1992 in video gaming
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Events
- Street Fighter II wins Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.
- Street Fighter II wins Game of the Year at the last Electronic Gaming Awards.
Notable releases
- January 1 – Dune II was released by Westwood Studios, creating the template for the modern real-time strategy genre.
- January 15 - Mega Man 4 was released in the US.
- March – Blue Sky Productions releases Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, the first ever first-person 3D role-playing video game.
- Broderbund Releases Living Books with Just Grandma and Me
- April 16 – Origin Systems releases Ultima VII: The Black Gate for the PC.
- April 27 – Nintendo releases Kirby's Dream Land for the Game Boy, the first game in the Kirby series.
- May 5 – id Software releases Wolfenstein 3D, which popularized the first-person shooter genre for the PC.
- June – Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released by LucasArts. It was considered one of the most advanced adventure games of the time and was a breakthrough for LucasArts' SCUMM games
- June 9 – Guardians of the 'Hood arcade game is released. It is one of the few beat 'em ups to feature pre-rendered sprites and a maximum of 3 simultaneous players. There were many fighters with this art style though.
- July 29 – Ecco the Dolphin is released, the first in the series.
- August 27 – Super Mario Kart (Nintendo, Super NES), the first in the Mario Kart series, spawned the mascot/go-kart subgenre of racing games
- September 1 – Domark releases Championship Manager for the Amiga and Atari ST.
- September 24 – SNK releases Art of Fighting for the arcades.
- October – Sega releases Virtua Racing by Yu Suzuki and AM2 in the arcades, laying the foundations for subsequent 3D racing games and popularizing 3D polygon graphics among a wider audience.
- October – Gremlin Graphics releases Zool, Amiga's answer to Mario and Sonic. It goes on to become the best selling Commodore Amiga game, boosting the already popular computer to be the leading gaming machine in Europe.
- October 8 – Midway Games releases the Mortal Kombat arcade game in North America, which features bloody "fatalities", digitized characters, and started a franchise of games and movies.
- October 15 – Sega releases the controversial Night Trap video game for the Sega CD console.
- October 21 – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is released for the Game Boy. The character Wario would later go on to star in his own series.
- November – Accolade releases Star Control II, widely viewed today as one of the greatest games ever made.
- November 21 – Sega publishes Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear). The game introduced Sonic's signature ability the Spin Dash and Sonic's sidekick Miles "Tails" Prower. A seventh Chaos Emerald is introduced and with it the ability to turn into Super Sonic.
- Interplay publishes Alone in the Dark, widely considered the first survival horror and one of the first 3D polygon games, I, Robot and Hard Drivin' being notable exceptions.
- Flashback/Flashback: The Quest For Identity was released by Delphine Software International on the Amiga, later released on the Genesis and Super NES in 1993. The game was praised for its rotoscoped animation, giving movements fluidity unusual for the time. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling French game of all time.
- December 4 – Mega Man 5 was released in Japan. On December 31 Mega Man 5 was released in the US.
Hardware
- January 1 – Atari Corporation drops support for the Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Atari 7800, and software for those systems.
- October – Sega releases the Model 1, an arcade system board that popularizes 3D polygon graphics.
- December – the Apple IIgs is discontinued, ending the Apple II line.
- Namco releases the System 22, an arcade system board that introduces 3D texture mapping and Gouraud shading.
- JVC releases the Wondermega console in Japan, a Mega Drive and Mega CD put into one console (later released as the X'eye in North America)
- Philips releases the CD-i multimedia home console
- Super NES released in Europe and Australasia
- Sega releases the Mega CD as Sega CD (an add-on for the 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, an updated version of the TurboGrafx-16 with built-in CD-ROM drive and Super System Card for Super CD-ROM² support.
- Commodore releases the Amiga 1200 home computer
- Nintendo releases the Super Scope for the Super NES.
Business
- Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc.
- Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.
- Activision (as Mediagenic) files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
- New companies: Wow Entertainment Inc. (Sega AM1) Humongous Entertainment
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