When Sega’s AM2 division makes a fighting game, the world would do well to sit up and take notice. After creating the 3D fighting genre with the seminal Virtua Fighter in 1993, many competitors would arrive in this exciting new field of competitive gaming. AM2 themselves would put a new spin on their Virtua Fighter gameplay with 1995’s Fighting Vipers…

Snowboarding games were not in short supply in the late nineties and early noughts, with every major platform hosting at least one and sometimes multiple snowboarding games…

One of the great tragedies of the Sega Saturn is the fact that it never saw a true sequel to the excellent and incredibly popular Sonic the Hedgehog games. The team behind the games, creatively titled Sonic Team, would instead give the Saturn another very special game in its twilight years; Burning Rangers…

Mario is a notoriously versatile character, having his video game life as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, he is most well known for being a plumber in the mainline Mario Bros games. Beyond his usual occupation, he had taken up Golf in the NES and Game Boy game Golf, and swung a racquet in the Virtual Boy’s Mario Tennis. In 1998 he tried his hand at yet another gameplay formula and launched a wildly successful spin-off series with Mario Party…

Radiant Silvergun is Treasure’s first attempt at a traditional vertical-scrolling shooter. Any concerns that might have been had about Treasure taking on a new genre were quickly dismissed when the game was seen in action and experienced…

Few games can live up to their name as well as Unreal did. Seeing this game in action in 1998 definitely felt like you were viewing the impossible.

In 1997, Ensemble Studios released the first game in a series that would span decades as one of the most popular real time strategy (RTS) series ever; Age of Empires. In 1998 Age of Empires received The Rise of Rome expansion pack…

The original Jazz Jackrabbit released all the way back in 1994 on Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system. It would be four years before the iconic PC game would see a sequel in Jazz Jackrabbit 2…

Welcome back to the world of survival horror…

The scene was set for the next generation of consoles, with a new competitor entering the world of video game hardware for the first time. 1998 was a mix of established platforms alongside brand new ones, a mix of optimising old hardware and of experimenting with new potential.

The 1990s were a whirlwind decade for video games, with an incredible amount of change happening from the start of the decade to the end.

The world was marching forward into a new millennium with a mix of excitement and fear. The world was changing, but then, when wasn’t it?