Super Mario Brothers was a launch title for the NES.

A launch title is a video game that has been made available to consumers synchronously with its respective video game console, meaning they are the only available games at the time of the console's launch. Several of these titles are also typically selected to be packaged with the console. Because launch titles provide first impressions of the console's features and technical abilities, they are extremely important in the video game industry, and many launch titles have been killer apps. Box of Super Mario Bros. ... Box of Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... “NES” redirects here. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... Game console redirects here. ... Pack-in games are those games that have been included with home video game systems, as gratuity. ... A case of first impression is a case or controversy over an interpretation of law never before reported or decided by that court. ... Pac-Man is one of the most recognizable video games ever created. ... A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app), in the jargon of computer programmers and video gamers, has come to mean any program, particularly a minor one, that is ingeniously coded or unexpectedly useful. ...

Quality vs. quantity

Historically, the number of launch titles has been an important factor in deciding the success of a gaming platform. The more games available at launch, the higher the chances that players will find something that interests them. However, the same importance applies to game quality: poor quality games don't sell as well in the long term as high quality ones.

When gearing up for a major console launch, developers and publishers have a decision to make. They can release a large number of launch titles, often accompanied by the promise of more soon after launch, or they can release a few extremely strong titles, or a killer game. Whilst releasing a large number of extremely strong titles is of course preferred, this may not be practical. To balance these choices, developers will often supplement one or two strong titles with third-party or licensed titles to bolster the number of launch titles. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Launch titles

Main article: List of video game console launch titles

Here are a few popular games that debuted at launch. This is an incomplete list of launch titles for various games consoles. ...

• Duck Hunt and Gyromite 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S. launch)
• Super Mario Bros. 1986 Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S. re-launch)
• Super Mario World and F-Zero 1990 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Ridge Racer 1994 PlayStation
• Panzer Dragoon 1995 Sega Saturn
• Super Mario 64 1996 Nintendo 64
• Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur 1999 Sega Dreamcast
• SSX and Tekken Tag Tournament 2000 PlayStation 2
• Halo: Combat Evolved and Project Gotham Racing 2001 Xbox
• Luigi's Mansion and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader 2001 Nintendo GameCube
• Call of Duty 2 2005 Xbox 360
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports 2006 Wii
• Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm 2006 PlayStation 3

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1. Night Trap (Sega CD)
2. Street Fighter: The Movie (PlayStation)
3. Cybermorph (Atari Jaguar)
4. Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)
5. Marky Mark: Make My Video (Sega CD)
6. Army Men Advance (Game Boy Advance)
7. Mortal Kombat Gold (Sega Dreamcast)
8. Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES)
9. Fighting Street (TurboGrafx-CD)
10. Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360)

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