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:
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“All is possible,
Who so list believe;
Trust therefore first, and after preve,
As men wed ladies by license and leave,
All is possible.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents’ verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don’t speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)
“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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)