1995 in video gaming

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1995 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games and several new titles such as Mario's Picross, Chrono Trigger, Mega Man 7, Rayman, Twisted Metal, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Destruction Derby and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Events

May 11 – Introduction of trade magazine GameWeek (then called Video Game Advisor)
May 11–13 — The 1st annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is held in Los Angeles, California.^[1]
November 5 — GameFAQs debuts on the web, as an archive of video game FAQs
November 24 — Nintendo unveils a playable version of the Nintendo Ultra 64, later renamed the Nintendo 64, at the 7th Annual Nintendo Space World Software Exhibition in Japan. Thirteen games were demonstrated but only two were in playable form, Kirby Ball 64 and Super Mario 64.^[2]

Notable releases

Video game platforms

Ami	Commodore Amiga
DOS	MS-DOS
GB	Game Boy
Neo	Neo Geo
NeoCD	Neo-Geo CD

PS1	PlayStation
Sat	Sega Saturn
SMD	Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
SCD	Sega Mega-CD
S32X	Sega 32X

SNES	Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom
Win	Microsoft Windows
3DO	3DO
Lynx	Atari Lynx
Jag	Atari Jaguar
Mac	Classic Mac OS / macOS

Notable releases of the year *1995*
Release	Title	System	Developer/Publisher	Notes
January 1	Battle Arena Toshinden	PS1	Tamsoft/SCEA	one of the first fully 3D fighting games
January 13	Bust-a-Move	SNES	Taito
February 15	Star Wars: Dark Forces	DOS	LucasArts	The first in a successful series of Star Wars-based first-person shooters.
February 16	Ristar	SMD	Sonic Team/Sega	a platform game
February 24	Front Mission	SNES	G-Craft\Squaresoft
March 10	Panzer Dragoon	Sat	Team Andromeda\Sega	Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights Racer	Hanna-Barbera	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
March 11	Chrono Trigger	SNES	Square
March 14	Mario's Picross	GB	Jupiter\Nintendo	the first installment in a series of Mario-themed Picross titles released in the mid-1990s.
March 17	Descent	DOS	Parallax Software	Portal rendering with texture-mapped polygons, polygonal enemies, and six degrees of freedom.
March 21	Kirby's Dream Land 2	GB	HAL Laboratory\Nintendo	an installment in the Kirby series.
March 24	Mega Man 7	SNES	Capcom
April 15	Mortal Kombat 3	Arcade
April 27	Jumping Flash!	PS1	Exact/SCEA
April 28	Super Bomberman 3	SNES	Hudson Soft	first game in the Super Bomberman series to not get an American release; final game in the series released outside Japan.
April 30	Full Throttle	DOS, Win, Mac	LucasArts	graphical adventure
May 25	Light Crusader	SMD	Treasure\Sega
May	King Arthur & the Knights of Justice	SNES	Enix
June 5	EarthBound	SNES	Ape, Inc./Nintendo	is localized for US audiences, garnering a cult following in the US.
June 5	Street Fighter Alpha	Arcade	Capcom
June 7	Flight Unlimited	DOS, Win95	Looking Glass Studios
July 21	Castlevania: Dracula X	SNES	Konami	Port of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.
July 24	MechWarrior 2	DOS	Activision
July 25	The King of Fighters '95	Arcade	SNK	second installment in the King of Fighters series.
July 31	Phantasmagoria		Sierra Online	a controversial point-and-click adventure game
August 5	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island	SNES	Nintendo	A critically acclaimed platformer.
August 31	Command & Conquer	DOS, Mac	Westwood Studios	One of the first popular real-time strategy games, it spawned a franchise.
August 31	Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest	DOS	New World Computing	the first game in the popular turn-based strategy game franchise
August	Comix Zone	SMD	Sega	A beat 'em up game heavily inspired by comic books.
August	Tekken 2	Arcade	Namco
September 1	Rayman	PS1, Sat, Jag	Ubisoft	The first game in the popular series.
October 6	Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together	SNES	Quest Corporation
October 20	Terranigma	SNES	Quintet
October 27	Panel de Pon	SNES	Intelligent Systems\Nintendo	released in America under the name "Tetris Attack", featuring a Yoshi's Island theme.
October 31	Destruction Derby	PS1	Reflections Interactive\Psygnosis
October 31	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	DOS, Mac	Cyberdreams	an adaptation of writer Harlan Ellison's short story, won Computer Gaming World's award for "Best Graphic Adventure Game" of the year.
October 31	Star Wars: TIE Fighter (Collector's CD-ROM)	Win, Mac	LucasArts
October	Time Crisis	Arcade	Namco
November 5	Twisted Metal	PS1	SingleTrac/Sony Computer Entertainment	Started longest running PlayStation franchise, popular vehicular combat series.
November 21	Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest	SNES	Rareware/Nintendo
November 24	Battle Arena Toshinden 2	PS1, Arcade	Tamsoft\Capcom
November 24	Marathon 2: Durandal	Mac	Bungie
November 30	The Dig	DOS, Mac	LucasArts	adventure game.
December	Worms	Ami	Team17	an artillery video game and the first game in the Worms series
December	Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium	SMD	Sega	localization of the 1993 Japanese game to North America, December 8 EU.
December	Time Crisis	Arcade	Namco	the first game in the popular light-gun series Time Crisis.
December 1	Mega Man X3	SNES	Capcom
December 9	Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation	SNES	Heartbeat\Enix
December 9	Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness	DOS, Mac	Blizzard	sequel to their initial real-time strategy title, and a far more popular title.
December 15	Tales of Phantasia	SNES	Namco	the first in the Tales series.
December 15	Suikoden	PS1	Konami	debut of the Suikoden series
December 15	Brain Dead 13	DOS	ReadySoft	An "FMV adventure" game.
December 22	Final Fight 3	SNES	Capcom
December 31	The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery	DOS, Win, Mac	Sierra On-Line	Adventure game; sequel to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
December 31	King's Field II	PS1	From Software	first game in the King's Field series to eventually be released outside Japan; renamed simply "King's Field" in NTSC-U/C and PAL regions when released there in 1996.

Hardware

Nintendo releases:
- March 20 — Game Boy Play It Loud! series, color/clear versions of the Game Boy
- April 23 — Satellaview accessory for the Super Famicom console in Japan only
- July 21 — Virtual Boy 32-bit console in Japan. It is discontinued on December 22.

May 11 — Sega releases the Sega Saturn console in North America.^[3]
August 14 — The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is discontinued in North America.
September 9 — Sony releases the PlayStation console in the United States.^[4]
September 29 — Sony releases the PlayStation console in Europe^[5]
October 25 — Funtech releases the Super A'Can console in Taiwan.

Business

New companies: BioWare, Frog City, Interworld Productions (renamed Mythic Entertainment in 1997), Remedy, TalonSoft
Defunct: Cyberdreams
Nintendo v. Samsung Electronics; Nintendo sues Samsung for promoting software piracy. The suit is settled.
Nintendo of America, Inc. v. NTDEC

References

↑ "Attendance and Stats". IGN. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
↑ Semrad, Ed (February 1996). "Ultra 64 Unveiled". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis (79): 6.
↑ Cifaldi, Frank (May 11, 2010). "This Day in History: Sega Announces Surprise Saturn Launch". 1UP.com. IGN. Archived from the original on October 30, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
↑ Cifaldi, Frank (September 9, 2010). "This Day in History: Sony's PlayStation Launches in the U.S." 1UP.com. IGN. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
↑ Roberts, Dave (September 29, 2005). "The day our world changed". Market for Home Computing and Video Games. Intent Media. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015. The original PlayStation launched on September 29th 1995 priced £299.

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[1] "Attendance and Stats". IGN. Retrieved May 21, 2015.

[2] Semrad, Ed (February 1996). "Ultra 64 Unveiled". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis (79): 6.

[SAT-May11-3] Cifaldi, Frank (May 11, 2010). "This Day in History: Sega Announces Surprise Saturn Launch". 1UP.com. IGN. Archived from the original on October 30, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.

[PS-Sept9-4] Cifaldi, Frank (September 9, 2010). "This Day in History: Sony's PlayStation Launches in the U.S." 1UP.com. IGN. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.

[MCV-DayChanged-5] Roberts, Dave (September 29, 2005). "The day our world changed". Market for Home Computing and Video Games. Intent Media. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015. The original PlayStation launched on September 29th 1995 priced £299.