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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). 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.
4 –
Gunpei Yokoi (1941–1997) dies after a double car accident.
November – Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (
IEMA) launched.
December 16 – A scene from the
Pokémon anime (based upon the highly successful games) causes 685 Japanese children to have seizures. Nintendo makes a statement proclaiming the safety of the Pokémon games from fear that the games would cause a similar effect, the episode to be permanently removed from circulation, and the featured Pokémon in the episode (Porygon) has not made an appearance in the Pokémon anime since.
Metacritic (MC) and
GameRankings (GR) are online aggregators of
video game journalism reviews. Note that their coverage of print magazines at the time was limited, with numerous print magazines not listed on their sites.
1997 games and expansions scoring at least 88/100 (MC) or 87.5% (GR)[16][17]
The following video game releases in 1997 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving
Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.[21]
Nintendo vs Games City: Nintendo sues Games City for selling the Game Doctor and
Doctor V64 backup devices for the
SNES and
N64 consoles. Nintendo wins the suit.
Nintendo vs
Prima Publishing: Nintendo sues Prima over copyrights to maps of the
N64 video game GoldenEye 007. Nintendo loses the suit.
^"週刊ファミ通クロスレビュープラチナ殿堂入りソフト一覧" [Weekly Famitsu Cross Review Platinum Hall of Fame Software List]. Geimin (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
^
ab小川 (Ogawa), 純生 (Sumio) (December 14, 2010).
"テレビゲーム機の変遷 —ファミコン、スーパーファミコン、プレステ、プレステ2、Wiiまで—" [Recent Developments in Video Game Technology in Japan — Famicom, Super Famicom, Play Station, Play Station 2 and Wii —] (PDF). 経営論集 (Keiei Ronshū) (in Japanese) (77) (published March 2011): 1–17 (2).
ISSN0286-6439. Archived from
the original(PDF) on July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2021 – via Toyo University Academic Information Repository (
Toyo University).
^The Oriental Economist Report.
Toyo Keizai. 1998. p. 16. Square's Final Fantasy VII software has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest selling Playstation software.
^
abcdThompson, Adam (October 22, 1997). "The pain of addiction". Oshkosh Advance-Titan.
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. p. 9. Retrieved April 9, 2022. Last month Final Fantasy VII hit the stores and sold 1.5 million copies the first week.
^"1997年ゲームソフト年間売上TOP100" [1997 Game Software Annual Sales Top 100]. Famitsū Gēmu Hakusho 1998 ファミ通ゲーム白書1998 [Famitsu Game Whitebook 1998] (in Japanese). Tokyo:
Enterbrain. 1998. Archived from
the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
This article may misquote or misrepresent many of its sources. Please see the
cleanup page for more information. Editors: please remove this warning only after the diffs listed [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/{{{subpage}}}|here]] have been checked for accuracy.(August 2022)
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). 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.
4 –
Gunpei Yokoi (1941–1997) dies after a double car accident.
November – Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (
IEMA) launched.
December 16 – A scene from the
Pokémon anime (based upon the highly successful games) causes 685 Japanese children to have seizures. Nintendo makes a statement proclaiming the safety of the Pokémon games from fear that the games would cause a similar effect, the episode to be permanently removed from circulation, and the featured Pokémon in the episode (Porygon) has not made an appearance in the Pokémon anime since.
Metacritic (MC) and
GameRankings (GR) are online aggregators of
video game journalism reviews. Note that their coverage of print magazines at the time was limited, with numerous print magazines not listed on their sites.
1997 games and expansions scoring at least 88/100 (MC) or 87.5% (GR)[16][17]
The following video game releases in 1997 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving
Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.[21]
Nintendo vs Games City: Nintendo sues Games City for selling the Game Doctor and
Doctor V64 backup devices for the
SNES and
N64 consoles. Nintendo wins the suit.
Nintendo vs
Prima Publishing: Nintendo sues Prima over copyrights to maps of the
N64 video game GoldenEye 007. Nintendo loses the suit.
^"週刊ファミ通クロスレビュープラチナ殿堂入りソフト一覧" [Weekly Famitsu Cross Review Platinum Hall of Fame Software List]. Geimin (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
^
ab小川 (Ogawa), 純生 (Sumio) (December 14, 2010).
"テレビゲーム機の変遷 —ファミコン、スーパーファミコン、プレステ、プレステ2、Wiiまで—" [Recent Developments in Video Game Technology in Japan — Famicom, Super Famicom, Play Station, Play Station 2 and Wii —] (PDF). 経営論集 (Keiei Ronshū) (in Japanese) (77) (published March 2011): 1–17 (2).
ISSN0286-6439. Archived from
the original(PDF) on July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2021 – via Toyo University Academic Information Repository (
Toyo University).
^The Oriental Economist Report.
Toyo Keizai. 1998. p. 16. Square's Final Fantasy VII software has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest selling Playstation software.
^
abcdThompson, Adam (October 22, 1997). "The pain of addiction". Oshkosh Advance-Titan.
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. p. 9. Retrieved April 9, 2022. Last month Final Fantasy VII hit the stores and sold 1.5 million copies the first week.
^"1997年ゲームソフト年間売上TOP100" [1997 Game Software Annual Sales Top 100]. Famitsū Gēmu Hakusho 1998 ファミ通ゲーム白書1998 [Famitsu Game Whitebook 1998] (in Japanese). Tokyo:
Enterbrain. 1998. Archived from
the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved February 17, 2021.