Classic Launch Titles?

[Shrooin]

is there a thread containing launch games for classic systems. I tried the search but couldn't find a thread listing them. If there isn't one then this thread should be made into one since its so hard to find out. post any if you know for sure and don't forget to include the country. Ok I'll start

Australia

Nintendo 64
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Pilotwings 64
Super Mario 64
Wave Race 64

[Family Computer]

Wow, Wave Race was a lauch title for the N64 in Australia?

I think in the US it was just Super Mario 64 & Pilot Wings 64, if I am not mistaken.

[smokehouse]

I think that the US SNES was launched with SMW, Populous, F-Zero, UN Squadron, Pilotwings…were there any others (Sept 1991 releases)?

The NES had the black box titles…I’m just not sure which ones were launch titles.

[sav127]

Wow, Wave Race was a lauch title for the N64 in Australia?

I think in the US it was just Super Mario 64 & Pilot Wings 64, if I am not mistaken.

I know Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was another launch title for the N64 in the U.S.

[sav127]

I think that the US SNES was launched with SMW, Populous, F-Zero, UN Squadron, Pilotwings…were there any others (Sept 1991 releases)?

The NES had the black box titles…I’m just not sure which ones were launch titles.

Final Fight was a definitely a launch title for the SNES in the U.S.

[digitalpress]

Here's a quick query from the DP database. I've included more than just "classic" systems here because it's just a matter of time before even XBox 360 is considered "classic"

NOTE that by no means is this list considered "complete" and it's only US releases but everything listed here should be correct. If there's definitive proof that others should be added bring it on so we can make the updates to the database as well.

32X Doom
32X Star Wars Arcade
32X Virtua Racing Deluxe

Atari 5200 Galaxian
Atari 5200 Space Invaders
Atari 5200 Super Breakout

Dreamcast AeroWings
Dreamcast Air Force Delta
Dreamcast Blue Stinger
Dreamcast Flag to Flag (Sega CART)
Dreamcast House of The Dead 2, The
Dreamcast Hydro Thunder
Dreamcast Monaco Grand Prix
Dreamcast Mortal Kombat Gold
Dreamcast NFL 2K
Dreamcast NFL Blitz 2000
Dreamcast Pen Pen Tricelon
Dreamcast Power Stone
Dreamcast Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Dreamcast Sonic Adventure
Dreamcast Soul Calibur
Dreamcast TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat
Dreamcast Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Dreamcast Trickstyle

Game Boy Alleyway
Game Boy Baseball
Game Boy Super Mario Land
Game Boy Tennis
Game Boy Tetris

Game Boy Advance Army Men Advance
Game Boy Advance Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Game Boy Advance Chu Chu Rocket
Game Boy Advance Earthworm Jim
Game Boy Advance Fire Pro Wrestling
Game Boy Advance F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Game Boy Advance GT Advance Championship Racing
Game Boy Advance Iridion 3D
Game Boy Advance Konami Krazy Racers
Game Boy Advance Namco Museum
Game Boy Advance Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
Game Boy Advance Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Game Boy Advance Rayman Advance
Game Boy Advance Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Game Boy Advance Super Dodge Ball Advance
Game Boy Advance Super Mario Advance
Game Boy Advance Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Game Boy Advance Top Gear GT Championship
Game Boy Advance Tweety and the Magic Gems

Game Boy Color Centipede
Game Boy Color Game & Watch Gallery 2
Game Boy Color Tetris DX

Game Gear Columns
Game Gear G-Loc: Air Battle
Game Gear Pengo
Game Gear Super Monaco GP

GameCube All-Star Baseball 2002
GameCube Batman: Vengeance
GameCube Crazy Taxi
GameCube Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
GameCube Luigi's Mansion
GameCube Madden NFL 2002
GameCube NHL Hitz 20-02
GameCube Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
GameCube Super Monkey Ball
GameCube Tarzan: Untamed (Disney's)
GameCube Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
GameCube Wave Race: Blue Storm

Genesis Altered Beast
Genesis Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
Genesis Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Genesis Last Battle
Genesis Rambo III
Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog
Genesis Space Harrier II
Genesis Super Hang-On
Genesis Super Thunder Blade
Genesis Tommy Lasorda Baseball
Genesis World Championship Soccer

Jaguar Cybermorph
Jaguar Raiden
Jaguar Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy

Laseractive Great Pyramid, The
Laseractive I Will: The Story of London
Laseractive Pyramid Patrol
Laseractive Quiz Econosaurus

Lynx Blue Lightning
Lynx California Games
Lynx Electrocop
Lynx Gates of Zendocon

Microvision Connect Four

N64 Pilotwings 64
N64 Super Mario 64

Neo-Geo Magician Lord

N-Gage Pandemonium!
N-Gage Puyo Pop
N-Gage Puzzle Bobble VS
N-Gage Sonic N
N-Gage Super Monkey Ball
N-Gage Tomb Raider Starring Lara Croft

Nintendo DS Asphalt Urban GT
Nintendo DS Feel The Magic: XY/XX
Nintendo DS Madden NFL 2005
Nintendo DS Spider-Man 2
Nintendo DS Super Mario 64 DS
Nintendo DS Urbz, The: Sims in the City

Nintendo NES 10-Yard Fight
Nintendo NES Baseball
Nintendo NES Clu Clu Land
Nintendo NES Duck Hunt
Nintendo NES Excitebike
Nintendo NES Golf
Nintendo NES Gyromite
Nintendo NES Hogan's Alley
Nintendo NES Ice Climber
Nintendo NES Kung Fu
Nintendo NES Mach Rider
Nintendo NES Pinball
Nintendo NES Stack-Up
Nintendo NES Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo NES Tennis
Nintendo NES Wild Gunman
Nintendo NES Wrecking Crew

Pico Berenstain Bears' A School Day
Pico Ecco Jr. and the Great Ocean Treasure Hunt
Pico Magic Crayons
Pico Mickey's Blast Into the Past
Pico Richard Scarry's Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever
Pico Scholastic's The Magic School Bus: Going Places
Pico Tails and the Music Maker
Pico Year at Pooh Corner, A

PlayStation Battle Arena Toshinden
PlayStation ESPN Extreme Games
PlayStation Kileak: The DNA Imperative
PlayStation NBA Jam Tournament Edition
PlayStation Power Serve 3D Tennis
PlayStation Raiden Project, The
PlayStation Rayman
PlayStation Ridge Racer
PlayStation Street Fighter: The Movie
PlayStation Total Eclipse Turbo

PS2 Armored Core 2
PS2 City Crisis
PS2 Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore
PS2 Dynasty Warriors 2
PS2 ESPN: International Track & Field
PS2 ESPN: Winter X Games: Snowboarding
PS2 Eternal Ring
PS2 Evergrace
PS2 Fantavision
PS2 GunGriffon Blaze
PS2 Kessen
PS2 Madden NFL 2001
PS2 Midnight Club: Street Racing
PS2 MotoGP
PS2 Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
PS2 Ridge Racer V
PS2 Silent Scope
PS2 Smuggler's Run
PS2 SSX
PS2 Street Fighter EX3
PS2 Summoner
PS2 Swing Away Golf
PS2 Tekken Tag Tournament
PS2 TimeSplitters
PS2 Unreal Tournament
PS2 Wild Wild Racing
PS2 X-Squad

PS3 Call of Duty 3
PS3 Genji: Days of the Blade
PS3 Madden NFL 07
PS3 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
PS3 Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
PS3 NBA 07
PS3 NBA 2K7
PS3 Need for Speed: Carbon
PS3 NHL 2K7
PS3 Resistance: Fall of Man
PS3 Ridge Racer 7
PS3 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
PS3 Tony Hawk's Project 8
PS3 Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom

PSP Ape Escape: On the Loose
PSP Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
PSP Dynasty Warriors
PSP Gretzky NHL
PSP Lumines
PSP Metal Gear AC!D
PSP NBA
PSP Need for Speed Underground: Rivals
PSP NFL Street 2: Unleashed
PSP Ridge Racer
PSP Spider-Man 2
PSP Tiger Woods PGA Tour
PSP Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix
PSP Twisted Metal: Head On
PSP Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
PSP WipEout Pure
PSP World Tour Soccer 2005

Saturn Clockwork Knight
Saturn Daytona USA
Saturn Ghen War
Saturn Panzer Dragoon
Saturn Virtua Fighter

Sega CD Black Hole Assault
Sega CD Chuck Rock
Sega CD Cobra Command
Sega CD Make My Video: INXS
Sega CD Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Sega CD Night Trap (original)
Sega CD Sega Classics 4-in-1
Sega CD Sewer Shark
Sega CD Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
Sega CD Sol-Feace

Sega Master System Fantasy Zone
Sega Master System Ghost House

SNES F-Zero
SNES Pilotwings
SNES Super Mario World

TI-99/4A Hangman
TI-99/4A Zero Zap

Virtual Boy Galactic Pinball
Virtual Boy Mario's Tennis
Virtual Boy Red Alarm
Virtual Boy Teleroboxer

Wii Avatar: The Legend of Airbender
Wii Barnyard
Wii Call of Duty 3
Wii Cars (Disney's)
Wii Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Wii Excite Truck
Wii Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The
Wii GT Pro Series
Wii Happy Feet
Wii Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The
Wii Madden NFL 07
Wii Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Wii Monster 4x4 World Circuit
Wii Need for Speed: Carbon
Wii Open Season
Wii Rampage: Total Destruction
Wii Rayman Raving Rabbids
Wii Red Steel
Wii SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
Wii Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Wii Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Wii Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Wii Wii Sports
Wii World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition

Xbox Air Force Delta Storm
Xbox Arctic Thunder
Xbox Cel Damage
Xbox Dead or Alive 3
Xbox Fuzion Frenzy
Xbox Halo: Combat Evolved
Xbox Mad Dash Racing
Xbox NFL Fever 2002
Xbox Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Xbox Project Gotham Racing

XBox 360 Amped 3
XBox 360 Call of Duty 2
XBox 360 Condemned: Criminal Origins
XBox 360 FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
XBox 360 GUN
XBox 360 Kameo: Elements of Power
XBox 360 Madden NFL 06
XBox 360 NBA 2K6
XBox 360 NBA Live 06
XBox 360 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
XBox 360 NHL 2K6
XBox 360 Perfect Dark: Zero
XBox 360 Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
XBox 360 PGR: Project Gotham Racing 3
XBox 360 Quake 4
XBox 360 Ridge Racer 6
XBox 360 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
XBox 360 Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

[NE146]

SNES F-Zero
SNES Pilotwings
SNES SimCity
SNES Super Mario World

As someone who was as immersed as one could be in the SNES launch.. unless I've been smoking crack, I really really do NOT remember Sim City as being a launch title... Or did I just not give a shit about it and thus blank it out...

[Kevincal]

Wow, Wave Race was a lauch title for the N64 in Australia?

I think in the US it was just Super Mario 64 & Pilot Wings 64, if I am not mistaken.

Definitely it was only Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 as launch titles in the US. I bought Waverace 64 the day it came out, but I can't really remember exactly when after launch it was. I'm thinking it was about a month later. So maybe late September-early October.

[Kevincal]

I know Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was another launch title for the N64 in the U.S.

No it wasn't. SotE came out atleast a month after launch, but I'm thinking it was more like 2-3 months after launch. N64 launched in late August. It was supposed to launch early Sept., like Sept. 2nd I think it was. But I reserved my N64 at Toys R Us and they called me to say my console was in late August. Like August 28th or something.

[PentiumMMX]

I noticed a few flaws in this list, mainly with N64.

N64 Super Mario 64
N64 Some chess game (Japan only)
N64 Pilotwings 64 (The launch title everyone forgot)

[Kevincal]

Here's a quick query from the DP database. I've included more than just "classic" systems here because it's just a matter of time before even XBox 360 is considered "classic"

NOTE that by no means is this list considered "complete" but everything listed here should be correct. If there's definitive proof that others should be added bring it on so we can make the updates to the database as well.

32X Doom
32X Star Wars Arcade
32X Virtua Racing Deluxe

As a matter of fact, there were ZERO 32X games available on launch day. I know, cus I got my 32X on launch day. I think it was only days later though that these 3 games mentioned were available.

Dreamcast AeroWings
Dreamcast Air Force Delta
Dreamcast Blue Stinger
Dreamcast Flag to Flag (Sega CART)
Dreamcast House of The Dead 2, The
Dreamcast Hydro Thunder
Dreamcast Monaco Grand Prix
Dreamcast Mortal Kombat Gold
Dreamcast NFL 2K
Dreamcast NFL Blitz 2000
Dreamcast Pen Pen Tricelon
Dreamcast Power Stone
Dreamcast Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Dreamcast Sonic Adventure
Dreamcast Soul Calibur
Dreamcast TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat
Dreamcast Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Dreamcast Trickstyle

Boy, the DC sure did have a solid launch lineup.

Game Boy Alleyway
Game Boy Baseball
Game Boy Super Mario Land
Game Boy Tennis
Game Boy Tetris

SML and Tetris are for sure legendary.

Genesis Altered Beast
Genesis Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
Genesis Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Genesis Last Battle
Genesis Rambo III
Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog
Genesis Space Harrier II
Genesis Super Hang-On
Genesis Super Thunder Blade
Genesis Tommy Lasorda Baseball
Genesis World Championship Soccer

Wait, I'm almost positive Sonic wasn't a launch title...right?

N64 Super Mario 64

Where's Pilotwings 64?

Nintendo NES 10-Yard Fight
Nintendo NES Baseball
Nintendo NES Clu Clu Land
Nintendo NES Duck Hunt
Nintendo NES Excitebike
Nintendo NES Golf
Nintendo NES Gyromite
Nintendo NES Hogan's Alley
Nintendo NES Ice Climber
Nintendo NES Kung Fu
Nintendo NES Mach Rider
Nintendo NES Pinball
Nintendo NES Stack-Up
Nintendo NES Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo NES Tennis
Nintendo NES Wild Gunman
Nintendo NES Wrecking Crew

Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Excitebike. Can't go wrong there.

PlayStation Battle Arena Toshinden
PlayStation ESPN Extreme Games
PlayStation Kileak: The DNA Imperative
PlayStation NBA Jam Tournament Edition
PlayStation Power Serve 3D Tennis
PlayStation Raiden Project, The
PlayStation Rayman
PlayStation Ridge Racer
PlayStation Street Fighter: The Movie
PlayStation Total Eclipse Turbo

BAT was amazing at the time, even if the control was iffy. Ridge Racer is awesome. Can't go wrong with Raiden or Rayman either.

PS2 Armored Core 2
PS2 City Crisis
PS2 Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore
PS2 Dynasty Warriors 2
PS2 ESPN: International Track & Field
PS2 ESPN: Winter X Games: Snowboarding
PS2 Eternal Ring
PS2 Evergrace
PS2 Fantavision
PS2 GunGriffon Blaze
PS2 Kessen
PS2 Madden NFL 2001
PS2 Midnight Club: Street Racing
PS2 MotoGP
PS2 Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
PS2 Ridge Racer V
PS2 Silent Scope
PS2 Smuggler's Run
PS2 SSX
PS2 Street Fighter EX3
PS2 Summoner
PS2 Swing Away Golf
PS2 Tekken Tag Tournament
PS2 TimeSplitters
PS2 Unreal Tournament
PS2 Wild Wild Racing
PS2 X-Squad

PS2 was freaking impossible to get for like the first 6 months it was out! lol...

Saturn Clockwork Knight
Saturn Daytona USA
Saturn Ghen War
Saturn Panzer Dragoon
Saturn Virtua Fighter

What a shocker it was to see the Saturn for sale way early. I remember a firend and I were walking around the mall and we looked over at Software Etc. and saw Saturn stuff all over the place in there. We were like "wtf!?" But it was too expensive for us... We were like 14.

SNES F-Zero
SNES Pilotwings
SNES SimCity
SNES Super Mario World

I know I'm not the only one that prefers SMB3 over SMW...right? Not to say SMW isn't great though.

Virtual Boy Galactic Pinball
Virtual Boy Mario's Tennis
Virtual Boy Red Alarm
Virtual Boy Teleroboxer

Well, Mario's Tennis and Red Alarm are very solid games and launch titles at that.

[Jorpho]

I'm pretty sure that Japanese launch title was Go, not Chess.

[digitalpress]

I tweaked the query that checks for "launch title" info so it's a little more complete but there's still a lot missing - not all of our editors have used the "landmarks" field or have used the words launch title (or have used it when this isn't exactly what was meant (ie "slated to be a launch title but...")

Anyway, revised above, that'll have to do for now.

[Shrooin]

Wow, Wave Race was a lauch title for the N64 in Australia?

Yep sure was. I remember the N64 launch very well because we preordered it then got it first thing in the morning the day it came out. We could only afford to get Super Mario 64 but my friend got his 64 at launch day too and he got all 3 games. I was jealous so I remember that pretty well.

SotE came out atleast a month after launch, but I'm thinking it was more like 2-3 months after launch.

I heard shadows was a launch title for the UK, can anyone confirm?

[Shrooin]

heres a list I got of US launch titles from a notepad file on my comp which I copied and pasted from various websites. I dunno if they are correct or not but there are some titles and 1 system (2600) that aren't in the previous list.

2600 (??/10/77)

1. Air-Sea Battle
2. Basic Math
3. Blackjack
4. Combat
5. Indy 500
6. Star Ship
7. Street Racer
8. Surround
9. Video Olympics

NES (18/10/85)

1. 10-Yard Fight
2. Baseball
3. Clu Clu Land
4. Donkey Kong Jr. Math
5. Duck Hunt
6. Excitebike
7. Golf
8. Gyromite
9. Hogan's Alley
10. Ice Climber
11. Kung Fu
12. Mach Rider
13. Pinball
14. Stack-Up
15. Super Mario Bros.
16. Tennis
17. Wild Gunman
18. Wrecking Crew

Genesis (14/08/89)

1. Altered Beast
2. Last Battle
3. Space Harrier II
4. Thunder Force II
5. Tommy Lasorda Baseball

SNES (13/08/91)

1. F-Zero
2. Pilotwings
3. Super Mario World

Sega CD (15/10/92)

1. Black Hole Assault
2. Chuck Rock
3. Cobra Command
4. INXS: Make My Video
5. Marky Mark: Make My Video
6. Night Trap
7. Sega Classics 4-in-1
8. Sewer Shark
9. Sol-Feace

Jaguar (??/11/93)

1. Cybermorph
2. Raiden
3. Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy

32x (??/11/94)

1. Doom
2. Star Wars Arcade
3. Virtua Racing Deluxe

Saturn (??/05/95)

1. Virtua Fighter

Virtual Boy (14/08/95)

1. Galactic Pinball
2. Mario Tennis
3. Red Alarm
4. Teleroboxer

Nintendo 64 (29/09/96)

1. Pilotwings 64
2. Super Mario 64

[kandied91z]

Nintendo NES 10-Yard Fight
Nintendo NES Baseball
Nintendo NES Clu Clu Land
Nintendo NES Duck Hunt
Nintendo NES Excitebike
Nintendo NES Golf
Nintendo NES Gyromite
Nintendo NES Hogan's Alley
Nintendo NES Ice Climber
Nintendo NES Kung Fu
Nintendo NES Mach Rider
Nintendo NES Pinball
Nintendo NES Stack-Up
Nintendo NES Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo NES Tennis
Nintendo NES Wild Gunman
Nintendo NES Wrecking Crew

missing pro wrestling in this list...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wre...8video_game%29

[Kamille01]

ActRaiser was a SNES launch title I believe. If it wasn't released the day of it was released sometime very close to the launch of the console.

[JLukas]

Final Fight was a definitely a launch title for the SNES in the U.S.

Final Fight was around late Oct '91. USA launch day (~August 21st) had just 3 titles: SMW, F-Zero and Pilotwings.

ActRaiser was a SNES launch title I believe. If it wasn't released the day of it was released sometime very close to the launch of the console.

Another Q4 1991 release, I think. Hmm... that brings up another question, does anyone know when FF2 got released?

I seem to remember Populous as the first game after launch, in September sometime... TRU finally had another game besides F-Zero and Pilotwings in the SNES section (the box art cards where you take the small slip of paper below it to the register)

Super Castlevania IV was early December, it made it out just a few weeks before Christmas

[Kiddo]

Rather strange to see the Virtual Boy's launch titles listed, but not some others. Let me throw in some quickly-researched things. This oughta boost the amount of referred-to launch title games.

Satellaview (Japan) (researched by MadHatter of the BS Zelda forums with some help from myself.);
Tamori no Picross |タモリのピクロス (first episode)
Yuki no Jigsaws | 有紀のジグソーキッズ
Wario no Mori Bakusho Ban | ワリオの森 爆笑バージョン

Rest of these are just quickly pulled from Wikipedia (inb4 inevitable "This info is wrong, Wikipedia sucks").

PC-FX (Japan)
Graduation 2: Neo Generation FX
Battle Heat
Team Innocent

TurboGrafx-16 (USA)
Blazing Lazers
China Warrior
Vigilante
Alien Crush
Keith Courage in Alpha Zones

Neo Geo AES (US)
Baseball Stars Professional
NAM-1975

Famicom (Japan)
Donkey Kong,
Donkey Kong Jr.
Popeye

Famicom Disk System (Japan)
Baseball
Golf
Mahjong
Soccer
Super Mario Bros.
Tennis
Zelda no Densetsu

64DD (Japan) (Ok, so technically these were ten days afterward with no actual launch titles, much like the 32x. Still...)
Mario Artist: Paint Studio
Doshin the Giant

Playdia (Japan)
Dragon Ball Z - Shin Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku Chikyū Hen
Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S - Quiz Taiketsu! Sailor Power Shūketsu!!
SD Gundam Daizukan

[Emperor Megas]

Here's a quick query from the DP database. I've included more than just "classic" systems here because it's just a matter of time before even XBox 360 is considered "classic"

NOTE that by no means is this list considered "complete" and it's only US releases but everything listed here should be correct. If there's definitive proof that others should be added bring it on so we can make the updates to the database as well...

Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog...

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Sonic the Hedgehog was released about two years after the Genesis launched. IIRC, Mystic Defender, Phantasy Star II, Truxton, Forgotten Worlds, The Revenge of Shinobi, Thunder Force II, and Zoom were launch titles though.

And I'm almost positive there were only 3 games available for the SNES when it released. I remember when some games were finally released Actraiser was one of the first.