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Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors. He is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong. -
Will Wright
William Ralph Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts. -
Goichi Suda
Goichi Suda, commonly known by the nickname Suda51, is a Japanese video game designer, writer and director. He is the founder and CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture, which has produced some of his most recognized work including The Silver Case, Flower, Sun, and Rain, killer7, and the No More Heroes series. -
Tim Sweeney
Timothy Dean Sweeney is an American video game programmer, billionaire businessman and conservationist, known as the founder and CEO of Epic Games, and the creator of the Unreal Engine, a game development platform. -
Pong
Pong was originally developed by computer scientist Allan Alcorn as part of a routine training exercise. Execs were so impressed, they used the game to springboard the company we now know as Atari. -
Space Invaders
If the world ever gets invaded by aliens, leaders shouldn’t go to the military. And they shouldn’t go to scientists. No — our best and brightest need to find our best and brightest high scoring Space Invaders players. For only this influential game has truly trained us against extraterrestrial invasion. -
PacMan
Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases as a preventative measure against defacement of the arcade machines. -
Tetris
Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Soviet Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov. -
Elite
Elite turned the concept of open-world game design into a commercial proposition, and allowed a generation of players – and would-be developers – to see games as an experience rather than “just” a competitive or score-based endeavour. A remarkable achievement. -
NES
some of the biggest faces in video games—like Zelda, Kirby, and of course, Mario—getting their humble start on this grey brick. -
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a Japanese science fantasy media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix. -
Contra
Wanna revisit some retro video games? Do some strength training before tackling Contra.
Even in the era of hard modern games like Cuphead and Dark Souls, Contra is still uncompromising in its difficulty. It’s also one of the first games to boast simultaneous multiplayer, making it an instant sleepover staple -
Sega Genesis
Titles like Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, and Earthworm Jim really broadened the canvas of the industry. These games captured the spirit of the '90s -
Super Nintendo
Super Mario World rewrote the book on platformers. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past practically created an entire genre. And then there’s Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart—the list goes on -
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
In the early days of video games, technological limitations meant that characters could only speak for a small amount of time. So when they did, those noises had to count quickly. And in 1991, Street Fighter II blasted a “Hadouken!” into all of our eardrums and brain boxes -
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis console, released worldwide in November 1992. It is the second main entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and introduced Sonic's sidekick, Miles "Tails" Prower, controllable by a second player. -
Super Mario Kart
In the early ‘90s, racing games like Formula One Grand Prix prided themselves on a highly realistic experience. By leaning into the stylized and cartoonish, Super Mario Kart lapped them all. It throws its now well-known cast of Nintendo favorites into a genre it invented and perfected: kart racing. -
Doom
Brilliant level design, excellent horror sci-fi aesthetics, weird enemies, perfect controls – Doom has it all. Id Software’s controversial shooter upset the hell out of the Religious Right when it burst out of the PC shareware scene, enticing a generation of listless teenagers to spend days blasting hell monsters with a shotgun -
PlayStation 1
Sony’s console took gamers into the 3D space with titles like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII. -
Nintendo 64
Mario 64 made 3D platforming an artform unto itself. And The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was arguably gaming’s first masterpiece. -
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform video game for the Nintendo 64 and the first in the Super Mario series to feature three-dimensional game play. -
Metal Gear Solid
It was a close call between Hideo Kojima’s sprawling espionage adventure and Core Design’s original Tomb Raider. Both brought cinematic verve, intriguing characters and great environmental interaction to the 1990s action adventure genre. In the end, though, the Konami title won out, thanks to its formative stealth mechanics, offbeat innovations and exciting, far-reaching narrative -
PlayStation 2
GoldenEye, amazing RPGs, racers, open worlds, GTA’s, Kingdom Hearts, TimeSplitters -
Xbox
It brought the vastly popular Halo franchise to the gaming world. -
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. -
Nintendo Wii
It also had a killer library, with some of the best Mario titles (Smash, Mario Kart) and many other remakes and new IPs, making it a near perfect console for its time. -
Spelunky
Of course, it was the 1980 title Rogue that lent its name and mechanics to the hugely popular roguelike genre, but it was Derek Yu’s ingenious indie platformer that reawakened mass interest in the key game design elements of procedurally generated environments, loot collection and permadeath. -
PlayStation 4
Just look at its huge catalog of exclusives, from God of War to Spider-Man, to upcoming games like the Final Fantasy VII remake, Death Stranding, and The Last of Us 2 -
Rocket League
Rocket League is a vehicular soccer video game developed and published by Psyonix. The game was first released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 in July 2015, with ports for Xbox One and Nintendo Switch being released later on. -
Nintendo Switch
huge titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for fans of gaming it seemed impossible not to opt into Nintendo’s weird new idea. -
Fortnite
Fortnite is the game that made Epic Games a bunch of money -
Epic Games
On this day on the biggest game for this Gen came out. (Fortnite) -
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
DescriptionThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo, released for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U consoles on March 3, 2017. -
Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. is a series of crossover fighting video games published by Nintendo, and primarily features characters from various Nintendo franchises. -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
