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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 Megabit s, and included multiple ways to finish the game.

'' Jagged Alliance '' ( Sir-Tech , DOS ), the first in a series of Turn-based Strategy Game s

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'' 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 .

Destruction Derby

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