Die Hard

Die Hard is definitely a Christmas film round these parts, and it's the perfect season to dive into the series' surprisingly long video game history.

[side-scrolling beat-em-up](https://gamerant.com/best-side-scrolling-platformers-all-time-ranked/), Die Hard Arcade hit floors in 1996, and was later ported to the Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2. [the Commodore 64](https://gamerant.com/commodore-64-mine-cryptocurrency/) in 1992, Die Hard 2: Die Harder is a static first-person shooter that takes players through the events of the second movie. Die Hard Trilogy would receive a sequel in 2000 called Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas, which carried over the three distinct gameplay styles, but told its own original story that swapped the styles between levels. The first beat-em-up to ever use texture-mapped 3D polygonal graphics, Die Hard Arcade was very technically impressive for the time, and it still holds up fairly well today. In the Commodore 64 version of the game, players control Bruce Willis' John McClane from a side-scrolling perspective, and navigate him through a series of corridors and rooms. From the beloved Die Hard trilogy on