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1->''"Funny how the world of gaming was turned completely upside on its head by the incremented of a single digit by one, that digit being the 2 at the start of 2D. If only they'd known that one day 90% of the indie games on Platform/{{Steam}} would be [[{{Retreaux}} aping]] the [[MediaNotes/The16BitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit era]] [...] It was a painful, transitionary period when the old kings collapsed syphilitically from their thrones and the crowns were up for grabs."''
2-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''
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4The Fifth Generation of Console Video Games (sometimes referred to as the 32/64-bit Era, but referring to consoles by their bits started to fall out of style in this gen) was a time of many of the biggest leaps forward in the industry in terms of design, graphics, and storytelling in video games, as well as the way video games were viewed and played.
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6The big word of this era was 3D. The [[MediaNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit era]] had a few scattered experiments to bring polygons to primarily sprite-based consoles (most notably ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}''), but when the revolutionary ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' hit the arcades, polygons finally took off. Suddenly, the addition of a third dimension seemed to make the sprites of the past look outdated, and polygons were said to be the future of video gaming. Both Creator/{{Nintendo}} and their newly emergent rival [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment Sony Computer Entertainment]] caught onto the excitement towards polygons, and so they designed their respective consoles, the Platform/Nintendo64 and the Platform/PlayStation, around polygonal rendering from the very start. Creator/{{Sega}}, depending on who you ask, didn't catch on until their own console was too far in development, panicked and "stuffed" another CPU inside the Saturn, while others will contend that the multi-CPU design was little different from what their arcade boards had been sporting. Thus, the Platform/SegaSaturn became notorious among developers for its difficulty to develop 3D games in the same fashion as the other two consoles. While it certainly was ''possible'' to squeeze 3D graphics out of the Saturn, it was an extremely cumbersome task to pull off making them look and run decently, even for experienced code wizards. Ironic, considering that ''Virtua Fighter'', the game that caused the 3D boom, was Sega's own product.
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8Things certainly didn't get better for the Saturn when Sega's next planned entry in their flagship franchise, ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', which would unquestionably have helped the console's lacking sales, failed to materialize. Work on the game, ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'', which would also have been the franchise's leap into 3D, started in 1994, but got caught up in quite a messy bit of DevelopmentHell (and even some in-fighting between Sega's Japanese and American divisions). This led to the game's unceremonious cancellation in 1997, just a year before the Saturn was officially discontinued on the Western market. The Saturn was, in hindsight, [[DeathOfAThousandCuts another in a series of relative failures]] (there were bigger ones, but the Saturn, which did well in Japan, needed to be more of a success for them to pull them from the brink, especially given its high production costs) for Sega as a console manufacturer, but this would not become apparent until the next generation.
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10The kingmakers of the generation would be the third-party developers. Especially many Japanese developers had for a long time been disgruntled with Nintendo's rather restrictive licensing policies and their insistence on taking a relatively large cut of the sales, which had in many cases made turning a decent profit on their games a difficult task, and this generation would see the blowback from these policies starting to kick in. With Sony emerging on the console scene as a serious competitor, many developers found that the company was willing to offer them far more lucrative deals and a greater degree of freedom. As a result quite a few developers, who up until this point had been synonymous with quality games on Nintendo's consoles, most prominently Creator/{{Capcom}}, Creator/{{Squaresoft}}, and Creator/{{Konami}}, decided to jump ship and make their next big projects or main installments in their running franchises exclusives for the [=PlayStation=]. Another major feather in Sony's cap in this area became managing to win over the fighting game developer Creator/{{Namco}}, whose output up until that point had been pretty much synonymous with Sega's consoles.
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12With the advent of 3D graphics came new leaps and bounds in game design. Gamers who grew up on 8-bit and 16-bit games were wowed by the explorable 3D worlds with far more depth than the 2D backgrounds of the past. Some developers went the extra mile in designing their worlds, using the full potential of these systems to make their worlds as [[SceneryPorn beautiful and detailed]] as possible. ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' kickstarted the popularity of the 3D PlatformGame, and many previously 2D franchises followed its example in attempting their own [[VideoGame3DLeap leaps to 3D]], though some would stumble along the way. Overall, this shake-up meant that it took the industry some time to find its feet again, both in regards to graphic design and gameplay and, as a result, many of these early 3D games have not aged very gracefully, especially in the eyes of those who came into gaming either after or well before all the teething troubles with 3D had been more or less sorted out.
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14An area where many developers would stumble along the way was in attempting to replicate the previous generation's abundance of MascotWithAttitude platformers. While the generation would see a few great success stories when it came to platformers with mascot characters, they were by and large original to this generation, such as Creator/NaughtyDog's ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'', Creator/InsomniacGames' ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'', and Creator/{{Rare}}'s ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''; these were less associated with straight mascot platformers, instead becoming known as the shining examples of the CollectAThonPlatformer, a permutation of the genre that would come to largely dominate the late 90s.
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16Another big development of the fifth generation was story and presentation. Two of the Platform/PlayStation's biggest {{Killer App}}s, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', gained much fame for tipping the StoryToGameplayRatio towards the story end. These two games were noted for their highly complex stories which delved into deep characterization, forgoing the more traditional role that stories in games played in [[ExcusePlot justifying the gameplay]]. The latter, especially, took full advantage of its 3D space to introduce several tricks from the world of film. On the N64 side, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' was released to great fanfare for its groundbreaking depth of control, varied atmosphere, and cinematic presentation.
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18The fifth generation was the time when optical discs became the standard for consoles. The CD-ROM was an ideal format for developers at the time, as it was relatively cheap and fast to produce and had a higher capacity than cartridges of previous eras (cartridges had a limit of 60 MB storage space, while a CD-ROM could contain upwards of 700 MB of data). The only real drawback to the format was the potential of piracy, which, in reality, was a small price to pay for most third-party studios, as well as a longer loading time. The Platform/PlayStation and the Platform/SegaSaturn both used [=CD-ROMs=] as their format because of their benefits, with the N64 being the only console to reject this trend. Nintendo's early experiment with discs, the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] Disk System, was lacking in sufficient antipiracy measures, and the massive losses for the add-on as a result of this rendered Nintendo massively cautious about piracy going forward. The N64 suffered from a lack of third-party support because of its use of cartridges, which were expensive and time-consuming to produce, hard to program on, and had low capacity compared to the CD-ROM. The use of cartridges also hampered what could have been the N64's greatest advantage, namely that it was, at least on paper, the console with the most powerful graphical capabilities, but this technical edge over Sony's Platform/PlayStation only ever rarely managed to shine through in practice due to the relatively high difficulty in squeezing such graphics out of cartridges. The only real exception to this was in the multiplayer department; with the [=PlayStation=] being the weaker console and requiring an add-on for four-player parties, many developers couldn't justify the heavy amount of extra work that was needed to give a game 4-player support[[note]]It was often more than simply splitting the screen four ways, since you now had to draw polygons from four different perspectives, and the games were already generally pushing the system's power as it stood, so the multiplayer would often have to sacrifice a lot of visual fidelity to keep the performance up[[/note]], where the Nintendo 64's extra horsepower made it significantly less of a hassle and players were far more likely to experience it at some point. In fact, one of the console's greatest hits, the Franchise/JamesBond tie-in ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|1997}}'' managed to become one of the most iconic games of the generation due to its multiplayer mode, which allowed four players to duke it out in action-packed split-screen FPS combat against each other.
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20The era marked many developments in terms of how games were controlled. The Platform/Nintendo64's controller was rather awkwardly designed compared to the more practical format codified by the Platform/{{SNES}}, but the controller featured a revolutionary development: a thumb-controlled analog stick. The analog stick was key to controlling 3D games because they allowed a fuller range of control over the player character that couldn't be achieved with a D-pad. The Platform/PlayStation controller didn't initially have an analog stick, but it eventually one-upped the N64 with the [=DualShock=] controller, which featured not one but ''two'' analog sticks: one primarily for controlling the player's movement, and one primarily for the camera (thankfully this idea caught on and is now considered the standard). Unlike the [=N64's=] C-pad, a second analog stick gave the camera more freedom in movement -- and Sony didn't [[ExecutiveMeddling patent using the right stick for this purpose]] like Nintendo did with their C-pad -- making CameraScrew and thus InterfaceScrew much less common than in N64 games. The "rumble" feature standard in most controllers today also originated in this era. It originated as the Rumble Pak peripheral for the N64 (originally packaged with ''VideoGame/StarFox64''), and it proved highly popular for giving games a new sense of "realism" by vibrating the controller whenever something "forceful" happened within the game. The [=PlayStation=] also adopted this feature for itself in the [=DualShock=] controller, in its case incorporating the rumble into the controller itself rather than it being an add-on. With very few exceptions, every console from that point on has incorporated rumble into the controller.[[note]]The later Platform/PlayStation3's original "Sixaxis" controller omitted rumble, due to fears it would interfere with the controller's motion control, though it would come back with the later [=DualShock 3=].[[/note]]
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22Meanwhile on the portable scene, the Platform/GameBoy continued to go almost entirely unchallenged. [=SNK's=] Platform/NeoGeoPocket and Bandai's Platform/WonderSwan would only find small audiences in the markets they reached and do little to dent the fortunes of the monochrome machine. Indeed, the aging brick was only just hitting a new stride when ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', if not the first, then definitely the codifier of the social game, became the [[SleeperHit unexpected mega hit]] of the generation, spawning countless tie-ins and spinoffs to rival even the plumber himself. The console would finally get revised into the smaller Game Boy Pocket, but the big update to the line would be the self-explanatory Platform/GameBoyColor, which finally gave players on the go a colour screen system with decent battery life.
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24All in all, this generation stands as probably the biggest leap forward in the history in gaming in both graphics and stories, from sprites to polygons, and from {{Excuse Plot}}s to deeper and longer-lasting stories.
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27[[index]]
28!!Consoles of this era
29* [[Platform/Sega32X 32X]][[labelnote:*]]Yes, it was an add-on for the Genesis/Mega Drive, but it is still considered part of this generation.[[/labelnote]] (1994-1996)
30* Platform/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer (1993-1996)
31* Platform/AmigaCD32 (1993-1994)
32* Platform/AtariJaguar (1993-1996)
33* Platform/Nintendo64 (1996-2002)
34* Platform/PlayStation (1994-2006)
35* Platform/SegaSaturn (1994-2000)
36
37!!Handhelds of this era
38* Platform/GameBoyColor (1998-2003)
39* Platform/GameCom (1997-2000)
40* Platform/NeoGeoPocket (1998-1999)
41** Neo Geo Pocket Color (1999-2001)
42* Platform/VirtualBoy (1995-1996)
43* Platform/WonderSwan (1999-2003)
44
45[[foldercontrol]]
46
47[[folder:New [=IPs=] of this era]]
48* ''VideoGame/TenEightySnowboarding''
49* ''VideoGame/{{Aconcagua}}''
50* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing2001''
51* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape''
52* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore''
53** ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore1''
54** ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreProjectPhantasma''
55** ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreMasterOfArena''
56* ''VideoGame/{{Astal}}''
57* ''VideoGame/AtelierSeries''
58** ''VideoGame/AtelierMarieTheAlchemistOfSalburg''
59** ''VideoGame/AtelierElieTheAlchemistOfSalburg2''
60* ''VideoGame/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''
61* ''VideoGame/BangaiO''
62* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''
63** ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''
64* ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden''
65** ''Battle Arena Toshinden II''
66* ''VideoGame/Blade2000''
67* ''VideoGame/BlastCorps''
68* ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar''
69** ''Bloody Roar 2''
70* ''VideoGame/BodyHarvest''
71* ''VideoGame/{{Bug|1995}}''
72* ''VideoGame/BurikiOne''
73* ''VideoGame/BurningRangers''
74* ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''
75* ''VideoGame/ClickMedic''
76* ''VideoGame/ClockworkKnight''
77* ''VideoGame/ColonyWars''
78** ''Colony Wars: Vengeance''
79** ''Colony Wars: Red Sun''
80* ''VideoGame/ConkersPocketTales''
81** ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''
82** ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''
83* [[/index]]''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':[[index]]
84** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996''
85** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack''
86** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped''
87** ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing''
88** ''VideoGame/CrashBash''
89* ''VideoGame/{{Croc}}''
90** ''Croc 2''
91* ''VideoGame/DaytonaUSA''
92* ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}''
93** ''Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness''
94** ''Kagero: Deception II''
95** ''Deception III: Dark Delusion''
96* ''VideoGame/DeepFear''
97* ''VideoGame/DevilSummoner''
98* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''
99** ''VideoGame/{{Diablo|1997}}'' (1997)
100* ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis''
101** ''Dino Crisis 2''
102* ''[[VideoGame/DinosaurPlanetRare Dinosaur Planet]]''
103* ''VideoGame/{{Disruptor}}''
104* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Doom}}'':[[index]]
105** ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''
106** ''VideoGame/DoomIIHellOnEarth''
107** ''VideoGame/FinalDoom''
108** ''VideoGame/Doom64''
109* ''VideoGame/DragonForceSega''
110** ''VideoGame/DragonForce2''
111* ''VideoGame/{{Driver}}''
112** ''Driver 2''
113* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''
114* ''VideoGame/{{Ehrgeiz}}''
115* [[/index]]''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':[[index]]
116** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena''
117** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall''
118** ''VideoGame/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire''
119** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard''
120* ''VideoGame/ElementalGearbolt''
121* ''VideoGame/{{eXceed}}''
122* ''VideoGame/ExtremeG''
123** ''Extreme-G 2''
124* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':[[index]]
125** ''VideoGame/Fallout1''
126** ''VideoGame/Fallout2''
127* ''VideoGame/FearEffect''
128** ''Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix''
129* ''VideoGame/FightersMegamix''
130* ''VideoGame/FightingVipers''
131* [[/index]]''VideoGame/FrontMission'':[[index]]
132** ''VideoGame/FrontMission2''
133** ''Front Mission: Alternative''
134** ''VideoGame/FrontMission3''
135* ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}''
136** ''Gex''
137** ''Gex: Enter the Gecko''
138** ''Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko''
139* ''VideoGame/GodzillaTheSeries''
140* ''VideoGame/GoldAndGloryTheRoadToElDorado''
141* ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 007]]''
142** ''VideoGame/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
143** ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenRacing''
144* [[/index]]''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':[[index]]
145** ''VideoGame/{{Grand Theft Auto|Classic}}''
146** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2''
147* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo''
148* ''VideoGame/TheGrinch2000''
149* ''VideoGame/GuardianHeroes''
150* [[/index]]''VideoGame/HalfLife'':[[index]]
151** ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''
152* ''VideoGame/HardEdge''
153* [[/index]]''VideoGame/HarryPotter'':[[index]]
154** ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''
155** ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''
156* ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDead''
157* ''VideoGame/IncredibleCrisis''
158* ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini''
159* ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash''
160** ''Jumping Flash! 2''
161* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}''
162** ''VideoGame/KlonoaDoorToPhantomile''
163** ''Klonoa: Moonlight Museum''
164** ''Klonoa Beach Volleyball''
165* ''VideoGame/{{Koudelka}}''
166* ''VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy''
167** ''VideoGame/KKND2''
168* ''VideoGame/LastBronx''
169* [[/index]]''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'':[[index]]
170** ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain''
171** ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver''
172* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon''
173* ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia''
174* ''VideoGame/LittleNicky''
175* [[/index]]''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'':[[index]]
176** ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter''
177** ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter''
178** ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes''
179* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor''
180** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor1999''
181** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorUnderground''
182* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug''
183** ''Metal Slug 2''
184** ''Metal Slug X''
185** ''[[VideoGame/MetalSlugMissions Metal Slug: 1st Mission]]''
186** ''Metal Slug: 2nd Mission''
187* ''VideoGame/MischiefMakers''
188* ''VideoGame/NightmareCreatures''
189** ''Nightmare Creatures II''
190* ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams''
191* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}''
192** ''Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee''
193** ''Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus''
194* ''VideoGame/PanzerBandit''
195* ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon''
196** ''Panzer Dragoon Zwei''
197** ''Panzer Dragoon Saga''
198* ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper''
199** ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy''
200* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve''
201** ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2''
202* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' (both the N64 and Game Boy Color installments)
203* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':[[index]]
204** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''
205** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''
206** ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap''
207** ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''
208** ''Pokemon Stadium 2''
209* ''VideoGame/ThePowerpuffGirlsChemicalXTraction''
210* ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk''
211* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'':[[index]]
212** ''VideoGame/QuakeI''
213** ''VideoGame/QuakeII''
214* ''VideoGame/Quest64''
215** ''VideoGame/QuestBriansJourney''
216* ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''
217* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix''
218** ''Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf''
219* ''VideoGame/RakugakiShowtime''
220* ''VideoGame/{{Rakugakids}}''
221* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'':[[index]]
222** ''VideoGame/Rayman1''
223** ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape''
224* ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage''
225** ''Redneck Rampage Rides Again''
226* [[/index]]''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':[[index]]
227** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1''
228** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''
229** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''
230* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools''
231* [[/index]]''VideoGame/SakuraWars'':[[index]]
232** ''VideoGame/SakuraWars1996''
233** ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie''
234* ''VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush'':
235** ''San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing''
236** ''Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA''
237** ''San Francisco Rush 2049''
238* ''VideoGame/Shantae2002''
239* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Shrek}}:''[[index]]
240** ''Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown''
241** ''Shrek Treasure Hunt''
242* [[/index]]''Franchise/SilentHill'':[[index]]
243** ''VideoGame/SilentHill1''
244* ''VideoGame/SilhouetteMirage''
245* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment''
246* ''VideoGame/SnowboardKids''
247** ''Snowboard Kids 2''
248* [[/index]]''VideoGame/SoulSeries'':[[index]]
249** ''Soul Edge''
250* [[/index]]''Franchise/SouthPark'':[[index]]
251** ''VideoGame/SouthPark''
252** ''VideoGame/SouthParkRally''
253* ''VideoGame/SpeedPowerGunbike''
254* ''VideoGame/SpikeOut''
255* ''VideoGame/SpiritualAssassinTaromaru''
256* [[/index]]''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':[[index]]
257** ''VideoGame/SpongebobSquarepantsLegendOfTheLostSpatula''
258** ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsOperationKrabbyPatty''
259** ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsSuperSponge''
260** ''VideoGame/SpongebobSquarePantsEmployeeOfTheMonth''
261* [[/index]]''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':[[index]]
262** ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''
263** ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage''
264** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon''
265* ''VideoGame/StarGladiator''
266* [[/index]]''VideoGame/StarOcean'':[[index]]
267** ''VideoGame/StarOcean1''
268** ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory''
269* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'':[[index]]
270** ''VideoGame/SuikodenI''
271** ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''
272* [[/index]]''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':[[index]]
273** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64''
274* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter''
275** ''Syphon Filter 2''
276** ''Syphon Filter 3''
277* ''VideoGame/TailConcerto''
278* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''
279* ''VideoGame/{{Teleroboxer}}''
280* ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}''
281** ''Tenchu: Stealth Assassins''
282** ''Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins''
283* ''VideoGame/ThrillKill''
284* ''VideoGame/{{Tobal}} No. 1''
285** ''Tobal 2''
286* [[/index]]''Franchise/TombRaider'':[[index]]
287** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI''
288** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII''
289** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII''
290** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation''
291** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderChronicles''
292* ''VideoGame/{{Tomba}}''
293** ''Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return''
294* ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble''
295* [[/index]]''Franchise/TouhouProject'':[[index]]
296** ''VideoGame/TouhouReiidenHighlyResponsiveToPrayers''
297** ''VideoGame/TouhouFuumarokuTheStoryOfEasternWonderland''
298** ''VideoGame/TouhouYumejikuuPhantasmagoriaOfDimDream''
299** ''VideoGame/TouhouGensokyoLotusLandStory''
300** ''VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare''
301* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal''
302* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}''
303** ''Turok: Dinosaur Hunter''
304** ''Turok 2: Seeds of Evil''
305** ''Turok: Rage Wars''
306** ''Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion''
307* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'':[[index]]
308** ''VideoGame/UnrealI''
309* ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter''
310* ''VideoGame/VirtualOn''
311* ''VideoGame/{{Warhawk}}''
312* ''VideoGame/{{Warlocked}}''
313* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfMightAndMagic''
314* ''VideoGame/{{Wetrix}}''
315* [[/index]]''VideoGame/WildArms'':[[index]]
316** ''VideoGame/WildArms1''
317** ''VideoGame/WildArms2''
318* ''VideoGame/WillyWombat''
319* ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}''
320* ''VideoGame/XMenMutantAcademy''
321** ''VideoGame/XMenMutantAcademy2''
322* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''
323[[/folder]]
324
325[[folder:Games of previous [=IPs=]]]
326* ''VideoGame/Asuka120Percent''
327* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':[[index]]
328** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''
329** ''VideoGame/Castlevania64''
330** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegacyOfDarkness''
331* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''
332* ''VideoGame/ClayFighter''
333** ''[=ClayFighter=] 63⅓''
334** ''[=ClayFighter=]: Sculptor's Cut''
335* [[/index]]''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'':[[index]]
336** ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''
337** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''
338* [[/index]]''Franchise/DragonBall'':[[index]]
339** ''Dragon Ball Z: Shin Saiyajin Zenmetsu Keikaku — Chikyū-Hen''
340** ''Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku~Uchū-Hen''
341** ''Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22''
342** ''Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden''
343** ''Dragon Ball Z: The Legend''
344** ''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout''
345** ''Dragon Ball''
346* [[/index]]''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':[[index]]
347** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII''
348** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters''
349* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''
350* ''VideoGame/FatalFuryWildAmbition''
351* [[/index]]''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':[[index]]
352** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''
353** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''
354** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''
355* ''VideoGame/FZeroX''
356* [[/index]]''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':[[index]]
357** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''
358** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''
359** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames''
360* ''VideoGame/TheLionKingSimbasMightyAdventure''
361* [[/index]]''Franchise/MegaMan'':
362** ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'':[[index]]
363*** ''VideoGame/MegaMan8''
364** [[/index]]''VideoGame/MegaManX'':[[index]]
365*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX4''
366*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX5''
367*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6''
368** ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''
369*** ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne''
370*** ''Mega Man Legends 2''
371* ''Megami Tensei Gaiden: VideoGame/LastBible''
372* [[/index]]''VideoGame/MetalGear'':[[index]]
373** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''
374** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel''
375* [[/index]]''Franchise/MickeyMouse'':[[index]]
376** ''VideoGame/MickeysSpeedwayUSA''
377* [[/index]]''Franchise/MortalKombat'':[[index]]
378** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero''
379** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4''
380** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatSpecialForces''
381* [[/index]]''VideoGame/PacMan'':[[index]]
382** ''VideoGame/PacManWorld''
383** ''VideoGame/MsPacManMazeMadness''
384* [[/index]]''Franchise/PowerRangers''[[index]]
385** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersZeoFullTiltBattlePinball''
386** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''
387** ''VideoGame/PowerRangersTimeForce''
388* ''VideoGame/RType Delta''
389* [[/index]]''VideoGame/ShiningSeries'':[[index]]
390** ''VideoGame/ShiningWisdom''
391** ''VideoGame/ShiningTheHolyArk''
392** ''VideoGame/ShiningForceIII''
393* [[/index]]''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':[[index]]
394** ''VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland'' (overlaps with 16-Bit Generation; ported to this generation to make up for ''VideoGame/SonicXtreme'''s cancellation)
395** ''VideoGame/SonicR''
396* ''VideoGame/SoulHackers''
397* [[/index]]''Franchise/StarFox'':[[index]]
398** ''VideoGame/StarFox64''
399* [[/index]]''Franchise/StreetFighter'':[[index]]
400** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series
401** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''
402** ''Street Fighter EX 2''
403** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''
404* ''VideoGame/Superman64''
405* [[/index]]''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':[[index]]
406** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''
407** ''VideoGame/MarioKart64''
408** ''VideoGame/YoshisStory''
409** ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' (series debut)
410*** ''VideoGame/MarioParty1''
411*** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2''
412*** ''VideoGame/MarioParty3''
413** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' (debut of the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' subseries)
414* [[/index]]''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':[[index]]
415** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny''
416** ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia''
417* [[/index]]''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':[[index]]
418** ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster & the Beanstalk''
419** ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein - Dare to Scare''
420** ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Saves the Day''
421** ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Plucky's Big Adventure''
422** ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Dizzy's Candy Quest''
423* [[/index]]''VideoGame/{{Wario}}'':[[index]]
424** [[/index]]''VideoGame/WarioLand'':[[index]]
425*** ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand''
426*** ''VideoGame/WarioLand3''
427* ''VideoGame/WaveRace 64''
428[[/folder]]
429[[/index]]

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