rutea7 on 23 April 2015
1984 - selection of titles from wikipedia
-King's Quest (Sierra, IBM PC), the first animated adventure game, the first game in the King's Quest series, and the first game to use the AGI engine, is released.
-T&E Soft releases Hydlide, an early action role-playing game that features a health regeneration mechanic and anticipates elements of The Legend of Zelda and Ys series.
-Nihon Falcom releases Dragon Slayer by Yoshio Kiya. Dragon Slayer and its sequels laid the foundations for the action role-playing game genre.
- Nintendo releases a conversion of their own Donkey Kong 3 for the Famicom/NES system.
- Namco releases Super Xevious and Dragon Buster, the latter of which is one the first games to feature a life bar. (Arcade)
