Video games

But I can't die!... I pressed up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start!

With a brand as large as Transformers, it is surprising how few video games have been produced for it. Until the obligatory live action movie tie-in software deluge in 2007, Transformers video games were largely limited to the Japanese market.

Generation 1 games

• Transformers: Convoy no Nazo (Famicom)
• The Transformers (Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum)
• The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
• Transformers: The Headmasters (Famicom Disk System)
• The Transformers (PS2)
• Transformers G1: Awakening (mobile phone)

Beast Era games

• Ketō Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyō Ketteisen (GBC)
• Beast Wars: Transformers (PC, PS)
• Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
• Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)

Unicron Trilogy games

• Transformers (PS2)

Movie universe games

• Transformers The Game (PS2, PS3, 360, Wii, PC)
• Transformers The Game (PSP)
• Transformers (mobile phone)
• Transformers Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)
• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (360, PS3, PC)
• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (Wii, PS2)
• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (PSP)
• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)
• Transformers Dark Of The Moon (Xbox 360, PS3)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition (Wii/3DS)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)

Animated games

• Transformers Animated: The Game (NDS)

War for Cybertron games

• Transformers: War for Cybertron (360, PS3, PC)
• Transformers: Cybertron Adventures (Wii)
• Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)

Prime games

• Transformers Prime: The Game (Wii, NDS, 3DS)

Online games

For further information, see: Online games

Other

Though not a Transformers game, the Hudson Soft GameCube and PlayStation 2 game DreamMix TV World Fighters, only released in Japan, features Transformers as both playable characters and cameos. Due to characters from at least three different companies being involved, legal entanglement makes it highly unlikely that the game will ever leave the country.

In the '90s, a game based on Generation 2 was supposedly in development for the Super Nintendo console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SuperFX chip enabled game Vortex. This is supported by Vortex being made by Argonaut Software (the company that was supposed to release the Generation 2 game), the fact that the game involved a polygon-based transforming robot, and the timing of the release.

Fiction

Generation 1

Cartoon continuity

Spike Witwicky and Bumblebee met Carly in Robots Video Arcade while Bumblebee was playing Robot Resource. The Immobilizer

Marvel Comics continuity

Ethan Zachary enjoyed playing Multi-World on his employer's computer after hours. When Decepticons and Autobots showed up to fight over the hydrothermocline, Zachary proposed settling their differences by playing a game of Multi-World. Megatron won by cheating, so Optimus Prime agreed to allow himself to be destroyed, per the initial agreement. Afterdeath!

Later, Zachary allowed Optimus Prime's personality (which was backed-up on a floppy disk) to exist as a character in the game Hyper-Fax. Pretender to the Throne!

Animated

Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Sari Sumdac enjoy playing video games.

When Wasp was disgused as Bumblebee, Bulkhead proposed using a game of Ninja Gladiator to reveal the true Bumblebee. Where Is Thy Sting?