What were the launch games for every system?

[Damon Plus]

I´d be interested to know it

[Sniderman]

I'd be willing to help...


if you narrowed it down from "Every system ever made since the '70s." :roll: x_x

[Damon Plus]

Well, then I´ll say the systems I´m interested on:

3DO
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Colecovision
Dreamcast
Game Boy
Gameboy Color
Game Boy Advance
Game.Com
GameCube
Game Gear
Genesis
Intellivision
Jaguar
Lynx
Neo Geo (Although I think they were Magician Lord, Nam 1975 and a Baseball game)
Neo Geo CD
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintendo 64 (Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings, right?)
Playstation
Playstation 2
Saturn
Sega 32X
Sega CD
Sega Master System
Snes (F-Zero, Super Mario World are two of them)
Turbografx-16

A lot, I know :)

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

This is the sort of thing where our apparently once-again-functional search feature works wonders. Behold! (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3450) 8-)

[Damon Plus]

I meant the games that were out first week/month after the system´s launch, sorry. :/ :embarrassed:

[SoulBlazer]

About the same. ;)

Really, VERY few games for MOST systems got released within the first month of a system. People would rush to get their games out with the consoles and then new titles are few and far between. Almost every console has been like that.

I'd even go one step further and argue it takes about a year for a new system to get the 'killer app' games out for it.

[goatdan]

This is the sort of thing where our apparently once-again-functional search feature works wonders. Behold! (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3450) 8-)

Unfortunately, those are pack-ins and not launch titles. I tried using the search and couldn't find the launch title listing, although I remember being in a thread just like this within the last few months...


Really, VERY few games for MOST systems got released within the first month of a system. People would rush to get their games out with the consoles and then new titles are few and far between. Almost every console has been like that.

I'd even go one step further and argue it takes about a year for a new system to get the 'killer app' games out for it.

I agree with most of this. It seems that after the launch, few games are released for each console. I wouldn't agree about the killer app games, as almost every console released now needs at least one when it comes out. Here are some that I remember as killer apps that I believe were launch titles:

Jaguar - Cybermorph
Playstation - Ridge Racer
Nintendo 64 - Mario 64
Dreamcast - Soul Calibur, NFL 2K

I would agree that the current crop of consoles is light on killer apps on the release date:

Playstation 2 - nothing immediately
GameCube - nothing immediately
Xbox - nothing immediately (Halo was a release title IIRC, but it wasn't considered a killer app immediately, again, IIRC)
Nintendo DS - nothing yet

It seems to be a newer trend though, one that has companies pushing the hardware out the door to customers so that there isn't shortages and more people demand the killer apps that are released.

Perhaps the extremely successful Dreamcast release changed the notion of the industry, as it was generally regarded as one of the best launches ever, but was followed by a long time of the DC not being big news. If Sega's launch hadn't had Soul Calibur and NFL 2K, they could've released them both after the release of the console and kept at the top of the industry move for three months instead of just one. Would that have helped in the long run? Who knows, but it would've been interesting.

[8bitnes]

I have a list of the NES ones on my other computer. I'm posting now as a way to bookmark this forum and will post them when I get to work tomorrow.

[digitalpress]

Sorry, gotta lock this, there are a bunch of threads already on this very topic!

Start here:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42648&highlight=launch+titles