Worse Than It Sounds / Video Games

• Action 52: A game that tries to push the boundaries of the NES and Genesis by having a plethora of games of different genres and styles contained in one cartridge.
  • Cheetahmen II: The widely-marketed sequel to one of the games in the NES version of the above game. Its first stage music is freaking awesome.
• The Adventures of Mighty Max: The popular animated series comes to life on Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo! Travel to fifty different worlds, each one expansive and open! Discover an interesting interpretation of Jump Physics and use a weapon never before seen in the show to dispatch your many enemies! Only available in certain markets, does come packaged with tapes of the show.
• Agarest Senki: A man and his descendants, aided by a variety of allies in a quest for the freedom of mankind from the control of the dark forces that plague the land, with a golden sword in hand. He and three of his descendants, and three girls of each generation, then become the pillar for mankind. Will you prevail or will you fall?
• Ai To Yuuki To Kashiwamochi: A young girl who dreams of sweets finds the guy of her dreams. Said guy turns out to be very special.
  • Irisu Syndrome!: A shy girl who really loves bunnies happens to meet some university students on a camping trip. She decides that she wants to join in on the fun too! The plot is much, much deeper than it seems, and left many players guessing.
• Angry Birds: When their offspring are stolen, a group of unlikely heroes launches an attack on the kidnappers. They truly go the extra mile, even putting their own lives on the line.
• Animal Soccer World: Two rivals sport teams square off in an exciting soccer match. A masterfully-acted, complex tale of rivalry and social introspection filled to the brim with wonderful musical performances!
• Anubis 2: A game from one of the most notorious video game publishers ever. Its port is however more known than the original game. It however still is an important milestone since its style would define all future games the company would make. No level has been re-edited in the future games, really.
• Go Right: An easy, simple-yet long game where if you finish, you get to see an exclusive clip!
• Armikrog: The inhabitants of a dying planet send an astronaut into space to find a rare mineral that can save their lives. However, it all goes awry when the astronaut crashes his ship on the very planet he was sent to. Trapped inside a gigantic fortress of mysterious origin, he and his faithful sidekick must work out the fortress' puzzles in order to escape. Created as the successor to a beloved cult classic puzzle game, this game has complex puzzles that will have you giving your brain a workout and its short length ensures that you can play this game and still have time to go see your friends in a few hours.
• Backyard Baseball 2007: The kids from the famous series are all grown up, with more pros in the neighborhood, including David Ortiz and Carl Crawford! Features the biggest fan of baseball ever.
• Bad Dudes: In order to save the country from an international crisis, the American government has no choice but to rely on the efforts of shady individuals who are free to act above morality and the law.
• Balan Wonderworld: A Platform Game where you can wear various ability-granting costumes and traverse a colorful dream world to help people with their trauma and despair.
• Battle Garegga: A Shoot 'Em Up with interestingly-colored two-dimensional visuals and a Dynamic Difficulty system that adjusts to suit your playing style.
• Beat'n Groovy, beatmania (PS2): Two Rhythm Game series that are very popular in Japan finally make their way to North American consoles.
  • In The Groove: An enhanced version of said series that was unjustly destroyed.
• Beyond: Two Souls: A young woman with a special link to the realm of the dead strives as the rest of the world want to use her and the ghost companion she lives with for grander purposes. Another earth-shattering entry in a series of interactive movies brought to you by French visionary David Cage. Now with mind-blowing shower scenes.
• Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing: Racing action the likes of which you've never seen before! Climb behind the wheel of a machine so large and powerful that it can overcome the very limitations of physics at your whim! Not even buildings and trees pose an obstacle! With the control of this juggernaut at your fingertips, how can other racers possibly compete? As a matter of fact, it's become so iconic that its unique victory phrase has become a part of pop culture. The concept of your defeat is so inconceivable, the universe would cease to exist if anyone else was winner.
• Bomberman Act:Zero: Trapped in an infinite labyrinth, an artificial man must use explosives to destroy the monsters he faces. Showcases the series in a new light.
• Bubsy 3D: A sequel that takes a beloved Mascot with Attitude of the 16-bit generation up to the third dimension with groundbreaking graphics, gameplay and controls that offer a new level of challenge, and the character's beautiful voice giving you useful tips to make the challenge less painful.
• Can Your Pet?: A bright and colorful pet simulator where you raise an adorable chick, and do all kinds of fun activities with it.
• Castlevania: Judgment: To oppose a villainous threat that seeks to rewrite history in his own image, a powerful entity summons thirteen of the greatest warriors from the centuries of backstory (and decades of game development) that define one of the most popular and long-lasting video game franchises of all time. Character motivations are explored in depth, including those of several classic villains who are playable for the first time in the history of the series. Character designs reimagined by one of the most popular manga artists in recent years.
• Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.: A game whose strong reception and distinctive artstyle inspired its creator to create one of the most popular horror titles of the decade.
• Cho Aniki: The manliest video game franchise of all time.
• The Coffin of Andy and Leyley: The Distaff Counterparts of the Joker and Harley Quinn (but siblings) are trapped in an organ theft conspiracy by Lex Luthor and plan their escape by summoning Trigon to kill his men. Incest and Black Comedy ensues.
• Chrono Cross: A sequel to one of the most beloved games of the 16-bit generation. Find out what happened after the first game! Enjoy a massive roster of playable characters, each with their own unique abilities! Unravel a complex plot and discover the secrets of the world!
• Crash Bandicoot (1996): A test subject escapes from the laboratory he was confined in, only to be forced back to return when his lover is being threatened by the very same madman who conducted experiments on him.
• CrazyBus: The best bus simulator in existence, featuring all models of bus in the world as well as extreme realism and one of the very best soundtracks ever added to a game.
• Cross Edge: A heroic young man and his sweet and sincere childhood friend team up with your favourite heroes from different franchises. Abandons the tired old town-dungeon-town-dungeon formula for a new and innovative soul-searching system and features an intricate battle system and ending path.
• Daikatana: Travel through time on an epic journey to set the past straight by means of an ancient, magical sword, with power that the world has never known. But don't go alone! Take with you two unforgettable allies who you absolutely won't leave without.
• DanceDanceRevolution Disney's Rave/Disney Dancing Museum/Disney Channel Edition: A popular Japanese Rhythm Game series and a beloved Western entertainment empire join forces.
• The Demon Rush: An epic and complex journey between worlds in which a small party of awesomely-named adventurers face powerful monsters at every turn and must constantly choose whether to run away or steel themselves and fight. Despite being made by one person, the game boasts a highly tactical battle system, a quirky method for leveling up, and impressive graphics and music.
• Desert Bus: The story of one man's journey across the wasteland. Potentially features hundreds of hours of gameplay, each minute of which is every bit as exciting as the first.
• Devil May Cry 2: The thrilling, action-packed sequel to the blockbuster game. Darker and Edgier! An epic, thrilling story! Exciting combat that keeps you on your toes!
  • DmC: Devil May Cry: See one of gaming's most beloved heroes like you never have before! The stakes are higher in this new take on a classic franchise, re-adapted for a modern audience.
• Digimon World Dawn/Dusk: While two powerful organizations are running a simple tournament, they are attacked, ravaged, and largely depowered by a malevolent entity. Their most competent rookie must step up and restore order to their world by confronting an incarnation of mortality.
• DonPachi: The heroic adventures of a new recruit who trains to become the latest Super-Soldier which are then later Deconstructed.
• Don't Shit Your Pants: A gut-wrenching tale of one man's conflicting need to satisfy his own needs while maintaining social norms, in an interactive story with a dozen possible endings!
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES): Based on a classic novel, this action platformer features a dual-world challenge and represents the constant struggle between good and evil.
• Duke Nukem Forever: A hotly-anticipated project that's undergone extensive development for over a decade, with the developers going to great lengths to ensure the perfect gameplay experience.
• Dump Jumper: An exciting story of a man taking revenge on the world that scorned him. Features a realistic physics engine simulating an often-neglected fact of nature! This game was made for a contest.
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Based on the hit movie, fight enemies with your blaster while assembling wacky devices. Sure to change the industry as we know it.
• Earthworm Jim: The world's most unlikely hero finds himself gifted with incredible evolutionary powers on an epic adventure through time, space, and darker dimensions beyond reality.
• Elona: Embark on a challenging and lengthy quest across the entire world to become the greatest adventurer ever and discover the secret behind a Body Horror-causing disease! Make your mark on the world by helping out villagers in several ways. If you feel like your current hero cannot succeed, no worry! You can seduce, marry, and start a family with any character in the game, and leave the quest to your successor!
• Eversion: A game that starts off as a cute, cheerful platformer! Use your Reality Warper powers to solve platformer puzzles! Breathtaking visual effects and some of the best videogame atmospheres around await you!
• F.E.A.R.: A military experiment goes wrong and all the researchers are suddenly and violently murdered. A top-secret military unit is sent to investigate, be warned, brave traveler. Not everything is as it seems and some secrets are buried deep. Peer not into the rabbit hole lest you see how far it really goes.
  • F.E.A.R. 2: A beautiful, naked woman helps you get laid.
    • Alternatively: He's a Delta Force operative who can see dead people. She's a Broken Bird poltergeist. When they meet, she falls in love with him but has trouble expressing her true feelings. Will she gather the courage to tell him how she feels and win his heart?
• Ffx Runner: Drive a car past a huge city with lots of scenery. Lot's of explosions! From your own car.
• Final Fantasy: Gather your friends and set out in an expansive world that lets you do most of the main story points in any order. Send your wizards, warriors, and thieves against all manner of fantastic enemies, undertake a quest to learn the world's second language, and even travel through time in order to restore the Crystals to grace.
  • Final Fantasy II: A sizable cast awaits you in this title, all wanting to help your Power Trio on their journey. From a truly Unwinnable situation, be brought back from the brink into a land where language is key and your characters can work towards becoming what class they desire to be. For extra nostalgia, this game introduced the first mascot of the series as well as the concept of Plotline Death. These men and, for the first time, women, will literally go to Hell at your command to free their hometown and destroy The Empire and its evil emperor.
  • Final Fantasy III: Almost a lost entry in a massively popular series, this game gives you unparalleled freedom with classes - switching between battles at will to deal with the local enemies is a great step forward! Take control of four brave young kids as they fly a series of airships through their kingdom and the world below it, doing such heroics as restarting the time of a frozen land, and meeting two sets of their doppelgangers, all along the road to confronting a vision of fear itself. This title stretched the Famicom to its limit in its music, its careful placement of sprites to get around the 4-color limits (the Final Boss has at least six), and some truly touching moments.
  • Final Fantasy VII: The story of a young soldier who is coming to grips with his own identity in a violently changing world. Featuring amazing state of the art cutscenes and a flawless script, sure to excite old and new fans alike. Widely hailed as one of the best Role Playing Games of all time.
  • Final Fantasy XIII: A former soldier betrays her corrupt government in order to save her sister from their machinations. She is joined by a group of misfits, and the group finds themselves in a deeper conflict that threatens the whole existence of humanity — forging friendships and defying their fates along the way of their adventures.
• Fortnite: An unexplained storm has engulfed the planet, causing 95% of humanity to disappear, and strange monsters resembling the walking dead appear virtually out of nowhere. You have stumbled upon a bunker maintained by a few small robots, who decide that you're the only person around suitable enough to be their commander. You must gather what remains of humanity and find a way to eliminate the storm while fighting the monsters and defending critical positions through constructing fortresses, with humanity's last hope possibly being from a corporation with dubious ethics who apparently anticipated the storm long before it appeared...
  • Fortnite Battle Royale: A hundred people at a time train to fight the aforementioned storm by being dropped on an island and battling until only one person (or one team) is left standing, with competitors being forced to scavenge for weapons and supplies in order to gain an edge. Fortunately, the losers are teleported out when defeated, rather than killed.
• Freddi Fish: The Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch: An experienced detective seeks to masquerade as a criminal in order to infiltrate a crime ring that has victimized one of her close relatives. In the end she is able to end their illegal activities as well as expose one of the local citizens as the gang's shadowy kingpin.
• Garten of Banban: Trying to find your missing child in a long-abandoned kindergarten with still-active science experiments as caretakers. The voice acting is stellar, the 3D models are properly optimized, and the game is reasonably paced.
• Goat Simulator: An entertaining piece of Xenofiction told through the eyes of an often neglected animal. Widely extolled for its physics engine.
• Guitar Freaks and Drummania: Everyone's favorite band simulation games.
• Hellsinker: A complex tale involving humans-turned-monsters, psychological warfare, and three very sophisticated scoring systems.
• Hong Kong '97: A martial artist of unparalleled skill is dispatched to China on an assassination mission of incredible proportions, but a terrifying undead Communist warrior, resurrected by mad science, is hellbent on stopping him at any cost. Features live recordings of contemporary Chinese music and cutting-edge scathing political commentary.
• Hoshi wo Miru Hito: A game that boasted a truly innovative way to travel worlds and battle with enemies. Often praised for its depth in the story just before it got to the end. It did not just left a mark on gamers everywhere, but on any JRPG ever since.
• Hotel Mario: Two heroic men go on an epic quest fighting tooth and nail through impenetrable strongholds to save a beautiful princess from a dragon and his offspring, and the armies they control. It's best remembered for its memorable quotes.
• Hunt Down the Freeman: Taking place in an FPS franchise that hasn't seen activity for over a decade, this alternate take of the story depicts a character related to a beloved Ensemble Dark Horse being on the opposite side of the series' hero, vowing revenge. With the story being inspired from a whole different game, alternative interpretations of the series' signature styles of gameplay and projecting its story, unforgettable cutscenes, and a twist that turns the whole narrative on its head, this game will test your limits as both a gamer and as a puzzle solver. The background behind the game's development is just as interesting as the game itself.
• I. M. Meen: Trapped in an outwordly prison by an anti-intellectualist magician, two children face unspeakable opposition with only their wits and the cooperation of the gatekeeper.
• I Wanna Be the Guy: A wonderful journey down memory lane with levels and enemies from classic gaming franchises such as Castlevania, Street Fighter, Mega Man, and even Gradius. Sure to challenge players of any skill level and keep them on their toes.
• Ice Climber: Two heroes who share a strong bond must get past hideous monsters, nearly indestructible barriers, and the harsh elements of nature in order to save their civilization from certain doom. This game's legacy translated into said heroes' appearance in a mega-crossover video game.
• Ikaruga: A thought provoking Shoot 'Em Up with a deep, engrossing story that plays with the concept of Man's duality and Man's struggle towards Enlightenment. The scoring system in this game encourages dedication and out-of-the-box thinking.
• The Impossible Quiz: A challenging puzzle game, with only the most logical of solutions. A hundred and ten questions of pure, undiluted challenge. So popular that it has two sequels!
• Jagged Alliance 2: A disgraced and exiled monarch hires a veteran commander to hire to take back his country from a brutal dictator who framed the monarch for the murder of his father. The commander leads a crack commando force to take back the country city by city. Along the way the commander struggles with managing the personal conflicts between his men and his rapidly dropping approval rateing in the eyes of the citizens he is attempting to save.
• Jumper: A tragic tale of a failed experiment trying to find freedom in a world where everybody is out to get him. Sure to wrench the hearts of many players.
• Jurassic Park: Trespasser: A breakthrough in first-person shooter engines that, to this day, still has an active fan community, with people making levels for it.
• Katamari Damacy: You are the loyal servant of a tyrannical god-being prone to galaxy-destroying rampages. Your task is to infiltrate various locations and steal objects by fusing them to an unholy artifact under your psychic command. If you don't steal enough objects, the god-being grows enraged and crushes everything you've collected into powder; if you do steal enough, he becomes pleased and rewards your efforts by engulfing your collection in a horrific nuclear cataclysm. In later levels, you have to collect living creatures, and at least one point you send dozens of human beings to their nuclear doom. The final level requires, of course, the complete destruction of the entire world.
• Kart Fighter: Said heroic men, princess, dragon and one of the dragon's footsoldiers join along with a dinosaur, a mushroom and an ape. They decide to beat the crap out of each other in epic fashion. With Hadoukens, spinning, Kung Fu, and banana peels, no less. Spiritual predecessor of the wildly popular Super Smash Bros. series.
• Katawa Shoujo: An emotional story of boy with a heart problem attends a school of crippled people, learns that one's disabilities don't them make less of a person, leans to cope with his own problems, and finds love.
• LJN Toys: The video game publisher that, with the assistance of some of the most beloved game developers of all time, brought many iconic movies and Marvel Comics franchises to the Nintendo Entertainment System. The company's logo, when seen on its games, sends an unmistakable message of the quality contained within. It regained attention because a world-famous video game critic has often talked about it.
• La-Mulana: There's a very, very special present for you at the end of the Brutal Bonus Level.
• Lair: A fantasy combat slight-sim has you controlling a dragon using the latest breakthrough in input technology.
• Link: The Faces of Evil: A young man, eager for adventure, travels to a far-away island kingdom to save its inhabitants from a sinister demon-king, then defeat the villain in a battle that defies description and seal him away. It's best remembered for its memorable quotes.
  • Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon: In a remarkable and revolutionary example of role reversal, a young princess must journey forth to save her father from a treacherous duke and the ancient evil with which he has allied. It's best remembered for its memorable quotes.
• Lester the Unlikely: The most realistic portrayal of the player in a video game ever.
• Limbo of the Lost: A truly scary surreal adventure horror game where you can visit familiar places from your favorite game(s)!
• Makai Kingdom: A world ruler makes a simple mistake that leads to the destruction of the entire planet. He can restore the planet by using a magical book that grants wishes, however, a tremendous amount of mana would be required for such a task. And so, he must visit other worlds and use the mana of their rulers to rebuild his own world.
• Mario Is Missing!: Travel the world and recover the stolen artifacts to stop the villain from flooding the planet. Its main character appeared in one of his most iconic forms.
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite: the highest grossing film franchise of the 21st century teams up with one of the biggest video game publishers in a series first, a story mode!
• Mass Effect 3: The final act of a critically acclaimed trilogy of science fiction roleplaying games, notable having the most discussed ending in the history of the medium.
• Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam: Three gladiatorial warriors are faced with racism and prejudice as they partake in a street fighting competition. A provoking look at the effects of technology in society, and the possible effects of the Apocalypse on the social structure.
• Mega Man II: A portable combination of the two most beloved entries in a long-running platform series, which sees the protagonist facing off against a twisted future version of himself. It also boasts a boldly original soundtrack, and the difficulty is tweaked to a more accessible level.
• Mega Man X6: A hero finds out that his presumed-dead best friend is involved in a virus conspiracy and must uncover the truth by fighting the investigators trying to erase the spirit of his friend while the virus corrupts his mind and warps the world around him.
• Mega Man X7: The hero gives up fighting right as a group of vigilantes previously on the same side turn criminal. A member of the vigilante group with Power Copying defects to the hero's side to fight against his former comrades and must earn the respect of the hero while finding out the truth about why his friends became evil.
• Metal Gear: Snake's Revenge: Followed by two fellow agents from the same unit, a special forces soldier must penetrate a terrorist fortress in the jungle. As the story progresses, one of the agents dies and the other betrays him, leaving him to defeat his greatest enemy, resurrected and stronger than ever, alone. With unique 'changes in perspective' designed to add a new variety to the gameplay of the previous game, it can finally be played here in America! The series's original creator described it as 'a faithful sequel'.
  • Mesal Gear Solid: Snake Escape: A young agent, conditioned to think and fight like the legendary soldier Solid Snake, goes to face a group of increasingly bizarre terrorists before they launch their economy-destroying weapon - unaware of the involvement of the shadowy torturer, Ocelot. Solid Snake provides mentoring and support over the Codec, leaving you fully in command of your brand new playable character, never seen in the series before.
  • Snake vs. Monkey: A partner to the above game. Solid Snake returns to a battlefield conquered decades before by his father, against his will. His orders are to kidnap those who live there, armed with nothing but a gun that, when merely held, makes him feel intent on performing his unglamorous and thankless mission. Along his journey he comes face to face with two walking tanks, and his own father's doppelgänger.
• Metal Wolf Chaos: A leader of a country is betrayed by his 2nd in command, who launches a military coup against him. The leader then leads a crack resistance in an battle to take back his country, city by city.
• Micronics: A prolific developer who converted some of Capcom's and SNK's arcade hits to the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Metroid: Other M: A softer and more vulnerable side of gaming's most famous Action Girl protagonist is shown in this game. Alongside our protagonist, she gains a father-like figure who aids her during her missions in unique ways.
• Mindjack: A secret agent with the power to control other people's minds shoots his way through a futuristic city full of enemy soldiers, giant robots, and cybernetic gorillas.
• Mohawk and Headphone Jack: A platformer late in the SNES life cycle that pushes its graphics hardware to its limit.
• Mondo Medicals: You work for a research laboratory, trying to find a cure for cancer. Over the course of the game, however, communications from your director make it apparent that the laboratory has a dark secret.
  • Mondo Agency: You work for a government agency and are tasked to protect the President.
• Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero: The first spin-off from the popular fighting game about the origins of one of the franchise's main heroes. Is well-known for its revolutionary graphics, memorable cutscenes and for introducing one of the franchise's most popular characters.
  • Mortal Kombat: Special Forces: Their second spin-off, only this time featuring the exploits of an Army Major seeking to stop an anti-establishment foreigner and his loyal group of friends. The universal response to the game was so passionate, that it invoked a rather strong reaction from one of the franchise's creators.
• My Child Lebensborn: A Raising Sim in which the player cares for the product of a defunct Super Breeding Program.
• Phalanx: A space shooter with unique box art.
• Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Two young adults, trying to please their parents and make something of their lives, fall in love after one saves the other. Saw a resurgence in popularity in 2009 when it was featured on a very popular web show.
• Pokémon Quartz: A heartwarming game based on one of the most beloved game series of all time to Spin-Off into multiple forms of media. A young girl meets new friends, and with their help must face the consequences of encountering slavery, gang violence, and pedophilia.
• The Prayer Warriors A.O.F.G.: An inredible spirtual journey through numerous distinct locations in a quest to obtain spirtual artifacts and take down an evil wizard and his army of hellspawn. Features incredible use of textures, a unique keyboard control scheme, and impressive environments, including an ocean below another ocean.
• Radiant Silvergun: A groundbreaking genre-busting game that involves the most realistic portrayal of traffic control.
• Rabbids Go Home: A group of outcasts, displaced from their home planet, raid a dystopian society in an effort to return home.
• Resident Evil 6: Four stories are intertwined in a battle to prevent a worldwide Zombie Apocalypse. One of them has the key to prevent it.
• Rise of the Robots: An epic chronicling one cyborg's efforts to overthrow a corrupt robot dictatorship, battling against dozens of fierce opponents. With graphics and music unlike any others at the time, the amount of hype ensured that no one would forget this classic.
• Rock of Ages: An anti-hero condemned to an impossible task as punishment in the underworld for his hubris for all eternity decides he's had enough, and uses the tool of his punishment to defeat his jailer and escape back to the land of the living. He takes his tool on a journey across time and space, defeating many adversaries along the way to find somewhere to enjoy his newfound freedom in peace.
• Rock Revolution: From the company that made the games that Guitar Hero and Rock Band were inspired by (Guitar Freaks, Drum Mania), this new revolutionary rock experience lets you make your own music or choose from dozens of famous hits. Covers count, right?
• Rock Simulator: A nature-based game with elements of realism and patience, sure to whet your appetite for a more relaxing game.
• Shaq Fu: One of your favorite sports stars comes to the video game stage, to face off in an epic showdown against otherworldly opponents, prove that his kung fu is stronger than theirs, and rescue a trapped child.
• Superman64: Play as one of the world's most well-known superheroes. Fly through vast cityscapes, pick up and throw around objects several times your weight, and use kick-awesome super powers such as heat vision and freezing breath. (Don't want to take our word for it? You can watch a video review.)
• Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: A game based on an Eisner-award-winning comic series, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft. A heroic but mentally unstable detective discovers he is the descendant of a powerful psychic, and uses his newfound abilities to wage war against humans attempting to exploit the power of the Elder Gods. But the real enemy is his own mind, and he loses control of his own powers, leading to his powerless best friend being forced to rescue him. He fails. Influenced by a wide variety of genres, ranging from Film Noir to Fifties Science Fiction to the Exploitation Films of the 70s and 80s.
• Sands of Destruction: In a Fantastically Racist world being swallowed up by sand, you become a member of the World Destruction Committee and go on an epic quest to destroy it.
• Saya no Uta: A man goes on the ultimate acid trip and sees the world in a whole new way.
• Silent Hill 2: You get a letter from your terminally ill wife, telling you she's waiting for you at where you last vacationed together.
• Silver Surfer (1990): Play as a famous comic book character as you try to avoid countless enemies and obstacles. With very unique bosses, deadly walls, and grueling difficulty. It has level designs that you've never seen before in any video game. It's guaranteed to give you endless hours of gameplay!
• SimCity: A Wide-Open Sandbox game created several years before Grand Theft Auto'' in Full 3D environment! Best of all, you can import cities from a certain popular city management game! Yes, drive around in your cities blasting things as you go on.
• Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time: You get to play different versions of the title character with their own unique powers, you finally get to play as Carmelita Fox whenever you want, you get to see the Cooper Clan's history up-close and personal and it's all on a new console with better graphics!
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): One of the world's most recognizable video game heroes must do battle with a demon that consumes time and space, which is cleverly experienced from the perspective of the player. The player is capable of things they could never have imagined, such as walking through loops, completely destroying the laws of physics and being thrown into space.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis: The innovative first game in the series, now in portable form with remixed music.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode One: The highly anticipated sequel to one of the greatest platformers ever, featuring the current looks of the cast and none of the poorly received new elements.
  • Shadow the Hedgehog: This game features the most popular character in the franchise, in a dark edgy tale about his Quest for Identity. Oh, and you get to shoot stuff. Lots and lots of stuff.
  • Sonic Boom: A classic hero and his three closest friends are reimagined in this epic adventure title! This time, our heroes must race across the world to acquire a set of powerful talismans before an ancient evil uses them to eradicate all organic life! Using the game's new and innovative moves and techniques, players can attain speeds previously thought impossible in the series. Uses the revolutionary CryEngine 3 graphics engine.
  • Sonic Labyrinth: The classic hero has fallen victim to a brilliant plan of his greatest enemy! Now two of his most well-known abilities are hindered! However, he still has one move in his arsenal, and he's using it to his advantage in four unique worlds!
  • Sonic 3 & Knuckles: The hero gets his greatest power stolen by a strong guardian who has allied with his greatest enemy and must fight his way through large-scale worlds filled with diabolical traps. Sold in two parts that can be connected for the full experience.
• Spec Ops: The Line: One of the most immersive shooters created in recent times, with a story that's sure to hit home and multiplayer that's as popular today as when it was released. Feel like a true hero in this breakthrough of the modern shooter!
• Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly: The fifth installment in a beloved platformer franchise, this game lets you do what you've always wanted - master all-new breath abilites such as ice and electricity! Encounter old friends and new (and perhaps an old arch-enemy?) in your quest to save the world once more, and be prepared for some truly unexpected surprises along the way!
• Star Fox Command: A heroic mercenary team and their rivals-turned-halfway-good save the galaxy from a dead evil scientist's creation. Everyone gets lots of Character Development and correspondingly large heads.
• Stair Dismount: Using psychic powers, you must help an ex-superhero commit insurance fraud to pay for the numerous damages he has committed to the city.
• Street Fighter: The Movie: One of the greatest games ever made comes full circle.
• Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels: A sequel to one of the best selling video games of all time, this game has all new features that ups the ante in terms of the challenge and keeps you coming back for more.
• Super Mario Sunshine: Man descends from heavens into a world of darkness, brings light. Fights evil king and source of darkness after traveling through pit of fire.
• Surgeon Simulator 2013: A medical professional struggles to save lives despite suffering extensive nerve damage in his arms.
• Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido: In a time of a severe food shortage, wars have broken out over who gets to eat and who will starve. Perhaps in response, beings from another realm bestow humanity with a means of unlimited production of food. Unfortunately, the Humans Are Bastards, and they immediately take that means and weaponize it, perpetuating the wars further. Your Player Character wants to de-weaponize that means and restore it to its intended purpose of feeding everyone. However, the people who would seek to harm others with it, by and large, cannot be reasoned with, and our protagonist, with no other option, must weaponize it themselves to achieve their goal.
• Tetris: The Grand Master ACE: A long-awaited console release of a cult-status, hardcore spinoff of the world's most popular puzzle game. Now you can become a "grand master" in the comfort of your own bedroom!
  • The Tetris Guideline: A set of standards for falling-block games designed to ensure that they don't deviate into crappiness.
• Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE: From the creators of the Persona games comes a unique spin on the JRPG genre, while paying homage to (and occasionally including characters from) a beloved RPG series. It is best-known for the North American localization and a memorable song prior to the final battle.
• Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness: Our favorite, well garnished, Indiana Jones-like counterpart with her usual sexy British accent is framed for the murder of her old mentor and must clear her name. Enjoy a grand adventure through the streets of Paris or tomb-ish levels of Prague, or feel free to play as a different character for once. Core Dynamics for the first time in years gives Tomb Raider a fresh new look.
• Touhou Project: Let yourself get spirited away by the colorful and charismatic denizens of a magical land. Control a shrine maiden, a witch of devastating power and many others on their incredible adventures. The art style and the music will certainly blow you away if the epic and colorful showdowns of spells and skills do not! This series is commonly praised for a plot much more rich and complex than the plot of other games of this kind.
• Trio the Punch: An old-school arcade classic that challenges the minds of nearly any gamer. Play as three warriors travelling the world for reasons unknown. In the end, you figure it out. Surely, this game is unforgettable.
• Turok: Evolution: One of the most revolutionary video games is brought back with a mind-blowing prequel; telling the story of how The first Turok came to the world where Time Has No Meaning; forced into a three-way battle between beautifully rendered, unbelievably realistic primeval beasts, human refugees and unimaginably terrifying mutants all while coming to terms with his destiny as the Son of Stone and rose up to battle the most diabolical villain ever to threaten humanity: TOBIAS BRUCKNER!
• M&M's Kart Racing: Several beloved, colorful characters from advertising enter the world of racing. The game constantly reminds you of how unbelievably fast you're going. And considering how so many races can be finished in just a minute, you'd better believe it's over quick!
• Viva Piñata: You take control of a once beautiful garden, trying to restore it to its former glory, while dealing with dealing with a helper who often lies to you, challenging tasks, and incest, implied bisexuality, illness, cannibalism, and fighting among the residents, who are themselves in peril from a former helper of the garden's original owner and his destructive minions, as well as your own cruel urges. Also, said residents are cute little piñatas.
• Who's Your Daddy?: You are a father who struggles to help your suicidal son live.
• World Heroes: The most revered historical figures from every single period of time come together as the result of a mad genius's time machine to do battle. Watch Jack The Ripper fight Joan of Arc! See Hulk Hogan duke it out with Grigori Rasputin! Witness Erik The Red beat the crap out of Hanzo Hattori! Stare in awe as Bruce Lee pounds a cyborg Adolf Hitler into smithereens! And prepare to do battle with The T-1000 and Souther at the end of the game!
• Xenosaga Episodes 1, 2 & 3: A grand and riveting space opera set in the imperilled far future, told across three sweeping episodes, that mixes technology, action and personal drama with a rich garnishing of theological overtones. The very means of overcoming acute existential crisis will be revealed by the end! Option A: blow it up, of course. Option B: State the offending existential dilemma/paradox with hopeful surety and then blithely ignore its inherent contradictions, deciding instead that it means all is well with life and that the future looks sunny. Combining the two in sequence achieves the best results.
• Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z: A Japanese-American co-production involving the creative talents that brought such hits as Mega Man, Tomb Raider and Call of Duty. ''A ninja returns to the dead with help of the latest cyborg technology, hellbent on defeating the rival who put him in the grave, all set to an impending Russian Zombie Apocalypse. Based on a popular series renowned for its difficulty, it ups the ante in new and unique ways, with inspired gameplay, a plethora of notable fighting mechanics and a camera that does its best to capture as much of the battlefield as possible.
• Yakuza: Dead Souls: A beloved Japanese game series makes a daring attempt to appeal to the West by bringing in the undead to Japan's red light district, with a experience that appeals to fans and new players alike and was so majestic that the series had to take a break in the West for a while.
• YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG: Experience an RPG that combines beloved RPGs into one, and even adds in a postmodern twist as its title suggests! Experience long, intense battles, and read through a long and thought-provoking story with intense mood swings and insane plot twists! It even features a track from Toby Fox!
• Yume Nikki: A moving, if not thought-provoking, tale of a girl's journey into the subconscious mind. Explore the wonderful dreams while trying to get cool "effects," but try to avoid the nightmares! because they're pretty damn creepy.
• Zero Wing: A classic game for the Sega Mega Drive, well known for its immortal catch phrases. It's so memorable, it has only grown in popularity since its release. Also notable for completely avoiding the pitfalls of Cultural Translation — if anything, the English version is more faithful to the spirit of the work than the Japanese one!

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