Events
Notable releases
- Midway Games releases the Mortal Kombat arcade game, which features bloody "fatalities", digitized characters, and started a franchise of games and movies.
- August — Sega releases the Virtua Racing arcade game, one of the first 3D polygonal racing games.
- October 15 — Sega releases the controversial Night Trap video game for the Sega CD console.
- Blue Sky Productions releases The Stygian Abyss, the first ever first-person 3D CRPG.
- id Software releases Wolfenstein 3D, credited with putting the first-person shooter genre for the PC on the map.
- Nintendo releases Kirby's Dream Land for the Game Boy, the first game featuring the character Kirby.
- Interplay publishes Alone in the Dark, widely considered the first survival horror game.
- Sega publishes Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis, Master System, Game Gear), which features the first appearance of Super Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower.
- Nintendo releases A Link to the Past, the only Zelda game released for the Super Famicom/SNES.
- Super Mario Kart (Nintendo, Super Famicom/SNES), the first in the Mario Kart series, spawned the mascot/go-kart subgenre of racing games
- 6 Golden Coins was released for the Game Boy, introducing Wario to the Mario series
- 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
- Dune II was released by Westwood Studios, estabilishing real-time strategy genre.
Hardware
Business
1992 en jeu vidéo | Datorspelsåret 1992
"1992 in video gaming"