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Nintendo's Super Famicon
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the NASA Discovery, Iraq invaded Kuwait leading to the Gulf War, Emma Watson (yeah thats Hermione) was born, and Jim Henson dies. A both joyous and saddening time in our history, the video game industry leads us once again into imaginary worlds saving us from the distress around us, one level at a time. As the second installment of my throwback series, we visit 1990.
Unrelated to gaming but notable releases:
MC Hammer: You Can't Touch This
- Vanilla Ice: Ice Ice Baby
- (Movie) Back to the Future III
- (TV) TaleSpin
- (TV) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- (TV) Tiny Toons
Gaming Releases:
- Konami – Snake's Revenge, A Metal Gear sequel for NES.
- Konami – Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, The last big release for the MSX2 Computer.
- Origin – Ultima VI: The False Prophet, the first Wing Commander game.
- Apogee / ID Software – Commander Keen, noted for its smooth scrolling graphics engine by John Carmack.
- Capcom – Megaman 3, Introducing Rush and Proto Man.
- MicroProse – Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, the first “Tycoon” game.
- Nintendo – Dr Mario, July in Japan and October in the US.
- Infogrames – Alpha Waves, By most definitions of the genre it could be considered to be the first 3D platform game.
- Red Company / Atlus – Bonk's Adventure, released for Turbo Grafx-16
Hardware
- SNK - Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System.
- Sega – Sega Game Gear was launched in America in 1991, but 1990 in Japan.
- Amstrad – Stops the manufacturing of ZX Spectrum.
- Nintendo – Super Famicon 16 bit console released in Japan.
- Camerica – Game Genie released in UK and Canada, already released in the US by Galoob
- NEC – Released the TurboExpress handheld.
Founded
- Edios Interactive – Responsible for Tombraider, Hitman, Thief, Timesplitters, and more.
- Team 17 – Credited for creating the Worms series.
As you can see the 1990's were a great time in gaming history and I play on venturing down the 90's paved path again, perhaps next Throwback Thursday.
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