Just a thought that struck me the other day, I grew up on the Sega Genesis (well Megadrive over here) and the Super Nintendo and I was wondering what was the last game released for those two systems.
They had to stop making games for them at some point but when?
According to this list of last games released on video game consoles on Wikipedia the last SNES game was Metal Slader Glory, released 11.29.2000 in Japan. The last Genesis game was Frogger, released 6.1.1998 in North America.
There are still hobbyists releasing new games for the Atari 2600; they even release new cartridges, as opposed to just ROMs for the various emulators. There’s a Wikipedia article about that, too.
I was amazed when I saw that Madden 2011 was released for PS2. Yes, they are STILL making PS2 games!!
In my experience, anything coming out for the PS2 since the PS3 system was released has been HORRIBLE.
I’m pretty sure one of the Madden football games was also the last released Gamecube game. THE VERY DAY that the Wii first came out, Gamecube all but disappeared from store shelves.
The last officially-endorsed-by-Nintendo NES game was Wario’s Woods, which came out in 1995. It was also the only NES game to get a rating (K-A).
I think Aragorn’s Quest is even later than Madden 11, though I have heard of no totally original games past that. Most games on the PS2 are sports games or very late translated Japanese games and so forth.
Persona 4 is one of the final seriously major releases I can think of.