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The 1990s was the third decade in the industry's history.It was a decade of marked innovation in video gaming. [1] It was a decade of transition from sprite-based graphics to full-fledged 3D graphics [1] and it gave rise to several genres of video games including, but not limited to, the first-person shooter, real-time strategy, survival horror, and MMO. [1]
The year's highest-grossing arcade video games were Final Fight in Japan and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the United States. The year's best‑selling system was the Game Boy, while the year's best-selling home video game was Super Mario Bros. 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
2003 – Steam launches and later dominates PC game sales. Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire , Mario Kart: Double Dash , Knights of the Old Republic and Call of Duty also see success. 2004 – The Nintendo DS is launched and World of Warcraft redefines MMORPGs .
Other, less significant releases for the PC included Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Final Unity, Full Throttle and Terminal Velocity. This success of the PC as a games platform was partly due to and partly a cause of significantly increased PC ownership among the general public during the early–mid 1990s.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1990s video games (12 C, 2 P) Pages in category "1990s in video gaming" The following 13 pages are in this ...
Bad Company (video game) Badlands (1990 video game) Bakushō! Star Monomane Shitennō; Balance of the Planet; Balloon Kid; Barker Bill's Trick Shooting; Barney Bear (game series) Barunba; Baseball Stars Professional; Bases Loaded 3; Basketbrawl; Batman (1991 arcade game) Batman (PC Engine video game) Batman (Sega Genesis video game)
The latter part of the 1980s and early 1990s included video games driven by improvements and standardization in personal computers and the console war competition between Nintendo and Sega as they fought for market share in the United States. The first major handheld video game consoles appeared in the 1990s, led by Nintendo's Game Boy platform.