Pack-in game
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A pack-in game (or bundled game) is a game that is included with the purchase of a video game console.
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[edit] Characteristics
Pack-in games are intended to be system-selling games that make good use of the positive features of a given system. Sometimes a pack-in game will be changed to a more popular game, or another game will be added, along with the original pack-in, if it is perceived that a newer game will sell more systems.
Pack-in games are often the most plentiful games at used game shops.
[edit] Alternate-format pack-ins
In the cases of Super NES/ Belgian Xbox 360s Super Mario All-Stars/Gears of War & Project Gotham Racing 3 were added as free mail-in offers. Other systems have included pack-in games on a built-in chip, such as Solitaire for Game.com.
[edit] Pack-in games
- Atari 2600 (VCS)— Combat, Pac-Man
- Atari 5200— Super Break-out, Pac-Man, Everlasting Worlds
- Atari 7800— Pole Position II
- Mattel Intellivision— Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, Astrosmash
- ColecoVision— Donkey Kong
- Coleco Adam— Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
- Nintendo Entertainment System— Duck Hunt, Gyromite, Super Mario Bros., later Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt (another bundle also included World Class Track Meet and a Power Pad), Super Mario Bros. 3
- Sega Master System— (SMS "pack-ins" were built into the system BIOS) Hang-On/Safari Hunt, Hang-On/Astro Warrior, Hang On/Safari Hunt/Zaxxon 3-D, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Sonic the Hedgehog
- Game Boy— Tetris, Killer Instinct, Star Wars
- Game Boy Advance— Pokémon Crystal, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (Toys "R" Us only)
- TurboGrafx 16— Keith Courage in Alpha Zones
- Sega Mega Drive/Genesis— Altered Beast, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Lion King, Streets of Rage 2,Sonic the Hedgehog 2/NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana
- Neo Geo— Magician Lord
- Game Gear— Columns, Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System— Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World, Mario Paint, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Killer Instinct, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- TurboDuo— Ys Book I & II, SuperCD disc with 4 games: Bonk's Adventure, Bonk's Revenge, Gate of Thunder and Bomberman, and an HuCard that was usually either Dungeon Explorer, Ninja Spirit, or Final Lap Twin, but could be another random game.
- Sega CD— Sol-Feace/Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective/Sega Classics (CD containing 4 games Revenge of Shinobi, Columns, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage all 6 games packed in one bundle)
- Virtual Boy—Mario's Tennis (North America only)
- Nintendo 64— GoldenEye 007 (U.K. only), Donkey Kong 64,[1] Pokémon Stadium,[2] Star Wars: Episode I Racer,[3] Super Mario 64
- PlayStation— Demo Disc (at least eight different editions), Battle Arena Toshinden, Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo
- Game.com— Lights Out
- Dreamcast— NFL 2K/NBA 2K (double game bundle), Sonic Adventure/Sonic Adventure 2 pre-release demo/Sonic Shuffle (triple game bundle)
- Nintendo GameCube— The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Resident Evil 4, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
- Nintendo DS— Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, Mario Kart DS, Nintendogs, Animal Crossing Wild World, Super Mario 64 DS, Brain Age 2, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Xbox— Halo/Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, Sega GT 2002, Jet Set Radio Future, Forza Motorsport, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (separately and with Munch's Oddysee), Top Spin Tennis/NCAA Football 2005
- PlayStation 2— ATV Offroad Fury 2, Gran Turismo 3, Jak and Daxter, Demo Disc, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo 4
- Xbox 360— Hexic HD, Burnout Revenge (Wal-Mart only), Gears of War (Australia only) In Canada: Project Gotham Racing 3, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (with Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Volume 1), Call of Duty 3 and Forza Motorsport 2, In Brazil: Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero and Forza Motorsport 2.
- Wii— Wii Sports (except in Japan)
- PlayStation Portable— ATV Offroad Fury Pro, Daxter
- PlayStation 3— Motorstorm (80 GB HDD), Spider-Man 3 (Blu-ray Movie)(40 GB HDD)
