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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2016}}{{Year nav topic5|1993|video gaming}}1993 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games and several new titles such as Star Fox, Virtua Fighter and Ridge Racer. Events- March – In Sweden, the Swedish video game magazine Super PLAY (SP) starts. The original name is Super Power.
- Nintendo and Silicon Graphics collaborate and begin work on "Project Reality". The project is officially announced in October.[1]
Business- New companies: Croteam, nVidia, Take-Two Interactive, Shiny
- Defunct companies: DK'Tronics, Epyx
- Magnavox is acquired by the Carlyle Group
- MicroProse is acquired by Spectrum HoloByte
Notable ReleasesArcade| Date | Dev. / Pub. | Game Title | Notes | | April | Midway | Mortal Kombat II | "Mortal Kombat II proved to be an enormous commercial success and even a cultural phenomenon. WMS Industries, owner of Midway at the time, reported its 1993 sales in the quarter ending December 31 rose to $101 million from $86 million and said much of its revenue gain was related to the sale of the arcade version of MKII [2]" | | July | SNK | Samurai Shodown | '93 Game Of The Year voted on by Electronic Gaming Monthly[3] | | August | Sega | Daytona USA | Becomes one of the world's most impactful racing games of all time, and "won't go away[4]" | | October | Namco | Ridge Racer | - | | November | Sega | Virtua Fighter | "Is often cited as being the first fully 3D fighting game released to the general public, and is a basis for almost all subsequent games in the genre[5] " | | December | Midway | NBA Jam | Being one of the first sports games with official licensed teams and players, it became a cult classic. It was also the highest-earning arcade game of all time.[6] | Home| Date | Dev. / Pub. | Game Title | Console | Notes | | February | LucasArts | X-Wing | PC | - | | February | Nintendo | Star Fox | SNES | The first game to use the new Super FX chip | | March | Nintendo | Kirby's Adventure | NES | Introduced Kirby's ability to take on the powers of enemies he has eaten, which would go on to become a staple of the franchise. First appearance of Meta Knight. | | April | Virgin Interactive | The 7th Guest | PC | Sold over two million copies and was widely regarded as one of three "killer apps" that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives (other two being Myst & Doom[7] [page 129]). Bill Gates also called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment" | | June | LucasArts | Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle | PC | - | | June | Nintendo | Link's Awakening | Game Boy | The best-selling handheld game in the series | | June | Electronic Arts | Syndicate | PC | - | | July | Nintendo | Super Mario All-Stars | SNES | Featured upgraded 16-bit versions of the first four Super Mario games. Also Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels makes its debut in the Western region. | | August | Square | Secret of Mana | SNES | Second "Action Role-Playing Game" after Final Fantasy Adventure | | August | Activision | Return to Zork | PC | - | | September | MicroProse | Master of Orion | PC | - | | September | Sega | Sonic CD | Sega CD | First appearance of Amy Rose and Metal Sonic to the Sonic the Hedgehog series. | | September | Broderbund | Myst | PC | One of '93's key games, with lots of interesting facts[8] including that (until The Sims took the top spot with 6.3 million games sold in 2002) Myst was the best-selling PC title on record, with 6 million units sold since its launch. To date, the franchise has sold over 12 million units. | | November | LucasArts | Sam & Max Hit the Road | PC | - | | November | Capcom | Mega Man 6 | NES | - | | November | Virgin | Disney's Aladdin | Genesis | Crowned "Genesis Game of The Year" at the Electronic Gaming Awards (aka the Arcade Awards aka the Arkies) voted on by the public[3] | | November | Nintendo | ClayFighter | SNES | Thought of as a parody of Street Fighter & Mortal Kombat, but actually wasn't, and was re-released to the Wii. | | November | Sega | Sonic The Hedgehog Spinball | Genesis | - | | December | Sierra | Sins of the Fathers | PC | - | | December | Id Software | Doom | PC | Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential games of all time, especially in the first-person-shooter genre. | | December | Capcom | Mega Man X | SNES | - | Hardware- Sega releases the Model 2, an arcade system board that introduces 3D texture filtering. It becomes their most popular arcade system board.
- Fujitsu releases the FM Towns Marty in Japan, as the first 32-bit home console, starting the fifth console generation.
- Panasonic, GoldStar and Sanyo release the first versions of the 3DO 32-bit console
- Atari Corporation releases the Jaguar home console, calling it the first 64-bit video game system.
- Commodore Business Machines releases the Amiga CD32 multimedia home console.
- Nintendo releases a smaller redesigned NES, which allows cartridges to be inserted at the top of the console, instead of the front.
- Pioneer releases the LaserActive multimedia home console
- Sega's Mega-CD released in Europe and Australia.
References1. ^{{cite web | author=O'Leary, Jay | date=October 1, 1993 | title=Learning to fly. | url=http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/384706-1.html | publisher=AllBusiness.com | accessdate=January 27, 2010}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-26/business/9401260045_1_mortal-kombat-ii-video-games-rose|title=WMS Industries Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter profit rose 6...|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en}}
3. ^1 {{Oldid|page=List of Game of the Year awards|oldid=818169987|label=List of Game of the Year awards}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/06/daytona-usa-arcade-racing-game-1993-sega-coin-op-driving|title=Daytona USA: why the best arcade racing game ever just won't go away|last=Freeman|first=Will|date=2017-10-06|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://segaretro.org/Virtua_Fighter|title=Virtua Fighter|website=Sega Retro|language=en|access-date=2018-01-02}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=NBA Jam|last=|first=|date=March 1994|work=GamePro|publisher=IDG|issue=56|page=188}}
7. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=to5zEwOC9BcC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=gates+new+standard+in+multimedia+7th+guest&source=bl&ots=OPOjtdtj3o&sig=QJoaJ0T_etkrOz8x_NokVJjFYtA&hl=en&ei=mXK2TJrvLNGgngegpblq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=bill%20gates&f=false|title=The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to Playstation and Beyond|last=Wolf|first=Mark J. P.|date=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313338687|language=en}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/63351/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-myst|title=15 Things You Might Not Know About Myst|date=2015-04-23|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en}}
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