While not exactly a genre, there are numerous anime titles that are based on popular Japanese computer and video games. In many cases, these are series that are action/adventure-type shows geared towards youth, though titles based on visual novels are also very common.
Known video games that have an anime series based on them:
- 11eyes
- Air (series version)
- Air (film version)
- Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka
- Amagami
- Angelique
- Angel's Feather
- Arad Senki
- Ape Escape
- Animal Crossing
- Ar Tonelico
- Arc the Lad
- Art of Fighting
- Ayakashi
- Baldr Force
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Blue Dragon
- Bomberman Jetters
- Canaan (based on 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de)
- Chaos;Head
- Clannad
- Clannad (film version)
- Clannad (series version)
- Clannad After Story
- Comic Party
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
- Devil Kings
- Dead Space
- Chrono Trigger
- Darkstalkers
- Demonbane
- Digimon
- Devil May Cry
- Dragon Knight
- Knights of Xentar
- Dragon Quest
- Dragon Quest: Abel Yuusha (based on Dragon Quest III)
- Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken
- Disgaea
- D.C.: Da Capo
- Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.
- Fatal Fury
- Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (based on Fatal Fury: King of Fighters)
- Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle (based on Fatal Fury 2)
- Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
- Fate/stay night
- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
- Final Fantasy
- Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (based on Final Fantasy V)
- Final Fantasy: Unlimited
- Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- (based on Final Fantasy VII)
- On the Way to a Smile (based on Final Fantasy VII)
- Fire Emblem
- Fortune Arterial
- F-Zero: GP Legend
- Gakuen Heaven
- Galaxy Angel
- Galerians: Rion
- Gift
- Green Green
- Growlanser IV
- Gungrave
- H2O: Footprints in the Sand
- .hack
- Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan
- Halo Legends
- Happiness!
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka De
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
- Natsuiro no Sunadokei
- Inazuma Eleven
- Kanon (2002 version)
- Kanon (2006 version)
- Kendo Rage
- Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
- The King of Fighters: Another Day
- Kiniro no Corda
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (Hoshi no Kirby in Japan)
- Klonoa
- Koihime Musō
- Lamune
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Ganbare Goemon in Japan)
- Little Busters!
- Magic School Lunar!
- Mashiro-iro Symphony
- Medabots
- Mega Man
- MapleStory
- Monster Rancher (Monster Farm in Japan)
- Myself ; Yourself
- Nanatsuiro Drops
- Night Wizard!
- Ninja Gaiden
- One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
- Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru
- Panzer Dragoon
- PaRappa the Rapper
- Persona 3
- Persona 4
- Pokémon (Pocket Monsters in Japan)
- PopoloCrois Monogatari
- PopoloCrois: Hajimari no Bouken (basis for episodes 1-12 of the 2003-2004 anime "PoPoLoCrois")
- PopoloCrois: Tsuki no Okite no Bouken (basis for episodes 14-26 of the 2003-2004 anime "PoPoLoCrois")
- Popotan
- Power Stone
- Princess Lover!
- Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
- Ragnarok
- Raimuiro Senkitan
- Robotics;Notes
- Sakura Wars
- Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits in Japan)
- School Days
- Sengoku Basara
- Shining Tears X Wind
- Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica
- Shuffle!
- Shukufuku no Campanella
- Sin: The Movie
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie
- Sonic X
- Soul Link
- Star Ocean EX (based on Star Ocean: The Second Story)
- Steins;Gate
- Street Fighter
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
- Street Fighter II V
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Street Fighter Alpha: Generations
- Street Fighter IV
- Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shōganai!
- _Summer
- Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!
- Super Robot Taisen Original Generation ~Divine Wars~
- Tales
- Tales of Eternia: The Animation
- Tales of Phantasia: The Animation
- Tales of Symphonia: The Animation
- Tales of the Abyss
- Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity
- Tears to Tiara
- Tekken: The Motion Picture
- Tokimeki Memorial
- Tokyo Majin Gakuen Gehouchō
- The Tower of Druaga
- Triangle Heart
- True Tears
- Tsukihime
- Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni: Operation Sanctuary
- To Heart
- Touka Gettan
- Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
- Utawarerumono
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Viewtiful Joe
- Virtua Fighter
- Welcome to Pia Carrot
- White Album
- Wild Arms: Twilight Venom
- Wind: A Breath of Heart
- Words Worth
- World Destruction
- Xenosaga
- Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito
- Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na -Crescent Love-
- Yosuga no Sora
- Ys
- Zegapain
- Zone of the Enders
- ZOE: 2167 IDOLO
- Z.O.E. Dolores,i
Famous quotes containing the words list of, video games, list, based, video and/or games:
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature—this is nature’s essence, its immutable law, this is what it’s based on and what it adheres to.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)