The success of the film and subsequent resurgence of the brand caused the floodgates to finally open, and new software began to be released en masse, with Activision putting out new Transformers games almost every year. Thus, when the film was released the following year, it was accompanied by tie-in game adaptations for every system under the sun. With the first live-action movie on the horizon, game publisher Activision struck up a licensing deal with Hasbro in early 2006, granting them exclusive rights to publish Transformers games on all portable and home consoles. A few Beast Wars games were released for early 3D systems before the turn of the century, only for the brand to slow down again during the early-to-mid 2000s, save for a few one-off PlayStation 2 releases. After that, no new Transformers games would be released for another decade, skipping the 16-bit era entirely, until the rise of the Beast Wars franchise in the late 1990s. During the heyday of Generation 1, only four games were released: two for the Commodore 64 home computer system, and two for Nintendo's Famicom console, neither of which came to its western counterpart the NES. The Transformers: The one that started it all.which only an incredibly small segment of the fandom has played.ĭespite the popularity of Transformers over the many decades, it's a bit surprising how few video games based on the franchise there were early on. 1 A Brief History of Transformers Video GamesĪ Brief History of Transformers Video Games.
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