Events
- May 11-16 - The 1st annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is held in Los Angeles.
- November 5 - GameFAQs debuts on the web, as an archive of video game FAQs.
Notable releases
- September - Westwood Studios releases Command & Conquer, which becomes one of the first popular real-time strategy games and spawns a franchise.
- Squaresoft releases Chrono Trigger for SNES, which was their largest game for the system at 32 megabits, and included multiple ways to finish the game.
- Jagged Alliance (Sir-Tech, DOS), the first in a series of turn-based strategy games
- Star Wars: Dark Forces (LucasArts, DOS), the first in a series of Star Wars-based first-person shooters that would take off with Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997)
- Descent (Parallax Software, DOS), popularized the use of portal rendering technology and provided the player with six full degrees of freedom.
- Flight Unlimited (Looking Glass Studios, DOS/Windows 95), possibly the first home flight simulator to use fluid dynamic physics.
- Mother 2 (Nintendo, Ape, Inc.) is released for the SNES as EarthBound in the US, garnering a cult following.
- New World Computing releases Heroes of Might and Magic, which becomes the first game in the popular Heroes of Might and Magic turn-based strategy game franchise.
Hardware
- Nintendo releases:
- * the Game Boy Play It Loud series, color/clear versions of the Game Boy
- * Virtual Boy (by Gunpei Yokoi) 32-bit console
- * Satellaview BS-X accessory for the Famicom console in Japan only
- SEGA releases:
- * May - Sega Saturn home console in North America (released in Japan on November 22, 1994).
- * Sega 32X add-on for the Sega Megadrive in Europe
- September 9 - Sony releases the PlayStation console in the United States.
Business
- Frog City Software, Inc. established
- Mark Jacobs and Rob Denton establish Interworld Productions, which is renamed Mythic Entertainment in 1997.
- Norm Koger founds Talonsoft.
- Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip establish BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta.
Lawsuits
- Nintendo v. Samsung Electronics; Nintendo sues Samsung for promoting software piracy. The suit is settled.
- Nintendo of America, Inc. v. NTDEC
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