1980s

Designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600, Pitfall! was an early example of a platformer where the player had to navigate enemies and environmental hazards to score as many…

Developed by Capcom and designed by Tokuro Fujiwara, Commando was a vertically scrolling run and gun action game originally created for Arcades, but eventually finding its way into home consoles…

Designed by Will Wright, SimCity was published by Maxis in 1989 for home computers and was a city simulation game where you took on the role of mayor of a…

One of the first console RPGs, Final Fantasy was created by Hironobu Sakaguchi with artwork from Yoshitaka Amano and music by Nobuo Uematsu. While many elements were adopted from past…

Tetris, created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov a Soviet software engineer, Tetris has been described by many people as the perfect puzzle game. There have been over 200 versions of…

Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was produced by Gunpei Yokoi (creator of the Game and Watch and GameBoy), directed by Satoru Okada and Masao Yamamoto, developed by Nintendo R&D…

The original Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System remains one of the greatest games of all time. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, developed by Nintendo R&D…