1995 In Video Gaming Information
1995 in video gaming
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Events
- May 11 – Introduction of trade magazine GameWeek (then called Video Game Advisor)
- May 11-16 — The 1st annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is held in Los Angeles, California
- 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, now renamed the Nintendo 64, at the 7th Annual Nintendo Space World Software Exhibition in Japan.
Notable releases
- February 15 — Star Wars: Dark Forces (LucasArts, DOS) is the first in a successful series of Star Wars-based first-person shooters.
- February — Sega localizes the 1993 Japanese game, Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, for North American (and on December 8 for European) audiences, marking the end of the original series.
- February 18 — Sega releases the Ristar videogame.
- March 11 — Square releases Chrono Trigger for SNES, which was their largest game for the system at 32 megabits, and included multiple ways to finish the game.
- March 17 — Descent (Parallax Software, DOS), popularized the use of portal rendering technology and provided the player with six full degrees of freedom.
- April 1 — Mortal Kombat 3 is released to arcades.
- April 30 — LucasArts releases the adventure game Full Throttle.
- June 5 — Japanese game EarthBound (Nintendo, Ape, Inc.) is localized for the SNES for North American audiences, garnering a cult following in the US.
- July 31 — Sierra Online releases Phantasmagoria, a controversial game that strays from Sierra's typically family-oriented adventures.
- July — Softstar releases The Legend of Sword and Fairy (仙劍奇俠傳?)
- August 5 — Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is released, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Mario series.
- August 31 — Westwood Studios releases Command & Conquer, which becomes one of the first popular real-time strategy games and spawns a franchise.
- August 31 — New World Computing releases Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest, which becomes the first game in the popular Heroes of Might and Magic turn-based strategy game franchise
- August 31 — Origin releases Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, likely to be the most ambitious computer game of the time, with a $12 million USD budget for its interactive-movie/space simulation content.
- October 30 — Ubisoft releases the first Rayman game for the Sega Saturn.
- October 31 — Destruction Derby released.
- October 31 — Cyberdreams release I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, an adaptation of writer Harlan Ellison's short story that won Computer Gaming World's award for "Best Graphic Adventure Game" of the year.
- November 21 — Rareware and Nintendo releases Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest the sequel to the hugely popular Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- November 24 — Bungie releases Marathon 2: Durandal.
- December 9 — Blizzard releases Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, sequel to their initial real-time strategy title, and a far more refined and popular title.
- December 15 — Namco releases Tales of Phantasia, the first in the Tales series.
- December 15 — Konami debuts the Suikoden series with Suikoden.
- Flight Unlimited (Looking Glass Studios, DOS/Windows 95), possibly the first home flight simulator to use fluid dynamic physics.
- Namco releases Time Crisis.
- Team 17 releases Worms.
Hardware
Business
Lawsuits
- Nintendo v. Samsung Electronics; Nintendo sues Samsung for promoting software piracy. The suit is settled.
- Nintendo of America, Inc. v. NTDEC
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