
4 – Gunpei Yokoi (1941–1997) dies after a double car accident.Video game retailer FuncoLand opens its first Greater Cincinnati locations.June 19–21 – The 3rd annual E3 is held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It is the second Sega World park to open outside of Japan, with the first opening as part of the London Trocadero the previous year. March 6 - Sega opens Sega World Sydney in Australia.4.1 Highest-grossing arcade games in Japan.The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation, while the year's highest-grossing arcade games in Japan were Sega's Virtua Fighter 3 and Print Club 2.


Sony's PlayStation was the year's best-selling video game console worldwide for the second year in a row, while also being the annual best-selling console in Japan for the first time (overtaking the Game Boy and Sega Saturn). ( August 2022)ġ997 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, GoldenEye 007, Star Fox 64, Tomb Raider II, Ultima Online, and Virtua Striker 2, along with new titles such as Everybody's Golf, I.Q.: Intelligent Qube, PaRappa the Rapper, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Gran Turismo, Diablo, Grand Theft Auto and Fallout. Editors: please remove this warning only after the diffs listed ] have been checked for accuracy. Please see the cleanup page for more information. This article may misquote or misrepresent many of its sources.
