer
  Pro Evolution Soccer (series)
  Pro Evolution Soccer is a series of football video game developed and published by Konami...
  
  
• Professor Layton
• Project Gotham Racing
  Project Gotham Racing series
  Metropolis Street Racer ' & Project Gotham Racing ' is a series of racing video games developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft , Sega...
  
  
• Pump It Up
  Pump It Up
  Pump It Up, commonly abbreviated as PIU or shortened to just Pump, is a music video game series currently developed by Nexcade and published by Andamiro, a Korean arcade game producer. The game is typically played on a dance pad with five arrow panels: up-left, up-right, bottom-left, bottom-right,...
  
  
• Puyo Puyo
  Puyo Puyo (series)
  Puyo Puyo refers to a series of puzzle video games created by Compile and later Sonic Team.- History :Puyo Puyo, originally released by Compile in 1991, featured characters from the 1989 RPG Madou Monogatari, also made by Compile...
  
  

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• R-Type
  R-Type
  is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named R-9a "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin...
  
  
• Railroad Tycoon
• Rainbow Six
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a tactical shooter computer game and the first in the Rainbow Six series. It was developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment for the PC in 1998. It was later ported to Mac OS, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Dreamcast and Game Boy Color. An expansion pack, Tom Clancy's...
  
  
• Rampage
  Rampage (arcade game)
  Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces...
  
  
• Ratchet & Clank
  Ratchet & Clank
  Ratchet & Clank is a 3D platformer/shooter video game for the PlayStation 2, developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Released in 2002, it is the first game in the Ratchet & Clank series....
  
  
• Rayman
  Rayman
  Rayman is a platform video game published, produced and developed by Ubisoft and is the first game in the Rayman series of videogames. Originally released on the PlayStation in 1995, it was re-released for the Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS in 1996. It has also been ported to various formats,...
  
  
• Red Dead
  Red Dead Revolver
  Red Dead Revolver is a western third-person shooter video game published by Rockstar Games and developed by Rockstar San Diego. It was released in North America on May 4, 2004, for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox....
  
  
• Red Faction
  Red Faction (series)
  Red Faction is a series of science fiction shooter video games developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. Originating in 2001, the Red Faction games have spanned PC, Mac and many consoles, including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.-Gameplay:The series...
  
  
• Redneck Rampage
  Redneck Rampage
  Redneck Rampage is a 1997 first-person shooter game designed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay. The game features songs by Mojo Nixon, Reverend Horton Heat, Beat Farmers and other Psychobilly artists. As the name implies, Redneck Rampage has many hillbilly elements in it...
  
  
• Red Steel
  Red Steel
  Red Steel is a first person shooter video game published by Ubisoft for Nintendo's Wii console. It was developed by the Ubisoft Paris studio and was unveiled in the May 2006 issue of Game Informer. It was released on November 19, 2006 in North America, the date of the first Wii launch...
  
  
• Resident Evil (BioHazard)
• Resistance
  Resistance (series)
  Resistance is a science fiction horror series of first-person shooter and third-person shooter video games developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita video game consoles.The series takes place in an...
  
  
• Ridge Racer
  Ridge Racer (series)
  Ridge Racer is a series of arcade racing games developed and published by Namco for both the arcade and various gaming systems. In each of the games, players race on courses set in and around the fictional Ridge City while utilizing the concepts of drift racing to quickly traverse...
  
  
• Rival Schools (Justice Gakuen)
• Road Rash
  Road Rash
  Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races. The game was originally released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but was ported to several other systems. Six different games were released from...
  
  
• Rock Band
  Rock Band
  Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
  
  
• RollerCoaster Tycoon
  RollerCoaster Tycoon (series)
  RollerCoaster Tycoon is a trilogy of computer games that simulate amusement park management. Each game in the series challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development, and allowing players to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters.RollerCoaster Tycoon...
  
  
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Rumble Roses
  Rumble Roses
  is a professional wrestling video game that was developed by Yuke's Future Media Creators and Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, and published by Konami in 2004 for the PlayStation 2. The game uses the same engine as Yuke's 2003 release WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain...
  
  
• Rush
  Rush (video game series)
  Rush is a series of racing game video games developed by American based company Atari Games and published by Atari Games and Midway Games for the Home Consoles. The series debuted worldwide in 1996. Initially, the series was exclusive to the fifth generation consoles and was brought back later in...
  
  

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• SaGa
• Saints Row
  Saints Row (series)
  Saints Row is a video game franchise created by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. Typically, gameplay is presented in open world format. Because of the mixture of nonlinear gameplay with action-adventure and racing sequences, the series is referred to as being sandbox style.After completing Red...
  
  
• Sakura Wars
  Sakura Wars
  is a Japanese media franchise created by Ouji Hiroi, and is developed and owned by Sega and licensed by Red Entertainment and Sega. The franchise centers on a series of dramatic fantasy and science-fantasy tactical role-playing adventure video games, which consist of tactical wargame and dating sim...
  
  
• Samurai Showdown (Samurai Spirits)
• Sega Rally
  Sega Rally Championship
  Sega Rally Championship is a 1994 arcade racing game developed by AM5 on the Sega Model 2 board. It was a year later in 1995 ported over to the Sega Saturn and PC....
  
  
• Sensible Soccer
• Serious Sam
  Serious Sam
  Serious Sam is the first game in the Serious Sam series. It is a first-person shooter created by the Croatian development house Croteam...
  
  
• The Settlers
  The Settlers
  The Settlers is a slow-paced simulation computer game by German developer Blue Byte Software, first released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1994 for the PC...
  
  
• Shadow Hearts
• Shadow Man
  Shadow Man (video game)
  Shadow Man is a video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed by Guy Miller and Simon Phipps and is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics. The game was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64,...
  
  
• Shadowgate
  Shadowgate
  Shadowgate is a 1987 "point-and-click" adventure video game originally for the Apple Macintosh and is the most popular in the MacVenture series. It was also ported to the Atari ST home computer and was also released in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where it garnered mild success. The...
  
  
• Shadowgrounds
  Shadowgrounds
  Shadowgrounds is a shoot 'em up for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, developed by Frozenbyte. The game takes place on a space colony on Ganymede which is being attacked by aliens...
  
  
• Shenmue
  Shenmue
  is a 1999 open-world adventure video game developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki. Suzuki coined a genre title, "FREE" , for the game, based on the interactivity and freedom he wanted to give to the player...
  
  
• Shining
• Shinobi
• Shutokō Battle (Tokyo Xtreme Racer / Tokyo Highway Challenge)
• Silent Hill
  Silent Hill
  is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...
  
  
• SimCity
  SimCity (series)
  SimCity is an open-ended city-building computer and console video game series and the brainchild of developer Will Wright. It is published by Maxis . The game was first published in 1989 as SimCity, and it has spawned several different editions sold worldwide...
  
  
• The Sims
  The Sims (series)
  The Sims is a video game series developed by Maxis and later by The Sims Studio, and published by Electronic Arts. It is one of the most successful video games series of all time...
  
  
• Sin
• Siren
  Siren (video game)
  , known as Forbidden Siren in Europe and Australasia, is a survival horror video game developed by SCE Japan Studio for the PlayStation 2 in 2003.-Plot:...
  
  (Forbidden Siren)
• Skate
  Skate (video game)
  Skate is a skateboarding video game developed by EA Black Box for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was released in North America on September 17, 2007 for the Xbox 360 and September 24, 2007 for the PlayStation 3 and in Europe on September 28, 2007 for the Xbox 360 and October 5, 2007 for the...
  
  
• Sly Cooper
  Sly Cooper
  Sly Cooper is a series of platform stealth video games for the Sony PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3. The series was developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the first three games, and then it was passed on to Sanzaru Games while Sucker Punch continued work on the Infamous series...
  
  
• SOCOM
  SOCOM (series)
  SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs is a series of third-person tactical shooter/real-time tactics video games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and one for the Cell Phone created by Zipper Interactive, with the PlayStation 3 game being created by Slant 6...
  
  
• Soldier of Fortune
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Soul
  Soul (series)
  The is a weapon-based historical fantasy fighting game series by Namco Bandai Games. The series revolves around a sword that, after years of bloodshed and hatred, gained a soul of its own, the Soul Edge, and the sword forged to counter it, Soul Calibur. The series is special in that each character...
  
  
• Space Channel 5
  Space Channel 5
  Space Channel 5 is a music video game developed by United Game Artists under the direction of Tetsuya Mizuguchi and published by Sega. The gameplay features a system where the player must copy sequences of dance steps performed by the computer...
  
  
• Space Empires
• Space Invaders
  Space Invaders
  is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to...
  
  
• Space Quest
  Space Quest
  Space Quest is a series of six comedic science fiction computer games that follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco, as he campaigns through the galaxy for "truth, justice and really clean floors"....
  
  
• Splatterhouse
  Splatterhouse
  is a beat 'em up arcade game developed and published by Namco. It is also subsequently the title of the entire series of games released in home console and personal computer formats....
  
  
• Splinter Cell
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
  Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is an action-adventure stealth game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and built on the Unreal Engine 2. It is the first Splinter Cell game in the series endorsed by author Tom Clancy, and follows the activities of American NSA Black Operation, "Black Ops", agent Sam Fisher....
  
  
• Spy Fox
  Spy Fox
  Spy Fox is a series of software for five to ten year old children from Humongous Entertainment starring a fictional anthropomorphic fox of the same name. The characters live in a world of anthropomorphic animals who live like humans...
  
  
• Spy Hunter
  Spy Hunter
  Spy Hunter is a 1983 arcade game developed and released by Bally Midway. It has also been ported to various home computers and video game systems....
  
  
• Spyro
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter video game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007.It features an alternate reality theme, where a second nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in the near future and causes...
  
  
• Star Control
  Star Control
  Star Control is a science fiction computer game that was developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in the early 1990s. Star Control still enjoys a cult following...
  
  
• Star Fox
• Star Ocean
  Star Ocean
  is a franchise of action role-playing video games developed by tri-Ace and published and owned by Square Enix .-Creation and influence:...
  
  
• Star Soldier
  Star Soldier (Series)
  is a series of shoot 'em up video games mainly developed by Hudson Soft.The first game, named Star Soldier, appeared on the MSX and NES in 1986, and the series has continued on various gaming systems...
  
  
• Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  
• Star Wars: Battlefront
  Star Wars: Battlefront (series)
  The Star Wars: Battlefront series is a series of first-person/third-person shooter video games based on the Star Wars films by George Lucas. The game-play is very similar to Digital Illusion's/EA's Battlefield series. The series has installments available on the PC, Macintosh, Xbox, PlayStation 2,...
  
  
• StarCraft
  StarCraft (series)
  StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. The series centers on a galactic struggle for dominance between three species—the adaptable and mobile Terrans, the insectoid Zerg, and the enigmatic Protoss—in a...
  
  
• StarTropics
  StarTropics
  StarTropics is an action-adventure video game released by Nintendo in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Unlike most of Nintendo's games, it was never released or intended to be released in Japan. It was released only in North America and Europe, although designed by Japanese designers...
  
  
• State of Emergency
  State of Emergency (video game)
  State of Emergency is a controversial 2002 action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Games. It was developed by Scottish firm VIS Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.- Reception :...
  
  
• Street Fighter
  Street Fighter
  , commonly abbreviated as SF, is a series of Fighting Games developed in Japan in which the players pit the video games' competitive fighters from around the world, each with his or her own unique fighting style, against one another...
  
  
• Streets of Rage
  Streets of Rage
  Streets of Rage, known in Japan as , is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Sega in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the first installment of the Streets of Rage series which was followed by Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3. The game was also converted over to Sega's Game...
  
  (Bare Knuckle)
• Strike
  Strike series
  Strike is the common name of a series of video games created by Mike Posehn, John Patrick Manley and Tony Barnes released between 1991 and 1997 by Electronic Arts for a number of video game systems. The games are multi-directional shooters shown from an isometric perspective...
  
  
• Stronghold
• Stuntman
  Stuntman (video game)
  Stuntman is a video game for PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance that was produced by Reflections Interactive and published by Infogrames and Atari. The game focuses around the career of a motion-picture stuntman. It takes the player through various movies in which they perform dangerous stunts as...
  
  
• The Suffering
  The Suffering (video game)
  The Suffering is a video game developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games, released in 2004 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. The game featured monster designs by Stan Winston.-Story:...
  
  
• Suikoden
  Suikoden
  is a role-playing game series originally created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The game series is loosely based on the classical Chinese novel, Shui Hu Zhuan by Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong. Shui Hu Zhuan is rendered as 水滸伝 in Japanese, and read as Suikoden...
  
  
• Summer Games
  Summer Games
  Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. Released in 1984 for the Commodore 64, it was also eventually ported to the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari XL/XE and Sega Master System platforms...
  
  
• Super Monkey Ball
  Super Monkey Ball (series)
  The Super Monkey Ball series is a series of arcade platform games developed by Amusement Vision and distributed by Sega. It features 4 characters : AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon...
  
  
• Super Robot Wars
  Super Robot Wars
  is a series of tactical role-playing video games produced by Banpresto, which is now a Japanese division of Namco Bandai. The main feature of the franchise is having a story that crosses over several popular mecha anime, manga and video games, allowing characters and mecha from different titles to...
  
  
• Super Smash Bros.
• Syphon Filter
  Syphon Filter
  Syphon Filter is a stealth-based third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation released in 1999. It is the first game in the Syphon Filter series. It was re-released on December 4, 2006, on the PlayStation Network for use on the PSP...
  
  
• System Shock
  System Shock
  System Shock is a first-person action-adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. Released in 1994, the game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072...
  
  

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• Tales
• Tap Tap
  Tap Tap
  Tap Tap is a series of rhythm games by Tapulous available for the iOS of which several versions, both purchasable and free, have been produced. The goal of the game is to tap each of the colored balls when they reach a line at the bottom of the screen. If the ball is hit on the beat, the player...
  
  
• Tekken
• Test Drive
  Test Drive (video game)
  Test Drive is a series of racing video games. Originally published by Accolade, which was later bought by Infogrames, the first game was released in 1987 and has since been followed by several sequels...
  
  
• Tetris
  Tetris
  Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
  
  
• Tempest
• Tenchu
  Tenchu
  Tenchu is the title of a stealth game series of video games originally developed by Acquire wherein the player assumes the role of a ninja....
  
  
• Theme Park
• Thief
  Thief (series)
  Thief is a series of stealth video games in which the player takes the role of Garrett, a thief in a fantasy/steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed...
  
  
• Thunder Force
• Time Crisis
  Time Crisis (series)
  Time Crisis is a first-person light gun shooter series of arcade video games by Namco. The first installment of the series was released in the arcades in 1995 and later ported to the PlayStation consoles.-Overview:...
  
  
• TimeSplitters
  TimeSplitters (series)
  TimeSplitters is a series of first-person shooter video games created by Free Radical Design. The games are often compared to Rare's shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark since Free Radical Design was founded by a group of ex-Rare employees who developed these games...
  
  
• Tokimeki Memorial
  Tokimeki Memorial (series)
  is a popular dating simulation series by Konami. It consists of 6 main games in addition to a large number of spin-offs. The games are notable in the dating sim genre for being highly nonlinear. Their nickname amongst their fans is the contraction TokiMemo....
  
  
• To Heart
• Too Human
  Too Human
  Too Human is an action-RPG video game developed by Canadian developer Silicon Knights and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console...
  
  
• Tomb Raider
  Tomb Raider
  Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, with MS-DOS and PlayStation versions following shortly thereafter...
  
  
• Tomba!
  Tomba!
  Tomba! is a side-scrolling adventure game created by Whoopee Camp Co. Ltd. for the Sony PlayStation. Tomba! was followed by a sequel titled Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return. The imaginative atmosphere and innovative gameplay of Tomba! has continued to keep it nostalgically popular with gamers...
  
  
• Tony Hawk
• Tony La Russa Baseball
  Tony La Russa Baseball
  Tony La Russa Baseball is a baseball computer and video game console sports game series , designed by Don Daglow, Michael Breen, Mark Buchignani, David Bunnett and Hudson Piehl and developed by Stormfront Studios. The game appeared on Commodore 64, PC, and Sega Genesis, and different versions were...
  
  
• Total War
• Trauma Center
• Tribes
• Turok
• Twisted Metal
  Twisted Metal
  Twisted Metal is a series of vehicular combat video games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and developed by various companies during its tenure. The series began on the PlayStation in 1995 and currently features seven games, with an eighth installment currently in production...
  
  
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
  Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
  Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is a 3D platformer video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. It was developed by Krome Studios and published by Electronic Arts...
  
  

U

• Ultima
• Uncharted
  Uncharted
  Uncharted is an award-winning series of action-adventure/platform/third-person shooter video games developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 3 video game console. The series follows modern-day treasure hunter Nathan "Nate" Drake as he...
  
  
• Uncharted Waters
  Uncharted Waters
  is a popular Japanese video game series produced by Koei as part of its Rekoeition games. In East Asia, the series has a large cult following, but has not received much recognition outside the region. The series has been compared to Sid Meier's Pirates! in gameplay and theme...
  
  
• Unreal
• Untold Legends
  Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
  Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade is a launch title for the Sony PSP handheld video game system. It is a third person action role-playing game in which the player can complete various quests for money and items...
  
  

V

• Valkyrie Profile
  Valkyrie Profile
  Valkyrie Profile is a video game series developed by tri-Ace and published by Enix . It comprises three titles:* Valkyrie Profile, a 1999 PlayStation game**Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, the 2006 PlayStation Portable port...
  
  
• Vectorman
  Vectorman
  Vectorman is a series of run and gun platform games developed by BlueSky Software and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was released on October 24, 1995 in North America and on November 30, 1995 in Europe...
  
  
• Vietcong
• Viewtiful Joe
  Viewtiful Joe
  is a video game developed by Capcom's Production Studio 4 for the Nintendo GameCube. It was originally released in 2003 as a part of the Capcom Five under director Hideki Kamiya and producer Atsushi Inaba. Viewtiful Joe was later ported to the Sony PlayStation 2 by the same design team under the...
  
  
• Virtua Cop
  Virtua Cop
  Virtua Cop is a lightgun shooter arcade game created by Sega-AM2, and headed by Yu Suzuki. Its original incarnation was an arcade game in 1994 and it was later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995, and Microsoft Windows in 1997...
  
  
• Virtua Fighter
• Virtual Woman
  Virtual Woman
  Virtual Woman is a software program that has elements of a chatbot, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, a video game, and a virtual human. It claims to be the oldest form of virtual life in existence, as it has been continuously running or in use since the late 1980s...
  
  

W

• Warcraft
  Warcraft
  Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...
  
  
• Wario
  Wario (series)
  The series is a series of video games created by Nintendo starring the character Wario. It started with Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, the first game with Wario as a playable character, and gained many sequels. The Wario series includes mostly platforming video games and minigame compilations,...
  
  
• Warlords
  Warlords (game series)
  Warlords is a computer game series created by Steve Fawkner, in which role-playing elements are combined with strategy in a fantasy setting. The series has been split into two different games lines, the traditional turn-based strategy Warlords series , and a newer real-time based strategy Warlords...
  
  
• Wave Race
  Wave Race
  is a 1992 personal watercraft racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is the first game in the Wave Race series...
  
  
• Wii
  Wii (series)
  The Wii game series is a series of physical simulation video games spawned by the Wii console that are similar in design, especially in their casual gameplay style and Mii integration...
  
  
  • Wii Fit
    Wii Fit
    is a video game developed by Nintendo for the company's home video game console, Wii, designed by Hiroshi Matsunaga. It is an exercise game consisting of activities using the Wii Balance Board peripheral...
    
    
  • Wii Sports
    Wii Sports
    is a sports game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Wii video game console , and part of the Touch! Generations. The game was first released in North America along with the Wii on November 19, 2006, and was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month...
    
    
• Wild Arms
• WinBack
  WinBack
  Winback is a third-person shooter video game developed by Koei's Omega Force studio for the Nintendo 64 in 1999 and PlayStation 2 in 2001...
  
  
• Wing Commander
  Wing Commander (franchise)
  Wing Commander is a video game media franchise consisting of space combat simulation computer games from Origin Systems, Inc., an animated television series, a feature film, a collectible card game, a series of novels, and action figures...
  
  
• Wipeout
  Wipeout (video game)
  Wipeout is the first in a series of futuristic racing video games developed and published by Psygnosis. It was originally released in 1995 for Sony PlayStation and PCs running MS-DOS, and in 1996 for Sega Saturn...
  
  
• Wizardry
  Wizardry
  Wizardry is a series of computer role-playing games, developed by Sir-Tech, which were highly influential in the development of modern console and computer role playing games. The original Wizardry was a significant influence to early console RPGs, such as Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy. ...
  
  
• Wolfenstein
  Wolfenstein (series)
  Wolfenstein is a franchise of World War II fantasy-themed computer and video games first developed by Muse Software and followed up by id Software...
  
  
• Wonder Boy
  Wonder Boy
  is a series of video games published by SEGA and developed by Westone Bit Entertainment .The series itself consists of the main Wonder Boy series, and the Monster World sub-series. Games may be part of one, the other, or both. This has resulted in a sometimes confusing naming structure resulting in...
  
  
• Worms
• WWE SmackDown vs. Raw

See also

• List of best-selling video game franchises
• List of console game franchises
• Lists of video games