THE 1990s

There was a distinctive shift during the Nineties that continues to this day. Consoles finally took over from home computers as the systems of choice for many gamers, while Japanese developers (who had largely been confined to the arcades) began to lead the charge for many genres, from platformers and shoot-’em-ups, to survival horror and fighting games to name just a few they excelled in.

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