Every FIFA Cover Player, 1993 to 2022
There has never really been a single FIFA cover. For most of the series’ thirty-year run, the same game shipped with different footballers on the box depending on where you bought it, so the... Read More →
Category: Gaming
Explore the best gaming facts on FinalWonder, where every post is a complete list worth reading. From original console launch titles to every Pokemon gym leader across the generations, our gaming lists cover the details most players overlook. Browse the full collection below and find your next deep dive into games, hardware, and gaming history.
All 23 Original PlayStation Launch Titles
On December 3, 1994, Sony launched the most technologically advanced home console yet made – a machine built to throw textured 3D polygons around at a speed nothing in a living room had managed... Read More →
All Original Game Boy Launch Titles
Nintendo shipped 300,000 Game Boys to Japanese shops in April 1989 and had sold every one of them inside a fortnight. What those buyers could actually put in the slot was a Mario platformer,... Read More →
All 37 Xbox Launch Titles Across All Three Regions
Microsoft released the Xbox at midnight on November 15, 2001, at a Toys R Us in Times Square. Bill Gates personally handed the first console to a twenty-year-old named Edward Glucksman, who had been... Read More →
All NES Launch Titles
Early on the morning of October 18, 1985, several Nintendo employees were hiding behind pillars inside FAO Schwarz on Fifth Avenue, watching their first American customer approach the cash register. The display had been... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 9 (Paldea)
In 1996, every badge run began the same way: Brock, in a stone-floored room in Pewter City, waiting for you because the game gave you nowhere else to go. The eight Kanto gym leaders... Read More →
Every Trial Captain and Island Kahuna in Pokemon Generation 7 (Alola)
Pokemon Sun and Moon arrived in November 2016 with no Gym in them anywhere. No badges, no row of buildings each holding a puzzle and a specialist and a handshake, nothing resembling the circuit... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 6 (Kalos)
Pokemon X and Y went on sale in Japan, Europe and the Americas on the same day, October 12, 2013, the first time the series had launched everywhere at once. Nintendo counted more than... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 5 (Unova)
Black and White reached Japan in September 2010 carrying 156 Pokemon nobody had ever seen and not one that anybody had. Junichi Masuda explained the decision to Nintendo Power the following March: he had... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 4 (Sinnoh)
No two trainers in the Sinnoh League use two of the same species of Pokemon as each other. Single overlaps happen – Champion Cynthia and Gardenia both keep a Roserade – but a matching... Read More →
