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March — In Sweden, the Swedish video game magazine Super PLAY (SP) starts. The original name is Super Power.

Midway Games embroiled in controversy for its game Mortal Kombat from 1992 when the game is launched for video game consoles in 1993.

The first use of motion control photography in video games, used by Stormfront Studios in Eagle Eye Mysteries, produced by Scott Orr and published by Electronic Arts.

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August — Nintendo releases (Game Boy), which becomes the best-selling handheld game in the series.

September 24 — Broderbund releases the Myst computer game, which goes on to become one of the bestselling games of all time.

December 10 — id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that advanced 3D graphics for computer games.

Nintendo releases the game Star Fox for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the first game to use the Super FX Chip.

Sega releases the Virtua Fighter (by AM2) arcade game, which is later displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.

Stellar Crisis is released, making it the first free multi-player wargame that is entirely browser based.

Squaresoft releases Secret of Mana for the SNES, the second in a series of role-playing games(the first technically being Final Fantasy Adventure for the GameBoy in 1991).

Nintendo releases Kirby's Adventure, the second Kirby game and the only one for the NES.

Nintendo releases the game Super Mario All-Stars for the Super NES. It features the first 3 Super Mario Bros. games together on one. Also, it's the first time the Japan version of Super Mario Bros 2 is playable in North America.

March 15 — Sunsoft releases Blaster Master 2 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Maxis releases SimCity 2000, sequel to the tremendously popular SimCity.

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Atari Corp. releases the Jaguar home console, the first 64-bit video game system

Commodore Business Machines releases the Amiga CD32 multimedia home console

Fujitsu releases the FM Towns Marty home console

Goldstar, Panasonic, and Sanyo release their versions of the 3DO, the first 32-bit home console

Nintendo releases a smaller redesigned NES, which allows cartridges to now 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.

Tandy releases the Video Information System (VIS) multimedia home console

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Magnavox is acquired by the Carlyle Group

Microprose Inc. is acquired by Spectrum Holobyte

New companies: nVidia Corporation, Take Two Interactive Software Inc., Croteam Ltd.