Video games

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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: Mystery of Convoy (Famicom)
• The Transformers (Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum)
• The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64)
• Transformers: The Headmasters (Famicom Disk System)
• The Transformers (GBA — unreleased)
• The Transformers (PS2)
• Transformers G1: Awakening (mobile phone, Android, iOS)
• Transformers Battle Universe
• Transformers Legends (Android, iOS)
• Transformers Rising (Android, iOS)
• Transformers: Battle Tactics (Android, iOS)
• Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (Android, iOS)
• Transformers Ultimate Allstars (Android, iOS)
• Transformers: Devastation (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360)
• Transformers: Frontiers (Android, iOS)
• Transformers Operation Omega (Android, iOS, iPad)
• Transformers: Earth Wars (Android, iOS)

Generation 2

• Transformers: Generation 2 Handheld Game (Handheld)

Beast Era

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

Unicron Trilogy games

Armada

• Transformers (PS2)

Cybertron

• Quest for Cybertron (ION — Unreleased)

Movie games

• Transformers The Game (PS2, PS3, 360, Wii, PC)
• Transformers The Game (PSP)
• Transformers (mobile phone)
• Transformers Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)
• Transformers Electronic Handheld Game (Handheld)
• Transformers: Human Alliance
• Transformers Battle Universe

Revenge of the Fallen

• 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: Revenge of the Fallen (mobile phone)

Dark of the Moon

• Transformers Dark of the Moon (360, PS3)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition (Wii/3DS)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (iOS)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (mobile phone)
• Defend the Earth (iOS)
• Transformers: Battle Zone (Android)

Age of Extinction

• Half of Hasbro Arcade (Android, iOS)
• Half of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC)
• Half of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (Android, iOS)

Animated games

• Transformers Battle Universe
• Transformers Animated: The Game (NDS)

Aligned games

War for Cybertron

• Transformers: War for Cybertron (360, PS3, PC)
• Transformers: Cybertron Adventures (Wii)
• Transformers: War for Cybertron — Autobots/Decepticons (NDS)
• Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (360, PS3, PC)
• Half of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC)
• Half of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)

Prime

• Transformers: Prime - The Game (Wii, Wii U, NDS, 3DS)
• Half of Hasbro Arcade (Android, iOS)

Rescue Bots

• Race to the Rescue (Handheld)
• Transformers: Rescue Bots Beam Box (Handheld)
• Sky Forest Rescue (Android, iOS)
• Dino Island (Android, iOS)

Robots in Disguise (2015)

• Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Android, iOS)
• Nestlé Arcade (Android, iOS)
• Bike Ride X Transformers: Adventure (Nintendo 3DS)

Construct-Bots

• Transformers: Construct-Bots

Battle Masters

• Transformers: Battle Masters

Angry Birds

• Angry Birds Transformers

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 in development for the Super Nintendo console, but the project was dropped. It has been rumored that this project then evolved into the SuperFX 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. However, Michael Wong-Powell, programmer of Vortex, told British magazine Retro Gamer in 2015 that Vortex and Transformers Generation 2 were developed as separate games by Argonaut, with the Transformers game ultimately being cancelled.

Transformers Battle Universe for the Net Jet features characters from the Generation 1, Beast Wars, Movie, and Animated franchises, belonging to all four instead of any particular one.

The Nintendo Wii U game Splatoon briefly featured a promotional tie-in with Robots in Disguise in North America.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

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

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

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 enjoyed 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?

Transformers film

An Xbox 360 console, which is designed to allow humans to play video games, was turned into a robot by the AllSpark. Transformers

Prime

Jack, Miko, Raf, and Bumblebee enjoyed playing a generic racing game. Darkness Rising, Part 3 Scrapheap