Video Games

You place all 64 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Video Games
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64
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
Card reveal

How to play the Video Games timeline game

Video Games is a free timeline game you can play right in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install. Every card hides a value on the same scale, release years and dates, so the whole run is really one big sorting puzzle. The first card comes up face up. After that you slot each new card into the spot where you think it belongs, and its value only shows once it lands. A wrong guess costs one of your three lives, ten right in a row wins one back, and the run ends with whatever you had down when the last life goes.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 64 cards you might be dealt, with 36 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Pac-Man Namco
  • Tetris Alexey Pajitnov
  • The Legend of Zelda Nintendo
  • Mega Man 2 Capcom
  • Super Metroid Nintendo
  • Super Mario 64 Nintendo
  • Metal Gear Solid Konami
  • Halo: Combat Evolved Bungie
  • Resident Evil 4 Capcom
  • Portal Valve
  • Dark Souls FromSoftware
  • Papers, Please Lucas Pope
  • Bloodborne FromSoftware
  • Stardew Valley ConcernedApe
  • Cuphead Studio MDHR
  • Celeste Extremely OK Games
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice FromSoftware
  • Hades Supergiant Games
  • Elden Ring FromSoftware
  • Lethal Company Zeekerss
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Team Cherry
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl Nintendo
  • Street Fighter 6 Capcom
  • Tekken 8 Namco
  • Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Landfall
  • Mario Kart World Nintendo
  • Mario Kart 8 Nintendo
  • My Singing Monsters Big Blue Bubble