Area 51
Atari’s critically acclaimed Area 51 still stands today as an arcade hit. Development started on the classic light gun game when Atari really needed a breakthrough after a series of failing games and losing staff to their rival – Electronic Arts (EA). The company reached out to 3rd party developers to help create Area 51, which went on to sell over 20,000 arcade cabinets whilst being ported to multiple consoles.
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Created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famous Crash Bandicoot, the N. Sane Trilogy will remake the first 3 games in the series (Crash Bandicoot, Cortex Strikes Back and Warped). Although Naughty Dog were the original developers of the trilogy, Sony and Activision are teaming up to create the remake.
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Back in April of this year, Eurogamer published an article with rumours of Nintendo releasing another mini classic console – this time, the SNES. Just after two months of the article being published, Nintendo have finally announced that they will be releasing a mini SNES at the end of September.
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Jurassic Park
Sega’s Jurassic Park is based off of the blockbuster film with the same title. In the ‘Rail Shooter’ genre, players would have had to shoot attacking dinosaurs out of the car they travelled in. Combining 2D sprites with 3D polygon graphics and a moving seat that reacted to what was happening on screen, the car appeared to be moving forward. It was the first game within the genre to have a 3D environment as its background.
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Virtua Fighter is one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time, introducing 3D Polygon graphics to the gaming industry. Alike many of the other popular fighting games of the 90s, the player could choose between 8 playable characters who had their own individual yet distinctive moves and fighting style.
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