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- Namco releases Point Blank.
- February 2 — Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Sega, Mega Drive/Genesis), introduced Knuckles the Echidna.
- March 19 — Super Metroid (SNES), distributed on a 24-megabit cartridge (the largest of its time), called the "best game of all time" by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 2002.
- Square Co. releases Final Fantasy VI (then known as Final Fantasy III in North America) for the SNES on April 2 in Japan and October 11 in North America.
- May 3 — Epic Megagames releases Jazz Jackrabbit, which is named as the 1994 Arcade Game of the Year.
- June 9 — Shiny Entertainment releases Earthworm Jim.
- July — LucasArts releases TIE Fighter.
- July 5 — Capcom releases Darkstalkers, its horror characters and EX meter make it a fighting cult classic to this date.
- August 27 — Nintendo releases Mother 2 for the Super Famicom in Japan, which was released almost a year later in North America on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as EarthBound.
- September 22 — Looking Glass Studios releases System Shock.
- October — Killer Instinct (Rare), the first arcade game with an internal hard disk, making extensive use of pre-rendered graphics.
- October 10 — id Software releases Doom II and Dave D. Taylor creates a Linux port of the original Doom, becoming the first major game for the new operating system.
- October 17[1] — Sonic & Knuckles was released. It introduced "lock-on" gaming, allowing a player to connect previous Sonic games to the cartridge, making Knuckles playable in them.
- November — Blizzard Entertainment releases the real-time strategy game Warcraft, which spawns a franchise and influences many later games.
- November 21 — Nintendo releases Rare's Donkey Kong Country (SNES), featuring distinctive 3D pre-rendered graphics. It was followed by several sequels.
- November 23 — Sierra On-Line releases the computer adventure game King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride which was the first in the series to use "SVGA" graphics.
- December 9 — Namco releases its first 3D fighting game Tekken in the arcade.
- December 21 — Bungie releases Marathon, one of the earliest original (non-ported) first-person shooters for the Macintosh.
- Mortal Kombat II becomes the first title to contain blood and gore on a Nintendo platform.
- Daytona USA (Sega, arcade game), a highly successful racing game noted for its advanced 3D graphics that included texture mapping
- Origin Systems releases their most ambitious Wing Commander game, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, based both around space simulation gameplay and an interactive movie with big-name actors. It's one of the most expensive games developed, with a budget of $4 million USD.
- Sensible Software releases Sensible World of Soccer, regarded as the best Amiga game of all time by British Amiga magazine Amiga Power.
- MicroProse releases Master of Magic.
- Sir-tech Software, Inc. releases turn-based tactics game Jagged Alliance, the first installment of Jagged Alliance series.
- Raven software releases Heretic.
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PlayStation video game console, first released in Japan
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