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'' featured digitized characters rather than typical hand-drawn ones.]]

Notable releases

Midway Games releases the '' Mortal Kombat '' arcade game, which features bloody "fatalities", digitized characters, and started a franchise of games and movies.

August — Sega releases the '' Virtua Racing '' arcade game, one of the first 3D polygonal Racing Game s.

October 15 — Sega releases the Controversial '' Night Trap '' video game for the Sega CD console.

'', the first ever first-person 3D CRPG .

Id Software releases '' Wolfenstein 3D '', credited with putting the First-person Shooter genre for the PC on the map.

Nintendo releases '' Kirby's Dream Land '' for the Game Boy , the first game featuring the character Kirby .

Interplay publishes '' Alone In The Dark '', widely considered the first Survival Horror Game .

Sega publishes '' Sonic The Hedgehog 2 '' ( Mega Drive/Genesis , Master System , Game Gear ), which features the first appearance of Super Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower .

'', the only Zelda Game released for the Super Famicom / SNES .

'' Super Mario Kart '' (Nintendo, Super Famicom/SNES), the first in the Mario Kart series, spawned the Mascot / Go-kart subgenre of Racing Game s

'''' was released for the Game Boy , introducing Wario to the Mario series

'' Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis '' was released by LucasArts . It was considered one of the most advanced Adventure Game s of the time and was a breakthrough for LucasArts' SCUMM games

'' Dune II '' was released by Westwood Studios , estabilishing Real-time Strategy genre.

Hardware

JVC releases the Wondermega console in Japan, a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD put into one console (later released as the X'eye in North America)

Philips releases the CD-I multimedia home console

Super Nintendo Entertainment System released in Europe

Sega releases the Sega CD (an add-on for the Sega Genesis ) in North America , almost a year after the equivalent Japanese launch

Taito Corporation creates the Wowow home console (unreleased)

TTI (Turbo Technologies Inc.) releases the TurboDuo home console

Business

Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. V. Nintendo Of America, Inc.

New companies: Wow Entertainment Inc. (AM1)