Vision

The Vision franchise consists of two games published by a large German thrift institution. Although part of a marketing campaign, these games were considered good games at a very reasonable price.

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Vision

PainKiller

The PainKiller games are known for eschewing a complex and detailed storyline in favour of retro-styled shoot-em-ups with bizarre, gruesome weaponry and hordes of murderous demons to use them on.

Contains 9 games

First appeared in Painkiller

Elevator Action

Infiltrate tall buildings with elaborate elevator systems as Agent 17 and attempt to steal secret documents cleverly hidden in rooms marked with brightly colored doors. Will you escape with the documents or be crushed by enemy spies?

Contains 6 games

First appeared in Elevator Action

Lost Kingdoms

Card-based RPGs for the Nintendo Gamecube.

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Lost Kingdoms

YuYu Hakusho

YuYu Hakusho is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi with an anime adaptation. A number of video games have been released that tie to the YuYu Hakusho series.

Contains 20 games

First appeared in YuYu Hakusho

Bushido Blade

A short-lived 3D sword-fighting franchise famous for its one-hit kill system. Buting in 1997, it was the most realistic fighting game series of its time.

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Bushido Blade

Zettai Zetsumei Toshi

A series of games that tell the stories of characters trying to survive in a city being destroyed by natural disasters.

Contains 5 games

First appeared in Disaster Report

N

N appeared originally as a free flash game developed by Metanet Software for the PC. N Plus improved upon its predecessor and received critical acclaim upon releases for Xbox Live Arcade, DS and PSP.

Contains 4 games

First appeared in N

Soul Blazer

The Soul Blazer franchise encompasses Quintet's SNES trilogy of "Soul Blazer", "Illusion of Gaia" and "Terranigma" as well as the Playstation 1 title "The Granstream Saga"

Contains 6 games

First appeared in ActRaiser

Wizards & Warriors

A trilogy of action RPGs from Acclaim, starting with Wizards and Warriors, then on to Ironsword, then Wizards and Warriors III - Kuros: Visions of Power.

Contains 4 games

First appeared in Wizards & Warriors

Age of Wonders

Age of Wonders is a fantasy 4x strategy game loosely based on the 1993 game Master of Magic.

Contains 4 games

First appeared in Age of Wonders

THE iDOLM@STER

Become a producer and lead your Japanese pop idol to fame.

Contains 35 games

First appeared in THE iDOLM@STER

RPG Maker

The RPG Maker series of game engines are a set of tools that allow players who have no computer design skills to create RPG's and adventure games.

Contains 23 games

First appeared in Mamirin

Renegade

Your girlfriend has been kidnapped, and it's up to you to get her back!

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Renegade

Spy Fox

Follow Spy Fox in his missions with Humongous Game's point-and-click adventures.

Contains 6 games

First appeared in Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal"

Kohan

A highly under-rated fantasy real-time strategy series from TimeGate Studios.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

Capitalism

Real-world business simulation strategy games by Trevor Chan.

Contains 4 games

First appeared in Capitalism

Phantasie

Early RPG franchise.

Contains 4 games

First appeared in Phantasie

Little Fighter

A franchise devoted to little characters beating the crap out of each other.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Little Fighter

Kunio-Kun

An obscure franchise consisting mainly of sports and brawler titles that maintains a very small cult following in the U.S.

Contains 42 games

First appeared in Renegade

World Snooker Championship

A series of games developed by Blade Interactive Studios. Originally published by Codemasters under the World Championship Snooker banner before moving on to be published by Sega.

Contains 10 games

First appeared in World Championship Snooker

Anno

The Anno franchise began in 1998 and was first made by developer Max Design with the release of Anno 1602 in Europe. Currently, Ubisoft develops and publishes the new entries in the series. Anno is a real time strategy franchise with the focus on trading and exploration.

Contains 17 games

First appeared in Anno 1602: Creation of a New World

beatmania III

beatmania III is the short lived second reinventioning of the beatmania series. Although the beatmania III franchise is discontinued, its little brother, beatmania IIDX, is still alive.

Contains 5 games

First appeared in Beatmania III

Pajama Sam

Pajama Sam was an educational adventure PC franchise created by Humongous Entertainment and features four main adventures. Several spin offs were made and the first game was recently ported to the Wii.

Contains 9 games

First appeared in Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX is the second beatmania franchise, that added 2 more keys to the original 5 key beatmania.

Contains 25 games

First appeared in beatmania IIDX

Anarchy Online

The Anarchy Online Franchise details all booster packs, expansions and sequels to 2001's sci-fi MMORPG Anarchy Online

Contains 6 games

First appeared in Anarchy Online

Earth Defense Force

This series of games lets the player fight against an alien invasion using a deadly arsenal of weaponry.

Contains 13 games

First appeared in Monster Attack

Bard's Tale

The Bard's Tale series is best known as early, grid-based RPGs which shared many similarities to Dungeons & Dragons. An action-RPG game from 2004 shares the series' name, but has no connection to the earlier games.

Contains 8 games

First appeared in Bard's Tale

The Fast and The Furious

The Fast and The Furious franchise is comprised of games based on the movie franchise of the same name.

Contains 10 games

First appeared in The Fast and The Furious

Epyx The Games

The games in this franchises were all developed by Epyx and the player competes in a series of sporting events. It includes such classics as California Games, Summer Games and Winter Games.

Contains 8 games

First appeared in Summer Games

Colony Wars

A trilogy a flight simulator games developed and produced by Psygnosis. You assume the role of a different pilot for each game in the trilogy.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Colony Wars

Dismount

A franchise with two entries where the only object of the game is to cause as much bodily harm to a stick figure-esque guy as possible. Obvious inspiration to PAIN.

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Porrasturvat - Stair dismount

Glory of Heracles

Data East's franchise of traditional turn-based RPGs set in ancient Greece.

Contains 6 games

First appeared in Heracles no Eikou: Toujin Makyou Den

Code of Honor

Code of Honor is a series of budget-priced modern military shooters.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Code of Honor: The French Foreign Legion

Giant Gram

Giant gram is a japanese professional wrestling game series consisting of three titles. These titles include: Giant Gram Pro Wrestling, Giant Gram Pro Wrestling 2, and Giant Gram 2000.

Contains 1 games

First appeared in Giant Gram: All Japan Pro Wrestling 2

Xtreme

An ESPN sponsored extreme sports game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in ESPN Extreme Games

Barbie

Games based on the Mattel's Barbie doll franchise

Contains 36 games

First appeared in Barbie

Digimon

Digimon, Digital Monsters, Digimon are the champions!

Contains 41 games

First appeared in Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers

Hoyle

Franchise for Hoyle Board, Card and Casino Games.

Contains 40 games

First appeared in Hoyle Official Book of Games: Volume 1

Esper Dream

Konami very first RPG series

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Esper Dream

Discworld

The Discworld is a fantasy world created by Sir Terry Pratchett and is the setting for numerous novels and video games.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Discworld

Toy Story

A media franchise which revolves around seemingly inanimate toys that come to life when humans aren't around.

Contains 14 games

First appeared in Disney's Toy Story

Midwinter

Explore a vast open world after a meteor changes the Earth's climate forever. State of the art vector graphics and huge open worlds made the Midwinter series a game way ahead of its time.

Contains 3 games

First appeared in Midwinter

Prehistoric Isle

Classic style scrolling shmup where dinosaurs are the enemy.

Contains 2 games

First appeared in Prehistoric Isle in 1930