Fighting Games
This game features a final boss by the name of, depending on which region the game is set to, Vega or M. Bison.
Street Fighter II
This company published Dragon Quest for the Famicom in 1986.
Enix
This American football franchise was popular for doing away with many of the sport's rules as well as featuring a 'Turbo' button.
NFL Blitz
In this 3D take on Silas Warner's 1981 classic, players are tasked with gunning down nazis across 30 stages.
Wolfenstein 3D
This Konami arcade title featured four spaces marked with arrows on the ground that players would step on in order to match what the screen requested.
Dance Dance Revolution
This annual fighting game tournament went by the name "Battle By The Bay" from it's inception in 1996 to 2001, but has been going by it's current name since 2002.
Evo or Evolution Championship Series
Namco's "Tales of" franchise began with this Super Famicom title in late 1995.
Tales of Phantasia
This NES American Football title developed by Tecmo was one of the console's most popular sports titles.
Tecmo Bowl
The third game in one of Apogee's most popular franchises, this early 1996 release featured a protagonist on a mission to save women from aliens, and used an arsenal of 10 weapons and even more one-liners to do it.
Duke Nukem 3D
A popular franchise in Japan, this PS2 game that featured a large Japanese drum that players would strike the center or edge of went by this name when it released in the west.
Taiko Drum Master
This 2015 arcade release from Bandai Namco featured, at launch, 10 "Pokemon" characters battling one-on-one.
Pokkén Tournament
This Dreamcast title featured a protagonist named "Sword", as well as a cast of characters from games like Land Stalker, Lady Stalker, and Shining in the Darkness.
Time Stalkers
This December 1994 release for the 3DO featured branding from the magazine "Road & Track".
The Need For Speed
This 1987 Atari ST game allowed up to 16 players to compete by connecting their MIDI ports together.
MIDI Maze
Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest have both received music-based spinoffs that go under this title.
Theatrhythm
In 2004's "Mortal Kombat: Deception", this mode starred new character Shujinko as he traveled across many lands, learning multiple fighting styles.
Konquest Mode
This was the last new release in Capcom's long-running dragon-focused JRPG series, which began in 1993.
Breath of Fire 6: Guardians of the White Dragon
As of 2022, this is the final "F-Zero" title to be released.
F-Zero Climax
In this Namco developed Xbox game, players utilize a mixture of martial arts and firearms to battle the seemingly-invincible T'lan.
Breakdown
This publisher of the PS2 title "Guitar Hero" was bought by Activision in 2006.
Red Octane
This Visual Concepts-developed game was one of the first fighting games optimized for online play via a special accessory.
Weaponlord
This woman went from being an artist on "Phantasy Star II" to being director for "Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium".
Reiko Kodama
At the time, Nintendo owned the team this popular Baseball player was playing for and, as a result, he received top billing across multiple games for the SNES, Game Boy, and Nintendo 64.
Ken Griffey Jr.
This 1993 Bungie release tasks players with running through a pyramid and battling monsters in order to attempt to stop the "Dreaming God" from awakening and destroying the Earth.
Pathways into Darkness
This Xbox 360 Kinect game was, according to producer Naoki Maeda, more than just a 'Dance Dance Evolution'.
Dance Masters