video games

We all know about the Pokémon franchise. Its one of the world's most largest media franchises, with lots of video games, a successful anime, movies and merchandise. Pikachu is also one of the best-known species of Pokémon and has been gone on to become a major character of the Pokémon franchise...

I’m a fan of video games and the TL’s made of them on here. I also like fangames of certain franchises like Sonic, which leads us to the subject of this thread. Is it possible for a alternate TL to have different fangames from OTL?

We all know that Pokémon debuted on the Game Boy in 1996 in Japan with Red and Green and in 1998 in America with Red and Blue, becoming a big success and going on to be one of the best-selling games on the Game Boy. So, what if Pokémon debuted on the SNES instead of the Game Boy? How would this...

We all know that the 32-bit add-on to the Mega Drive, the 32X, was both a commercial and critical failure, because of its shallow game library, poor market timing and its market fragmentation of the Mega Drive. So, how can I make the 32X be successful? How can I make that happen without ASB?

Ever since 1991, Puyo Puyo has been one of Sega and Compile's well-known gaming franchises and also one of gaming's well-known puzzle games in Japan, but outside of Japan, it wasn't so well-known at first, but it's starting to become a little well-known once Puyo Puyo Tetris got released outside...

We all know that the popular video game franchise Sonic originated from Japan. However, despite being born in Japan, Sonic games have poor sales over there, for example, Sonic 2 selling 160,000 units in Japan and Sonic Colours selling 10,000 units in Japan. Sonic also has a sizeable fanbase over...

As you may know, on 16th December, 1997, the infamous Pokémon anime episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" was aired in Japan, causing over 700 Japanese viewers of the episode to suffer adverse health effects, such as epileptic seizures, vomiting and irritated eyes, due to use of a flashing strobe...

Okay, so I was looking at fake game ideas and stuff when I came across this page for a fake Super Mario Bros. CD game on the non-existent NES-CD, which got me thinking about doing a TL where CD add-ons for consoles were made one generation earlier. How would CD add-ons for 8-bit consoles like...

I don't think there's much that needs to be said about Atari following the video game crash of 1983. The once-greatest face in the North American video game market faltering to the point of being split up and resold between numerous parties until today where the current name and rights are now...

I’ve had ideas of a console war timeline where Nintendo is more competitive towards Sega and Sony, releasing a 16-bit successor to the Famicom/NES in the late 80’s, allowing games like Mortal Kombat to be released uncensored with blood and gore, releasing a disc-based 32-bit console capable of...

We all know that back in the day, Sega was Nintendo’s rival and in our current day, Sega is Nintendo’s friend. However, I was thinking of making a timeline where Nintendo and Sega work together on consoles and such since around the 1980’s, but how can I create such a TL without ASB?

Pure Imagination: Pop Culture’s Different Path

As you may know IOTL, Nintendo teamed up with Sony to produce a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES as well as a cartridge/CD console named the PlayStation back in 1988, which ended up being cancelled. After failing to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES together, Sony turned to Nintendo's rival, Sega...

In 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog was made as Sega's new mascot, replacing Alex Kidd. Sonic would go on to be one of the most famous video game characters in the world and his titular video game franchise would also go on to be one of the bestselling ones. In 1992, Miles "Tails" Prower was made as...

I know what you're all thinking: 'Mario games never get hated!' However, there is a subseries of the mainline Mario games that a good amount of people frequently look at in a more critical light. Yes, this is the New Super Mario Bros. quadrilogy we're talking about, here. The first game was...

Obviously, Sega was going bankrupt partway through the lifetime of the Dreamcast, and if they continued, they would ACTUALLY have gone bankrupt. But let's pretend Sega was not in dire financial status. How would that console war look if Sega Dreamcast was not discontinued and: Microsoft did...

As we know, Nintendo used to be very unfriendly towards third party developers, but got away with it in the NES and SNES eras. The point when this really hurt Nintendo was N64 still using cartridges when everyone else was using CDs, causing almost all the third party developers to flock to the...

There are many games that have become infamous for being bad, or even outright terrible. Superman 64, Daikatana, Bubsy 3D, Drake of the 99 Dragons, Ride to Hell: Retribution, all these games and many more have become veritable bywords for cartridges and discs that deserve to be buried in the...

Nintendo and Silicon Graphics confirm "Project Reality"; New disk-based console in development As sourced by the New York Times [1] - Aside from the disk-based hardware this is essentially OTL. Nintendo wanted to release "Project Reality" in '95 but had to delay it for technical reasons. Of...

Hey everybody!!! The following ATL is an attempt to build a TL that reflects the full extent of how pop culture has affected the culture world we live. As such, please feel free to add your favorite PODs for film, sports, television, video games, and other forms of entertainment... POD...