Posts Tagged ‘1996’

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Nintendo 64 LucasArts

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Was Almost a Nintendo 64 Launch Title – December 3rd, 1996 – Today in Video Game History

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was one of the first third party games to launch for the Nintendo 64. LucasArts postponed the release to give the developers a bit more time to clean things up. That does not happen all that often. Anyhow, not being able to use the main characters from the movies […]

Decathlete Sega Saturn

Decathlete Brings Sega Arcade Style Gaming to Decathlon Events on Sega Saturn – July 17th, 1996 – Today in Video Game History

Sega were once known for their arcade games.  This genre was what they used to battle Nintendo until Sonic was released on the Genesis. Even after the blue guy was released arcade ports were a strong category for Sega’s consoles. This was no more apparent than on their Saturn console. For the first time, Sega […]

Allied General Lets Players Take on World War II – January 31st, 1996 – Today in Video Game History

Turn based strategy war games are not all that popular in today’s market and that kind of sucks. I grew up playing computer games a lot in the 90’s. It seems that was the golden age for this genre. The late 80’s and early 90’s probably had more turn based strategy war games to enjoy. […]

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