Sport and Leisure/Video Games

Arcade games

Pong was invented by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, in 1972. It is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics

Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado of Taito Corporation and released in 1978. The player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at descending aliens. The aim is to defeat five rows of eleven aliens. By mid-1981, more than four billion quarters, or $1 billion, had been grossed from Space Invaders machines

Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers

Pac-Man was developed by Namco and first released in Japan in 1980. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man

Defender is a 1981 game set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts

Frogger is a 1981 arcade game. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one by crossing a busy road and navigating a river full of hazards

Donkey Kong was released by Nintendo in 1981. It was the first platform game to feature jumping. Donkey Kong kidnaps Mario's girlfriend, known as Pauline. The player must take the role of Mario and rescue her

Video games

Age of Empires is a series of historical games developed by Ensemble Studios

Age of Empires requires the player to develop a nation, from a handful of Stone Age villagers. Released in 1997

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages

Age of Empires III portrays the European colonization of the Americas

Animal Crossing is a community simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo, in which the player lives in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, carrying out various activities

Animal Crossing was originally released in 2001

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Released in 2020

Ape Escape is a series of video games made by Sony for the PlayStation. The game tells the story of an ape named Specter who gains enhanced intelligence through the use of an experimental helmet

Apex Legends is a a free-to-play battle royale game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. Released in 2019. By April 2021, it had approximately 100 million players

Assassin’s Creed was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide in 2007 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The objective in the game is to assassinate nine historical figures propagating the Crusades in 1191

Assassin's Creed primarily revolves around the rivalry between two ancient secret societies: the Assassins and the Knights Templar. It features Desmond Miles, a bartender who is a descendant of several lines of prominent Assassins. He is initially kidnapped by the megacorporation Abstergo Industries, the modern-day face of the Knights Templar

Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is a direct sequel to Assassin's Creed II, with Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Desmond Miles returning as the main protagonists

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Assassin’s Creed III

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed Rogue

Assassin's Creed Unity

Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Assassin's Creed Origins

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Valhalla was released in 2020

Banjo-Kazooie is a 1998 platform game that follows the story of a honey bear named Banjo and his friend, a large red bird – of the fictional Breegull species – named Kazooie, who are both controlled by the player, and a witch named Gruntilda as the primary antagonist

Battlefield is a series of video games that started out with Battlefield 1942. The twelfth game in the series, Battlefield 2042, is due for release in October 2021

BioShock is a series of three video games. The first two games are set in 1960, in which the player guides the protagonist, Jack, after his airplane crashes in the ocean near the bathysphere terminus that leads to the underwater city of Rapture

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

Bioshock Infinite

Brain Age, also known as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training, is a series of video games developed and published by Nintendo

Call of Duty is a series of first-person shooter video game, first released in 2003. The games are developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The first game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II

World War II series

Call of Duty

Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 3

Call of Duty: WWII

Modern Warfare series

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)

Black Ops series

Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Other games

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Civilization is a series of games designed by Sid Meier. The game's objective is to ‘Build an empire to stand the test of time’: it begins in 4000 BC and the players attempt to expand and develop their empires through the ages from the ancient era until modern and near-future times

Nuclear Gandhi is an Internet meme and an urban legend. According to the legend, there was a bug in Civilization that forced Mahatma Gandhi to be extremely aggressive and to use nuclear weapons

Counter-Strike is a video game developed as a Half-Life modification. Two opposing teams – the Terrorists and the Counter Terrorists – compete in game modes to complete objectives

Crash Bandicoot is a series of platform video games. The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic bandicoot named Crash, whose quiet life on the Wumpa Islands is often interrupted by the games' main antagonist, Doctor Neo Cortex

Crash Team Racing is the fourth installment in the Crash Bandicoot series

Defense of the Ancients is a MOBA mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002). The objective of the game is for each team to destroy their opponents' Ancient, a heavily guarded structure

Dota 2 is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients

Destiny marked Bungie's first new franchise since the Halo series. Previously published by Activision. Set in a "mythic science fiction" setting. Players take on the role of a Guardian, protectors of Earth's last safe city

Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game series developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is set in the dark fantasy world of Sanctuary

Diablo III – players choose one of five character classes; the Witch Doctor, Barbarian, Wizard, Monk or Demon Hunter and are tasked with defeating the titular Diablo. Diablo III set a new record for fastest-selling PC game by selling over 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release, and was the highest selling PC game of 2012, selling more than 12 million copies during the year

Dishonored was developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.  Set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall, Dishonored follows Corvo Attano, the Empress's legendary bodyguard

Disney Infinity is a sandbox video game series, set in a customizable universe of imagination, known as the Toy Box, populated with toy versions of Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars characters

Doom is a 1993 computer game by John Romero of id Software. The player takes the role of a nameless space marine who has been deported to Mars

Dragon's Lair is a laserdisc video game published in 1983. The protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe