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A history of launch titles...
Topic Started: Oct 16 2013, 01:41 PM (304 Views)
Belpowerslave
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http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/933mh4/gt-one-shot-prepare-to-launch#activity_feed_ac116d42_6cc4_44dd_a366_9159005275c6

Though not exactly 100% accurate(I'd love to see that "Tetris" they were talking about during the Genesis launch title lineup), it's incredible to see the original lineups. Man, the DC really whipped some ass...so many quality titles! Also, it's wild to see that a lot of my all-time favorite games were actually launch titles. Wild stuff.

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I'm wired on sugar right now so I typed this batch of games that I played back when they launched.

NES:
10-Yard Fight
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Super Mario Bros.

Genesis:
Altered Beast...Well that sucked.

SNES:
Actraiser
F-Zero
Super Mario World (The only 2D Mario I like.)
UN Squadron

PS1: (I would rather play the sequels to a bunch of these, though.)
Doom
WipeOut
Twisted Metal
Rayman
Tekken
WWF: Wrestlemania

N64:
Super Mario 64 (Still a favorite of mine.)
Crusin'
Killer Instinct Gold
Wave Race 64
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

Dreamcast: (Holy crap! Not only have I played these, but most of these were actually really good. :))
House of the Dead 2
Hydro Thunder
King of Fighters 99
Marvel vs. Capcom
Power Stone
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Sonic Adventure
Soul Calibur (GODLIKE!)

Playstation 2: (Better than I originally thought. Tekken Tag's one of my favorites.)
Dead or Alive 2
Midnight Club
SSX
Tekken Tag Tournament
Timesplitters (I miss Free Radical...)

XBOX:
Dead or Alive 3
Halo
Max Payne (This was a launch game for the XBOX?)

Gamecube:
Super Smash Bros Melee...That's all I needed. ;)

X360:
Condemned: Criminal Origins (This is really the only one I would still play out of the bunch.)
Dead or Alive 4
Gun
Geometry Wars
Madden '06
Quake 4

PS3:
Jesus...Uh...Resistance, I guess. >_>

Wii:
Wii Sports ($$$ right here for Ninty.)
Red Steel
Rayman Raving Rabbids

I guess what I learned is that a launch won't indicate what my favorite systems are. (Genesis and PS3 specifically, because dayum. :D)
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The Genesis "launch" was kind of staggered around the country, but by the time it was available in all stores it had a good lineup too.

Altered Beast
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
Forgotten Worlds
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Golden Axe
Herzog Zwei
Last Battle
Mystic Defender
Rambo III
Revenge of Shinobi, The
Space Harrier II
Super Hang-On
Super Thunder Blade
Thunder Force II Sega Genesis
Tommy Lasorda Baseball
Truxton
World Championship Soccer
Zoom!

Obviously at the time various retailers only carried some of these if they carried the Genesis at all. The "official" launch list is bolded above but I am certain that these were only carried in very limited stores like Toys R Us and specialty shops Nation wide.

I actually own all of these but Truxton and Zoom, which I don't care for. For me the Genesis' 1989-90 library totally made the system and 1991 confirmed it. Then it sort of drops into a more conventional mainstream system library full of licensed games and sequels but with a few new games each year.
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For me, the best set of launch titles had to be for the Dreamcast. Man, I couldn't afford one...and to see so many quality games released along with the system was just torture! I actually bought Mortal Kombat Gold and Hydro Thunder to play on a buddy's DC. I guess I am thankful I didn't have the money for the DC right away because both the MKG and HT I purchased were versions 2.0 with all the bug fixes and VMU saving enabled(a lot of people don't realize it, but *every* Midway title for the DC's launch had MAJOR issues, so they released a second version with the fixes. You can find these differing versions by looking at the manual and checking for a "Hot, New" sticker on the cover. Also, the discs are different colors). Also, I was able to get the black DC, which went well with my Genesis/Sega CD/32X combo and Saturn.

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I ended up selling my Launch Dreamcast, which I agree was the best launch for any console, to my college roomate because SegaNet sent me my free SegaSports Black Dreamcast. I managed to keep all of my consoles black until I finally collected a PCE DUO R. I had painted my puke yellow SNES black by then. I left my NES alone and of course had no choice but to get a white 360, but I bought black and chrome faceplates for it.

I noticed some discrepancies in this video. More in a bit after I finish proof reading my review.
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Okay, I think this about covers my impressions through the 2D consoles.

Online video "documentaries" and comparisons are popular in the broadband accepted new millennium. Like most documentaries however, these videos tend to cherry pick facts and loosely adhere to their own arbitrary rules. Videos such as these tend to have only one consistent goal to garner website hits by any means necessary. In just such an attempt, Game Trailers (GT) posted a launch library comparison of most well known game console released in the United States.1 So GT's viewers could compare game console launches from the past to the up coming launch of the next generation Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox consoles, the narrator states "rather than limiting our list of games that hit day one with the hardware, we went with more generous launch windows. But in general, if you missed Christmas you missed launch." 2 The point of this article is to explore Game Trailer's launch lists and compare them with the game lists on Gamepilgrimage, which were compiled using various online databases and continue to be discussed at length in appropriate web forums.

Discrepancies with that general rule run throughout GT's launch comparison however. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) launch is listed by GT in 1985, when that is actually just a test market with nowhere near mass market numbers for hardware or software published.3 So Game Trailers cheated the NES of its full 1986 national launch. GT may have decided to place the NES 1986 launch at some earlier month and excluded Fall releases arbitrarily. Either way, the 1985 NES library alone fails to represent what the average consumer saw on store shelves, if they saw them at all. By the time most US consumers saw the NES there should have been up to thirty four games on the shelves by Christmas of 1986. Sega's Master System was also released nationally in the US by Christmas of 1986. However, GT excluded Marksman Shooting / Trap Shooting and The Ninja (maybe 1987) from the Master System list. With those games included the Master System launch selection was twenty three titles including double carts. The NES being launched nationally in 1985 is a common misconception especially in the journalist community, and having a couple of games off the Master System list is reasonable given the wide variety of release dates available.

Game Trailer's research becomes fuzzier, though, with the 16-bit (4th generation) consoles. Missing from the US Genesis launch list are Forgotten Worlds, Golden Axe, Herzog Zwei, Revenge of Shinobi, and World Championship Soccer, yet GT includes Phantasy Star II (March 1990) and Tetris (Japan only release, very rare). The US Genesis launch list was eighteen titles with the above titles corrected. The TurboGrafx-16 launch was badly represented in GameTrailer's video however. Bonk's Adventure (maybe 1990), Dragon Spirit, Fantasy Zone, Neutopia, Ordyne (maybe 1990), Pac-Land (maybe 1990), Sidearms, Takin' It to the Hoop (maybe 1990), and Victory Run (maybe 1991?) are excluded from the TG16's 1989 library. In addition GT fails to mention the Turbo CD launch in the same year with Fighting Street, Monster Layer and Y's Books I&II. The total 1989 library for the TurboGrafx-16 and Turbo CD by most accounts is twenty six titles, a good deal more competition for Sega's Genesis lineup than GT showed. Perhaps Game Trailers limited the Turbo library arbitrarily to a summer launch, but did not do the same with the Genesis. The Super Nintendo launch is, by GT's count, lacking Chess Master, D-Force, Hole in One Golf, Home Alone, Joe & Mac, Lagoon, Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, Super Castlevania IV, and True Golf Classics: Waialae. RPM Racing (1992) is oddly included however. Including the missing 1991 titles makes the Super Nintendo launch 30 titles, very comparable to the original NES' national launch numbers. Perhaps GameTrailer's researchers arbitrarily excluded games released after September 1991 while introducing factual errors by leaving some in.

Moving on to the 32-bit (5th generation) consoles, GT unevenly limits the Saturn's launch titles to its Summer 1995 pre-launch and compares that to most of the PS1's 1995 library. This kind of library comparison is typical of journalistic websites. The fifth and sixth generation (32-bit through 64-bit, or 3D consoles) will be covered elsewhere to keep this a comparison of 2D console launch games. As always, please use the Contact page to submit any revisions to the Gamepilgrimage game lists, or view the relevant topic in WAG forums.

1. "GT One-Shot Video - Prepare to Launch | GameTrailers," (October 15, 2013, accessed October 23, 2013), available from http://www.gametrailers.com.
2. "GT One-Shot Video - Prepare to Launch | GameTrailers," (October 15, 2013, accessed October 23, 2013), available from http://www.gametrailers.com, (0:30-0:41).
3. "Aquamarine," "Nintendo Historical Shipment Data (1983 - Present)," October 21, 2013, accessed October 23, 2013), available from http://www.neogaf.com/forum/.
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