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: 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 (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)

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.