One of the oldest video games to ever be made, Nim is a single player game, wherein the player goes against the computer with the goal to prevent oneself from picking up the last match stick. This game was created by Edward U. Condon, who made it for the World Fair in 1940. This game proved rather difficult, as the computer won 90 percent of the time.
Citation: Kellem, B. G. (2022, March 1). The nimatron - JSTOR DAILY. The Nimatron. https://daily.jstor.org/the-nimatron/
Tennis for Two is a game launched in 1958 by Willy Higinbotham and Robert Dvorak. Tennis for Two was the first game created for the sole purpose of enjoyment. The game required a monitor and two controllers, and its main goal was to pass the ball back and forth in a two dimensional tennis court.
Citation: The first video game?. The First Video Game? (n.d.). https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php
Developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger, The Oregon Trail is a survival game, wherein the main goal is to survive a journey by reaching Oregon through a wagon starting from Missouri. Users were given a certain amount of money to start off with so that they could buy supplies that would help them survive the journey. In Oregon Trail, there is a likely chance of users dying from diseases or natural causes. This game is based on the historical events in the 19th century, when settlers in the US would make attempts to go through the wilderness of the American West to reach Oregon.
Citation: Visit Oregon. (2024, March 11). The Oregon Trail Game Online | Visit Oregon. Visit Oregon | Oregon Travel & Vacation Guide. https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/
Pong, first introduced in 1972, is known for being the first arcade game to be made. Designed by Allan Alcorn and developed by Atari, Pong was popularized by local restaurants and convenience stores. Teenagers would play Pong before, after, or even during meals. Pong is a tennis-like arcade game that involves bouncing a ball off of a virtual “racquet” in order to prevent the ball from hitting a user’s wall.
Citation: Pong Game. (n.d.). https://www.ponggame.org/
Maze Wars was the pioneer of first person shooter (FPS) games. Developed by Steve Colley, Greg Thompson and Howard Palmer from NASA, Maze War’s gameplay involved the user spawning in a 3D maze with the objective of going through the maze and shooting down any bots or players, or eyeballs.
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Straub, N. (2024, March 17). What the first FPS game REALLY was (Not DOOM or Wolfenstein). ScreenRant. https://screenrant.com/first-fps-first-person-shooter-game-3d/
Space Invaders, developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and Taito, marked the commencement of the Arcade Golden Age. 60,000 machines were sold across the United States. Space invaders involve a user spacecraft shooting down alien spacecrafts that, similarly, shoot lasers, which reduce the user’s lives by one. The user has three lives.
Citation: Space invaders (1978). Space Invaders (1978). (n.d.). https://www.pcjs.org/machines/arcade/invaders/
Asteroids, developed predominantly by Atari, along with The Code Monkeys as well as General Computer Corporation, is Atari’s most popular and successful arcade game. Asteroids involves destroying incoming asteroids by shooting at them. Players have three to five lives, which increments by one for every ten thousand points.
Citation: Asteroids. Atari® Asteroids - A Classic Online Game From AARP. (n.d.). https://games.aarp.org/games/atari-asteroids
Pac-man was composed by Toshio Kai and designed by Toru Iwatani, a Japanese video game designer who, for most of his career, worked for Namco, a multinational video game company. Pac-man was popularized through pizzerias in the United States, and became more popular as Ms. Pac-man, a maze arcade video game, launched. Pac-man is an action chase video game, whose objective is to control Pac-man into eating all the dots while avoiding the four ghosts. Fun fact: This game was inspired by Toru Iwatani because of a missing slice of pizza.
Citation: Play classic pac-man arcade game online - nintendo and Atari Free Game Play. Free80sArcade. (2021, January 7). https://www.free80sarcade.com/pacman.php
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness is the first game of the Ultima game series. Ultima I was developed by Richard Garriott and Origin Systems and released for the Apple II. Ultima I is a role-playing game that involves traveling to another world to save Sosaria from Mondain, an evil wizard and the second son of Wolfgang.
Citation: Ultima, part 1. The Digital Antiquarian. (n.d.). https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-1/
Atari’s Centipede, designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, upon release, became an arcade favorite, selling 1,475,240 cartridges of the Atari VCS port of Centipede in a year. Centipede involves shooting darts at the centipede with the Bug Blaster. The player needs to first shoot out the mushrooms that barricades the darts from reaching the centipede.
Citation: Centipede by Atari®. Play Centipede By Atari® - A Classic Game From AARP. (n.d.-b). https://games.aarp.org/games/atari-centipede
Donkey Kong, designed by Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo, is an arcade game that sold 60,000 arcade units upon initial release. In Donkey Kong, the player, as Mario, attempts to climb up the ladders while avoiding the barrels thrown by Donkey Kong, the boss of the Nintendo game located at the top of the ladders in order to rescue Pauline.
Citation: Play classic donkey kong online - arcade, Nintendo and Atari Free Game Play. Free80sArcade. (2021a, January 7). https://www.free80sarcade.com/donkeykong.php
E.T., designed by Howard Scott Warshaw of Atari, is an adventure game in which the player controls the extraterrestrial alien in an attempt to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will help the alien contact his home planet, The Green Planet. This game precipitated the Atari shock, or the downfall of Atari, which is generally considered the biggest financial failure in the history of the U.S. video gaming industry.
Citations: E.T. the extra-terrestrial. The Movie Database. (n.d.). https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/601-e-t-the-extra-terrestrial
Rechsteiner, A. (2022, July 15). The worst video game of all time. Swiss National Museum - Swiss History Blog. https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2020/04/the-worst-video-game-of-all-time/
Mario Bros, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo, is an arcade game that was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) as well. In Mario Bros, the player, mario, has to save Princess Toadstool (Princess Peach) while defeating the forces of Browser, the evil king of the Mushroom Kingdom who has captured the princess.
Citation: Hay, R. (2023, November 17). Who created mario?. TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/who-created-mario/
Dan Bunten’s M.U.L.E. is a multiplayer game in which players compete to garner resources for their individual colonies located on the planet Irata. M.U.L.E. is a strategic game that involves trying to earn wealth on a new planet. M.U.L.E. was predominantly played on the Commodore 64, an 8-bit computer that was mostly used in homes.
Citation: M.U.L.E. (1983). MobyGames. (n.d.). https://www.mobygames.com/game/9752/mule/#:~:
text=M.U.L.E.%20is%20about%20four%20hopeful,
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Created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris is a puzzle game with the objective of arranging puzzle block pieces that fall from the top of the screen in order to fill in empty spaces as they pile up on the ground. As the game progresses, the drop speed of the blocks increases, escalating the difficulty of the game.
Citation: The history of Tetris: The Soviet mind game. (n.d.). Sky HISTORY TV Channel. https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-history-of-tetris
Legend of Zelda, composed by Koji Kondo and developed by Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Koji Kondo, is a fantasy role-playing game from Nintendo that was originally released in Japan as a computer game. In Legend of Zelda, the player as a boy called Link attempts to gather all eight Triforce of Wisdom fragments in order to rescue Princess Zelda in a land called Hyrule.
Citation: The Legend of Zelda Walkthrough - Zelda Dungeon. (2023, September 30). Zelda Dungeon. https://www.zeldadungeon.net/the-legend-of-zelda-walkthrough/
Street Fighter, composed by Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, was one of the first games to implement a two player competitive fighter game. Street Fighter 1987 is the first installment of the Street Fighter series and is one of the most famous arcade fighter games. In the plot of Street Fighter, martial artists Ryu and Ken fight street fighters to become the champion of street fighting and to ultimately face the final boss, Emperor of Muay Thai.
Citation: Street fighter (video game). TV Tropes. (n.d.). https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/
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Developed by EA, John Madden Football was a football game where players could play virtual football in a realistic setting. It was available in both PC and console. The game would pave the way for future Madden games which would rise in popularity.
Citation: John Madden football. The Strong National Museum of Play. (2022, January 13). https://www.museumofplay.org/games/john-madden-football/
SimCity, developed by Will Wright, Maxis, and Atari SA, is a simulation game that involves creating cities for a certain goal. More people will move to the player’s city depending on aspects of the player’s city. The player must deal with problems such as population growth and natural disasters that can randomly happen or can be triggered by a player. The game was initially published for the Macintosh and Amiga and later published for the Commodore 64.
Citation: SimCity. The History of Computing. (n.d.). https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/simcity
Programmed by Microsoft and derived from a card game, Solitaire is a single player game wherein the main objective is to win by piling all cards in numerical order within four sets. Fun fact: Napoleon, allegedly, played Solitaire frequently during his exile in Saint Helena.
Citations: Gather Together Games. (2017, February 7). How to play Solitaire [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTG6EgEv1Ag
Clack, R. (2024, March 3). 18 captivating facts about Solitaire. Facts.net. https://facts.net/lifestyle/entertainment/18-captivating-facts-about-solitaire/
The Secret of Monkey Island is a point-and-click game that involves interacting with the game by clicking any of the twelve buttons: Open, Close, Push, Pull, Walk to, Pick up, Talk to, Give, Use, Look at, Turn on, and Turn off. In The Secret of Monkey Island, a character called Guybrush Thuspeed, a pirate wannabe at Melee Island.
Citation: The Secret of Monkey Island | BestOldGames.net. (n.d.). (C) BestOldGames.net (2004-2024). https://www.bestoldgames.net/secret-of-monkey-island
Created by Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game wherein the goal is to collect Chaos Emeralds that gives the player power to defeat the ultimate boss, Eggman, or Dr. Robotnik. Sonic is one of the most famous video game characters in the world. Sonic is one of the few video game characters that are famous internationally.
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Sonic the Hedgehog | electronic game. (n.d.). Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sonic-the-Hedgehog
Created by Nintendo, Super Mario Kart is a kart racing game that involves characters from the Super Mario Bros franchise. The objective of this game is to beat your opponents to the finish line in a kart. Players can collect consumable upgrades that are on the road for power ups and items. This popular game would pave the way for future Mario Kart games.
Citation: Minotti, M. (2018, December 12). The complete history of Mario Kart. VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/games/the-complete-history-of-mario-kart/
A multiplayer fighter arcade game, Mortal Kombat was created by Ed Boon, John Tobias, John Vogel, and Dan Forden. The goal of this game is to defeat the other player's fighter. Mortal Kombat was one of the best-selling fighting game franchises and still is today. However, this game also was infamous for its violence, as the game featured excessive amounts of blood and gore. This would eventuate into the conception of quarrels and debates over violence in gaming.
Citation: Johnson, B. (n.d.). Mortal Kombat: a landmark video game, 30 years on. University of Michigan Press. https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2022/02/Mortal-Kombat-A-Landmark-Video-Game-30-Years-On
The pioneer of what would eventuate into the popular yearly FIFA games, FIFA International is a soccer (football) game, wherein players play soccer matches in various international teams. Developed by Electronic Arts, this game quickly rose in popularity, as game critics were impressed with the details, south effects, and the animations within the game.
Citations: Morfeus; admin@retrogames.cz. (n.d.). FIFA International Soccer (SNES) - online game | RetroGames.cz. RetroGames.cz. https://www.retrogames.cz/play_338-SNES.php#google_vignette
Goal. (2023b, September 27). History of FIFA: Every FIFA game ever released. https://www.goal.com/. https://www.goal.com/en/lists/history-of-fifa-every-fifa-game-ever-released/eycphoguaggy1fwscnr43azlo#cs7f4e58ae064ee94c
DOOM is a first person shooter game that brought FPS games to popularity. Although there were earlier FPS games, DOOM is widely considered as the first FPS game to be both fast and fun. Earlier FPS games such as Maze Wars, the first ever FPS game, although generally regarded as fun, were not as advanced as DOOM.
Citation: Doom. DOOM. (n.d.). https://press.umich.edu/Books/D/DOOM2
Grand Theft Auto is a type of sandbox game that was released in 1997 by David Jones and Mike Dailly. The game setting is set in a city. In GTA, the player controls a character that has a goal of completing quests to earn money and progress through the game. The gameplay mostly involves driving around the city and shooting down enemies. Grand Theft Auto is the first game of the GTA series. Future games such as GTA San Andreas and GTA V were also released.
Citation: Ashley_Buckwell. (2023, December 29). History of the Grand Theft Auto series. Acer Corner. https://blog.acer.com/en/discussion/1172/history-of-the-grand-theft-auto-series
Snake was a popular game that was, although simple, addictive. The game first appeared on the Nokia 6110. Snake involves the player trying to keep a snake from hitting a wall or its own tail. The main purpose of this game is to survive as long as possible while consuming pieces of food around the area. As time goes by, the player’s score increases, and the snake becomes longer, making it more difficult to maneuver around the walls safely.
Citation: The history of Snake: How the Nokia game defined a new era for the mobile industry. (2021b, February 23). https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/taneli-armanto-the-history-of-snake-design-legacies-230221
The Sims series is a life simulation video game that sold a staggering 200 million copies worldwide. The first game of the Sims series, designed by Will Wright, Robin Hunicke, Rod Humble and more, was first released for Microsoft Windows.
Citation: Will Wright. The Sims. 2000 | MOMA. (n.d.). The Museum of Modern Art. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/162461
Asphalt, developed by Gameloft, Virtuos, Gameloft Iberica S.A.U., and Gameloft S.E., is a realistic mobile car racing game. Players can play on various maps with various opponents. Asphalt is playable with Wi-Fi and without Wi-Fi. It is both a multiplayer and singleplayer game.
Citation: Buckle Up for the Official Launch of Asphalt 9: Legends. Gameloft Video Game Developer Worldwide. (n.d.). https://www.gameloft.com/newsroom/buckle-up-for-the-official-launch-of-asphalt-9-legends-4294
Developed by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, Roblox is a multi-game platform, wherein users can create and play games. There are currently over 40 million games in the roblox platform and over 70 million users playing daily. Some popular games in Roblox are Natural Disaster Survival, Adopt me, and Murder Mystery 2.
Citations: Arnold, M. (2024, March 31). How many Roblox games are there? TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/how-many-games-are-on-roblox/
Shewale, R. (2024, January 15). Roblox Statistics For 2024 (Active Players, Revenue & Usage). DemandSage. https://www.demandsage.com/how-many-people-play-roblox/
Created by Nintendo, Wii Sports is a multiplayer sports game, wherein users can pick and play different kinds of sports. There are a total of 5 sports in Wii Sports: tennis, golf, bowling, baseball, and boxing. Players play these games physically by using a game controller, which detects player motion with motion sensors. For example, in tennis, players can pass the ball back and forth by swinging their arms. This feature provided an engaging experience for players and promoted fitness.
Citation: Life, N. (2006, November 24). Review: WII Sports (WII). Nintendo Life. https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2006/11/wii_sports_wii
The main goal in Bloons Tower Defense, an action defense game, is to shoot down balloons, which come in waves, and prevent them from reaching the end of the path. Players can place specific monkeys along the path as defense. There are different types of monkeys, each with different abilities that is used to fight against the balloons. With every wave of balloons, popping the balloons become more difficult, as different colored balloons grow more immune to the monkey’s attacks.
Citation: Bloons Tower Defense. (n.d.). Play Online on SilverGames 🕹️. https://www.silvergames.com/en/bloons-tower-defense
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game, in which players work to defend their towers from enemies. The 2009 Plants vs. Zombies is the first game in the Plants vs. Zombies game series. The Plants vs. Zombies is a multiplayer game.
Citation: Gibson, E. (2011, December 19). Games of 2009: Plants vs. zombies. Eurogamer.net. https://www.eurogamer.net/games-of-2009-plants-vs-zombies-article
Created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson, Minecraft is a sandbox game, wherein a user spawns in a world full of blocks that resembles the Earth. Players can play in two different modes called survival mode and creative mode. In survival mode, the player has limited health and can only obtain resources from the environment. The player faces the dangers from hostile mobs that spawns around the world. On the other hand, in creative mode, the player has infinite resources and health. Mobs are not hostile to the player. What made this game so unique from other games was the lack of goals in the game. You could do anything you wanted; there were endless possibilities. This game enables players to create their own projects and depict their own ideas in a block-world.
Citation: Henningson, J. (2022, October 17). The history of minecraft. Red Bull. https://www.redbull.com/se-en/history-of-minecraft
League of Legends, developed by Riot Games, is a strategic battle arena game. League of Legends involves teamwork. In League of Legends, the player controls a specific character, which possesses certain abilities. To win League of Legends, one side must outplay or outperform the other in an attempt to destroy the enemy Nexus.
Citations: Crecente, B. (2019, October 28). League of Legends is now 10 years old. This is the story of its birth. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/10/27/league-legends-is-now-years-old-this-is-story-its-birth/
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Just Dance 2009, developed by Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Paris, is the first game of the Just Dance series. Just Dance is a rhythm game, wherein players try to imitate a virtual character’s dance motions for a specific song. Just Dance is prominent for its accessibility to any audience. Just Dance sold approximately 4.3 million copies worldwide.
Citation: Robison, D. (2024, March 3). 13 Extraordinary Facts About Just Dance (video game). Facts.net. https://facts.net/lifestyle/entertainment/13-extraordinary-facts-about-just-dance-video-game/
Candy Crush is a mobile game released by King. The goal of the game is to slide candies in a grid to line up three or more pairs of the same type of candy. Candy Crush has over 5000 levels. The total revenue of Candy Crush exceeds billions of dollars.
Citations: Lindner, J. (2023, December 20). Candy crush statistics: Market report & data • gitnux. GITNUX. https://gitnux.org/candy-crush-statistics/
Weber, N. (2024, March 26). When was Candy Crush released? Playbite. https://www.playbite.com/when-was-candy-crush-released/
Subway Surfers, developed by SYBO, Kiloo, and Kiloo Play ApS, is an endless running game. The aim of this game is to run away from Ted Lutz, an antagonist in Subway Surfers and train inspector, as Jake, the main character and protagonist, while avoiding barriers, trains, and other barricades.
Citation: Stephenson, B. (2024, February 14). What is subway surfers?. Lifewire. https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-subway-surfers-8575594
War Thunder is a military multiplayer strategy game where users can battle other players in military vehicles. Players could choose from many different military roles to play the game such as helicopters, aircraft, warships, and tanks. This game would become very popular as millions of people worldwide would play to engage in many realistic military themed battlegrounds. War Thunder is available on PC, Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox, Mac, and more.
Citation: War Thunder — realistic military vehicles online combat game for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Play for free about the game. (n.d.). https://warthunder.com/en/game/about
Developed by Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird is a simple mobile game where the player controls a bird by tapping on the screen to flap its wings and fly for a certain amount of time. If the user stops tapping, then the bird stops flapping its wings, causing it to fall. Utilizing these mechanics, the goal of this game is to make the bird fly through obstacles that have a small gap big enough for the bird to fly through. If the bird hits any of these obstacles, it gets eliminated, and you must restart the game. This game became extremely popular after its release, with millions of players installing the game on their phones.
Citation: Rigney, R. (2014, February 12). Inside the brief life and untimely death of Flappy Bird. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2014/02/flappy-bird/
Geometry Dash, designed by Robert Topala, is a platform game that involves dodging numerous obstacles to reach an endpoint. There are a profusion of different maps in Geometry Dash, among which Acheron by Riot is considered to be the most difficult.
Citation: Yim, A. (n.d.). The history of Geometry Dash. Norte News. https://nortenews.org/4298/entertainment/the-history-of-geometry-dash/
Famous for being playable in Chrome when without a Wi-Fi connection, Dinosaur Game, programmed by Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung, involves a “Lonely T-Rex” jumping over obstacles while running endlessly. As time passes, the “Lonely T-Rex” runs faster and faster, making it harder for the player to jump over the obstacles.
Citation: Dinosaur T-rex game - chrome dino runner online. Chrome_Dino. (n.d.). https://dinorunner.com/
Created by Supercell, Clash Royale is a strategic fighting game wherein two players attempt to break their opponent’s towers by using elizars and cards efficiently. The highest league in this game is the Ultimate Champion, which requires 8,000+ trophies, or awards earned by winning league matches. Approximately thirty trophies are awarded for each win, and around twenty to sixty trophies are lost for each loss depending on the skill level of the opponents a player faces.
Released in 2016, Slither.io is a multiplayer game, wherein a player spawns in as a snake. The main objective of this game is to eliminate and consume other snakes as much as the player can to reach the top of the leaderboard. Slither.io is an online multiplayer game.
Citation: Switzer, E. (2019, July 9). Where Slither.io Came From And Why It's So Popular. TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/slitherio-history-success-guide-strategy/
Pokemon Go, composed by Junichi Masuda, is an AR game that utilizes GPS to transform reality around the user to combine Pokemon Go with the real world. Pokemon Go was downloaded 500 million times in total, and was the fastest game ever to make over half a billion dollars.
Citation: JorroTreul. (2019, April 9). Where it all began: 2016 timeline. Pokémon GO Hub. https://pokemongohub.net/post/chart/where-it-all-began-2016-timeline/
A murder mystery thriller game, Among us was launched by Innersoft in 2018. In this game, there are a group of players placed in a certain map. Among the players, there exists an imposter (there can be up to three imposters) whose main goal is to kill crewmates. The crewmates’ main goal is to finish tasks within the map and vote out the imposter. The game skyrocketed in popularity in 2020 when a famous twitch streamer by the name of Sodapoppin played the game for the first time with other people. Afterwards, millions of players from all around the globe began playing this game.
Citation: Galloway, R. (2020, September 24). Sodapoppin demands credit for the popularity of Among Us. Dot Esports. https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/sodapoppin-demands-credit-for-the-popularity-of-among-us
A mobile battle royale game, Brawl Stars is a game, wherein players fight against each other in various maps and gamemodes. Players fight with characters called brawlers. There are many different types of brawlers. Brawlers have a rarity system, in which specific brawlers are more unique and rare than others. These characters can be obtained by in-game currencies called credits. In an older version of the game, players could collect brawlers by opening brawl boxes, which were chests that had a small chance of dropping a brawler.
Citation: Santander, H. J. (2024, March 6). How to get Brawlers in Brawl Stars. Level Push. https://www.levelpush.com/brawl-stars/how-to-get-brawlers/
Super Smash Bros Ultimate, composed by Hideki Sakamoto, is a fighting game published by Nintendo. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is a crossover game that includes characters from various Nintendo games such as Donkey Kong, Mario, Pikachu, Yoshi, and more. To be exact, there are 87 crossover characters in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
Citation: Super smash bros.. ultimate. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Nintendo Switch – Official Site. (n.d.). https://www.smashbros.com/en_GB/fighter/index.html
A combination of minecraft and first person shooter games, Pixel Gun 3D is a multiplayer blocky gunfight game developed by Cubic Games. This game has multiple gamemodes to play in, such as deathmatch or survival mode. Players can also choose or buy a wide variety of weapons and skins to use and play.
Citations: “Pixel Gun 3D - PC Edition blasts onto Steam today, bringing the mobile megahit to PC” - Games Press. (2024, February 4). https://www.gamespress.com/Pixel-Gun-3D---PC-Edition-blasts-onto-Steam-today-bringing-the-mobile-
Edmonds, R. (2018, November 29). Minecraft inspired Pixel Gun 3D brings multiplayer FPS action to Windows Phone. Windows Central. https://www.windowscentral.com/minecraft-inspired-pixel-gun-3d-brings-multiplayer-action-windows-phone
PUBG, developed by PUBG Corporation, KRAFTON, and Lightspeed & Quantum, is a battle royale game, in which hundred players fight to be the last player alive. PUBG was inspired by the Japanese thriller Battle Royale. PUBG stands for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
Citation: Inc., K. (n.d.). Game - PUBG: Battlegrounds. PUBG. https://pubg.com/en/game-info/overview
Programmed by Epic Games, Fortnite is a battle royale game, wherein players compete against each other to be the last player or team standing. As the game progresses, the map shrinks as toxic gas, called the Zone, surrounds the area. The Zone forces players to fight in close proximity until the last team or player is standing. Fortnite became extremely popular in 2019.
Citations: Burgos, T. (2024, February 23). When did Fortnite climb the ladder of popularity? Playbite. https://www.playbite.com/when-did-fortnite-become-popular/
Demirkol, O. (2024, February 14). Who created Fortnite? https://www.thespike.gg/fortnite/beginner-guides/who-created-fortnite
Valorant, developed by Riot Games, is a first person shooter game that involves attackers eliminating opponents to plant the Spike at designated bomb sites called A and B. It also involves defenders eliminating opponents to diffuse the Spike or prevent the Spikes from being placed. In total, there are 22 valorant agents.
Fall Guys, a battle royale game developed by Mediatonic, involves 40 players competing against one another each in an attempt to reach the endpoint first. A match of Fall Guys has several rounds that include obstacles and challenges that players must overcome. Fall Guys is a free-to-play game that can be found in Epic Games.