Computer Game Series

Puzzle Bobble (also known in the United States, Canada, and sometimes in Europe as Bust-a-Move) is an arcade puzzle game series created by Taito and contains elements of Sega's Columns and Atari's Breakout. At the top of the rectangular playing arena, a number of...

is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986. It was ported soon for numerous home computer and game console. The game features two Bubble Dragons, Bub (Japanese "Bubblun"), who is green with yellow spikes/horns and Bob (Japanese "Bobblun"), who is blue with cyan...

Counter-Strike (commonly abbreviated to CS) is a tactical first-person shooter video game which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe. The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently...

is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video game, motion picture, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 as an eponymous console role-playing game (RPG) developed by Square, spawning a video game series that...

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1952 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novel and two collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and second most successful film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No....

Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of four graphical adventure game produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first two games in the series. The games follow the misadventures of the...

Mario Kart is a series of go-kart-style racing video game developed by Nintendo as a series of spin-off from their trademark and highly successful Mario series of platformer adventure-style video games. At least one Mario Kart game is released for every Nintendo...

R·Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien lifeform known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien...

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia (Oceania), and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia...

SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computer and game consoles, and enhanced into several different versions including...

, or commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of fighting game in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with his or her own special moves, against one another. Capcom released the first game in the series in August 1987. Street Fighter...

The Legend of Zelda is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and developed and published by Nintendo. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action, adventure, puzzle solving, role-playing and occasional platforming,...

Tetris is a falling-blocks puzzle video game, released on a vast spectrum of platforms. Alexey Pajitnov originally designed and programmed the game in June 1985, while working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow....

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The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game created by game designer Will Wright, published by Maxis, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is a simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual persons ("Sims") in a suburb household near SimCity. ...

Commandos is a successful stealth-oriented real-time tactics game series, available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game is set in the Second World War. It leans heavily (though not always accurately) on historical events during WWII to carry the plot. The...

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software, first released by Sierra Studios on November 19, 1998. The game was also released for the PlayStation 2 on November 15, 2001. In Half-Life, players assume the role of Dr....

Resident Evil (known in Japan as ) is a survival horror video game series and media franchise consisting of comic book, novelizations, three Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectible, including action figure, strategy guide and publications. Developed by...

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game, developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 1994. The real-time strategy genre had been pioneered by Dune II, but Warcraft (along with Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer) is widely credited for the...

Baldur's Gate is a popular series of computer role-playing game that take place on Faerûn, the main continent from Dungeons & Dragons's Forgotten Realms campaign setting, set in the years following the cataclysmic Time of Troubles (1358 DR). The original series,...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a flight simulator program for Microsoft Windows, marketed and often seen as a video game. One of the longest-running, best-known and most comprehensive home flight simulator series, Microsoft Flight Simulator was an early product in the...

Wizardry is a series of computer role-playing game, developed by Sir-Tech, that were popular in the 1980s. Originally made for the Apple II, they were later ported to other platforms. The latest game in the series, Wizardry 8, is available only for Windows. Wizardry...

Fallout is a series of computer role-playing game produced and published by Interplay. Although set in and after the 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s. The series is sometimes considered to...

, published as Dragon Warrior in North America until the 2005 release of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, is a series of role-playing games produced by Enix (now Square Enix). Installments of the series have appeared on MSX computers, Famicom/NES, Super...

Prince of Persia (often shortened to "POP") is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner in 1989 for the Apple II, that was widely seen as a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in computer games. Mechner used a process called rotoscoping,...

Home Alone is a 1990 comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris, France for their Christmas holiday. While...

X-COM is a series of computer game, started by Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1993. The first three titles were tactical games while the fourth was an action-based space combat/strategy game. The first installment, UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe (also known as X-COM:...

The King of Fighters (ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ, Za Kingu obu Faitāzu?), officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting game by SNK Playmore, formerly SNK. The series was originally developed for SNK's Neo-Geo MVS arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the...

The is a very successful video game franchise owned by Nintendo. The original game was a forward-scrolling 3D rail shooter. Later sequels added more directional freedom as the series progressed. The first game in the series, developed by Nintendo EAD and programmed...

The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy and most of the games involved Dizzy battling his arch nemesis, the...