Category:Games released in 1985

The Amiga and the Atari ST are released to the world, but don't make a big enough impact in North America. Tetris is quietly created for the Electronika-60 by students at a Russian academy.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the video game industry remains quite burned out from all the poor-quality titles. Nintendo uses some very crafty marketing techniques to bring the Famicom out of Japan, marketing it as the Nintendo Entertainment System to make it sound less like a video game system and more like a toy, with R.O.B. the Robot tagging along to further sell the guise. These aspects, along with the NES' flagship title, Super Mario Bros., would plant the seeds for a complete revival of the video game industry.